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"True healing is realizing that you were never sick in the first place, true healing is realizing that you had a little bit of dust on the windshield and brushed it off."— Duncan Trussell

"Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement."----Charles Darwin

“The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?” ~ Arabian proverb

“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”---Wittgenstein

It takes a very special kind of mind indeed to undertake a study of the obvious..

“He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.”― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Ah yes...the constantly televised obsession with the position and status of an inflated orange rubber ball among a crowd of young overpaid and hyperactive pituitary cases. Thank God there's no such thing as April Madness...

When one person believes in crazy things, we lock them up in an institution and medicate them. When thousands of people believe in crazy things, we let them freely gather in large ornate buildings on tax free land. Something's wrong here.

"Most people would agree that the word 'alienation' applies to modern man, that something happened in history which gradually despoiled the average man, transformed him from an active, creative being into the pathetic consumer who smiles proudly from our billboards that his armpits are odor-free around the clock. "
~ Ernest Becker

“Without these supernova explosions, there are no mist-covered swamps, computer chips, trilobites, Mozart or the tears of a little girl. Without exploding stars, perhaps there could be a heaven, but there is certainly no Earth.”― Clifford A. Pickover