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Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues. ”
From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government. ”
You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather. ”
A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure. ”
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. ”
My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite. ”
Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money. ”
I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around. ”
I have a lot of money. ”
I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God. ”