Drinking provides a beautiful excuse to pursue the one activity that truly gives me pleasure -- hooking up with fat, hairy girls. The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober. Autumn is the time when seasons merge because of bare necessity. Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. Hatch a dream and then believe it. Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time. The Babylon project was our last, best hope for peace. .. It failed. .. 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No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. The man who says I told you so is making an excuse for not expressing his position clearly in the first place. The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. 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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you. Not because they are nice, but because you are. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. All right, Brain, I don't like you and you don't like me -- so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a shp, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind. Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me Take away love and our earth is a tomb. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them. Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy. Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you. Not because they are nice, but because you are. A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time. You can widen your life by yourself, but to deepen it you need a friend. Each encounter that becomes a friendship turns into a lifeline. One can never have too many, only too many to properly take care of. No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind. Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains. When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!
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