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A single surfer can’t turn the tide, or raise it with his sweat and tears.
When you’re fresh, they’ll pick your brains; later they’ll pick over your
bones.
Revenge is the Caucasian face of a gorilla on a Tokyo zoo poster.
Noah’s family: going nowhere for 40 days. Extended family of
Israelites: going nowhere for 40 years. Post-ecospasm family of Man:
going nowhere for 40 centuries.
My advice is to ask my questions.
I was bumped off my flight from reality, and my emotional baggage
was sent on a flight of fancy.
The Personal Theory of Relativity states that you can’t tell if you are
getting saner or the world crazier.
Success feeds upon success; failure is a cannibal, too.
Do the unprincipled make the worst negotiators because they have
nothing to compromise, or the best because they have everything to
compromise?
If it’s not worth doing, someone has already done it.
The gravity of the situation: you and this planet are mutually
attracted, but only one of those parties can afford to be indifferent;
and, as is well-known, the lesser-involved party in a relationship
controls it.
Why bother going to extremes? They know where to find you.
The seekers of a new mousetrap beating a path to your door may be
trampled by the mice beating one from it.
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