-- Walter Anderson

“What this generation was bred to at television’s knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.”

-- Pauline Kael

“Instinct is the gift of experience…The first question you have to ask yourself is ‘On what basis am I making a judgment?...if you have no experience, then your instincts aren’t any good.”

-- Malcolm Gladwell

“Religion puts brakes on personal behavior.”

-- James Madison

“I know a woman, became a wife.  These are the very words she uses to describe her life.  She says ‘A good day ain’t got no pain.’  She said ‘A bad day’s when I lie in bed and think of things that might have been.’”

-- Paul Simon

“Man is like a candle.  He must radiate light by burning himself.”

-- Yogi Bhajan

“All over the world men and women are worrying because they cannot develop as they are ‘supposed’ to develop…Don’t fret yourself…Develop what you have…”

-- EM Forster

“I’m never gonna stop the rain by complaining.”

-- BJ Thomas

“We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.  So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark – the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back…”

-- Hunter S. Thompson

“Understanding is the common currency that drives all human interactions.”

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“Organized people are just too lazy to look for anything.”

-- Some 100.3fm radio DJ

“There is nothing in this world that does not have its decisive moment.”

-- Cardinal de Retz

“Quite often, people go to bed too early, anyway, just because they haven’t had anything exciting to do.”

-- Pipi Longstocking

“Symbol of bohemia.  The bottled madness.  Drink of genius.  Adored.  Worshipped.  Derided.  And finally condemned.”

-- www.sebor-absinth.com

“Dislocation, maybe, is part of our uneasiness.  It implants the feeling that nothing is really permanent.”

-- Arthur Miller

“A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong – if there is any root to life – because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don’t live in the same place for very long.”

-- also Arthur Miller

“There never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them.”

-- Jim Croce

“The vision must be followed by the venture.  It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.”

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