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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
“The three most important people in her life are gone, and she will never see them again. The stark loneliness of that knowledge cuts her to the bone.
She is forty-nine, and she wonders if this is what feeling old really means -- not just a physical deterioration, but an interpersonal. A growing silence caused by the people you most love, who have shaped you and defined your world, going on ahead into whatever comes after.”
― Recursion
She is forty-nine, and she wonders if this is what feeling old really means -- not just a physical deterioration, but an interpersonal. A growing silence caused by the people you most love, who have shaped you and defined your world, going on ahead into whatever comes after.”
― Recursion
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― Four Quartets
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― Four Quartets
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“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
“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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