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We ‘Make’ Ourselves, Our Lives

“I believe the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”–George Eliot

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On Action and Accomplishments

“There’s nothing half so real in life as the things you’ve done….Inexorably, unalterably done.”–Margaret Ayer Barnes

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Music’s Importance

“Music is the universal language of mankind.’–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Old Russian Proverb

“When money speaks, the truth is silent.”

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On ‘Cutting out the Noise’ (of Others and Society)

“I never met the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”–Henry David Thoreau

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What Is Civilization?

“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.”–Roger Ebert

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On the Essence and Power of Language

“Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.”–Sven Birkerts “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”–Rudyard Kipling

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On Mindless Conventionality or Conformity

“Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”–George Orwell

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“Hope is the thing with feathers.”–Emily Dickinson

“We all live in the hope that authentic meeting between human beings can still occur.”–R.D. Laing

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Self-Destruction via Fear

“We have to realize we are as deeply afraid to live and love as we are to die.”–R.D. Laing

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