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Shadowlands

We live in the Shadowlands. The sun is always shining somewhere else.

Jack: I wonder what it is that everybody wants from me?
Peter: You know that is the first question I have ever heard you ask that sounds like you don’t know the answer.
Jack: Oh, is that good? Is that what you want? Ignorance? Confusion?
Peter: Look, I just don’t think I see my way ahead as clearly as you do.
Jack: Shadows.
Peter: What?
Jack: It’s one of my stories. We live in the Shadowlands. The sun is always shining somewhere else. Round a bend in the road. Over the bough of a hill.

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Plutarch

easily swayed and influenced by the praise or blame of others

Thus our judgments, if they do not borrow from reason and philosophy a fixity and steadiness of purpose in their acts, are easily swayed and influenced by the praise or blame of others, which make us distrust our own opinions.

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Wilson Mizner

Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.

Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.

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So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish

“I was being perfectly serious,” said Arthur. “It’s just the Universe I’m never quite sure about.”

“I was being perfectly serious,” said Arthur. “It’s just the Universe I’m never quite sure about.”