“Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.”
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Quoted by New Weekly, ninemsn Australia, 19 April 2009
“Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.”
Variant: Some of its magic, some its tragic, but I've had a good life along the
way.
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 346
"6/24/95 Wendy Kaminer on Crime" (24 June 1995)
Context: Not everything that appears true is true. The ACLU is devoted to some very controversial principles — like the principle that everyone who is arrested should enjoy the same constitutional rights, regardless of their alleged crime or their character. We don't take that position to irritate people; we take that position because we believe in it. We believe in it, in part, in a spirit of enlightened self-interest, because the rights of each one of us are co-extensive with the rights of everyone who is arrested and prosecuted in the criminal courts. If we all don't enjoy the same rights, then no one enjoys any rights at all; some of us merely enjoy privilege.
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