"Imitate, assimilate & innovate."

-- Clark Terry

“A lot of things are going right. More is going right than wrong, for sure.”
“The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.”
“With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.”
“People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to.”
“I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.”
“I personally will be overjoyed when the Canadian courts rule to return John Graham back to the US to answer for this brutal murder.”
“The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.”
“Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing...”

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