"True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.”
“I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.”
“It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own interests in a narrow, shortsighted way. Being wise selfish means taking a broader view and recognizing that our own long-term individual interest lies in the welfare of everyone. Being wise selfish means being compassionate.”
“There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in”
“I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.”

Source : "The Showrunner Transcript: Community’s Dan Harmon on Finale Cameos and Season-Long Lessons". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, www.vulture.com. May 13, 2011.
“Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.171, Macmillan
“A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”
“Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - theyÂ have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.”

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