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    “Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.”

    ― Jorge Luis Borges

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    “There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.”

    ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

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    “Realise this: one day your soul
    will depart from your body and you will
    be drawn behind the curtain that floats between us
    and the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy,
    because you don't know where you came from and
    you don't know where you will be going.”

    ― Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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    “Beware the ides of March.”

    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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    “A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”

    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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    "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet."

    - Stephen Hawking

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    “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”

    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary

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    “Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn soles, I carry proudly my ineffable happiness.

    The centuries will roll by, and schoolboys will yawn over the history of our upheavals; everything will pass, but my happiness, dear, my happiness will remain, in the moist reflection of a street lamp, in the cautious bend of stone steps that descend into the canal's black waters, in the smiles of a dancing couple, in everything with which God so generously surrounds human loneliness.”

    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Selected Letters, 1940-1977

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    "Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there."

    - P.J.O' Rourke, Republican Part Reptile.

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    “She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.”

    ― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

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    “You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.”

    ― Carl R. Rogers

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    And Fish...That was brilliant...

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    “For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.”

    ― Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday

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    “When I look at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don’t find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color.' I don’t do that. I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds.

    I like myself best when I can appreciate my staff member, my son, my daughter, my grandchildren, in this same way. I believe this is a somewhat Oriental attitude; for me it is a most satisfying one.”

    ― Carl R. Rogers, A Way of Being

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    “The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”

    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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    “Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..."

    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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    “All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.”

    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: the Original Scroll

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    “A maiden was imprisoned in a stone tower. She loved a lord. Why? Ask the wind and the stars, ask the god of life; for no one else knows these things. And the lord was her friend and her lover; but time passed, and one fine day he saw someone else and his heart turned away.

    As a youth he loved the maiden. Often he called her his bliss and his dove, and her embrace was hot and heaving. He said, Give me your heart! And she did so. He said, May I ask you for something, my love? And she answered, in raptures, Yes. She gave him all, and yet he never thanked her.

    The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling leaves, ask life’s mysterious god; for no one else knows these things. She gave him nothing, no, nothing did she give him, and yet he thanked her. She said, Give me your peace and your sanity. And he only grieved that she didn’t ask for his life. And the maiden was put in the tower. . . .”

    ― Knut Hamsun, Pan

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    “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”

    ― Voltaire

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    “I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.”

    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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    “They told tales as they sat at their work, and every one related what wonderful things he had seen or experienced. One afternoon I heard an old man among them say that God knew every thing, both what had happened and what would happen.

    That idea occupied my whole mind, and towards evening, as I went alone from the court, where there was a deep pond, and stood upon some stones which were just within the water, the thought passed through my head, whether God actually knew everything which was to happen there.

    Yes, he has now determined that I should live and be so many years old, thought I; but, if I now were to jump into the water here and drown myself, then it would not be as he wished; and all at once I was firmly and resolutely determined to drown myself.

    I ran to where the water was deepest, and then a new thought passed through my soul. "It is the devil who wishes to have power over me!" I uttered a loud cry, and, running away from the place as if I were pursued, fell weeping into my mother's arms. But neither she nor any one else could wring from me what was amiss with me.”

    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

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    A man lives in an old "back to back" house. He starts to suffer pains when going to the toilet and when he can stand it no longer plucks up the courage to visit his doctor. The doctor examines him and writes out a prescription.
    "Take these suppositories three times a day" advises the GP "and put them into your back passage. If you are no better after 3 days, come back and see me"
    The next day after breakfast the man gets a suppository, opens his back door and throws one down the passage. After lunch, another suppository is taken from its packet, the back door is opened and it follows the first one into the passage. The same happens in the evening and so on for the following two days.
    Of course the man doesn't get any better, so feeling very upset returns to his GP.
    "How did you get on?" asked the doctor. "Useless" replies the man. "For all the good they did, I may as well have stuck them up my arse......."
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    I just want the chance to use a bigger porridge bowl.

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    Heh...That was Steinbeck, The Sphincter Of Our Discontent...

    Are you a son of York?...

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    “What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.”

    ― Eckhart Tolle

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