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August 6, 2003
Entry: "Thinking too much"

"Perhaps, like Hume, after arriving at some nihilistic end point of our inquiries, we shall recover our respect for the much neglected, sadly unfashionable virtues of carelessness and inattention."

[via A&L Daily]

I can't quite buy that the solution to the marriage debate is to stop thinking so hard about it. (Maybe... who knows...) But the general idea is one I've always firmly embraced. "Thinking too precisely on the event..." and all that.