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Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

It is not a fragrant world.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society.

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, "culture." It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing "art" to defend their collapsing culture.

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.