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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.


Alan Watts


#enjoy #great #how #imagination #know

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.


Alan Watts


#exists #external #external world #independently #pretend

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.


Alan Watts


#difficulty #god #idea #implausible #incredible

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.


Alan Watts


#aggressive #altering #america #capacity #gone

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.


Alan Watts


#common sense #confronting #culture #feel #identical

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.


Isaac Watts


#difficult #learning #life #most #tasks

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.


J. C. Watts


#affirmative #affirmative action #awards #choices #compassion

For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.


J. C. Watts


#been #black #black community #claimed #community

I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.


J. C. Watts


#getting #gingrich #i #i think #newt

That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'


J. C. Watts


#black #blacks #cut #down #encouraged






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