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“Ideas won’t keep…” #39

If you treat every situation as a life-and-death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.
-Dean Smith quoted by Fran Tarkenton

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“…wonderous days, surprising days” #10

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still had to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life will begin. At last it dawned on me [...]

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Trusting in Time #3

Just as we challenged the “bigger is better” theory in the late ’sixties and concluded that small is O.K., it’s time to realize that faster isn’t better. Slower may be more humane.
-Jeremy Rifkin
Time Wars
We are at a point in history where, to most Americans, the value of time is reaching parity with the value [...]

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“…wonderous days, surprising days” #2

There are ways of dealing with the world that invite energy in. You have to be excited by the things you don’t know. This keeps you constantly stimulated, on a learning spree with life.
-Diana Ross

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Of Stranded Dragons and Whitewashed Cows #3

There is nothing in which birds differ more from man than the way in which they build and yet leave the landscape as it was before.
-Robert Lynd

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Giving Your Word(s): On Writing and Talking #5

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
-Gene Fowler
If you can’t annoy somebody, there is very little point in writing.
-Kinsley Amis

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #77

The most popular surgery in this country, coronary bypass surgery, is the probably a metaphor. The problem with our culture is that we have bypassed the heart.
-Rachel Naomi Remen, M. D.

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #72

To recieve a present handsomely, and in the right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
-Leigh Hunt

Most of us know how to give. We are raised on sating like “It is better to give than to receive.”
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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #33

Be nice, feel guilty, and play safe. If there was ever a prescription for producing a dismal future, that has to be it.
-Walter B. Wriston

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #62

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
-Eric Hoffer

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