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Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls than high schools; Americans spend more time shopping than reading ... Some of the most insightful writing about the American character over the nation's history has been about neither freedom nor democracy but about the crazed impulse to acquire things. — Anna Quindlen

To be defeated and yet not surrender, this is victory. — Jozef Pilsudski

Else would my scalp long since have been drying in a Mingo wigwam. — James Fenimore Cooper

The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress. — Steve Maraboli

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs. — Lynda Barry

The incoming of God as expressed in the incarnation represents a beautiful expression of this simultaneous revealing and withdrawal, for in the Incarnation the mystery of God is not dissipated but rather deepened. The mystery is not unmasked, but rather dwells with us, in our midst. The mystery is thus not overcome in the Incarnation but rather encountered there. — Peter Rollins

Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you. — Will Smith

When you were a little girl, Madam ... was this the woman you dreamed of becoming? — Andrew Sean Greer