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“People are setting fires because they’re frustrated, angry, and hopeless. They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.”

“Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it’s precious, too. You can’t just throw it away or let it slip away. You can’t sell it for bread and pottage.”

“I’m still learning how dogged people can be in their denial, even when their freedom or their lives are at stake.”

“One can never work on grounding too much. Our culture, so very removed from the ground of the planet, and with values that hold the body and physical world in such low esteem, continually separates us from our ground.”

“She held herself rigid, rejecting. ‘You don’t know that! You can’t read the future. No one can.’
‘You can,’ I said, ‘if you want to. It’s scary, but once you get past the fear, it’s easy.’”

“Sadly, it’s true that America has one of the lowest savings rates in the developed world. Part of the blame goes to the government, which continues to punish savings by taxing capital gains and dividends, while reward debt with tax deductions on interest payments.”

“I know that the large potential return is attractive to many small investors who are dissatisfied with getting rich slow. Instead, they opt for getting poor quick.”

“Regarding somebody else’s gains as your personal losses is not a productive attitude for investing in the stock market.”

“Or maybe she just went crazy because her God was demanding too much of her. She was no Job. In real life, how many people are?”

“She jumps on me for sharing pain with the living, but she tries to share it with the dead.”

“Mars is a rock - cold, empty, almost airless, dead. Yet it’s heaven in a way. We can see it in the night sky, a whole other world, but too nearby, too close within the reach of the people who’ve made such a hell of life here on Earth.”

“Some say God is a spirit, a force, an ultimate reality. Ask seven people what all of that means and you’ll get seven different answers. So what is God? Just another name for whatever makes you feel special and protected?”

“‘The stars are free.’ She shrugs. ‘I’d rather have the city lights back myself, the sooner the better. But we can afford the stars.’”

“‘It’s the person, Ma, not the place. If you left here, you’d have been the same anywhere else.’ It’s truth enough, but I can’t stop now. ‘If I ever leave this place, - I swallow - ‘I’ll make sure I’m better here first.’”

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”

“Four globes to brighten up the Tatupu house this year. It’s not a big thing, but I guess it’s true - big things are often just small things that are noticed.”

“begin to believe in the bladder theory of corporate finance, as propounded by Hugh Liedtke of Pennzoil: The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.”

“How well do we really let ourselves know each other.?”

“You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.”

“We call this progress and now think of ourselves as a superpower. Like you, we are well qualified, we have nuclear bombs and obscene inequality.”

“What would they bomb? A few individuals? Their barracks and good supplies? Or their ideology?”

“One day, in Dantewada too the dead will begin to speak. And it will not just be dead humans, it will be the dead land, dead rivers, dead mountains, and dead creatures in dead forests that will insist in a hearing.”

“Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or so we need wars to create a market for weapons?”

“Funding has fragmented solidarity in ways that repression never could.”

“This is not to suggest that human rights don’t matter. They do, but they are not a good enough prism through which to view or remotely understand the great injustices in the world we live in.”

“The nosier the carnival around the elections, the less sure we are that democracy really exists.”

“They say a person has so unique a set of meanings we ought to be incapable of understanding each other, yet we speak and teach as if by magic.”

“She knew everything there was to know about love, and she was sorry it was all true.”

“Who says love that is painful is not love?”