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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.: Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.: Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005
We want God to come and save us. But he won’t. God doesn’t stop levees from failing, he doesn’t stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn’t stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-09-05
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The inability to secure a reservation drives yuppies absolutely crazy.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-07-05
He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661), Gnomologia, 1732
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They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Lord Jim
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.: Viktor Frankl, "Logotherapy in a Nutshell" Man's Search for Meaning (1959, 1962, 1985)

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