Short term greed (whether it was the investment bankers preying upon people that couldn't afford what they wanted, or by buyers knowingly accepting variable interest loans so they have more cash on hand while they hope the other shoe doesn't drop) is what the rest of us are now left to deal with. Thank goodness I've been paying a higher interest rate all this time so I'm already used to getting by on less cash.

I think the government should start buying lottery tickets.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.