"Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker."

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Arthur M. Jolly

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“Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.”
“[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.”
“You have to get beyond the barrier of self-protection before you can really fly.”
“My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I'm really thankful to her.”
“Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.”
“I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.”
“Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.”
“Questions like, "Is my suit OK?", or "Is my job performance satisfactory?", are impossible to think about in the absence of a suitable frame of reference. For an interview suit to serve its purpose, it must make you look good relative to other candidates for the job you want. For your job performance to be satisfactory, it must compare favorably with the performance of others who want the same promotion you do. As Charles Darwin saw clearly, much of life is graded on the curve, and conventional economic models completely ignore that fact.”

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