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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!.
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!.
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the read more
The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.
Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same entropy to create bugs instead?
Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same entropy to create bugs instead?
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of read more
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
