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Category: James Rozoff

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.

lie, lies, lying, repetition, truth

Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.

arrogance, ignorance

Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.

If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.

english, language, shakespeare

You’ve got to stop thinking of consciousness as your own. You’re only thinking for yourself when you are by yourself. As soon as you are in the presence of others, your consciousness is linked at some level to those others.

collective-consciousness, consciousness, group-think, solitude

Will is a gift from God, desire from the devil.

desire, free-will, will

There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past.

death, passage-of-time-memories, past, time

I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.

nostalgia, past, sentimentality

To be young and to experience the feeling of being alive is a sweet feeling. To feel alive and to have a purpose and a goal to that life is better still.

life, meaning, purpose, youth

Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.

effort, goal-setting, goals, success

He who dies with the most toys…dies a child.

material-possessions, materialistic, wealth, wealth-accumulation

Nothing is taken at face value anymore, everything must be dissected. Perhaps it is the rise of advertisement over church and state. Things once spoken were spoken with strength and authority. Now they are spoken with stealth and with guile. They are spoken not to the rational mind but to the sub-conscious, the mind within the mind.

advertisement, advertising, authority, subconscious