Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow. - Jack Vance

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I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

Jack Vance

Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow.

Make, Might, Plans, Sun, Tomorrow

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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.

Corpus, Diseases, Impose, Race, Religious, War

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

Exercised, Freedom, Inconvenience, Inspirational, Motivational, Risk

Good music always defeats bad luck

Defeat, Good, Luck, Music

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

Adventure, Adventures, Dead, Good, Past, Wine

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

Ends, Evil, Man, Men, Pain

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Jill Soloway

I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

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From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It reminded me of the way cities and towns look when you are flying at night. You can't make out much. But the places where people have come together, and stayed, are collections of tiny lights, breaking up the darkness.

Cities, Distance, Flying, Night, Parts

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The first thing we need to do is realize that some of our old beliefs are dysfunctional and no longer work, if indeed they ever did. If the desire to do that isn't there, there's nothing to do.

Belief, Desire, Nothing, Old, Realizing, Thing