The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
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There are going to be times when we cant wait for somebody. Now, youre either on the bus or off the bus. If youre on the bus, and you get left behind, then youll find it again. If youre off the bus in the first placethen it wont make a damn.Ken Kesey
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I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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