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I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

It's a slow process rewriting your own life in your head. I think that's a writerly thing.

If too many people feel excluded from the system and cannot access its benefits, they will ultimately rebel against it.

Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

I've been on extremely talented teams that just don't click, and I've also been on team with a little bit less talent, but they clicked, and because they clicked, they did better than other talented teams I've been on.

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.

It will be a priority for me to ensure the smooth and speedy implementation of defence deals and projects.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

So perhaps spiritual experience is simply what happens in the space that opens up in the mind when “all mean egotism vanishes.” Wonders (and terrors) we’re ordinarily defended against flow into our awareness; the far ends of the sensory spectrum, which are normally invisible to us, our senses can suddenly admit. While the ego sleeps, the mind plays, proposing unexpected patterns of thought and new rays of relation. The gulf between self and world, that no-man’s-land which in ordinary hours the ego so vigilantly patrols, closes down, allowing us to feel less separate and more connected, “part and particle” of some larger entity. Whether we call that entity Nature, the Mind at Large, or God hardly matters. But it seems to be in the crucible of that merging that death loses some of its sting.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.