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"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."

"When Old Age Begins Old age seizes center stagewhen more people we love are amidst the deadthan amongst the living."

"Give your life purpose and focus. Position yourself to succeed"

"Dialogue Knowledge compromises its truthonce it ceases to be a dialogue."

"Party Hat [10w] Circus clowns, Frenchmen, and sanitation workers look better in party-hats.."

"Atheism [10w] Atheism is the tragic triumph of cold contemptuousness over gratitude."

"Plant vs. Harvest [10w] Any fool can harvest but it takes true skill to plant."

"Do you always ask me the same questions you ask him?""It depends on whether or not I get an answer."

"Immortality [10w] True immortality means you've created something that will outlive you."

"Coins [10w] Statesmen whose faces are on coins are amenable to change."

"My Sweet Home, Alabama If it grows, it sticks, if it crawls, it bites,if it's outside, it rusts,if it's ornery, it fights,if it's a dawg, it barks.if its a possum, it feignsif it's a buggy, it squeals,if it's winter, it's summer,If it's slimy, it's eels.If it ain't Dixie, it won't do,so let's fix to get piss drunkand lynch us another nigger and Jew."

"Sink or Swim [10w] Lovers master the breaststroke, the crawl and the muff dive."

"Humans vs. Monkeys [10w] + [10w] Baby monkeys are much more clever than a human babies.Human babies leap ahead because of their capacity for language."

"Memories [10w] Spend half your life creating memories,the other half, remembering."

"Compassion [10w] Compassion is the combination to enter the vault of heaven."

"The universe speaks to us, if we have the courage to see it for what it is."

"A Suicide's Regret "I cut my vein in vain;blood slowly oozes out.I should've cut an arteryand watch it spurt and spout."

"Mmm Mmm Good Gimmick Campbell's Soup announced todayit's introducing 'QWERTY' soupfor our more computer literate children.Who are they kidding?They're just relabeling the old Alphabet Soup."

"A Poem Must Have an Accomplice If you cannot bamboozle the reader into becoming a willing accomplice to your artifice and collusion the poem won't fly."

"Even corpses had purpose, or could be given one. A man could make himself an island his entire life, only to have reason itself laid about him, a fabricated existence. Identity became relative, history nonexistent. As they said, dead men told no tales."