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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Ernest Hemingway
He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want ‐ not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable…very few things matter and nothing matters very much.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
Maybe there is a beast…maybe it's only us.
William Golding , Lord of the Flies
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.
Aldous Huxley, 1962 speech at Berkeley
The Godfather ‐ Orchestral Suite, The Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Forrest Gump: Feather Theme, Tina Guo
Unchained Melody, Army Europe Band and Chorus
The various quotes tells me that you are well-read, another gold star in my book. The Stevenson quote, however much I wish it was better understood and accepted, I do not believe that it is by a substantial number of Americans today.
Happy Trails, John.
-nik