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Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach,
Or what's a heaven for ?
-- Robert Browning, "Andrea del Sarto"
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Linux Wisdom: 19 of 402 |
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
-- Dante Alighieri
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Linux Wisdom: 20 of 402 |
All men know the utility of useful things;
but they do not know the utility of futility.
-- Chuang-tzu
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Linux Wisdom: 21 of 402 |
All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
-- The Book of Bokonon / Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Linux Wisdom: 22 of 402 |
All of us should treasure his Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a
Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks,
tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks:
"Just lie down on the floor and keep calm."
-- Robert Wilson, "John Dillinger Died for You"
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Linux Wisdom: 23 of 402 |
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes
we cannot bear to look out of, we blind them as quickly as possible.
-- Russell Hoban, "Pilgermann"
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Linux Wisdom: 24 of 402 |
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
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Linux Wisdom: 25 of 402 |
An older student came to Otis and said, "I have been to see a
great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures.
I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment.
I have given up everything I was asked to give up and I have suffered, but
I have not been enlightened. What should I do?"
Otis replied, "Give up suffering."
-- Camden Benares, "Zen Without Zen Masters"
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Linux Wisdom: 26 of 402 |
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the
hour of separation.
-- Kahlil Gibran
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Linux Wisdom: 27 of 402 |
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this
big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around --
nobody big, I mean -- except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy
cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go
over the cliff -- I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're
going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do
all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye. I know it; I know it's crazy,
but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
-- J.D. Salinger, "Catcher in the Rye"
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