The easiest thing to do is to not do the hard thing. The hardest easy thing to do is saying "I'm sorry."
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The tension between the individual and the group is as old as civilization and even today shapes our most enduring institutions. Society tends to flourish when it finds an appropriate balance between the competing needs of both and is at its feeblest when the pendulum swings too far in one direction or the other. We find ourselves in a moment when the pendulum is swinging from what some consider an extreme toward what others consider a different extreme. Most would agree the greatest good is best served by the pendulum coming to rest somewhere in the middle; but then, that's not the way pendulums swing.
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When you peek behind the curtains, you begin to understand that culture is just propaganda dressed up in costume.
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Like a fire, the creative impulse requires attention; ignore it and it soon grows cold.
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Do something that hasn't been done. Sing a song that hasn't been sung. Run a race that hasn't been run. Impossible. Still, you have to try, it's in your DNA. And when the time comes, and your body dissolves into the universe, will it matter?
Yes, because you tried.
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To grieve without tears. We're here but a moment, then disappear.