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Each reality is followed by one stranger than the last.
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Only this moment, always. We never get to change the past. We never get to know the future. No reason to wish for one place rather than another; no reason to say I wish I were home, or I wish I were in an exotic new place that is not my home. They will all be the same as this place. Here the experience of existing comes clear. This world is our body. Now
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the current coastline of Labrador, or Norway, or for that matter southern Chile. Elsewhere on the map, western Antarctica was an archipelago somewhat resembling the Philippines.
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The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.
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It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.
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Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.
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The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time-
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