Will we follow the course of societies past that have lost their way and crumbled under the devastating … - Oliver DeMille

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I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a superstition.

Oliver DeMille

Will we follow the course of societies past that have lost their way and crumbled under the devastating forces of economic upheaval, war and other crises? Or we pull together as families and communities to create a brighter future?

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The U. S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

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Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are struggling more.

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We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.

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Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

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Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our personal set of stories, our canon, shapes our lives. I believe it is a law of the universe that we will not rise above our canon. Our canon is part of us, deeply, subconsciously. And the characters and teachings in our canon shape our characters--good, evil, mediocre, or great.

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