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Mediocrity Is No Answer To Violence. In Fact, It Probably Invites Violence. At Least The Mediocre And The Violent Appear Together As In The Old Western Movies - The Ruffian Outlaw Band Shooting Up Main Street And The Little White Church With The Little White Schoolteacher Wringing Her Hands. To Cool Violence You Need Rhythm, Humor, Tempering; You Need Dance And Rhetoric. Not Therapeutic Understanding.

I See Happiness As A By-product. I Don't Think You Can Pursue Happiness. I Think That Phrase Is One Of The Very Few Mistakes The Founding Fathers Made

I Think There Is Such A Thing As A Bad Seed That Comes To Flower In Certain People. The Danger With That Theory Is That We Begin To Look For Those "troublemakers" Early On And Try To Weed Them Out. That's Very Dangerous, Because It Could Work Against Kids Who Are Just Routine Troublemakers.

Loss Means Losing What Was. We Want To Change But We Don't Want To Lose. Without Time For Loss, We Don't Have Time For Soul.

So When You Consider The Archetypal, Historical, And Cultural Background Of Whatever You Do, It Gives You A Sense That Your Occupation Can Be A Calling And Not Just A Job.