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"Nothing Donald said during the campaign—from his disparagement... to his mocking... —deviated from my expectation... I was reminded of every family meal I'd ever attended during which Donald talked ab…"

"anctions should be reserved, if we think international, for extremely serious situations."

"Advice to young Men: Thoughts For Young Men."

"If you want to. That’s the important thing. For you to do what you want to do. Not what you think anyone else wants or expects you to do."

"What the Buddhists teach is to free yourself from the three great evils in life: greed — which means all kinds of craving — hatred, and delusion. But delusion is really the cause of the other two. We …"

"My friend said to me "I think the weather's trippy." I said "No, man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it is the way that we perceive it that is indeed trippy." Then I thought "Man, I shoul…"

"New-age woolly-hat Glastonbury mystics weary me, sometimes, but they talk about energy, the energy of a place, of a person. We all know what they mean, but at the same time it has to be said that this…"

"Lincoln thought slavery was wrong and he did not think a vote of the people could make it right."

"Besides the want of arrangement in the original and of connection among the numerous paragraphs, the corruption of the text, the obscurity of the language and the style, and sometimes perhaps the conf…"

"“Solipsism,” said Felise. “I thought that too, for a while, but it was so obvious that my cat didn’t think so, didn’t think I was the only thing in the universe, that I decided it wasn’t true."

"Obviously I think I've been very lucky, to start off with such a good break, and to have a film that not only was a hit but where I didn't have to compromise … in terms of doing a mindless movie — it …"

"We must move toward a soundly based and widely distributed economic well-being. This is the 'theory of plenty' as distinguished from the 'theory of scarcity' which has dominated our recent economic th…"

"If the question, 'Why is the heart hollow?', had a profound impact on all intellectual disciplines, would you expect any less of the question, 'Why is the brain hollow?'"

"Many of those who reject the idea of economic models are ill-informed or even intellectually dishonest. Still, there are highly intelligent and objective thinkers who are repelled by simplistic models…"

"The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little."

"During decades of the present life and throughout millennia of previous lives traversing the round of existence, there has steadily grown within each individual a closely knit system of intellectual a…"

"Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up."

"I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was t…"

"This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along—you want there to be some room for it to fit in."

"New ideas make their way into the world by generations of elbowing. They make themselves known to the eminences first, and from these upper places they spread laboriously to the lowlands. One can hard…"