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“Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share provides us with an accurate reading of the percentage of reasonable people in our society.”

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Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert was a renowned American film critic, born on June 18, 1942, and passed away on April 4, 2013. Known for his unique style of film criticism and profound insights into the art of cinema, he served as a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and founded the influential film review website RogerEbert.com. more

“The value of having an inner map of the world as it is (not as it's broadcast) is this: it allows you to know that your task is larger than yourself. If you choose, just by virtue of being a decent person, you are entrusted with passing on something of value through a dark, crazy time-preserving your integrity, in your way, by your acts and your very breathing for those who will build again when this chaos exhausts itself.”

Ifs Knows World Way Persons Values Dark Virtue Crazy Integrity Tasks Chaos Passing Passings Breathing Decent Maps You Choose Passing On Crazy Times

Author:Michael Ventura

“Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts.”

Thinking World Doe Real Reality Universe Bits Imagine Perception Essence Ghost Reports Conception Discrete

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.”

World Years Wells May Moments Reality Pain Desire Turns Imagination Creative Taken Trouble Possibility Fit Distance Busy Constructs Sabotage

Author:David Whyte

“Have you noticed that they put advertisements in with your bills now? Like bills aren't distasteful enough, they have to stuff junk mail in there with them. I get back at them. I put garbage in with my check when I mail it in. Coffee grinds, banana peels...I write, "Could you throw this away for me?"”

Writing Enough Stuff Bills Coffee Checks Get Back Mail Garbage Junk Grind Bananas Advertisements Distasteful Junk Mail

Author:Andy Rooney

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