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  1. Man is his own destroyer

    From Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

    Man has the power to act as his own destroyer and that is he has acted through most of history.
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  2. Retiring Colleagues

    The ones coming to the end of their careers I mean. Not the quiet ones that we all have to watch.

    Yes it was a funny day today – I won’t say weird as it didn’t have any supernatural content, in the strictest sense of the word. It was funny watching the unfolding of a last day after watching the unfolding of the last six months.

    It happened that my colleague, who sat opposite me all year, decided to take voluntary redundancy in order to enjoy her horse riding and all ...

    Updated 07-30-2011 at 03:49 AM by Paulclem

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  3. Pain and Suffering

    From Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand:

    "It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence. "
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  4. Toadstools



    A summer downpour
    flowering umbrellas -
    glistening toadstools.


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  5. The Jesus & Mary Chain Drift (reprise)

    It takes about forty-five minutes on the train
    That's three quarters of an hour more or less,
    And as the countryside vistas flow past
    I can listen to The Jesus And Mary Chain.

    Of course I could listen to anything I desired,
    An act of Puccini, maybe all of Tabarro.
    All just as long as it allows me the drift
    Drowsily merging the rhythm required

    To make my commuting seem so surreal
    And take me away from the urban
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