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Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #13

Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #13

Some short thoughts: I’m more curious than you about what’s going to come out of my mind this next evening.

Always be polite even when being robbed and avoid most disasters.

Too many tasks to do at once dilutes your attention and your successes.

Life’s always a balance between too much of this and too little of that.

Do something stupid in front of a crowd and many will laugh but few will help.

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Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #12

Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #12

Some re-thoughts: I see these new maxims as challenges to new thinking about old ideas. They aren’t necessarily true, but some are stimulating.

Poor workmen with poor tools must keep one as a defensive weapon.

Or – A poor workman’s tools must include a weapon.

Highly charged silent people can explode into a fire with a tiny spark.

Prepare alternate adaptations to prevent failure and promote…

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Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #11

Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #11

Forethoughts: These are stressful days, with all the usual problems compounded with the forest-fire-created 500 air quality index showing it to be very unhealthy here in Bend, Oregon. Fortunately, our forced-air heating system claims to be filtering out most of the indoor pollution, but our daily walks require N-95 face masks to remain reasonably safe, so we just take two short walks outdoors and…

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Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #7

Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #7

I have been using the source of these maxims as a point of departure into similar ideas. My goal is not truth or art but to stimulate ideas, good, bad, and unusual.

Lay a golden egg and get out while they’re laughing, say the stand-up comics.

Gain with a lie, caught in a lie, ruined in a lie, good as dead with a lie found out.

An Oxford graduate without money is a well-informed beggar.

The first…

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Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #2

Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #2

Some past examples of my treatment of aphorisms are found in Philosophers Squared – and A Dictionary of New Epigrams – and 147 Delphic maxims.Today, I am continuing to rewrite a book I read in the 1960s, but I’ll not mention the title and the author’s name until it’s done. It’s a silly game to encourage people to read some old quote books and “know the wisdom” of our ancestors. There may be about…

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Perhaps we've just begun to think.

Perhaps we’ve just begun to think.

When reading the various science news materials it feels like new things are being discovered every day, and yet the individual things seem so insignificant, and yet again, often these new things are combined with other things, even very old things, and suddenly everyone has something totally new. Light bulbs that are a hundred times better than the ones that made Thomas Edison rich and famous…

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There are more things available to be invented!

There are more things available to be invented!

I was challenged a couple of months ago to invent something new every day. That seemed impossible until I tried doing it. It seemed an impossible task because people have been around inventing things at least since Mt. Tobaerupted and the human species was shrunk to an estimated “1,000 and 10,000 breeding pairs that existed about 70,000 years ago.” My point for choosing that day for the starting…

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Inventing things is sort of fun ... but ....

Inventing things is sort of fun … but ….

Yesterday’s post was labeled My weekly invention challenge – week #6. It should have been labeled #7. That’s a minor problem, but a far bigger one is me. It isn’t procrastination that keeps me from following up on ideas, it’s the disinterest in putting together a team of people capable of doing the things I have no interest in doing. A team consists of a cooperating group of individuals with…

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