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    You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state
    “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
    ― Edgar Mitchell
    tags: astronaut, humanity, moon, politics, science, space, world
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: psychology, thoughts
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    Sigmund Freud
    “It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
    tags: admiration, escape, false-standards, impossible, impression, measurement, power, science, success, true-value, underestimate, value, wealth
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    Sigmund Freud
    “In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873-1939;
    tags: cynicism, humanity, mankind
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: change, life, love, personality
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    Sigmund Freud
    “The madman is a dreamer awake”
    ― S. Freud
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
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    Sigmund Freud
    “The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Sexuality and the Psychology of Love
    tags: action, human-being, life, personality, prediction, reaction, sex
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    Sigmund Freud
    “The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
    tags: dreams, honor, virtue, wicked
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    Sigmund Freud
    “America is a mistake, a giant mistake.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
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    Sigmund Freud
    “There are no mistakes”
    ― Sigmund Freud
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: buddhism, metaphysics, philosophy, religion, tao, taoism, theology, zen
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
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    Alan W. Watts
    “The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Wendy Mass
    “Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
    All the time.”
    ― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
    tags: flotsam, funny, humor, jeremy-fink, jetsam, keys, lizzy, wendy-mass, what-i-always-think
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    Louis C.K.
    “Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", it's just "fuck it, man.”
    ― Louis C.K.
    tags: attitude, comedian, comedy, family, fuck-it, funny, honest, honesty, joke, jokes, life, louie, lucky-louie, quote, stand-up
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    Criss Jami
    “When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: advantage, alienation, alienation-versus-humanity, art, artist, authenticity, awkward, brain, compromise, craft, creative, fierce, genuine, humanity, humanity-versus-alienation, imagination, introversion, isolation, life, loner, originality, perspective, purity, social, socially-awkward, solitude, writing
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    Woody Allen
    “The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
    ― Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris: The Shooting Script
    tags: art, artist, despair, emptiness, hope, meaning-of-life, purpose, purpose-in-life
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