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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar read more
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.
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, read more
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
Never forget what you need to remember.
Never forget what you need to remember.
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a read more
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
