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| Email Friend | | | "`Rock' is the music of slaves. Of adolescents pursuing the illusion of
freedom and protest while the steel chains of technology bind them ever
tighter."
--Edward Abbey
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| Email Friend | | | "Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly,
New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an
honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot
juice, tofu, and seaweed slime."
--Edward Abbey
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| Email Friend | | | "They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me."
-- Nathaniel Lee, on being consigned to a mental
institution, circa 17th century.
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| Email Friend | | | Olin Miller:
"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if
you could know how seldom they do."
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| Email Friend | | | "The knowledge that one is to be hanged in the moring sharpens one's
mind considerably"
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| Email Friend | | | The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is
never of any use to oneself.
--Oscar Wilde
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| Email Friend | | | 'Ah, well, yes, you see, one of the things that makes
folks even more jolly is knowing there're people who
ain't,' said Albert, in a matter-of-fact voice.
'That's how it goes, master. Master?'
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| Email Friend | | | The major difference between hating and loving is perhaps that
whereas to love somebody is to be fulfilled and enriched by the
experience, to hate somebody is to be diminished and drained by it.
Lovers, by losing themselves in their loving, find themselves, become
themselves. Hater simply lose themselves. Theirs is the ultimately
"consuming" passion.
--Frederick Buechner
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| Email Friend | | |
A wedding. A handshake. A kiss. A coronation. A parade. A
dance. A meal. A graduation. A Mass. A ritual is the performance
of an intuition, the rehearsal of a dream, the playing of a game.
A sacrament is the breaking through of the sacred into the
profane, a ritual is the ceremonial acting out of the profane in oder
to show forth its sacredness.
A sacrament is God offering his holiness to men, a ritual is
men raising up the holiness of their humanity to God.
--Frederick Buechner
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| Email Friend | | | "Truth decays into beauty, while beauty soon becomes merely charm. Charm ends
up as strangeness, and even that doesn't last, but up and down are forever."
-- The Laws of Physics
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