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Thinking takes time; instincting is instantaneous.
More is done tomorrow than on any other day.
The silences are more significant than the sounds.
We often have the foresight of flounders.
Ambiguity begets ambiguity.
Truth is a stranger to fishing.
We often have the foresight of flounders.
The present is the biggest obstacle to the future.
There are infinities in every direction.
There are always more questions than answers.
The facts stand alone.
Taking the lead leads to taking the lead.
By definition, excellent is an attribute of a minority.
A rose by another name might be mistaken for a thorn.
All that ever was and will be are dreams and memories of dreams.
Ambiguous questions beget ambiguous answers.
Anything can happen at any time.
As words wax, attention wanes.
Being human is nothing to be proud of.
As words wax, wisdom wanes.
“Bio-logical” is an oxymoron.
Certainty does not imply truth.
Care is faster than speed.
Chaos feeds on order.
Certainty begets disappointment.
Common sense is an oxymoron.
Ego, ergo, error.
Everyone is entitled to their own delusions.
Heaven is the absence of hell.
Humans ain’t ready for reason.
Logic laughs at lunacy – Lunacy laughs at logic.
Humans will generally be ruled by yahoos because it’s generally yahoos who want to be rulers.
If you aren’t suffering, you must be doing something wrong :)
In an inane world, logic is a handicap.
Knowledge begets cynicism.
Lemmings don’t stop for reason.
No journey ends before the last step.
No one breathes as the same person twice.
One mistake begets another.
Order feeds on chaos.
Presumptions are perilous.
Reality is further than it appears.
Sloppy thought begets sloppy action.
Speed presents the appearance of progress.
Talk is no substitute for thought.
Talking is writing…on air.
The more one knows, the more one needs to know.
The most difficult thing to accept is reality.
The easiest thing to lose is perspective.
The ego is no amigo.
The greatest crime is stealing time.
The most difficult thing to grasp is the obvious.
The most productive emotion is reason.
The most valuable thing that money can buy is time.
The pen is mightier than the mouth.
The rest is yet to come.
The spoken word is written…on air.
The written word speaks for itself.
The only excuse is results.
There is little point in lecturing lemmings.
Thinking takes time.
Time…gives a licking and keeps on ticking.
We are what we remember.
We’re each better off when we’re all better off.
You can lead lemmings to logic, but you cannot make them think.
Contented cows don’t moove.
Comfort transcends truth.
Dreams precede reality.
From gravity to levity, there’s value in brevity.
For every hypothesis there is an equal and opposite hypothesis.
Exspeediency is the quickest way to accomplish nothing.
Even the universe isn’t the universe.
Is faith in reason rational?
Happiness isn’t all that it’s cracked-up to be.
In dealing with humans, logic is lunacy.
BLT: Being, logic, and truth.
Life is a series of missed understandings.
Life is a comedy of terrors.
In the fog of ambiguity, nasty communication collisions are likely.
One sensible sentence is worth a universe crammed with icons.
Our biggest trouble is time.
More is done tomorrow than on any other day.
Mud thrown is ground lost.
Life without logic is not worth living.
Low expectations beget high satisfaction.
Time is NOT on our side.
Reality: the breakfast of champions.
Power suppresses logic; logic transcends time; time drains power.
Purr!: Pursue reality relentlessly.
Passion makes pursuits pleasing; reason makes them possible.
Passion is not reason.
Ego is enemy.
Truth …accept no substitutes.
There are more crimes of passion than crimes of reason.
The ambuckguity stops here.
The ego is smaller than a breadbox but larger than the universe.
The careless are stressless.
Talking and thinking are mutually exclusive activities.
The biggest problem with the rat race is all the rats.
Ego delendum est.
The existence of evil drives the creation of good.
Truth is a human creation.
The spoken word isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
The happiest humans are those with the lowest expectations.
There are rumors and rumors of rumors.
Thought is faster than speed.
The universe is patient.
The universe is very big.
The universe is not about us.
The self is software.
The purpose of life is to settle one’s obligations before one dies.
What is need not be what will be.
Writing becomes history; speaking becomes myth.
We are prisoners of our premises.”
We are anesthetized by our assumptions.
Those who are not confused are out of touch with reality.
We should each be our own worst critic.
When life presents you with lemmings, make lemmingade.
Wanting less is happiness.
The larger the organization, the greater the disorganization.
One’s newest face is also one’s oldest face.
Knowledge discloses ignorance.
Presumptions are presumptuous.
Anticipation is worse than participation.
Over-thinking is an oxymoron.
Into every rain, a little life must fall.
The most dangerous assertions are those that true.
Truth is a minority position.
Truth is a minority value.
The difference is in the details.
One extreme begets it’s inverse.
Truth is rude.
Optimism begets disappointment.
Loose language begets bewilderment.
Only age fully appreciates youth.
There are always more questions than answers.
Rationality is never more than a part-time activity.
“Winners” are only winners for awhile.
Sometimes cheese has more holes than cheese.
The end of the beginning.
Koans
Innocence is no excuse.
The more one knows, the less one knows.
Proscriptions
Never be too busy to laugh!
Be grateful …without desire!
BeOne!
Beware logicophobia!
Beware mythconceptions!
Don’t let gravity get you down!
Fear not to go where go(o)d and (d’)evil dwell!
Fear not logic!
Fear realiphobia!
For a longer life, ingest more preservatives!
Let logic live!
Live for tomorrow and today will take care of itself!
Please … Do not feed the egos!
Put a little dice in your life!
Seize the second!
Be wary of words that feel like fog!
Fear not reality!
Question everything!
Remember!
Become one!
Do no harm!
Gather ye facts while ye may!
Don’t forget to breathe!
Think!
Destroy not needlessly!
Avoid void!
Never forget to always remember!
Always remember to never forget!
Root for reason!
May the probabilities be with you!
May you have an interesting duration!
Questions
Does everyone have a right to their own delusions?
How wise is a sagebrush?
“The question is: Who are the good guys?” (Bad Day At Black Rock)
Can one love logic?
Onwords
oral authority
Rationality:
whensoeverago
The Leaning Tower of Babel.
Lexicon Veritates
Phoolosophy.
A funny thing happened on the way to the truth.
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