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-- Gamaliel Bradford "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
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-- Aldous Huxley At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
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He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
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- Socrates "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
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Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
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-- Michael McShane When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
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Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
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