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There is more to life than not dying.

– Charles Eisenstein

Hammer and Nail

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

– Abraham Maslow

Bureaucracy

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

– Thomas Sowell

Simply Complicated

Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

– Charles Mingus

Simply wrong

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

Test of Character

The best test of a person’s character is how he or she treats those with less power.

Moses and God Dialogue

“Whence come disease and healing?” asked the prophet Moses of God. “From me,” was the reply. “What purpose do doctors serve?” “They earn their living and cultivate hope in the heart of the patient until I either take away his life or give him back his health.”

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Rich and Poor Die

The poor die of want,the rich die of surfeit.

– Jean Jacques Rousseau

Similes in an Argument

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

– Franz Kafka

Integrity

If youhave integrity, nothing else matters.

If you don’t have integrity….

Nothing else matters.

– Alan K. Simpson