Verse..........................

19.  When a man becomes steadfast in his abstention from harming others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in his presence.

-Patanjali, How To Know God:  The Yoga Aphorisms Of Patanjali

I didn't mean to hurt you..................

"Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A twofer..................................

..........................................................from Nassim Nicholas Taleb:

"Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say, as in mathematics and philosophy) and dangerous when they try to be useful."

"The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it."

Careful..................................

9.  Verbal delusion arises when words do not conform to reality.

-from The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali:  How to Know God

Knowing..............................

"Knowing stuff others don't know is most effective when others don't know you know stuff they don't know."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Unique versus generic...............

"The fool views himself as more unique and others more generic; the wise views himself as more generic and others more unique."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Seeking unity..............................

"My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, as culled from here

True.......................................?

"Since Plato, Western thought and the theory of knowledge have focused on the notions of True-False;  as commendable as it was, it is high time to shift the concern to Robust-Fragile, and social epistemology to the more serious problem of Sucker-Nonsucker."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Knowing the wondrousness of the Intertunnel, this was inevitable:

GIGO...........................

"The calamity of the information age is that the toxicity of data increases much faster than its benefits"

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Insulation.........................

"Bureaucracy is a construction designed to maximize the distance between a decision-maker and the risks of the decision."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Thought nicotine might have made the list....

"The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Yep.................................

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Risk and reward.......................

thanks Kelly

Maybe this is why we twitch................

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Faith.................................

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Sufficiency........................

68.  Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds 
       sufficiency too little.

71.  We must put the following question to each of 
       our desires: What will happen to me if the 
       object of my desire is achieved?   What will 
       happen if it is not?

77.   The most important consequence of self-
        sufficiency is freedom.

-Epicurus,  Aphorisms as excerpted from here

Hopefully it will arrive soon...........

Just beware of all the "isms"...................

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Trying...............................................

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Contradictions....................................

original copy here