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If There Are Still Honest-smart Men And Women Within Those Old And Noble Traditions, They Should Think Carefully, Observe And Diagnose The Illness. They Should Face The Contradiction. Discuss The Conflation. And Then Do As Warren Buffett And Bill Gates And Many Others Have Done. Choose The Miracle Of Creative Competition Over An Idolatry Of Cash. They Should Stand Up.

If You Have Other Things In Your Life-family, Friends, Good Productive Day Work-these Can Interact With Your Writing And The Sum Will Be All The Richer.

A Neurosis Defends Itself By Coming Up With Rationalizations To Explain Away Bizarre Behavior.

When I Begin A Book, I Inevitably Discover Many Things Along The Way, About The Characters, Their Past Histories And The Political Intrigues That Surround Them. This Discovery Process Is Vital, And I Would Not Prejudice It By Deciding Too Much In Advance

...where Were Answers To The Truly Deep Questions? Religion Promised Those, Though Always In Vague Terms, While Retreating From One Line In The Sand To The Next. Don't Look Past This Boundary, They Told Galileo, Then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, And Crick, Always Retreating With Great Dignity Before The Latest Scientific Advance, Then Drawing The Next Holy Perimeter At The Shadowy Rim Of Knowledge.