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Oct 1 2010: The absence of lies should not be confused with honesty. 181
Oct 1 2010: When a man buys real estate he starts building his own tomb. 182
Oct 1 2010: Free will dies the moment you say "forever". 183
Oct 1 2010: Almost anyone can do "form". Very few understand "function". 184
Oct 1 2010: Youth is when you follow your heart and suffer the consequences. Maturity is when you start to trust your brain instead. 185
Oct 1 2010: Most people are like aquarium fish, living the life of the fishbowl without caring to know about the world beyond it. 186
Oct 1 2010: No parent can comprehend in the beginning how child rearing will consume their life. 187
Oct 1 2010: Wisdom may require some experience, but experience is no guarantee of wisdom. 188
Oct 1 2010: Happiness is not a permanent condition. It must be constantly renegotiated and cannot be nailed down by any form of contract. 189
Oct 1 2010: Between truth and lies is discretion. 190
Oct 2 2010: Government is usually built upon the crackpot theories of people who have never had to run a government. 191
Oct 2 2010: Sterile conditions weaken your immune system. 192
Oct 2 2010: The job of an expert is to scare the shit out of you so you'll come to him for help. 193
Oct 2 2010: In any relationship, there are times you draw close and times you pull away. You damage the former if you try to prevent the latter. 194
Oct 2 2010: Love can't be proven if it is enforced by marriage. 195
Oct 2 2010: There is no easy childhood. Either you are traumatized by reality too early or blindsided by it later. 196
Oct 2 2010: A mark of maturity is being able to feel the pain of others while also accepting that you can do nothing about it. 197
Oct 2 2010: Adult personality cannot be changed from the outside, especially within the scope of romance. Change may happen, but only after you're gone. 198
Oct 2 2010: Most of what passes for "news" is merely voyeurism. It contributes nothing to our understanding of the world. 199
Oct 3 2010: In a great work of art, most of what you see in it was never put there by the artist. 200
Oct 3 2010: When deciphering a message of any kind, the envelope it came in is as telling as the message itself. 201
Oct 3 2010: You never know what a person is really like until after the honeymoon. 202
Oct 3 2010: Religion is one opiate of the masses. Another is humor. 203
Oct 3 2010: Perceived loneliness is usually a mask for other things. What makes us lonely is not a lack of people but a defect in our mission. 204
Oct 3 2010: Good working theory! MRT @kirkfranklin: God is either going to fix the situation, or use the situation as His tool to fix you (Romans:28). 205
Oct 4 2010: The world is filled with dreamers, unmoved to action. 206
Oct 4 2010: RT @joesmith_really: Life's too short for too many friends. 207
Oct 4 2010: Many a dream turns into a nightmare when it's only half built and the resources run out. Then it becomes a prison. 208
Oct 4 2010: History is full of young people courted to disaster by thinking their generation is different. 209
Oct 4 2010: RT @KilroyCafe: "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." -- Orson Wells 210
Oct 4 2010: Character is how you behave when you think no one's watching. 211
Oct 4 2010: Much of the apparent wealth of the world is merely a theft from the future. 212
Oct 4 2010: Having a baby is what couples do when their relationship runs out of steam and they can't think of anything else. 213
Oct 4 2010: To change someone's behavior, you have to have the ability and willingness to say "no". 214
Oct 5 2010: People who live in glass houses can't expect much privacy. 215
Oct 5 2010: People are judged by standards they themselves create. 216
Oct 5 2010: If you're not using it, get rid of it! 217
Oct 5 2010: RT @lynniekitt: @DalaiLama I'm more impressed with the fact that the Dalai Lama has a Twitter account than with his words of wisdom. 218
Oct 5 2010: It is not your role to correct the delusions of others, but you must not encourage them either. 219
Oct 5 2010: Boredom is an affliction of boring people. 220
Oct 5 2010: One of the world's greatest luxuries is to be able to sleep without an alarm clock. 221
Oct 5 2010: "Old" is a state of having given up on change. 222
Oct 5 2010: The real measure of wealth is not how much money you make but the freedom you have left after expenses. 223
Oct 5 2010: Life is traumatic by its nature. You can't pass through it unscarred. 224
Oct 5 2010: The only difference between a cult and a religion is how long it has been practiced. 225
Oct 5 2010: The best way to win is chose a contest you're good at. 226
Oct 5 2010: Falling in love with someone is the best guarantee that you won't be able to change them. 227
Oct 5 2010: There's nothing like the wolf at your door to get you focused and motivated. 228
Oct 5 2010: All the different varieties of alcohol are just a charade to make you think you're cultured instead of addicted. 229
Oct 5 2010: The habits of personality cannot be changed by words or education, only by enforcement. 230
Oct 6 2010: Trying to capture love with marriage is like displaying a wild animal on your wall. As soon as you have nailed it down, you've killed it. 231
Oct 6 2010: Romance involves the acceptance of creeping change, often leading to conditions you never would have agreed to in the beginning. 232
Oct 6 2010: Love is possible, but you can't dive into it too deeply. Go too far down and you'll drown! 233
Oct 6 2010: Success for the wrong reasons—for fakery or luck—usually leads to self-destruction. 234
Oct 6 2010: RT @KilroyCafe: The one charity that undeniably improves the world: Planned Parenthood. 235
Oct 6 2010: RT @KilroyCafe: Dog shows, talent contests, beauty pageants — there's nothing unbiased about them! The winner is chosen by the politics ... 236
Oct 6 2010: Of course you made the right choice... if you block out news of every other choice! 237
Oct 6 2010: Revolution, in most of human history, is a bloody battle to replace one form of oppression with another. 238
Oct 6 2010: Crises and catastrophes are unfortunate but necessary. Without them, no one would change. 239
Oct 6 2010: If your life is simple, you can master it and make few mistakes. If your life is too complex, you'll always be stumbling. 240
Oct 6 2010: Celebrity is our society's celebration of those who perform but don't really accomplish anything. 241
Oct 6 2010: Nothing gets you thinking clearly like the threat of impending disaster. 242
Oct 6 2010: Any forbidden fruit becomes bland and uninteresting as soon as you have easy access to it. 243
Oct 6 2010: The ancient ways, the old traditions, the sacred beliefs of the elders... mindless habits for those without judgment of their own. 244
Oct 7 2010: Most secrets are intended to prevent insecure people from learning too much about themselves and making a scene. 245
Oct 7 2010: RT @DrkIntellectual: It's odd to say that you've thought about things or that you have the "truth" when you merely picked-up the beliefs ... 246
Oct 7 2010: RT @YourAristotle: I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. Aristotle 247
Oct 7 2010: RT @DrkIntellectual: We're taught to seek out love but I have found it much more rewarding to work towards making myself more lovable; l ... 248
Oct 7 2010: It is good to be open to the spiritual and paranormal, but decisions must be based on the concrete and testable. 249
Oct 7 2010: The key to a great performance, in any field, is seeing yourself as the audience sees you, not as you want to be seen. 250
Oct 7 2010: The worst mistakes of life are misguided attempts to take a temporary thrill and make it permanent. 251
Oct 7 2010: Life is full of "Duh!" moments when you realize you've been doing things the hard way all along. 252
Oct 7 2010: Of all the weird things in the world, the most bizarre is our body and how we got stuck inside it. 253
Oct 7 2010: Narcissism is when you do something ordinary but think it's extraordinary, just because you did it. 254
Oct 8 2010: The world doesn't want quality. It wants reliable mediocrity delivered on demand. You do quality only for your own satisfaction. 255
Oct 8 2010: The world, with all its billions, may seem huge, but if you count those who are doing what you are and doing it well, it's tiny indeed! 256
Oct 8 2010: RT @DrkIntellectual: Patriotism - a confused state where one thinks "love of homeland" is synonymous with "fear and hatred of all things ... 257
Oct 8 2010: RT @DrkIntellectual: Many remain apathetic about politics but claim to care strongly about people; politics is the science of managing p ... 258
Oct 8 2010: Children need praise for whatever good they do. Adults ought to be able to function without it. 259
Oct 8 2010: RT @stevewilliams52: #FF @BadDalaiLama He's wiser than any fortune cookie 260
Oct 8 2010: Money in excess of ones needs is more an enabler of dysfunction than a key to happiness. 261
Oct 8 2010: Religion isn't so much a belief in God but in certain social policies, taken on faith, that limit the ways you can solve your problems. 262
Oct 8 2010: Pets and children are deceptively charming mechanisms to imprison you and absorb any excess resources you may have. 263
Oct 8 2010: True wealth is measured in two ways: freedom from financial stress and freedom to do what you wish with your time. 264
Oct 8 2010: The mind, by necessity, imposes constraints on the infinite possibilities of the world. Change your mind, and new options appear. 265
Oct 9 2010: In the battle for respect from your elders, you'll probably never win, so just do what's right for you. 266
Oct 9 2010: The great irony of advice is that the people most in need of it are least capable of accepting it. 267
Oct 9 2010: The concept of rescue is usually misguided. You can give people the tools for their own rescue, but they have to do it themselves. 268
Oct 9 2010: There is no accounting for romantic attraction. Logic need not apply. 269
Oct 9 2010: If you have experienced misery all your life and it happens to go away, you will probably create new misery to replace it. 270
Oct 9 2010: "Are we alone in the universe?" The question is irrelevant. Even if we are not alone, we are still alone. 271
Oct 9 2010: Some people are heat sinks: You pour energy into them and get nothing in return. 272
Oct 9 2010: It is not your civic duty to vote if you don't know the candidates and can't make an informed choice. 273
Oct 9 2010: Nearly all advertising involves an element of fraud. If it isn't lying to you explicitly, it is doing it by implication. 274
Oct 10 2010: Choosing the best path is only part of the journey. The other part is negotiating the path you have chosen. 275
Oct 10 2010: The ultimate test of any law or public policy is how human behavior actually responds to it. 276
Oct 10 2010: The risk in rescuing someone is they come to expect it and get themselves in the same mess again. 277
Oct 10 2010: Don't be surprised to find moneychangers in the temple. They built the temple! 278
Oct 10 2010: No one can give you a meaningful mission in life. You have to find it on your own. 279
Oct 10 2010: Many tragedies are blessings in disguise because they force us to make hard decisions we couldn't face otherwise. 280
Oct 10 2010: Real security lies not in locks or guns but in knowledge of your surroundings. 281
Oct 10 2010: UFOs may be real, but they're not relevant. 282
Oct 10 2010: People credit God for their good fortune so they don't have to think about who they hurt to obtain it. 283
Oct 11 2010: Many of the beliefs that are presented as spiritual are really a mask for mental illness. 284
Oct 11 2010: People praise freedom in the abstract but usually act to eliminate it in their own lives. 285
Oct 11 2010: Behind laughter can be much unhappiness. 286
Oct 11 2010: There are no solutions to the world's problems, only statistical improvements. 287
Oct 11 2010: Romance is no place for charity. The relationship has to pay it's own way! 288
Oct 11 2010: The danger of comfort is that you're lulled into repetitive activity and lose the incentive for growth. 289
Oct 11 2010: Instead of laughing at the absurdities of your life, maybe you should fix them. 290
Oct 11 2010: It takes talent to recognize talent. 291
Oct 11 2010: Even as adults, we will always see the world through the prism of the family we grew up in. 292
Oct 12 2010: The easiest people to help are those who are close at hand, who are responsive to attention and who are willing to pay a price. 293
Oct 12 2010: The risk in any form of social intervention is that people adapt in unexpected ways and the solution becomes the problem. 294
Oct 12 2010: Any calculation about who to help has to take into account the cost and ease of doing so. 295
Oct 12 2010: Those who create will always be at the mercy of those who deal. 296
Oct 12 2010: No matter what exotic destination you visit, you will find people living there who think it's the most boring place in the world. 297
Oct 12 2010: People who have got themselves trapped usually want you to join them. 298
Oct 12 2010: Whenever an advertiser claims, "You CAN make a difference!" the proposed action is probably trivial and benefits mainly the advertiser. 299
Oct 12 2010: If companies and individuals are allowed to do whatever they want, they will pollute the river all of us drink from. 300
Oct 12 2010: The most trivial use of your time is voicing your opinion about the news stories of the day. 301
Oct 12 2010: "No" can be the starting point of happiness. Once you give or receive it, new options will open up and you can move on with your life. 302
Oct 12 2010: The ultimate product of your life is the conditions you leave behind. 303
Oct 13 2010: Part of our personal growth is learning to consider options we previously weren't willing to accept. 304
Oct 13 2010: Children can be crippled by poverty and violence but also by wealth and privilege, which skews their perceptions of who they are. 305
Oct 13 2010: The absence of divorce does not imply a marriage is a success. There is a high threshold of dysfunction before one is willing to change. 306
Oct 13 2010: People carry their own theater with them, turning each new situation into the drama they expect. 307
Oct 13 2010: Schadenfreude may be justified when someone who actively courts fame or wild animals gets bitten by same. 308
Oct 13 2010: I don't care what planet you came from as long as you behave decently on this one! 309
Oct 13 2010: In a single instant, after one miscalculation, everything in your life can change. There is no undoing that moment, only accepting it. 310
Oct 13 2010: Legality and morality are two different things. One does not imply the other. 311
Oct 13 2010: What is the meaning of life? There doesn't have to be one. You just deal with the problems in front of you! 312
Oct 13 2010: There is no safe harbor. 313
Oct 14 2010: The liability of giving advice is that someone may follow it and get in trouble. Then you are responsible. 314
Oct 14 2010: People are crippled by their own artificial list of things they can't do. 315
Oct 14 2010: Another truism from the Good @DalaiLama: I believe that at all levels of society...the key to a better, happier world is greater compassion. 316
Oct 14 2010: Most of the wars, feuds and violence of this planet originate with one person blaming others for his own failures. 317
Oct 14 2010: Separating humans from apes is not just the ability to learn but the ability to be taught—to blindly trust the wisdom of teachers. 318
Oct 14 2010: The root of religion isn't faith in God but faith that other people know more about God than you do. 319
Oct 14 2010: Money can't buy inspiration. 320
Oct 14 2010: None of us deserve the indignity of being trapped on this primitive planet, but we have to make the best of it. 321
Oct 14 2010: The answer to life's biggest questions is simply "We don't know." You have get by on what little you do know. 322
Oct 15 2010: The greatest test of intellect is to know something to be true and act upon that knowledge without anyone else supporting you. 323
Oct 15 2010: There has never been a time when advertisers haven't said, "There's never been a better time!" to buy whatever they're selling. 324
Oct 15 2010: Let it be said that you crammed as much life as possible into your final years on Earth. 325
Oct 15 2010: The rarest and most valuable skill of the individual is being able to see himself objectively, as though observing from afar. 326
Oct 15 2010: When you find something thrilling, the worst thing to do is commit yourself to repeating it. The thrill fades, but the commitment stays. 327
Oct 15 2010: The most common and pernicious form of censorship is practiced by the individual against himself to defend his own investments. 328
Oct 15 2010: To find meaning in life, perform every act as though it were your last. 329
Oct 15 2010: There is a fine line between love and strangulation. 330
Oct 15 2010: RT @DalaiLama: If we reserve ethical conduct for those whom we feel close to, we may neglect our responsibilities toward those outside t ... 331
Oct 15 2010: Most human behavior is simply inaccessible to words. You can't talk people into changing. You can only bite back when they go too far. 332
Oct 16 2010: Anything promising permanent security is really just a prison in disguise. 333
Oct 16 2010: A housekeeping matter: Should the @BadDalaiLama follow everyone who follows him, or no one (like the Good @DalaiLama), or be judgmental? 334
Oct 16 2010: The correct answer is (b) the @BadDalaiLama will follow everyone who follows him (except protected accts & spam). 335
Oct 16 2010: The aim of the game is not who gets rich but who gets to do what they want. 336
Oct 16 2010: Wisdom is knowing when and how to break the rules. 337
Oct 16 2010: RT @KayM77: Has it occurred to @DalaiLama that people behave differently around Dalai Lamas? 338
Oct 16 2010: Anyone can surround themselves with the tools and technical skills of an artistic medium, but few are capable of real creativity. 339
Oct 16 2010: Solution to the UFO mystery: an advanced race of alien cats. With laser pointers. Trying to get even. 340
Oct 16 2010: Just because you love someone doesn't mean you can live with them. 341
Oct 16 2010: Most adults are a sensitive minefield of conflicting emotions. You must carefully watch your words to avoid destabilizing them. 342
Oct 16 2010: The internet can call up all manner of facts but can't help with judgment and perspective, which still must come from experience. 343
Oct 16 2010: No matter how technologically complex the world may become, it will always be dominated by the stupid mistakes of human ego. 344
Oct 16 2010: Childbirth is the world's most narcissistic act. It is not done for the child or the world but for the selfish desires of the parent. 345
Oct 17 2010: Wealth can buy freedom but more often it simply buys more obligations. 346
Oct 17 2010: RT @amiee_r: @resident_nomad the @BadDalaiLama is way smarter! Thanks to you I'm now following. 347
Oct 17 2010: "Enforced belief" is when you have to believe something because your existing investments demand it. That's different from free-will belief. 348
Oct 17 2010: Before you try to move a boulder, ask it how it wants to move. 349
Oct 17 2010: Pornography is the opposite of art because it hides nothing. 350
Oct 17 2010: One of the great struggles of life is finding work you enjoy that also makes you enough money to survive. 351
Oct 17 2010: There are no relationships without dysfunction. 352
Oct 17 2010: Idealistic young people will always overestimate their abilities and act accordingly, setting themselves up to become cynical old people. 353
Oct 17 2010: If you want it too much, you can't have it, because your own desperate need will sabotage the effort. 354
Oct 17 2010: Success in any field often depends on being able to get rid of things you once thought were essential. 355
Oct 18 2010: Life is a race to see how much you can accomplish in the time you have left. 356
Oct 18 2010: The first step to social change is to set a good example. 357
Oct 18 2010: All religions require an enemy to keep faith alive. Muslims and Jews need each other, and Christians never forget being thrown to the lions. 358
Oct 18 2010: RT @YourAristotle: The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle 359
Oct 18 2010: RT @philoquotes: Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~ Seneca http://bit.ly/philq 360
Oct 18 2010: If you must ask a question of a stranger, just ask it. Don't prefix it with "May I ask you a question?" which only creeps people out. 361
Oct 18 2010: Sex is a trick of nature to get you to mate. The lust soon fades, but you're still stuck with the relationship. 362
Oct 18 2010: He died doing the thing he loved most: taking foolish risks. 363
Oct 18 2010: Whenever you fight against something, you are trapping yourself in the world of the thing you are fighting against. 364
Oct 18 2010: Intelligence is a test of how well you can separate logic from emotion in the decisions that matter most. 365
Oct 18 2010: RT @historytweets: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. -Winston Churchill 366
Oct 18 2010: You cannot be truly free until you accept the underlying tragedy of the world. 367
Oct 18 2010: It is noble to fight for a cause, but you can't neglect your own development. You must nurture your ability to fight for future causes. 368
Oct 19 2010: @serenebabe1: "It isn't possible to separate logic and emotion." Sure it is! 1+1=2 regardless of your emotional state. 369
Oct 19 2010: Your brain is a biological computer driven by emotional needs but you still have to make rational decisions if you expect to survive. 370
Oct 19 2010: Any thrill today could become drudgery tomorrow. 371
Oct 19 2010: Before becoming famous, you should first do something worthy of fame. 372
Oct 19 2010: Most humans will willingly accept imprisonment in exchange for the approval of their family and society. 373
Oct 19 2010: Sex is fun when you are in the mood, but no contract can guarantee it will always be fun. 374
Oct 19 2010: On the map, there is no terra incognita left. In the mind, there is plenty! 375
Oct 19 2010: The key to success in any creative medium is seeing what is right in front of you, not what you want to be there. 376
Oct 19 2010: A partnership sounds like a good idea when labor is shared, but it can also be a "bureaucracy of two" that adapts poorly to change. 377
Oct 19 2010: The greatest danger to your own freedom is overcommitment. 378
Oct 19 2010: Sex is powerful mainly when it is denied. 379
Oct 19 2010: A relationship is a shared history. It means that when you talk to someone you already have a language in common. 380
Oct 19 2010: The real measure of wealth is having the freedom to do what you want with minimal obligations. 381
Oct 20 2010: All tastes fade and change, yet people plan their lives as though their desires were permanent. 382
Oct 20 2010: Our culture gives us a list of things we must do to be happy. We try and fail, which gives us a chance to try again, ignoring the list. 383
Oct 20 2010: Life is the process of correcting the false assumptions of our childhood. 384
Oct 20 2010: If our parents hadn't made the decisions they had, we wouldn't be here today, but that doesn't mean we are bound to the same choices. 385
Oct 20 2010: The job of the captain is to steer the whole ship, not to be distracted by the intrigues on board. 386
Oct 21 2010: You are addicted to something if you do it not for its own reward but for how anxious you feel when you don't do it. 387
Oct 21 2010: As soon as you work to create something, your ego becomes attached to it, which corrupts your ability to judge it objectively. 388
Oct 21 2010: RT @NorthernMagic: I always tell the truth because having to remember lies would give me conniptions. Apparently, a lot of people don't ... 389
Oct 21 2010: "Follow your heart" usually means "Follow your self-serving delusions." 390
Oct 21 2010: The postcoital problem: What do we do now? 391
Oct 21 2010: It is good to have a plan, but you shouldn't be so committed to it that you can't change course if unexpected opportunities arise. 392
Oct 21 2010: Every plot of land, sometime in history, was stolen from its rightful owner. We cannot correct every past wrong without upending society. 393
Oct 21 2010: Success is sometimes just a matter of being able to see it dangling in front of you. 394
Oct 21 2010: The statements that cause the greatest offense are usually those that are most accurate. 395
Oct 22 2010: Lying is costly and should be avoided, but that doesn't mean you should reveal everything you know. Human politics demand discretion. 396
Oct 22 2010: The purpose of religion is to justify the choices people have already committed to. 397
Oct 22 2010: The law is a religion based on the belief that the ills of society are best addressed by an infinite progression of explicit rules. 398
Oct 22 2010: Our greatest terror is not what others might do to us but what we ourselves are capable of. 399
Oct 22 2010: When you are young and striving for glory, the worst thing that can happen to you is finding it. 400
Oct 22 2010: Liberals say "carrot"; conservatives say "stick" (or vice versa). Best policy? Whatever works! 401
Oct 22 2010: The greatest barrier to personal growth is a steady, well-paying job. 402
Oct 23 2010: To get along comfortably with others, you must never discuss the obvious delusions that afflict them. 403
Oct 23 2010: The dullest places have the nicest tourist information offices. 404
Oct 23 2010: I'm trying out @TweetBackup by @jonasl to archive my tweets http://tweetbackup.com - We'll see if it does the job. 405
Oct 23 2010: Once you have enough money to survive, the only meaningful pursuit is quality. 406
Oct 23 2010: Quality is the product that most elegantly and efficiently fulfills its intended function. 407
Oct 23 2010: The "quality" of a car is not its leather seats but how efficiently it gets you from place to place with minimal maintenance. 408
Oct 23 2010: Quality is its own reward. 409
Oct 23 2010: A common affliction of humans (especially the male) is to dwell on technical minutia while completely missing the big picture. 410
Oct 23 2010: Delusions persist as long as there are excess resources to support them. They collapse when the resources run out. 411
Oct 23 2010: The child finds joy in discovering new things. The adult sees mainly threat in them because he is so heavily invested in the old things. 412
Oct 23 2010: People bemoan the prison they have trapped themselves in, but without its structure they would probably self-destruct. 413
Oct 23 2010: The most powerful human emotion is regret—inner shame for ones own mistakes. Grief doesn't go on forever, but regret can! 414
Oct 23 2010: The irony of law enforcement is that it needs crime to justify its existence. 415
Oct 24 2010: Even a skunk smells sweet to a skunk! 416
Oct 24 2010: Here is an archive of the @BadDalaiLama's tweets on a single page: http://kilroycafe.com/twitter/baddalailama/ - Retweet the ones you like! 417
Oct 24 2010: The desperate problem of the rich is finding ways to spend their money. Fortunately, plenty of marketers will help them invent new needs. 418
Oct 24 2010: A new place seems most exotic before you go and when you first arrive. Within a few days, it feels as common as where you came from. 419
Oct 24 2010: Those who drink to escape their problems will always find problems to drink to. 420
Oct 24 2010: The ultimate test of free will is being trapped physically in prison and seeing it as an opportunity. 421
Oct 24 2010: Wine: the world's oldest consumer fraud! Fermented fruit juice sold to gullible social climbers based on invented distinctions of taste. 422
Oct 24 2010: Research shows that most divorces are caused by marriage. Essay: http://bit.ly/cjgsQp 423
Oct 24 2010: The greatest luxury of business is being able to tell a potential customer, willing to pay you, that your services don't make sense for him, 424
Oct 24 2010: The main social tool of children is emotional manipulation. They cry and we come. 425
Oct 24 2010: Success is sometimes just a matter of being able to see an opportunity dangling in front of you. 426
Oct 25 2010: The best roads aren't on any map, and you'll only know them when you stumble upon them. 427
Oct 25 2010: Statistics about what other people are doing have no relevance to what you should do. 428
Oct 25 2010: The competence of a professional will never exceed the instructions of the person who hires him. 429
Oct 25 2010: How to sell useless products to consumers: double the price, then take 50% Off—For A Limited Time Only! 430
Oct 25 2010: .@TeaDrinker3000: "Really wish @DalaiLama would follow back :(" — The @BadDalaiLama does! 431
Oct 25 2010: Before you can experience new things, you have to let go of the old things. 432
Oct 25 2010: Money may buy an adequate copy of whatever you ask for, but it can't buy insight or inspiration. 433
Oct 25 2010: It is not our place to correct the delusions of others, only to find the common ground necessary to get things done. 434
Oct 25 2010: "The world owes you nothing; it was here first." - Mark Twain 435
Oct 25 2010: The world obeys its own rules, independent of your wishes. It is your job to discover those rules and adapt to them. 436
Oct 25 2010: The less people have, the more they are attached to it. 437
Oct 25 2010: Making jokes about your addictions is just another way to try to justify them. 438
Oct 26 2010: Photos can lie! They distort reality by showing only a restricted view. They can't capture the big picture the way words can. 439
Oct 26 2010: Foreign travel is important to our education, not so much to show us what is different about other cultures but what is universal. 440
Oct 26 2010: The biggest questions of life—like "Why am I here?"—are also the most irrelevant. You just work with what you've got! 441
Oct 26 2010: One part of knowledge is theory, which can be conveyed through words. The other is application, which can only be gained through experience. 442
Oct 26 2010: To a dog, there are no bad smells, only information. 443
Oct 26 2010: Each individual must negotiate his own solution to the conflicting demands of life. 444
Oct 26 2010: If psychic phenomena are real, they are unreliable tools for interacting with the world. They are too easily confused with wishful thinking. 445
Oct 26 2010: A director would not repeat the same movie, or the author the same book. Why, then, would a singer sing the same song? 446
Oct 26 2010: To impress people with your best work, you must not distract them with your mediocre work. 447
Oct 26 2010: The conundrum of romance is that once you are committed to someone, you're also imprisoned with them. 448
Oct 27 2010: Sleep is a blessed relief from motivation. It is the one time of the day when you don't have to do anything. 449
Oct 27 2010: There is hardly any product you can buy that doesn't involve some form of human or animal exploitation. 450
Oct 27 2010: Art is a medium for a message. If you don't have a message, it's vanity, not art. 451
Oct 27 2010: An adorable little puppy is just the Trojan Horse for an expensive 10-year burden. 452
Oct 27 2010: Being good looking stunts your growth. 453
Oct 27 2010: The world is full of crap because crap has a higher profit margin than things you really need. 454
Oct 27 2010: Among the animals, our closest relative is the dog. We are eager to please, loyal to a fault and willing to follow others anywhere. 455
Oct 27 2010: "Two can live cheaply as one" is a fallacy. When you marry, costs increase due to bureaucratic inefficiency. 456
Oct 27 2010: "Conspicuous meditation" is when you publicly display how spiritually aware you are, by meditating in parks, wearing saffron robes, etc. 457
Oct 27 2010: A single face-to-face meeting can sometimes accomplish more than 10,000 email messages. 458
Oct 28 2010: Paranoia assumes that the world cares more about you than it actually does. 459
Oct 28 2010: The rich and powerful are not invulnerable. They are just as constrained as you are but in different ways. 460
Oct 28 2010: If you need religion to make sense of your life, so be it. Just don't go around thinking you are God's chosen one. 461
Oct 28 2010: The willingness to follow others is man's greatest asset and his worst flaw. 462
Oct 28 2010: No one should be discriminated against for his sexual preferences, religious beliefs or political affiliations. They are all equally insane! 463
Oct 28 2010: It is impossible to tell good news from bad until time has passed. 464
Oct 28 2010: Internal inconsistency is the precursor of violence. When someone is at war with themselves, they will soon be at war with others. 465
Oct 28 2010: It is good to be generous, but you also don't want to disrupt a local economy so it becomes unsustainable without you. 466
Oct 28 2010: People with a conflict of interest rarely see themselves as having one. Their own needs just happen to coincide with their constituents'. 467
Oct 29 2010: Life is hard mainly because you make it so. 468
Oct 29 2010: Every forest needs an occasional fire to make way for new growth, and people need catastrophes for the same reason. 469
Oct 29 2010: RT @ederguillermo: En 5 meses twitteando nunca he dado un #FF; hoy haré 1 excepción. Sigan a @BadDalaiLama, trae la mera #neta de la vida. 470
Oct 29 2010: Romance does not just combine the strengths of two people, also their weaknesses. 471
Oct 29 2010: Many barriers that seem insurmountable in theory turn out not to be a problem in real life. You have to test them to find out! 472
Oct 29 2010: Reality is rich and subtle and puts all theories about it to shame. 473
Oct 29 2010: Failure is a resource, not to be squandered on self-pity but to be applied judiciously to ones own education. 474
Oct 29 2010: Success isn't just a matter of working hard, but working smart. 475
Oct 30 2010: Love is an ongoing struggle between loneliness on one side and engulfment on the other. 476
Oct 30 2010: The more shame you feel, the more drugs you do. 477
Oct 30 2010: The main thing that keeps the world economy going is an optimistic delusion: "If I buy this product, my life will be better." 478
Oct 30 2010: If alien life presents itself to us, we'll have to deal with it. Until then, searching for it is a poor use of our resources. 479
Oct 30 2010: Television is for prisoners and shut-ins. If you value your life, there are better things to do with it. 480
Oct 30 2010: Wine and cheese were the junk food of the Middle Ages. 481
Oct 30 2010: The best predictor of someone's future behavior is their past behavior. 482
Oct 30 2010: Most adults have so many excuses for not changing that they need a crisis before anything gets done. 483
Oct 30 2010: The main effect of automatic light switches and toilet flushers is to train people not to turn off lights or flush toilets. 484
Oct 31 2010: The convicted murderer died in his sleep before he could be executed, robbing society of the satisfaction of killing him. 485
Oct 31 2010: Boredom is a flaw of the individual, not a state of the world. 486
Oct 31 2010: "Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?" —Jalal ad-Din Rumi 487
Oct 31 2010: Peaceful passage through a desperate world rests on one principle: Do not create new responsibilities where none previously existed. 488
Oct 31 2010: RT @AngryDalaiLama: If you have love and compassion towards all living beings, you're going to get fucking killed out there. 489
Oct 31 2010: Crime is not random. It happens mainly when you give the criminal an obvious opportunity and guarantee him anonymity. 490
Oct 31 2010: The enemy of growth is investment. 491
Oct 31 2010: You can pray to God for serenity but not for help. These are your problems, not His. 492
Oct 31 2010: The first bite tastes great! The second is good. The third is okay. By the fourth or fifth, even the greatest thrill is routine and boring. 493
Oct 31 2010: Addiction and fatalism go together. You don't see one without the other. 494
Oct 31 2010: One sibling must make the sacrifice: become a parent so the others can become doting aunts and uncles and be dissuaded of doing the same. 495
Oct 31 2010: Most people are spectators in their own lives, watching from the sidelines as others control the game.
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