Page 9 - Observations
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Power can seize wealth faster than wealth can buy power.
Were you so busy anthropomorphizing things that you didn’t notice
doing it to yourself?
The illiterate cannot determine what is illegible.
TWIT: the progression of an implement in the hands of its users,
from Tool to Weapon to Idol to Toy.
What you’re afraid of in the dark is what’s afraid of the light.
An anchor has lost its function if it tries to stop the tide.
The ignored are underheard; thus they talk to themselves as they go
crazy; then they are overheard and again ignored.
Don’t be proof’s inedible pudding.
Leap not to conclusions, lest ye be leapt upon and thereby concluded.
If the best reason you can give is no reason at all, then what would be
a good reason?
Catchphrases: when they’ve grown tired of you, throw them back.
The wisdom of the aged minus the Wisdom of the Ages equals what
we have yet to learn.
The illegitimate child of description and prediction is prescription.
Words are wet towels in a hot desert, cooling and comforting draped
on oneself or wrung out for what water they might hold.
Like dancing pinhead angels, nihilists are infinitely compressible.
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