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Michael Lipsey, aphorist & artist The first step is learning to distinguish your own craziness from the craziness of society. Instagram Ask me Stuff!

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In a failed democracy politics is as spectacular, and meaningless, as a fireworks show... -- Michael Lipsey

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I get up in the morning and look in the mirror and say to myself, “You again?” -- Michael Lipsey

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Making a living is not the same as having a life.  -- Michael Lipsey

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Everything is interesting, when you are up. Nothing is when you are down.  -- Michael Lipsey

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Why so much “I want” and so little “I have?” -- Michael Lipsey

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You have to get by with the little that you know. -- Michael Lipsey

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We are the species that fouls our own nests, while fantasizing that technology will clean up our mess. -- Michael Lipsey

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If I was a Large Language Model I could tell what was the next word you were going to say. So just be glad that I'm not! -- Michael Lipsey

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It's never what you expected, this life… -- Michael Lipsey

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I tried to reason with myself but found myself very unreasonable. -- Michael Lipsey

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Worry gnaws on your brain like a dog on a bone. -- Michael Lipsey

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With some people you can never tell what is real — but neither can they. -- Michael Lipsey

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Anxiety is endless, because as soon as you have stopped worrying about something, another soon takes its place... -- Michael Lipsey

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4% percent of all humans live in the U.S. But 20% of all air travel is done by that 4%. No wonder we need to fight wars over oil! Looking out my window, birds are flying by. How is it they can produce enough energy to fly, without destroying half the planet to do so? -- Michael Lipsey

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If gasoline goes to ten bucks a gallon, that means Trump is still alive.

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The human life span is much too short to figure anything out. -- Michael Lipsey

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If you can’t conceive that you might be your problem, you are twice your problem. -- Michael Lipsey