"When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child"

-- Johan Huizinga

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“A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.”
“We are at a moment that some of the Silicon Valley companies are feeling the pressure. These days the founder of Twitter apologized that his company promoted some of the things that elected Donald Trump. You don't see that much of these apologizing from Google. From Mark Zuckerberg you are hearing a little bit more of it, but he is a little more "Oh, well, this is what happens because the internet scaled up and everybody has fake news; oh, we are gonna build a better technology".”
“When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.”
“Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion.”
“In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.”
“Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.”
“I need to know that wherever I end up, in the stars or in the gutter, youâ€™re along for the ride.”
“Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.”

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