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Have you ever noticed how much junk you carry with you.
I bought four small 2gig flash drives at Walmart for $20 each. These are now in my pocket, along with two 4 gig drives I already carry.
My laptop weighs almost 10lbs by the time you include the ac adapter. The case weighs another 7 or 8lbs. It’s filled with things I use once a month or so.
We won’t discuss the reference books and essential bits and pieces I carry in the trunk of my car. Just in case…

All this is for my convenience, and yet, up to now, I’ve gotten along just fine without dragging all this debris around.

Friedrich Nietzsche:

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

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