"Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither."

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Source : Christmas Humphreys (2003). “Teach Yourself Zen”, Teach Yourself

Christmas Humphreys

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“If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.”
“People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 16, 2003.
“All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior...”
“Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split second to make up his mind if it's in or out or down or coming at his head, a split second to swing. To do what he did has got to be the most tremendous thing I've ever seen in sports.”
“If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil's advocate, and so on. It doesn't occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.”
“So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands. There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now. I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.”
“There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.”

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