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Nine Kinds of Naked by Tony V. "To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth." - William Burroughs "The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something." - Masanobu Fukuoka "Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared." - Jack Handey "Incapable of enjoying the moment, the male needs something to look forward to, and money provides him with an eternal, never-ending goal: Just think of what you could do with 80 trillion dollars -- invest it! And in three years time you'd have 300 trillion dollars!!!" - Valerie Solanas "Money is an entitlement to someone else's labor." - Stan Goff "The free market means that those without money to buy what they need do not have the right to live." - John McMurtry "When the underclass riots in this country, they don't kill policemen and politicians -- they steal merchandise. How embarrassing." - George Carlin "Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day." - Thaddeus Golas "Even the most base schemes of human beings are preferable to the most exalted tropisms of machines." - Philip K. Dick "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, does not go away." - Philip K. Dick "Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!" - Edward Abbey "There has got to be a God; the world could not have become so fucked up by chance alone." - Edward Abbey "There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen "The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination." - Alan Watts "All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story." - Isak Dinesen "Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not." - Tolstoy "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - (variously attributed) "Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not." - Michael J. Fox "Do not even wait." - Franz Kafka, on how to meditate "Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are." - Ortega y Gasset "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will be troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All." - Jesus Christ, gospel of Thomas "Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand." - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle "When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating." - Charles Fort "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it." - Douglas Adams