Ancient Monk

philosophy and ale

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You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

Ron Paul

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Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Napolean Hill

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I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

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The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.

George Washington

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Benjamin Franklin

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When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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It doesn't matter how many times you fail, you only have to be right once

Mark Cuban

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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”

― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Perception vs. Reality

“Consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum.

As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy.

90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.”

The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star.

Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato.

The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.” –Sergio Toporek

Source: NASA Solar System Research Institute

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The Doors - "The End"

Isle of Wight Festival - 1970