Purpose
Calvin: I wonder why man was put on earth. What's our purpose? Why are we here?
Hobbes: Tiger food. *grin*
-- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
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Why bother? Here's why
[on relationships] I though of that old joke, y'know, the, this, this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy. He thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" And the guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much how I feel about relationships. Y'know, they're totally irrational and crazy and absurd and, but, uh, I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.
-- Alvy Singer, Annie Hall
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Pourquoi?
"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" -- which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
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Half of what I say
Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
-- Kahlil Gibran
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Past, present, future
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
-- Jan Glidewell
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Heartbreak
When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
-- Sufi epigram
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Nothing
Nothing endures ... except change.
-- Heraclitus
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Trusted
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
-- George Macdonald
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Remembrance
O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!
We still remember, we who dwell
In this far land beneath the trees.
Thy starlight on the Western Seas.
A Elbereth Gilthoniel,
silvren penna miriel
o menel aglar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-diriel
-- J.R.R.Tolkein, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Taking it easy
The appropriate demeanor for a human is to feel lucky that he is alive and to humble himself in the face of the immensity of things and have a beer. Relax. Welcome to Earth. It's a little confusing at first. That's why you have to come back over and over again before you learn to really enjoy yourself. The sky is not falling.
-- Kary Mullis(?)
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Work
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work--not somebody else's work. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.
-- Mark Twain
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Pain and Life
But pain ... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
-- Lois McMaster Bujold
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Fairy Tales
"Once upon a time there was a protein named Hansel and another named Gretel. We so wanted to see them together but it never happened. So we took a cage and managed to attract Gretel to it. After great effort we got Red Riding Hood to walk by that way with seven dwarves. Soon there was a huge crowd of kids standing around oggling at the handsome Gretel (
handsome Gretel? -- the protein gets totally changed beyond recongition by the time they do anything to it!). In the crowd, happened to pass by Hansel who was feeding cattle. And he fell in love with Snow White (Snow White?! -- well, I told you there were seven dwarves, didn't I?). Therefore we conclude that Hansel and Gretel were always together, and lived happily ever after."
-- Shruti Kapoor, on how molecular biology papers
are a lot like fairy tales
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Procrastination
i know i should be working on my paper, but id rather be playing warcraft, so to compromise im doing almost nothing
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At Once
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
-- Calvin Coolidge
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