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“Kids need to know that sometimes dead is better”

"....Maybe it was coming home and seeing Rachel all the way over on her side of the bed. Territory is that which defines all else, hadn't he read that in some college history course?"

A thought experiment from the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

The Buddhists say that wisdom may be attained by reaching the three marks. The first is an understanding of the absence of self. The second is an understanding of the impermanence of all things. The third is an understanding of the unsatisfactory nature of ordinary experience.

He is the worst kind of bureaucrat--low-level and long-serving, motivated by frustration.

"Next to arrive, from a waitress killed in a highway accident, is the opinion that what they call country music these days is not country music at all but pop music with a twang and too much cologne. "