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To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a phonetically symbolic glyph, a minor sign easily learned, readily assimilated, and occasionally deployed in the course of a literate life. To cynics, Z is just an S with a stick up its butt.

— Tom Robbins Wild Ducks Flying Backward (2005)

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The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.

High Times interview (2002)

Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things that afford us the greatest privacy.

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There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.

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Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

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Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

G. K. Chesterton

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

Confucius

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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