11th Nov 2011 Wisdom & Random Thoughts This Week

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not

recognize duties any more.

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

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11th Nov 2011 Marriage - According To Some Celebrities

If I had posted this one before, I am not apologizing; I need to be reminded never to get married in haste.

** You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to. - Henny Youngman (For those who do not know him, Henny - [not Henry] Youngman was an American stand up comedian.)

 

** The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it. - Ann Bancroft

 

** Any husband who says. "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge. - Bill Cosby

 

** I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewellery. - Rita Rudner

 

** Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin

 

** My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. - Henny Youngman

 

** My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. - Rodney Dangerfield

 

** A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. - Milton Berle

 

** I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - George Burns

 

** I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There's water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake." - Henny Youngman

 

** Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. - Phyllis Diller (my recipe is: Make love instead)

 

** The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. - Henny Youngman

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11th Nov 2011 Eleven, Eleven, Eleven

It's a newsy day today, quite apart from it being a unique one of 11/11/11. Many events and commerce are taking advantage of this so considered lucky number to attract attention, to promote ideas, products and, most of all, hope and dreams. Next year there would come the day 2/1/12, then 2/11/12 and with a bit of luck, 12/12/12; but none of them have the same visual potency and the capacity of the same showy fantasy it generates. Six '1' together, one after another.

This mathematical conjunctive, almost a binary logarithm, provokes apparently, an universal effervescence, necessarily to begin and finish in 24 hours full of illusion and imagination. Most people treat it as promising luck if you wish for something hard enough: winning the lottery, finding love, unexpected windfall, a desired kiss, the unborn baby to be a boy/girl, the job position you have coveted for years ... Such perception invites people to create the possibility to go after or complete a long treasured dream or ambition. Sometimes, with lots of luck and sufficient imagination or doggedness, your desire might be fulfilled. Or perhaps not. Tomorrow may be. In any case, surely there are other days.

It's everybody's right to dream and hope, putting aside the negative thoughts and pessimism, just for one day.

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