"For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong. The nub of the problem is how to flip over, as in jujitsu, the magnificent growth energy of modern civilization into a nonacquisitive search for deeper knowledge of self and nature."

-- Gary Snyder

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“Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.”
“Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.”

Source : W. P. Kinsella (1983). “Shoeless Joe”, New York : Ballantine Books
“Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we would never need solace.”

Source : "Bigger & better".
“When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman whoâ€™s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we donâ€™t know where we come from â€¦ we donâ€™t know where we are.”
“In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today.”
“As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.”
“Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.”
“The school is the manufactory of humanity.”

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