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We’ll know that fish are civilized when they erect a diving board on
the bottom of the ocean.
Man fell not for one piece of knowledge, but into the whole pie.
To the swift the race goes—if to the race the swift go.
Linguistic pragmatism: the best name for a thing transforms the
easiest into the name of the best response to that thing.
In true proverbial fashion, a case for the opposite cannot be ignored.
The incredible implications of physics await its credible explication.
If power were in symbols not things, symbols of power would not be
things of power.
A warning is a challenge that somewhere has a taker.
Those who act as if they are from another planet may have been sent
here for that reason.
From the wind, caution’s thrown back harder.
Unpremeditated metaphors elicit unintended analogies; referential
congruity delimits metaphorical specificity.
By baser canards hoist higher petards.
By releasing the growth valve, the tropic of cancer is a turn for the
worse.
Who’s seen two mirrors has seen the whole hall.
We’re saved by doors we cannot open, exposed by those we cannot
close.
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