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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.
Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.