"The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"

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Source : "The Promise of Friendship". Book by Kathy Wagoner, 2002.

Eugene Kennedy

#Friendship Quotes #Real Quotes #Simple Quotes

“When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.”
“That would be the frontispiece. This was a picture of my mother and me coming out of the United States Supreme Court, with fecal matter smeared across our faces. They wrapped it in wax paper so that when I received it I'd get the full impact of the message. Though I haven't gotten anything quite that original lately, there's still never a dull moment in my mailbox.”
“Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.”

Source : "Athenaeum" magazine, #366, 1798.
“In trying to express only those aspects of ourselves that we believe will guarantee us the acceptance of others, we suppress some of our most valuable and interesting features and sentence ourselves to a life of reenacting the same outworn scripts. Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential. Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map thatâ€”when properly read and followedâ€”reconnects us to the life we were meant to live and the people we were meant to be.”
“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.”
“Things don't make me nearly as happy as talking and having a beer with my friends. And that's something everyone can do.”
“If, however, one factor is too successful, it will continue to be the winning factor regardless of the variation in the other factors over the range of variation in the conditions, and therefore will stifle the development of other advantageous factors until the conditions change sufficiently that it no longer is the winning factor. At this point, the whole population is ill prepared for the change, and may well perish entirely if the winning factor accidentally becomes the matching factor for a disease or a predator.”

Source : "O'reilly subjugated to the Lisp juggenaut". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. January 18, 2004.
“(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.”

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