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He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people’s labor.
 
A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is.
 
By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.
 
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
 
George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.
 
The loss of a thing affects us until we have lost it altogether.
 
According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.
 
Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
 
When everything is done, the mornings are sad.
 
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
 
ARCHITECTURE: The art of how to waste space.
 
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.
 
Asking 'Who ought to be the boss?' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
 
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.
 
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
 
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
 
.. [there are] people who, according to the best data available, have been starved for love in the earliest months of their lives and have simply lost forever the desire and the ability to give and to receive affection.
 
The only place where I can go into my own world is in my journal. Everywhere else is the place where I go into the world of others.
 
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
 
To understand the whole operation of one’s own mind requires a great deal of insight, a great deal of inquiry without condemnation.
 
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