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Frank had once maintained that Americans hated music but loved entertainment. “The reason they hate music,” he explained, “is that they’ve never stopped to listen to what the musical content is because they’re so befuddled by the packaging and merchandising that surround the musical material they’ve been induced to buy. There’s so much peripheral s
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The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful. https://x.com/JamesClear/status/1760722578887352596
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” – Mark Twain
Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above
Alan W. Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Religions are divisive and quarrelsome. They are a form of one-upmanship because they depend upon separating the “saved” from the “damned,” the true believers from the heretics, the in-group from the out-group.
“Great work happens by focusing consistently on something you're genuinely interested in.”
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Anxiety is a sign that you haven’t fully made sense of something in the past. Because the only way that the future can feel threatening is if you’re afraid that something you know you can’t handle is going to happen again. Memories that haven’t been fully processed will linger: https://x.com/SchrodingrsBrat/status/1685262615231021057
“Going to the verge of war without actually getting into war is the necessary art,”
Leo Janos • Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
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"Change happens when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of change."
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"No, I was not `playing' with the cat. I only picked it up to fondle it a bit. It was a rather appealing calico. I offered it a hot dog. However, the cat refused to eat it. It was an animal with some taste and decency."
Walker Percy • A Confederacy of Dunces
"No, I was not 'playing' with the cat..."