It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The example he gave -- and the liar said it really happened -- was that once while drinking orange juice, he'd realized he would be dead someday. He wondered if we, his students, had had similar "realizations." Is he kidding? I thought. Once I cashed a paycheck and realized it wasn't enough. Once I had food poisoning and realized I was trapped inside my own body.
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
"Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
-The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity
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-Anna Nalick
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Is he kidding? I thought.
Once I cashed a paycheck and realized it wasn't enough.
Once I had food poisoning and realized I was trapped inside my own body.
-Amy Hempel
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-C.S. Lewis
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-Banksy
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-The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity
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