"Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising."

-- Raymond Carver

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“We have this unfortunate habit in the United States of dividing terrorism into different categories. External, foreign terrorism, which manifests itself overseas or in the United States, or domestic terrorism.”
“Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.”
“In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from another sky, and that this God had invented the guilty and the dress, and had sent to be burnt alive who worships the Sun the Moon the Earth and the Rain that wets it.”
“The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.”
“My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was "We have always done this. Why don't we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?"”
“A hero is a man who does what he can.”

Source : Romain Rolland (1914). “John Christopher: Storm and Stress”
“Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.”
“Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!”

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