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From the page: Can I interrupt for a moment? Thanks. When you complain that opponents didn’t “come to the table to find solutions”, do you mean that we didn’t give NINETY-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS to congress like the MPAA? Or do you mean that we didn’t come to the one hearing that Lamar Smith held, where opponents of SOPA were refused an opportunity to comment? Help me out, here, Chris Dodd, because I’m really trying hard to understand you.

From the page: Solitude has long been associated with creativity and transcendence. "Without great solitude, no serious work is possible," Picasso said. A central narrative of many religions is the seeker -- Moses, Jesus, Buddha -- who goes off by himself and brings profound insights back to the community.

From the page: "Federal law bans not only the casting of, but the 'procurement' of ballots 'that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held.'

Hamline University law professor David Schultz told TPM that there's 'no doubt' that O’Keefe's investigators violated the law."

From the page: \"Watching two men who argued for years that the president could pick and choose which laws to follow wring their hands over Obama\'s recess appointments as an abuse of power is so absurd that one practically has to reach into fiction to find parallel analogies. If we could only get Lex Luthor\'s feelings on financial regulation or Emperor Palpatine\'s thoughts on the importance of checks and balances.\"

From the page: \"One basic idea is that hard work should be rewarded. Obvious, right? I mean, we\'re supposed to be economists here! People respond to incentives, and they are risk averse. A winner-take-all society is not very conducive to hard work; I\'m not going to bust my butt for 30 years for a 1% shot at getting into The 1%. But I am going to bust my butt for 30 years if I think this gives me a 90% chance of having a decent house, a family, some security, a reasonably pleasant job, a dog, and a couple of cars in my garage. An ideal middle-class society is one in which everyone, not just anyone, can get ahead via hard work.\"

From the page: After 2008 the Republicans followed a pattern familiar to defeated parties.

Having lost supporters and members from the middle ground, the core who remain were furious with their leaders, and decided the problem was a lack of ideological purity.

From the page: "The fact that the President took on the SASC in a defense spending bill should have been the news, but it wasn’t. It also should have been news that the original language left the door open for the Senate to run end games around Obama’s executive order to close Gitmo, which the Senate refused to fund, but there was nary a peep about that. "

From the page: If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.