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last updated: November 28, 2023

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."
-- Ken Burns

Source : "Ken Burns to Stanford Grads: Trump Is 'an Insult to Our History'". time.com. June 13, 2016.

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The word â€˜sinâ€™ is derived from the Indo-European root â€˜es-,â€™ meaning â€˜to be.â€™ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, â€˜to beâ€™ in the fullest sense is â€˜to sin'.
-- Mary Daly

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“If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep.”
“That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.”
“The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let us not forget - the same ways we in the United States have caused much suffering in Southeast Asia, and have also suffered much in return, also for a lie. It was no small betrayal, no small lesson for a man to learn at the age of 19. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -the darkness that is always with us.”
“We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.”
“If you must go nowhere, step out.”
“I think Mike Gibbons was probably the greatest boxer that ever put a glove on. They called him The Wizard, The Phantom of the ring and he was that. I boxed with Mike about ten years and I never really hit him a hard punch during the time. Repeating again, Mike was one of the great boxers of the age.”
“And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.”
“If this is something you'd truly like to work on, not out of a sense of guilt but because you would enjoy occasionally reciprocating, there are a wealth of resources out there for the enthusiastic amateur (you are far from the only would-be blow-jobber whose spirit is willing but gag reflex is weak). You have more options than "no blow jobs, ever" and "regular whole-hog sessions to completion that result in vomiting."”
“The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.”
“I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.”