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6.20.2005

Man OverBoard

"...Living in forests far away from other people is not true seclusion. True seclusion is to be free from the powers of likes and dislikes. It is also to be free from the mental attitude that one must be special because one is treading the path..."
~found via Whiskey River

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Happiness, like religion, is a mystery, and should never be rationalized. ~G. K. Chesterton

Happy is he who has succeeded in learning the causes of things. ~Virgil

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ~T.H. Huxley

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde

It is only people of small moral stature who have to stand on their dignity. ~Arnold Bennett

Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation. ~Lord Dewar

If you don't know where you are going, any path will take you there. ~Sioux proverb

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. ~Hanlon's razor

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ~G. K. Chesterton

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, for it prolongs the torments of man. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

The Lord God is subtle, but malicious He is not. ~Albert Einstein

And Silence, like a poultice, comes / To heal the blows of sound. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. ~Joseph Heller

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. ~Jules Renard

There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." ~John Brunner

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know. ~John Dryden

It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. ~H.L. Mencken

Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.

The optimist claims that we live in the best of worlds. The pessimist fears that this is true. ~James Branch Cabell

What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything. One's last is to come to terms with everything.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ~Umberto Eco

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is, like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone, all leave it alone. ~Thomas de Quincy

There never was a genius without a tincture of madness. ~Aristotle

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character can make any stand against good wit. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. ~George Bernard Shaw

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. ~George Eliot

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, / There is rapture in the lonely shore, / There is society where none intrudes, / By the deep sea, and music in its roar: / I love not man the less, but nature more. ~Lord Byron

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Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ~David Dunham

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