Haste makes waste, but patience is always hungry.


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Euclidean Delight: What is picking me apart today belongs to my failure to pick apart the future yesterday. So I can stop this inertia by picking apart tomorrow with what I learned today from yesterday’s behavior. ... or I can sit down and contemplate these nagging thoughts, and outline the behavioral predicament, taking satisfaction in a precision only made possible by continuing the neglect.




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In the end the Devil loses and God always wins. It's only intelligence that is caught in the crossfire.

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