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“If you wish to know what a person is…” #7

December 7th, 2007 by mpottle

The measure of a [person's] real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
-Macauley
Cynics have said that what passes for morality in most people is really coeardice-the fear of getting caught. Do you think this is a fair estimation of the average person? Support your answer.

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“But we are more than logical” #9

December 9th, 2007 by mpottle

To love is to stop comparing.
-Bernard Grasset
Remarques sur l’action

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You and Other Human Souls #6

December 8th, 2007 by mpottle

In flight between you and the world, back the world.
-Franz Kafka

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #23

December 13th, 2007 by mpottle

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
-Swedish proverb

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #34

December 12th, 2007 by mpottle

If you miss seven balls out of ten, you’re battling three hundred, and that’s good enough for the Hall of Fame. You can’t score if you keep the bat on your shoulder.
-Walter B. Wriston

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #66

December 16th, 2007 by mpottle

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate,-that’s my philosophy.
-Thornton Wilder

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #32

December 12th, 2007 by mpottle

Don’t compete when you can’t-let out and, unless circumstances change profoundly, stay out.
-Robert Heller
You must do the same thing you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Here are two opposing points of view. What does each one mean? Which do you think is wiser? Explain your answer, making up examples to prove your point.

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #34

December 17th, 2007 by mpottle

On choice: we can afford it. We just can’t afford it and everything else.
-Peggy Kagan

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #36

December 12th, 2007 by mpottle

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can’t bring down.
-Olive Schreiner
Blow not against the hurricane. 
-Proverb

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“If you wish to know what a person is…” #8

December 7th, 2007 by mpottle

“Realistic people” who pursue “practical aims” are rarely as realistic, in the long run of life, as the dreamers who pursue their dreams.
-Hans Selye

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