You would think that enough fish have "got away" by now that they would have warned the rest of the fish population not to bite at dangling worms. And yet, after millennia, the word seems not to have gotten around. You wonder what might be the equivalent uncirculated warning among human beings.
"God does not play dice with the world." ~~ Einstein
Yet, so much seems to hang on the chance
Of the dice rolling even or odd.
If God does not play dice with the world,
Are the dice, perchance, playing God?
"What makes you a likable person? Hard to say, but probably something you don't know about yourself that everyone else does."
"Whatever the reason you were born, it was probably not to find out what someone else would do if they were you."
"You not only have to be several different people to successfully live one life, but they all have to be pretty good at passing a baton."
Asked what she had learned from 45 years of marriage, a close acquaintance of mine said:
"Never assume someone is dead just because they're unresponsive."
I promised to be back in September, so here I am, although please do regard this as a warm-up.
"To know all the facts about anyone is to know more about the subject than they do."
"The most basic progressive belief is that if we can get the rich to pay their fair share, we won't have to pay ours."
"The most basic conservative belief is that if you weren't born to opportunity, you had your chance,"
"The chance that you can limit everyone's freedom but yours is about the same as the chance that you can pollute everyone's environment but yours.
"I love to return to a summer place where nothing ever changes, except that the walk to the jetty used to be shorter and the shadows on the sand slimmer."
"Things happen to enhance your understanding of people; for example, seeing a boastful person reduced to tears by a word of genuine appreciation."
