"Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'."

-- Alfred Korzybski

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“I have not asked for life. But I try to accept whatever life brings without surprise. And I shall depart again without having questioned anyone about my strange stay here on earth.”
“Happiness need not be analyzed.”

Source : Barbara Ann Kipfer (2001). “8,789 Words of Wisdom”, p.305, Workman Publishing
“I feel good... considering I managed to wake up.”
“When I am performing, I try to follow the advice I give to my students. This can be very hard - I was never a good student and I find I'm no better when I am the teacher.”
“What I'm talking about is pre-suasion, directing their minds to the moment before they experience the content. There's this interesting study. A guy goes to a shopping mall in France. And he tries to get women's phone numbers as they pass various shops, so he could call for a date. But in neither of those cases was he very successful. He only got a number 13 percent of the time. But there was one kind of shop that doubled his success rate when women were passing it, a flower shop. Why? Because flowers put women in the mind-set of romance.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.”

Source : "Vernon God Little". Book by D.B.C. Pierre, Act V. Me ves y sufres, January 20, 2003.
“The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.”
“The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not,”

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