"The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated."

-- Italo Calvino

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“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
“One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara's attendants asked what that was and Mara replied, "A piece of truth." "Doesn't this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, O evil one?" his attendants asked. "No," Mara replied. "Right after this they usually make a belief out of it."”
“I would say, as far as heckling, there's benign and there's malignant; like tumors man. Sometimes you get really nice hecklers. I'd say percentage-wise it's only about 10 to 20 percent the whole year.”
“I don't really like the spotlight.”
“A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.”

Source : George Stillman Hillard (1864). “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army”, p.360, Gale Cengage Learning
“The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.”
“Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.”
“In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.”

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