"It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior."

-- John Ruskin

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“The physical act of meditating by closing one's eyes and slowing down the speed of internal thoughts - especially worrisome thinking - results in a physiological response that is well documented in the scientific literature.”
“Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.”

Source : "Question time: Jack Dee". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2009.
“There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.”
“The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.”
“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.”
“[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality. This war has destroyed thousands of Americans. It is also a pretext for government agents to rob innocent people in airports and on the highways - they seize and confiscate large amounts of cash and say to their victims: "Sue us if you don't like it." And more and more judges, politicians, intelligence agents, and law-enforcement officers are on the take - as dependent on the drug-war largess as the drug lords themselves.”
“Satellite photography in the 1970's gave rise to the long-range weather forecast, a month at a time. This in turn gave rise to the observation that the long-range weather forecast was wrong most of the time. In turn, this gave rise to the dropping of the long-range weather forecast and to the admission that really accurate forecasting could only cover the next day or two, and not always then.”
“If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.”

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