"I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love."

-- Karen Kingsbury

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“Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.”
“The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.”
“The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.”
“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”
“No action can be performed successfully without a clear result in view.”
“Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: â€œJust be cool. Donâ€™t be an asshole.”

Source : Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.49, Penguin
“There's nothing like success.”
“(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.”

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