new fortune.

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@@ -9646,7 +9646,7 @@ Women need a reason to have sex.  Men just need a place.
   -- Billy Crystal
 ~
 I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said
-to me was, 'You'll never find anyone like me again!'
+to me was, "You'll never find anyone like me again!"
 I'm thinking, "I should hope not!  If I don't want you,
 why would I want someone like you?"
   -- Larry Miller
@@ -39031,4 +39031,29 @@ Then paramita activity begins to make sense, and you begin to act in a more
 genuine way.
   -- Chögyam Trungpa, from "The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma.
      Volume Two: The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion"
-
+~
+If we unbalance nature, humankind will suffer.  Furthermore, we must consider
+future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other.  It
+is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world
+we pass on is as healthy as, if not healthier than, we found it.  This is not
+quite such a difficult proposition as it might sound.  For although there is a
+limit to what we as individuals can do, there is no limit to what a universal
+response might achieve.  It is up to us as individuals to do what we can,
+however little that may be.  Just because switching off the light on leaving
+the room seems inconsequential, it does not mean we shouldn't do it.
+  -- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, from "The Pocket Dalai Lama"
+~
+Basically we are trying to put a stop to frivolity of any kind.  Frivolity is
+an interesting word.  It can mean being crazy and indulging unnecessarily in a
+very crude fashion, but it could also mean indulging in something in the name
+of humor and overdoing it slightly.  If you are embarrassed to deal with a
+particular subject, you find another subject to discuss.  If you are tired of
+drinking vodka, you switch to sake.  If you are bored with talking to one
+person, you switch to somebody else.  Frivolity is anything that creates
+further confusion, or the longing for further confusion.  Confusion may seem
+luxurious: when you no longer have it, you begin to miss that confusion, and
+you would like to re-create it.  It is like going back to an adult bookshop
+and getting more magazines.  But with discipline, you control any form of
+potential escape from reality.
+  -- Chögyam Trungpa, from "The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma.
+     Volume Two: The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion"