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We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Lewis Thomas

I am having an out-of-money experience.

Author unknown

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Find your place on the planet, dig in, and take responsibility from there.

Gary Snyder

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

Freeman Dyson

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Jack Kerouac

A broken leg can be remembered and located: “It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach.” But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered — in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.

Tracy Thompson

Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Joseph Baretti