"Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues they should be conscious and honest enough to recognize that the goal itself is not an absolute, and probably not even important. A strong attachment to the telos indicates that the spontaneous enjoyment the child once took in road-building has waned."

-- John Carroll

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“My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.”
“Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.”
“Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.”
“Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.”
“When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.”
“To be a great pilot you have to make a pact with the devil, but don't let him swallow you up.”
“But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, â€œYou are noble enough,â€ and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.”
“You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.”

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