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""Would you like me to arrest you?" I asked. That's an old police trick. If you just warn people they often simply ignore you, but if you ask them a question they have to think about if. Once they start to think about the consequences they almost always calm down - unless there drunk of course, or stoned, or aged between fourteen and twenty-one, or Glaswegian." — May 16, 2021 06:55AM
""Would you like me to arrest you?" I asked. That's an old police trick. If you just warn people they often simply ignore you, but if you ask them a question they have to think about if. Once they start to think about the consequences they almost always calm down - unless there drunk of course, or stoned, or aged between fourteen and twenty-one, or Glaswegian." — May 16, 2021 06:55AM
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“There are so few things in our existence we can count on to give us the sense of permanence, of the ground beneath our feet. People fail us. Our bodies fail us. We fail ourselves. He's experienced all of that. But what do you cling to, moment to moment, if memories can simply change. What, then, is real? And if the answer is nothing, where does that leave us?”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I'm definitely not religious, and I'm very tired of the preachiness and obsession with other people's behavior characteristic of many religious people in the United States. As far as I could tell, there's nothing preachy about Buddhism. I was in a lot of temples, and I still don't know what Buddhists believe, except that at one point Kunio said 'If you do bad things, you will be reborn as an ox.'
This makes as much sense to me as anything I ever heard from, for example, the Reverend Pat Robertson.”
― Dave Barry Does Japan
This makes as much sense to me as anything I ever heard from, for example, the Reverend Pat Robertson.”
― Dave Barry Does Japan
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