Category: General

Pity sees suffering and wants to ease the pain; passion sees injustice and wants to settle the score.  Pity implores the powerful to pay attention; passion warns them about what will happen if they don’t.  The risk of pity is that it kills with kindness; the promise of passion is that it builds on the…

If everyone is equal, and we have orderly transfer of control, why do we spend so much on protecting elected representatives?

God gave burdens, also shoulders.Yiddish proverb

I finished the “Half-Blood Prince” the other day (27 December 2005), and I want to let you know my prediction for the end of the series.  I’m really horrible at this, but it’ll be fun to see how close my prediction is to the real deal when it gets published.  So here it is: Harry…

Hey, we all make mistakes.  The key is to recover from mistakes quickly and effectively, and then try to minimize their recurrence.For every mistake take some action immediately.Be ready to admit fault with a hearty mea culpa if it was your mistakeDevelop a plan of action to fix the mistake.Figuring out why you goofed is…

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can’t bring down.Olive Schreiner

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