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“Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.”
― Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
― P.J. O'Rourke

“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them "god for us" or "bad for us." The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines what it becomes in our lives. The event doesn't make that determination- we do.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness