Education.. Has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
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Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
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I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.
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Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me.. Only he's an imbecile.
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I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
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Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.
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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
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I wrote Unwind for lots of reasons, and it poses questions about alot of subjects. To state it briefly, I wanted to point out how when peopletake intractable positions on an issue, and stick to extreme sides, sometimes the result is a compromise that is worse than either extreme. Imeant it as a wake up call to society -- and to point out that sometimes theproblem IS that we take sides on an issue, when a different sort of approachis needed. It's also to pose questions about what it means to be alive. Where does life begin, where does it end -- and point out that there is nosingle answer to these questions. The problem is people who think there aresimple answers. People who see things as simple black-and-whiteright-and-wrong are the type of people who will end up with a world like theworld in Unwind.
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It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
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A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
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I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans.
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If you won't admit there are kooks among those who share your political viewpoint, chances are, you're one of the kooks.
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When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.
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There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.
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I know the police cause you troubleThey cause trouble everywhereBut when you die and go to heavenYou find no policeman there- Woody Guthrie 'Hobo's Lullaby
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I know positively - yes Rieux I can say I know the world inside out as no one on earth is free from it. And I know too that we must keep endless watch on ourselves lest in careless moment we breathe in somebody's face and fasten the infection on him. What's natural is the microbe. All the rest- health integrity purity if you like - is a product of the human will of vigilance that must never falter. The good man the man who infects hardly anyone is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention. And it needs tremendous will-power a never ending tension of the mind to avoid such lapses. Yes Rieux it's a wearying business being plague-stricken. But it's still more wearying to refuse to be it. That's why everybody in the world today looks so tired everyone is more or less sick of plague. But that is also why some of us who want to get the plague out of their systems feel such desperate weariness a weariness from which nothing remains to set us free except death.
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I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.
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The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
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. The happy hum of humanity.
There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these, in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe.
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.. All these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust
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If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue.
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