I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
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our day will come is another way of saying you get yours.
our day will come is another way of saying you get yours.
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We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
All time management begins with planning.
All time management begins with planning.
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Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
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The best way to fill time is to waste it.
The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.
The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.
