When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pen

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. – Lois McMaster Bujold

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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

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Civilization is what makes you sick. – Paul Gauguin

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Civilization is the lambs skin in which barbarism masquerades. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. – Carol Matthau

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. – Vash Young

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