Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. – John Updike, Self-Consciousness, 1989
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When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. – Frank Herbert
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Dont let yourself be lulled into inaction. – Bill Gates
It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. Its time for a plan to bring our troops home. – Sherrod Brown
I think I have a strange relationship with time. Im not really aware of that time passing. I dont feel that Im wasteful with time. But Im not aware of it passing. – Daniel Day-Lewis
If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. – Annie Dillard, “Seeing,” Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974
