"You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight — how to get from shore to food and back again."

— Richard Bach

Literature1936

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"That summer I was nominated to go to the Team Birkie ski camp for the best high school cross-country skiers in the state. … The camp served vegetable lasagna, all kinds of salads, and freshly baked wh…"

— Scott Jurek

Music1973

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"Every lawyer of experience comes to know that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around."

— Jerome Frank

Law1889–1957

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"To teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bounds imposed by one's own ignorance."

— G. Spencer-Brown

Mathematics1923–2016

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