1
To preserve one’s illusions
One must either die young or live stupid.
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2
GWB* &
Other Fundamentalists
More
powerful than the deepest wisdom!
Faster than an instant thought!
Able to leap mountains of evidence in a
single bound!
It's an idea!
It's a theory!
No! It's an
ideology!
How marvelous! And,
If you have one, you don’t need a brain!
* ehe
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3
When
consummate, implacable evil rears up,
The price of peace is
war.
And cursed be he who
speaks those last six words
But fails to mention
the six before.
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4
When leaders of some
mindless
throngs,
Use phobic, passioned,
hate-filled screeds,
To urge their cruel and
prideful creeds,
And
thousands tremble, scream and bleed,
The flaw to which the blame
belongs
Is not
in the genes;
It’s in
the songs.
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5
In the
great
battle for human minds stupidity has
the most potent
weapons:
simplicity,
clarity,
certainty,
confidence,
passion, faith,
self-righteousness,
courage,
and the ability to appear as
wisdom.
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6
Adaptation
is its
purpose.
Evolution is its way.
Life:
Leaves in the
environment wind.
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7
Consumerism is a process
(Efficient, reliable and powerful)
For the transfer of stuff
From shopping malls to garbage dumps.
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8
It is
the paradox of
the kind:
So careful of their
money;
So careless of their
minds.
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9
Those
who seek profundity in nonsense always find it.
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10
* * * >>>Flaubert
Without finding enough fools,
One can not make a mountain
of an iota.
Minimal effort
+
minimal thought
+
minimal skill
+ minimal imagination
+ minimal talent
= minimal art. |
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11
Rebbes*
&
Other Fundamentalists
When
only one source is accepted
And
everthing else ignored,
The
magnitude
of the stupidity
Is
proportional to the depth of study.
* ehe
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12
Superstitions
differ from religions as follows:
People
do not die or kill for them.
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13
The purpose of
'life'
is to adapt, to evolve
And, thereby, to survive and thrive.
The meaning
of 'life'
Can
be found in a dictionary.
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14
Two kinds of people
have supreme confidence:
The very able
And the really stupid.
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15
Debt is like disease:
Try to avoid it;
When you have it try to get rid of it.
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