Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. - Diane Ackerman

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They legalized alcohol, they legalized tobacco. What is it gonna hurt to legalize this medicinal, medical marijuana that's used for purposes of cataracts?

Diane Ackerman

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

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I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

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If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

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For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

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