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Lean In

Standing on the edge looking down

Into the abyss of possibility

And uncertainty.

I tremble with fright

And grow weary from the fight

To persist despite it all.

Looking up I see your face

Feelings writhe inside.

But it's like a knotted shoelace

With each attempt to unravel

Making it tighter and tighter

And I'm not the fighter you think I am.

I want to lean in, and see what it might

Be like to do the wrong thing that feels so right

And to know the sweet release,

The only true peace.

But I'm a gentleman.

So I won't lean in to kiss those lips,

I'll tighten my grip, and keep my head down

Staring at the possibilities as I walk along the edge.

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For you, World. May the change be ever in your favor.

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Words for Teenagers

"Go home, mow the lawn, wash the windows, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job, visit the sick, study your lessons and after you've finished, read a book. Your town does not owe you recreational facilities and your parents do not owe you fun. The world does not owe you a living, you owe the world something. You owe it your time, energy and talent so that no one will be at war, in sickness and lonely again. In other words grow up, stop being a cry baby, get out of your dream world and develop a backbone not a wishbone. Start behaving like a responsible person. You are important and you are needed. It's too late to sit around and wait for somebody to do something someday. Someday is now and that somebody is you!"

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Come, let us all be friends for once Let us make life easy on us, Let us be lovers and loved ones, The earth shall be left to no one.

Yunus Emre

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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new.

-Samuel Johnson

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We're just pattern recognition machines, looking to solve and conquer the patterns around us. Boredom is a result of mastery, frustration/confusion is the result of over complexity.

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It's called love. And it's not an emotion. It's a willingness. A commitment to put the needs of someone else above your own. No wonder it's impossible to find love. No one knows what it is.

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And actually I think the two combined are a one-two punch. The ability to print your own devices and then embed a small mini computer in them has a lot of potential. 

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Everything happens for a reason.

Sometimes that reason is because you're stupid and make bad decisions...

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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“It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.”

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If only it were that simple... I believe they call this catholicism.

Its safer to believe in God from a mathematical point of view

If you believe in God and when you die nothing happens. The atheist is right but no one can tell you you’re wrong

If you believe in God and you’re right and die. God’s real and your not screwed over and get your ass kicked down to...

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"When I was young

They said I could be anyone.

I set my mind to find

How to be everyone.

With time, from thought

I realize now I'm no one.

I want to find

That special friend, that someone.

Perhaps then all these pieces will become

One."

- The Liquor

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It's not about matter, just whether yours does.

It's not a virtual reality, It's reality virtualized.