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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life.  The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. H.L. Mencken, Prejudices, 1925

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Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers. Mary Tyler Moore

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I only went out for a walk and…

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains:  The Unpublished Journals of … Continue reading

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No one really listens to anyone else

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why. Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

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Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying.  Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. Charles C. Finn

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A glimpse of the cosmic dance

When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, … Continue reading

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Only a few things are really important

Only a few things are really important. Marie Dressler

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Perhaps I’m old and tired

Perhaps I’m old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just … Continue reading

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I really enjoy life

I really enjoy life I’m just not good at it. Daniel, @blindedpoet

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If you observe a really happy man

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.  He will not be searching … Continue reading

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