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Aphorism #311
January 17, 2009 – 2:05 pm | No Comment

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In a cynic, the heart is a vestigial organ.

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                         © joesmith 2009

Definition #6
August 30, 2008 – 6:03 pm | No Comment

A pessimist is just somebody whose worst fears keep coming true.

Christopher Spranger, from The Effort to Fall
February 4, 2008 – 9:12 pm | No Comment
Christopher Spranger, from <u>The Effort to Fall</u>

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It is not a way of life that a wise man proposes, but a way around life.
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You say nothing could be further from the truth. I say nothing could be further than truth.
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Sophistry is what reason becomes when it is employed for the purpose of reconciling us to life.
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So much havoc has [...]

The Gist of It:
January 13, 2008 – 3:12 pm | No Comment
The Gist of It:

Brutal Truths, Bitter Wisdom, Gallows Humor
The world was made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness. — Bull Durham, screenplay by Ron Shelton
- You are free and that is why you are lost.
- In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
— Franz Kafka
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across [...]