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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works read more
The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give read more
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful read more
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your read more
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
What you can become you are already.
What you can become you are already.
The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and
lo! Your purse is magnificently read more
The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and
lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured
tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your
possessions.
