Page 6 - Observations
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Woman is wise beyond her years; man is ignorant beyond his fears.
As we bid farewell to the cold cruel world, the banner of the hot one
is unfurled.
If it’s your fate not to know your fate, you won’t know it.
In the Market of the Blind, the Invisible Hand is King of
Pickpockets.
Dance: show off for many; sex: show off for one.
If dropping out of school were as much fun as playing hooky,
truancy would disappear.
Intelligence: animals have neither the capacity nor incapacity.
You can think up, of, over, through, about—but never down: that
would be dismissive!
Primitives slash and burn; moderns smash and spurn.
The brain used as filler in a dumbbell for exercising the neck may
never seek other forms of exercise.
If the end is insight, then the end is in sight.
Puppet leaders prove inanimate matter can be imbued with a
subhuman soul.
Who makes a virtue of necessity will make a vice of contingency.
No one’s master is not necessarily everyone’s slave.
Tutelary shrines, lintel spells, electronic alarms: all to deter death’s
door-to-door salesman.
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