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A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don't snicker: Would you ever say, 'Nothing has gone wrong yet' without looking for wood to knock?
 
Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad.
 
It will happen but it will take time.
 
You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.
 
Happy is the man who is nothing.
 
I am no more humble than my talents require. 
 
There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else.
 
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
 
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
 
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
 
ON SONGWRITING
It's like glueing macaroni to a piece of cardboard and painting it gold
 
To understand the whole operation of one’s own mind requires a great deal of insight, a great deal of inquiry without condemnation.
 
Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.
 
[Philosophy] must set limits to what can be thought; and, in doing so, to what cannot be thought. It must set limits to what cannot be thought by working outwards through what can be thought.
 
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
 
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
 
There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?'
 
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
 
COMMAND: In computer science, a statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control.
 
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
 
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