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"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
― Plutarch

“Affluence creates poverty” — Marshall McLuhan

"I have only two emotions; Careful fear and dead devotion. I can't get the balance right." -The National

"The truth doesn't die but it lives like a poor man." - Yiddish proverb.

"Runs thick and fast, no one really sees
Quite what bad it can do
As it shapes you into something cold
Like an Eskimo igloo"

-George Harrison.

"My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart." - C.G. Jung, "The Red Book" p. 232

(Smack) Is that fake?!?! (Smack) Is that fake!?!?

Dr. D. David Schultz slapping John Stossel around, after Stossel told him he thought pro-wrestling was fake.

I can't find the author, but I like it just the same-
"wealth doesn't "trickle down" in the manner that righties believe it does [i.e., the rich get so much extra change in their pockets that some falls out onto the floor where the beggars are at to pick it all up]- rather, this actual kind of "trickle down economics" consists of the convective currents of taxation causing money to evaporate up to the IRS cloud where the prevailing political winds cause some of it to scatter back down here and there."

I would not wanna be stossel when he has his life review. anyways...

"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” - Mark Twain.
(I think he must have had a premonition about the internet!)

"The problem with internet quotes, is that you can't always depend on their accuracy." - Abraham Lincoln

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"If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle." --Carl Sagan

Fall down 7 times
Get up, 8

ancient Chinese proverb