"We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen next, and we do not see that it is exactly the other way around! What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn't explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears."

-- Alan Watts

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“It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.”

Source : Remark at Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium, 1980.
“Sometimes a poem starts because I feel the urge to write about something from which I carry a great deal of shame, and I try to sketch out in writing how I am complicit in whatever dynamic it is I am illuminating. And sometimes it comes later, when I step back and challenge myself - am I being honest here?”
“Someone has to do everything that is done.”
“I donâ€™t believe that the Earthâ€™s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. Thatâ€™s what the Bible says.”
“Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.”
“There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.”
“I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.”
“The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.”

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