I propose that we change Columbus Day to Bush Day, a cautionary holiday, like Halloween, a day to meditate on the hazards of ambition. We could observe it by going through the basement and garage and throwing out stuff we don't want or need. Also by not mortgaging the house to pay for a vacation, and not yelling at the neighbors, and not assuming that the law is for other people. A day to honor kindness, industriousness and modesty.
--Garrison Keillor
It Takes a Cosmos, But a Cosmos Isn't All It Takes
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Why a cosmos? Well you have to be somewhere. But somehow man transcends the
theater of his being. For example, Pascal wrote that even
if the universe wer...
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