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" Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon. "

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" Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. "

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Beginning

" I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me. "

" In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists. "

" Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. "

" Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had. "

" Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality. "

" Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy. "

" The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go down, also. "

" Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world. "

" Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment. "

" I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know. "

" It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive. "

" A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason. "

" I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers. "

" A world view is probably an expression of self. "

" Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water that is lukewarm, sweet and murky. "

" The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination. "

" As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing. "

" We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings? "

" Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the end of the day. "

Michael Leunig

Personality

Over

" Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West. "

" Today, people call each other 'guys' - this derives from Guy Fawkes, the bomb-making terrorist. No greater tribute has ever been paid to anyone in the history of politics. "

" Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world. "

" I had a few ducks as a kid. "

" There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity. "

" Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks. "

" When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and are engaged in a desperate struggle for survival and liberation. Israel, on the other hand, would appear to be conducting an imperialistic campaign of oppression supported and substantially armed by the most powerful nation on earth. "

" I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and stock markets, military systems and massive wealth - forces and dynamics I don't understand or can hardly imagine. "

" What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful or pitiful or benign; the curled-up, childlike dreaming soul who has for a few hours become an angel adrift. "

" All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the dark possibilities in human nature. "