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  1. goenKendama

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    The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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    The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.
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    We boil at different degrees.
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    Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
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    Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
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    Be sure to follow your own advice before dispensing it to others.
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    There are the few who make things happen; the many more who watch things happen and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.
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    A music lover listens to music with his sound system.
    An audiophile listens to his sound system with music.

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    *** A good bit longer than the standard quotes posted here but this was found on the Analog Kendamas site so thought it was a good fit. -goenKendama


    by Don Marquis

    http://www.donmarquis.org/themoth.htm


    the lesson of the moth

    i was talking to a moth
    the other evening
    he was trying to break into
    an electric light bulb
    and fry himself on the wires

    why do you fellows
    pull this stunt i asked him
    because it is the conventional
    thing for moths or why
    if that had been an uncovered
    candle instead of an electric
    light bulb you would
    now be a small unsightly cinder
    have you no sense

    plenty of it he answered
    but at times we get tired
    of using it
    we get bored with the routine
    and crave beauty
    and excitement
    fire is beautiful
    and we know that if we get
    too close it will kill us
    but what does that matter
    it is better to be happy
    for a moment
    and be burned up with beauty
    than to live a long time
    and be bored all the while
    so we wad all our life up
    into one little roll
    and then we shoot the roll
    that is what life is for
    it is better to be a part of beauty
    for one instant and then cease to
    exist than to exist forever
    and never be a part of beauty
    our attitude toward life
    is come easy go easy
    we are like human beings
    used to be before they became
    too civilized to enjoy themselves

    and before i could argue him
    out of his philosophy
    he went and immolated himself
    on a patent cigar lighter
    i do not agree with him
    myself i would rather have
    half the happiness and twice
    the longevity

    but at the same time i wish
    there was something i wanted
    as badly as he wanted to fry himself
     
    Apr 24, 2024
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    Procrastination really is a good thing. You always have something to do tomorrow, plus you have nothing to do today.
    -anonymous
     
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