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He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.


Ursula K. Le Guin


#banking #banks #capitalism #economics #leguin

When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.


Ted Allen


#eat #food #home #i #made

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.


Tom Allen


#attempt #attention #citizens #continued #darfur

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.


Tom Allen


#comes #country #fouls #impasse #land

By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!


Tom Allen


#affordable #affordable health care #america #american #care

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.


Tom Allen


#energy #energy independence #foundation #independence

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.


Tom Allen


#aisle #almost #always #anything #apart

The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.


Tom Allen


#bankrupting #bush #bush administration #country #house

Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.


Tom Allen


#beneath #confused #continues #governance #lies

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'


Woody Allen


#asked #contraception #girl #i #me






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