“The road is as open as your mind,” –Xela Zeravla Koostik

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“He knew what had to be done. That is not always the same as knowing what to do.” -Dan Simmons The Fall of Hyperion

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“A freak show is much like life- nobody laughs when they leave.” -The Resident Freak Show

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“We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.” –Phillip Pullman _The Golden Compass_

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~"The problem is you've begun to expect the unexpected. That kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?"
Caeriel Cresti's Sign Language: Aries Jan 31st 2007,

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~"There are too many coincidences for them all to be coincidences,"- Jessica Kristine

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Travel has nothing to do with geography. Overheard

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If you push someone, they'll fall, but if you can get them to jump by
themselves, they may land safely.
--Michael Marshall Smith __Only Forward__

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You cannot feel Earth unless you feel space. The more you geel the space, the
more you feel the Earth.
--Chagyan Trungpa __The Myth of Freedom__

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The minds of men are an evolutionary record of the past behavior of women. And
vice versa.
--Robert Wright __The Moral Animal__

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Consider the lowly snail, who carries its house on its back....on cold rainy
days when it goes for a walk, it never has to backtrack....
--Lois McMaster Bujold __Falling Free__

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To close the eyes is to die a little.
--Robert Silverberg __Son of Man__

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"We're going back to the Pliocene, and that's too damn bad."
Overheard in the Paleobotany lab at U of Wash,late 2006, in regards to the potential loss of Arctic ice by mid century:

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"The problem is you've begun to expect the unexpected. That kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?"
Horoscope for Aries, 31jan07 in Crestin's Sign Language

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"In the intial furnace, hydrogen was transformed into helium, an atom
scarcely more complex. But we can already deduce from this
transformation the firest great rule of our universe: More and More
Complex. This rule seems obvious. But there is nothing to prove that
it applies in other universes. Elsewhere, the rule may be Hotter and
Hotter, Harder and Harder, or Funnier and Funnier." -Bernard Werber,
_The Empire of the Ants_

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"Routefinding may be problematic." Fred Beckey, Climbers Guide to the Cascades

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"The quickest way to get several things done is to do one at a time." Overheard

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"Resolution and a plan are better than a sword, because a man whets his own edges on them." Gene Wolfe, _The Citadel of the Autarch_

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"Organisms outlast mountain ranges because they work much harder at existing than rocks do."
David Rains Wallace, _The Klamath Knot_

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Indecision is the key to flexibility. Overheard

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Seen on a bumper sticker: "The more you know, the less you need."

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"A gram of mystery is work a kilo of reality..."
---Ian McDonald, __Out on Blue Six__

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The past is a straight road, because the world has traveled along it to reach the present.
…..PaulMcAuley Ancients of Days

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We keep our initiative tucked away safe in our mind, like a room where we can come and say ‘I don’t have to do anything, I make my own choices,Im free.’ And then we leave the little room in our mind…
….Ursula Le Guin The Disposessed

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"Be humble for you are made of dung,
be noble for you are made of stars."
--Serbian proverb

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"I consider reality to be the last thing one need concern oneself about,
for it is, tediously enough, always present, while more beautiful and
necessary things demand our attention and care."
--Hermann Hesse, __Life Story Briefly Told__

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"Boredom kills, and those it does not kill, it cripples, and those it
does not cripple, it bleeds like a leech, leaving its victims pale,
insipid, and brooding."
Blaine Harden, quoted in J Krakauer's __Eiger Dreams__

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"But let the mind beware that though the flesh be bugged the circumstances of
existence are pretty glorious.
--Kerouac __Dharma Bums__

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"Information is life and the computer is the universe in which it dwells."
-David Zindell __The Broken God_)

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the point of life...is to be totally aware of it. Overheard

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"Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise."
-David Zindell, Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool)

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"Maybe", Bentley said slowly,"a person should be loyal to an ideal."
"An ideal what?" [said Eleanor]
-Phillip Dick, Solar Lottery

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"Security is my worst enemy. It dulls my reflexes and robs me of my initiative."
-Bernard Werber, Empire of the Ants

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"When your enemy seems stronger than you, do something that defies his understanding."
-Bernard Werber, Empire of the Ants

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"There are certain phrases you hear so often that you know they can't be true,at least at face value."
James Fallows, Atlantic Monthly, Dec 06, 'Postcards from Tomorrow Square [China]'

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"Sexuality is all about bridging distances- but to bridge distances, you must have distances."
Cristina Nehring 'Of Sex and Marriage' Atlantic Monthly Dec 06

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"All money is congealed energy." -Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth

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"Man should not be in the service of society. Society should be in the service of man." -Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers, the Power of Myth

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"How can you cut down trees and uproot the lands and turn the rivers into real estate without killing God?" -Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers, the Power of Myth

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"We are the consciousness of the Earth." -Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers, the Power of Myth

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"The myth is the public dream and the dream the public myth." -Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers, the Power of Myth

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"Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from the realization of some kind that have then to find expression in symbolic form." -Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers, the Power of Myth

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"But seriously, if life has no meaning- To say it has no meaning is not to say it has no value." -Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

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“Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another." -Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

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"Logic only gives man what he needs. Magic gives him what he wants." -Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

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"I travel a great deal but I never wander" -Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

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“Play for Peace" -Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

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“When I was in Ceylon I climbed Adam's Peak, a mountain that is sacred to four world faiths. At the summit there is a five foot depression in the rock. Buddhist's believe it to be the footprint of Buddha. Hundu's claim it for their god Shiva; Moslems, for Adam; and local Catholics, for St. Thomas. Geologists at the University in Columbo say it is the result of ancient volcanic action. Who do you suppose is right?” “All five, of course.” -Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

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“Authority is the most damaging trauma to which the psyche is subjected between birth and death.” -Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

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“The theory that it was impossible for the man who awakens in the morning to know with certainty that he is the same man who went to sleep at night.” -Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction


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“The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by the measure of the adventurers nerve and wits.” -Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

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“The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheeps or cows or such and the latter breeds (assumed) facts.” -Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

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“We're all the same as clouds and butterflies. We just pretend to be different.” -Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

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“Logic only gives man what he needs. Magic gives him what he wants.” -Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

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"If, with the appropriate geographical symbols, they indicated the presence of mountain ranges, forests, and bodies of water, they seemed also to indicate psychological nuances, regional flavors, genito-urinary reactions and extrasensory phenomena- those "other dimensions of voyage so well known to the aware traveler." -Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

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"George W Bush understood stupid people well. They were not duymb, their minds were not physically crippled in any way. They had chosen to be stupid because that offered its own kind of power. To win an great many small contests of will, they needed only to ignore all evidence. Bright people would break down trying to reason with them." -Norman Mailer, The Big Empty, (Vanity Fair?)

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”It takes a big time to grow young. Enjoy the ride. “ A sign in Poulsbo, WA

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“Everything was possible in the clear night scattered with stars which were worlds. A cyclic destiny, the same atoms recombining in an infinity of diverse combinations, then rediscovering one day a certain chosen form, a privileged configuration.” -NC Henneberg, The Green Gods, trans x French by CJ Cherryh

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“Drowning in oceans and forests, conquered sunk in terror, Earth is depending on us for deliverance.”-NC Henneberg, The Green Gods, trans x French by CJ Cherryh

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“Did you get what was on your wish list last year?” -Vonn, a friendly stranger on the bus Poulsbo-Bainbridge, WA, 4 JAN06

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“Engine hum helps me think, and I figure I listen to enough NPR to make the practice environmentally sound.” John Metcalfe, Seattle Weekly 3 JAN07

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“To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.” -Theodore Roosevelt.

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"Good judgement is the result of experience, while an "experience" is the result of poor judgement." -Mark Twight, Extreme Alpinism

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