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It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot Perhaps the waning days of sequestration will give all of us time to consider changes in our outlook, career, and avocations. That would draw good from discontent.
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~Thomas Edison What would Edison have thought about that country song ?
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“When he who hears doesn’t know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks doesn’t know what he himself means – That is philosophy.” – Voltaire So cocktail party conversation is actually philosophy?
Then, in the next (last!) weeks of this terrible year, scrape together small amounts of time as often as you can. During these times, allow yourself to look ahead and anticipate. Plan. Think. And plan some more. Write those plans on your new calendar with expectations of fulfilling them. The Covid-19 virus cannot disrupt our
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Photo by Tyler Lastovich on unsplash “Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.” – E.B. White (author of ‘Charlotte’s Web’)
“Do not multiply postulated entities without necessity.” And if William had lived much, much, later in another era or two, his 14th century intellectualism may have been traded for today’s five second philosophy. Now, he’d say, “Keep it simple, stupid.”
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An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
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September 13, 2020 Routines I recommend going on YouTube and looking up names of comedians from the past. And pick any of their appearances on the old “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.” A couple to get you started: Jonathan Winters, Rodney Dangerfield. They aren’t politically correct; in fact, often politically insensitive, they are a