#Purpose

"Carrots and Creativity [10w] Put a carrot in front of you for optimal creativity."

"Facebook's New Marketing Slogan "We can only be lonesome together.900,000,000 served."

"Why We Need Smart People [10w] We need smart people to call other smart people morons."

"Ageing [10w] There's no such thing as age -- only degrees of opacity."

"Celebrity [10w] Celebrity is an insignificant zit on the surface of history."

"Politicians [10w] All politicians serve two masters ~their ambition and their cocks."

"Opportunity Knocks: China When opportunity knocksthe Chinese make knock-offs."

"Objective Journalism Foreign journalists will always compromise objectivity to preserve relationships that give them better access."

"The Flood that Did Not Subside [10w] What would today's world be,If Noah's dove flew into obscurity?"

"Infinite Promise The carrot of infinite promise always dangles just inches beyond our noses.The trick is to surreptitiously switch that carrot for a zucchini."

"Natural Born Killers [10w] After their first,every soldier becomes a natural born killer."

"Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders."

"Shadows are only Neutral at Noon [10w] + {Couplet} Whose side shadows fall upon,tis' ordained by reigning sun."

"Shakespeare vs. Keynesian Economics {Couplet} If 'Neither a lender nor a borrower be',investments would dry up, economies stagnate,and off to the poorhouse go you and me."

"AMTRAK: See America at see level... even though we cost twice as much as a plane and get you there 3 days later."

"Sunshine On My Shoulders When you're home's always filled with sunshine,you're either blessed or it's time to fix the roof."

"One Poet, 20 Months, 6000 Poems [10w] Let me take this breath... to celebrate my 6000th poem."

"If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth."

"I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned to language not to revel ourselves but to hide. I was as sure then as I am now that by looking at contemporary Iranian fiction I could gain access to a real understanding of political and social events. (p289)"

"Err [10w] My dear, "To err is human — to forgive, to redefine."