"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.”
“How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. Paz taught me a few words that, if people weren't nice to me, I could tell them a few things. I got to study with [chef] Thomas Keller, who we all love as a guy and Jim had a relationship with him at [his restaurant] the French Laundry.”
“It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.”
“The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.”
“When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.”
“What we think of as physical reality is an intermingling of appropriate realities, a fluid massive consciousness in which each of us exists independently of each other and yet coexists interdependently with each other.”
“He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.”
“At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.”

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