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Feb 6, 2002
"The millions are awake enough for physical labor. But only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertions, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life.
To be awake is to be alive.
I have never met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face." --Henry David Thoreau
One thing that humans do more than anything in their entire life is sleep. Most Americans sleep more than 6-8 hours a day, which is on average around 24 years of ones life.