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There is a wonder in reading Braille

"There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back." ~ Jim Fiebig

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50 Best Quotes, Photos: Chögyam Trungpa, Buddhist meditation teacher.

“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there’s no ground.”

-- Chögyam Trungpa

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/10/50-best-quotes-photos-chogyam-trungpa-buddhist-meditation-teacher

10 Quotes to Inspire Cycling

“For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.” - Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist


http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/08/10-quotes-to-inspire-cycling/

Overheard in New York - She Was Hoping for a Salad of Steel

She Was Hoping for a Salad of Steel
Waitress: Will you have a soup or salad?
Girl: Sure, I'll have the super salad.
Waitress: No, will you have the soup or salad?
Girl: I said I'll have the super salad.
Waitress: No, (really slowly) will you have the soup or salad.
Girl: Ohhhhh, the salad.

--Elmo, Chelsea
via Overheard in New York, Oct 13, 2008

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Quentin Crisp on Manners

I'm afraid manners are not morality. Presumably a moralist may never tell a lie. Someone interested in manners tries to tell as few lies as possible because on the way back he might have to say the opposite. But it's very noticeable that the word "truth" is usually accompanied by words like "the awful truth," "the grim truth." Lies are never considered grim. It's never appropriate to tell the truth unless it's already very bland, very favorable. The main difficulty is, of course, the word "no." You have to avoid at all costs saying no. So when people say, "Will you marry me?" you say, "I don't feel I am worthy." It means "No.

- Quentin Crisp"

http://www.crisperanto.org/writings/OnManners.html

I Can has Happy

"We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. - Thomas Jefferson"

http://icanhashappy.blogspot.com/2008/01/top-50-atheism-quotes.html

Memorable Quotes from The Two Ronnies

"Ronnie Corbett: Good evening! It's wonderful to be back with you again, isn't it, Ronnie?

Ronnie Barker: Indeed it is. And in a packed programme tonight, I shall be having a word with a man who goes in for meditation, because he thinks it's better than sitting around doing nothing."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066721/quotes

Quotidiana

"A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note."

http://essays.quotidiana.org/

Carousing Drunken Yak Merchants

Even if one could know for sure that a text was the very words of the Buddha, it could be total nonsense. And if one could know for sure that a text was written 1000 years after the Buddha died by a gang of carousing drunken yak merchants, it might still make a great deal of sense. In short, we must always be wary of the genetic fallacy, that is, the fallacious view that one can know whether a statement is true if one can figure out who said it.

-- Richard Hayes