"Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet."

-- Eric Hoffer

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“Katsa now sat calmly on the stomach of her vanquished foe. "He was handsome," said said. Po moaned. "Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just push-down-a-flight-of-stairs handsome?" "I would not push a seventy six year old man down a flight of stairs," said Katsa indignantly.”
“Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?”

Source : "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto". Book by Stewart Brand, 2009.
“I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.”
“I do not believe having a baby is punishment.”
“Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.”
“Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.”
“As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.”
“Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see be your son.”

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