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For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.
Man is embedded in nature.
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.
Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.
We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries. We assume that they must somehow relish what they do.
We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion.
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.
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You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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