"Where's Ralph Waldo Emerson When you Need Him? A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds;as opposed to bigger hobgoblins with bigger dicks, doing all sorts of ghoulish shit behind the Venetian blinds."
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"Free Lunch There's no such thing as a free lunch ~for people who haven't yet learned to beat the system ;)"
"If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down."
"Today's Affirmation [10w] "I'll unplug myself from myselfand plug into something higher."
"There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception."
"Western Hypocricy I laugh at the hypocrisy of this western world that only expects the Muslims and Jews to act more Christian, while they continueto revel in the carnage of their heathen ways."
"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding."
"Ideas are the source of all things"
"In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence."
"What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute."
"Oy Vey Haiku (g)Nat's sphincter clenched.The skinhead asked, 'You a Jew?Minyan's one man short."
"A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason."
"ليس كل ما يخطر للمرء يقوله ، لا سيما إذا كان صحيحا"
"Free Will [20w] A bunch of amino acids bumping up together is not the scientific explanation of free will, it's grilling a hamburger."
"The Warrior's Way To the warrior,peace is an annoying interruption of war."
"Hidden [10w] God hides enough happiness in sadness to light the world."
"Cheapen words and they'll cheapen you"
"Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out only the fools. The smart fellows talk intimately about the fools, and examine them all over and give them advice."
"I'm not trying to tell you,"he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative."
"If your dreams seem to be drifting away, wake up!"