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Stoic Joy
“We normally characterize an optimist as someone who sees his glass as being half full rather than half empty. For a Stoic, though, this degree of optimism would only be a starting point. After expressing this appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his…
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Same As It Ever Was
“I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry—poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes and designs—is how the world works. The world isn’t logical, it’s a song.” –David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries
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Hitched
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” –John Muir
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