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- At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.
- Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.
- Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.
- Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
- Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
- Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
- A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
- Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
- Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
- Never try to leap from a standstill.
- Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.
- Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.
- For the purpose of knowledge, one must know how to use that inner current that draws us to a thing, and then the one that,…
- My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.
- In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. Mason Cooley
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