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"Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by."
Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
(Abraham Lincoln)
(Abraham Lincoln)
This is one of my favourite Churchill anecdotes. 
Once, when a cabinet minister was speaking about a murderous riot between Arabs and Jews, and ended his speech by expressing his solemn regret that this incident should have occurred of all places "in Bethlehem, birthplace of the Prince of Peace," Churchill could be heard throughout the chamber asking the member sitting beside him in a stage whisper, "But have we not always been given to understand that Neville was born in Birmingham?"
(Alone: Britain, Churchill and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory, Michael Korda)
Once, when a cabinet minister was speaking about a murderous riot between Arabs and Jews, and ended his speech by expressing his solemn regret that this incident should have occurred of all places "in Bethlehem, birthplace of the Prince of Peace," Churchill could be heard throughout the chamber asking the member sitting beside him in a stage whisper, "But have we not always been given to understand that Neville was born in Birmingham?"
(Alone: Britain, Churchill and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory, Michael Korda)
"Gonna be a happy idiot, and struggle for the legal tender."
--Jackson Browne
At one factory I worked in, there was a guy who'd sign his time cards "The happy idiot" or "The grindstone cowboy." He got a lot of flak from the office for that. But he became my best friend.
--Jackson Browne
At one factory I worked in, there was a guy who'd sign his time cards "The happy idiot" or "The grindstone cowboy." He got a lot of flak from the office for that. But he became my best friend.
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"A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest."
Paul Simon, who also wrote a quatrain for Leonard Bernstein's Mass:
"Half of the people are stoned
And the other half are waiting for the next connection
Half of the people are drowned
And the other half are swimming in the wrong direction"
Paul Simon, who also wrote a quatrain for Leonard Bernstein's Mass:
"Half of the people are stoned
And the other half are waiting for the next connection
Half of the people are drowned
And the other half are swimming in the wrong direction"
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something in your life." (Churchill)
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.
And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow.
But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development.
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly.
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
-- C. S. Lewis
(In short: you're never too old to have fun. You don't stop playing when you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing)
And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow.
But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development.
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly.
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
-- C. S. Lewis
(In short: you're never too old to have fun.
You don't stop playing when you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing) 
Today is grey skies,
tomorrow is tears.
we'll have to wait til yesterday is here.
Tom Waits
tomorrow is tears.
we'll have to wait til yesterday is here.
Tom Waits
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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― C.S. Lewis
― C.S. Lewis
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all Is Truth Beauty and Is Beauty Truth, and Does A Falling Tree in the Forest Make A Sound if There's No one There to Hear It, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, Incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.
― Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
― Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
"When we hear the sound of the pine trees on a windy day, perhaps the wind is just blowing, and the pine tree is just standing in the wind. That is all they are doing. But the people who listen to the wind in the tree will write a poem, or will feel something unusual. That is, I think, the way everything is."
Shunrya Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Shunrya Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
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