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If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no read more
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find read more
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise read more
Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have read more
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
What's in Spam?
nostrils brains?and eyes
intestinal linings and uteri?
anything swept from the slaughterhouse floor?
except the blood already read more
What's in Spam?
nostrils brains?and eyes
intestinal linings and uteri?
anything swept from the slaughterhouse floor?
except the blood already out the door
Spam comes from offal
Spam smells... awful
from murdering pigs Hormel makes Spam
from butchering pigs Hormel makes ham.
