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1 " Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear and violence to rule your actions or whether you give wisdom, courage, and compassion the authority to do so. "
― Aberjhani , Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
2 " A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of " inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose " inability" to cope with problems " obviously" required state intervention. Government is depicted as acting not in response to its own political incentives and constraints but because it is compelled to do so by concern for the public interest: it " cannot keep its hands off" when so " much is at stake," when emergency " compels" it to supersede other decision making processes. Such a tableau simple ignores the possibility that there are political incentives for the production and distribution of " emergencies" to justify expansions of power as well as to use episodic emergencies as a reason for creating enduring government institutions. "
3 " The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer. "
― Jennifer Haigh , Faith
4 " There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age. "
