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Mankind Is Divided Into Two Basic Sorts: Those Who Find The Unknown Future Threatening ... And Those Who Find It Thrilling. The Rupture Between Those Two Sides Has Been Responsible For Most Of The Bloodshed In History.

It Took Me Better Than A Quarter Century To Learn, The Hard Way, That Hard Work At Something You Want To Be Doing Is The Most Fun That You Can Have Out Of Bed . . . To Learn That The Smart Man Finds Ways To Make Everything He Does Be Work; To Learn That "leisure" Time Is Truly Pleasurable (indeed Tolerable) Only To The Extent That Is Its Subconscious Grazing For Information With Which To Infuse Newer, Better Work.

Sometimes I Think I Must Have A Guardian Idiot. A Little Invisible Spirit Just Behind My Shoulder, Looking Out For Me...only He's An Imbecile.

You Know What Gives Me The Courage To Keep On Living? The Courage To Love Myself A Little? It's Having A Whole Bunch Of Friends Who Really Give A Goddamn. When You Share Pain, There's Less Of It, And When You Share Joy, There's More Of It.

Some Guys Step On A Rake In The Dark, And Get Mad And Go Punch Somebody. Others Step On A Rake In The Dark And Fall Down Laughing At Themselves. I Know Which Kind Of Guy I'd Rather Be. So Do My Friends.