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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. - Samuel Johnson

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. - Stephen Jay Gould

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. -E.

Being kind to the Self

Once I've taken the pressure of keeping myself happy, out of myself, I have become happy again, or at least, I am not as unhappy as I was before.

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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. Peter De Vries, "The Mackerel Plaza," 1958

I'm still an atheist, thank God. Luis Bunuel (1900 - 1983)

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. Georges DuhamelFrench author (1884 - 1966)

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. Woody Allen (1935 - )

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. Woody Allen (1935 - )

Stupidometer

It calculates the amount of stupidity of a person, direclty from the time, that person takes between facing a problem and googling it.

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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
- Paul Gauguin

Survival of the fittest

The game of extinction.
Played so hard
So cruel.

The game of life and death
Played so immaculate
So careless.

The race is so inescapable.
The result so unchangeable.

Endlessly played
In an
Endless progression.

To the Silent Listener

Powerful you might be, but, you have disappointed me with the amount of kindness you display. I think I do a better job than you. What a shame, isn't it? Or may be not. In the name of infinity one can override mathematical truths -- And once you are out of mathematics, you can tout, almost anything.

Do not persist

I have never understood
.....why.....
things

-do not persist-

Existence

I love this quote

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. - Eric Hoffer

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

It's Lunch Time! Or may be not.

There is no free lunch. As a matter of fact, sometimes there is no lunch at all.

Never

Empty

In vast, for long
So hard
So eagerly
In vein

So many times
Only in vein

In vein
In vein
In vein

Found
Empty

Professionalism

If taken positively, I havn't faced a situation in life where professionalism has not been helpful -- no matter how personal or informal the situation could have been.

An Experience

Differences are largely perceptual.

The Bottom

Deep beaneath, there is an echo. It may be God. Or someone.

Deeper than that, there is none. But the self.