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• Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 130...
• There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulne
  his, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a cox comb...
• Which Witch is Which?
• A sense of desolation and uncertainty, of futility
  of the baselessness of aspirations, of the vanity of endeavor, and a thirst for a life giving water which seems suddenly to have failed, are the signs in consciousness of this necessary reorganization of our lives....
• it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousne
  o make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is....
• The consciousness of clean linen is in and of itself a source of moral strength only second to that of a clean conscience.
  A well-ironed collar, or a fresh glove, has carried many a man through the emergency in which a wrinkle or a rip would have defeated him....
• I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view.
  We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation....
• Consciousness is art.
• Sartre's Observation: Hell is others.