Battaille

For academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

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Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

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Wilson Mizner

Always be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet the same people on the way down.

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Samuel Smiles

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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Monica Baldwin

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.

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Unknown, Buckaroo Banzai, from the film

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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Sren Kierkegaard

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

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