How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.
-- George Orwell, 1984

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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. ( Read more... )

"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life."
-- Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy

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"I was walking home on the railroad tracks when I was a little kid.
I tried chasing after a pigeon to bring it home as a pet."
   "How'd that work for you?"
"It outran me."
-- Dad


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for a minute there, I lost myself.


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Lawrence Ferlinghetti - "Constantly Risking Absurdity"

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a composer but never composed, singing the symphonies of the overdosed.


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"The obsequiousness of robots is not enough."
-- God, The Oldest Question, William J. O'Malley


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"Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story."
--George Orwell, "Why I Write"


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one day i'll fly away; leave all this to yesterday.


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