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About the same time a generation of men perceive how uncertain their fathers are they prepare for war.




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Violence enrages but the numb and frozen aftermath is silent.

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To want to do most things you have to do creates energy and invites contentment.




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Sharpen your mind's teeth on your mistakes.

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The pleasure in viewing the belongings of the great masters derives from the inability to believe that they did things in the same way and places that everyone else does.


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My father never spoke so now I can't stop listening.

[for Tom Beckett]

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Aphorisms remind us there is more to be understood in a world that suggests mostly there is more to be owned.

[for Jordan Davis]




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Everything can be known in an instant. That's all there ever was.

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The center will not hold-no matter-everything is in orbit anyway-keep turning.



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Celebrate your sensitivity-don't be numb.The greatest danger in the world's ever increasing intrusiveness lies in accepting it.

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The first inkling is that no one else seems to understand what you want. Then you realize you do not know. Then you know.



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The movement of life is like the wind. You can't see it but then a breeze comes along and you notice it's there; or it rushes at you suddenly and almost knocks you off your feet.

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When I'm outside I feel more inside myself; when I'm inside I look out.




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Ahead of myself, behind the others....