Robert+the+(ir)Rational

Robert's Personal **Philosophy Statement**

If I can make someone's day, then that makes my day. Yesterday and tomorrow depend upon today, since yesterday is long gone and tomorrow never comes. There is only today to laugh, love, and live, and also only today to do my homework since procrastinating never works out. One day today will be a good old day, so enjoy every day as it comes.

Life's a roller coaster, enjoy the ride! **
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If we gotta start somewhere why not here? If we gotta start sometime why not now?

Your work will wait for you; rainbows and sunsets **won't.** Given that sooner or later we're all just going to die, It bothers me how casual they are about time travel, Since **nevermore** returns the traveler to the shore.
 * what's the point** of learning about integers?

Yesterday is history, Yesterday is Mystery, Yesterday is Poetry, -- tomorrow is a mystery, 'tis so far away -- but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present." While we shrewdly speculate Flutter all away. Gone, like yesterday is gone, Like history is gone, The world keeps spinning on.

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We are wont to imagine rare and dilectable places -- Take time to chase ** rainbows **, watch **sunsets**, and smell ** flowers **. Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the universe?

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD... "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a **hope** and a **future**." I was ready to carry it on; like **Atlas**, to take the world on my shoulders... In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

I n the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. (These videos are my fifteen minutes of fame.)

media type="youtube" key="4qiLr7sP0vM" height="364" width="445" media type="youtube" key="W3TykZHbPWA" height="364" width="445"  If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia's chair, how would men **believe and adore**...



Today is a gift.

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//Kung Fu Panda//. Dir. Mark Osborne. Perf. Jack Black. Dreamworks. DVD.

"Lakeside Amusement Park - "Life's a Rollercoaster: Enjoy the Ride!"" //Daily Adventures//. Web. 04 Dec. 2009. .

//Lego Indiana Jones - The Mine Car Chase//. Dir. Robert Carlson. //YouTube//. All Aboard Toys, 15 May 2008. Web. .

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McKeehan, Kevin. "City On Our Knees." //City On Our Knees (Single)//. Toby Mac. 2009. MP3.

Mine Car Drop, Colorado, United states. Personal photograph by author. 2008.

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Watterson, Bill. "Calvin and Hobbes." Comic strip. //Homocidal Phsyco Jungle Cat//. Andrews McMeel, 1994. Print.

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