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A Human Action Becomes Genuinely Important When It Springs From The Soil Of A Clearsighted Awareness Of The Temporality And The Ephemerality Of Everything Human. It Is Only This Awareness That Can Breathe Any Greatness Into An Action.

Our Social And Economic Statistics Are Telling Us What We Already Know In Our Hearts: We Have Created A World That Works For Only A Few. To Change This, We Must Learn To Act Toward Each Other And Our Environment In Profoundly Different Ways.

Whether All Is Really Lost Or Not Depends Entirely On Whether Or Not I Am Lost.

Frank Zappa Was One Of The Gods Of The Czech Underground, I Thought Of Him As A Friend. Whenever I Feel Like Escaping From The World Of The Presidency, I Think Of Him.

Twenty Or Thirty Years Ago, In The Army, We Had A Lot Of Obscure Adventures, And Years Later We Tell Them At Parties, And Suddenly We Realize That Those Two Very Difficult Years Of Our Lives Have Become Lumped Together Into A Few Episodes That Have Lodged In Our Memory In A Standardized Form, And Are Always Told In A Standardized Way, In The Same Words. But In Fact That Lump Of Memories Has Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Our Experience Of Those Two Years In The Army And What It Has Made Of Us.