Many are charmed into paying cash for access, but may be unconscious of their petrifying downward spiral and the steady descent into the abyss of a lobby gate. ( “Bribe payers’ index” )
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you. JOHN MILTON If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bri... BIBLE And rates are not likely to be adjusting downward. Households are paying about 13.75 percent of thei... PAUL KASRIEL Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for lo... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The gentle downward slope gets steeper and imperceptibly becomes an abyss. 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I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. 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ERIK PEVERNAGIE Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been i... ERIK PEVERNAGIE When we are able to break free from the imprisonment of our little, small self-thinking and dare to ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE When the past gets its teeth into our daily life, it may get to grips with an astringent reality and... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pai... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Everyone has prejudices, but some can correct them, others stick in the mud and remain diehard. ERIK PEVERNAGIE Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can'... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Definitions and meanings change all the time. Truth and reality are very volatile, indefinite, multi... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Love is like a musical score, sometimes very tuneful, creating a harmony of sounds, sometimes extrem... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Some fail to bear in mind that everyone is sentenced to death. Death is a treacherous virus that str... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Some people think it's a law that when productivity goes up, everybody benefits. There is no eco... ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let m... ERIK ESTRADA There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new ... ERIK ERIKSON The power of social media is it forces necessary change. ERIK QUALMAN It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard.... ERIK QUALMAN The toilet from time to time imparted to the boat the scent of a cholera hospital and could be flush... ERIK LARSON My inspiration to do comedy came from many places. Saturday mornings, I would watch Bob Hope and Jer... ERIK GRIFFIN The Lusitania is important, of course, because this is where Germany began its maritime campaign usi... ERIK LARSON In 1933, the Gestapo was founded to become - to be a secret police agency to keep tabs on political ... ERIK LARSON Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up. ERIK LARSON To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow. ERIK NUPPONEN Since I joined Congress, I've been shocked at how many times we were forced to vote on 1,000-plu... ERIK PAULSEN I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can. ERIK LARSON With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and service... ERIK QUALMAN I went to public school on Long Island, and it seemed every year we were being taught that you had a... ERIK LARSON Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. ERIK ERIKSON My new passion is to get Internet education mandated in all schools. We've got to start teaching... ERIK ESTRADA The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others. ERIK ERIKSON As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I al... ERIK LARSON When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we l... ERIK ERIKSON You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things ... ERIK ERIKSON In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of ident... ERIK ERIKSON I have found from experience that it is often interesting and useful to start from the edges and wor... ERIK LARSON