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During an auction of exotic pets, a woman who had placed a winning bid told the auctioneer, “I’m paying a fortune for that parrot. I hope he talks as well as you say he does.” “I guarantee it, madam,” replied the auctioneer. “Who do you think was bidding against you?” Read more →

“Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.” Read more →

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person–without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the... Read more →