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Tuesday, December 9, 2003 |
[Imagine Life Coaching]:
The best articulation I've seen in some time of the 'personal change vs social change' false dichotomy:
This experience reminded me of one of my favorite quotes
written by a monk in 1100: 'When I was a young man, I wanted to
change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world,
so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change
the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the
town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.
'Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is
myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed
myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and
I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could
have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the
world.'
11:36:49 AM 
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Fear of new things shortens life [New Scientist]
Grain of salt please, as with all reported research:
Living longer is a good thing, but in dangerous environments - say,
full of predators or poisonous plants - the rat that runs away from the
unknown may live to pass on its genes another day.
10:28:07 AM
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Pepys Diary
We had a lovely chine of beef and other good things very complete and drank a great deal of wine, and her daughter played after dinner upon the virginals, and at night by lanthorn home
again, and Mr. Pierce and his wife being gone home I went to bed,
having drunk so much wine that my head was troubled and was not very
well all night, and the wind I observed was rose exceedingly before I
went to bed.
1660!
10:20:38 AM
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