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• The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. -- New Testament -- Matthew xxvi, 41
• The meat is rotten, but the booze is holding out. Computer translation of "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
• Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous.
  At present, it fulfills only a third of the role. -- Edward Abbey...
• Government should be weak, amateurish, and ridiculous.
  At present, it fufills only a third of the role. -- Edward Abbey...
• The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Zapp: The spirit is willing but the flesh is spongey and bruised.
• Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types.
  But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime....
• My mind is willing, my checkbook is weak.