“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build…

"We have a tendency to want to swing into various dominances.  Right now the idea of the stiffening of the cynics, that these very traditional interpretations of our values are kind of trying to become more rigid, more narrow minded…

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake." 
― Henry David Thoreau

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Freedom of expression—“the whole thing, the whole ball game,” Rushdie once called it—is a universal value that has to be enshrined in law to have any force. But it can’t survive as an abstraction. It depends on public opinion. “If…

I am done 
With great things and big things 
With great institutions and big 
Success 
I am for 
Those tiny, invisible, molecular 
Moral forces 
That work from individual to individual 
Through the crannies of the world
Like so many rootlets…

The infinite way of doing finite things 
This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose 
recognized by yourself as a mighty one 

  George Bernard Shaw

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What each must seek in his life never was 
on land or sea.  It is something out of his own 
unique potentiality for experience, something 
that never has been and never could have been 
experienced by anyone else 

 Joseph Campbell

…

People predict by making up stories
People predict very little and explain everything
People live under uncertainty whether they like it or not
People believe they can tell the future if they work hard enough
People accept any explanation as…

The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent 
silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often 
achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, 
howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

Mark Twain

….Atmosphere harmony.  Even the sounds are infused 
with quiet.  With his carved stick, the drummer is beating 
in perfect rythym, which means so in tune with 
the whole locale that you are never aware of him, yet the 
flux of…

The mere act of observing something changes  
the nature of the thing observed   
  

Werner Hiesenberg   

What you do speaks so loud that I can't 
hear what you are saying 

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You ask my thoughts 
through the dark night? 
I spent it listening 
to the heavy rain 
beating against the windows

Izumi Shikibu

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