“What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?” — Bertrand Russell, Education and the Good Life
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“Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.” — Alan Watts, Does It Matter?
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“It is the knowledge learned yesterday which is most freely imparted today.” — George Henry Lewes, The Principles of Success in Literature
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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
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“Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world’s ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.” — John W. Gardner, “A Nation Is Never Finished”, ABA Journal (November 1967)
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“Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
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“How much more difficult to reinvent yourself when you can’t shuck your legend.” — Chip Brown, Ken Kesey Kisses No Ass, Esquire, September 1992
