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It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

Music sets up ladders, it makes us invisible, it sets us apart, it lets us escape; but from the visible there is no escape.

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy, feeding you, tucking you in, and wiping your nose. Libertarians want to treat you as an adult.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high.

I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

At the end of the Peterson trial, my daughter turns to me and she goes, 'Daddy, are you going to kill Mommy?' 'Oh, honey - that's up to mommy, isn't it?

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Why would you want to invest with a guy whose thought process says, "If a second layer of fees is good, then let's add a third layer.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

Sex addiction is a subject that should be discussed

Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.

I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did.

Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?