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What we contemplate, we become.

Desire indulged widens.

Break the spell of urgency. Then see what is needed. Then do it.

Weber’s First Law of Cosmology:

Something is better than nothing.

The point of democracy is not that the warlords are somehow controlled by the masses. It’s just a mechanism for transferring power from one warlord to another without actually having to fight the war.

Sometimes, you find you’re burning up, and the best you can do is try to make more light than smoke.

The biggest challenge of my life is that, during one long hot shower, I can plan about 40 hours of work. So maybe I could be happy if I only showered once a week.

When they say “Your problem is…”, they mean “My problem is.”

History is a long series of memorable meals occasionally punctuated by events.

Give us this day our daily friends: and we shall want for nothing.