“When we are positive in our thinking and we stumble, our inner composure is never thrown out of kilter, though the obstacles are many. Inwardly you are still at peace with yourself if you’re positive. If you’re negative, then there is turmoil, confusion, and you collapse. You want to commit suicide. The person who is positive — through the trials that come his way — he will always transcend it. He will always overcome it because he is affirming on the inside, ‘These things come to pass, but not to stay.’ He knows they are only tests; they are not permanent.”

According to John Taylor Gatto …

“Workforce itself is a term that should tell you much about the mind that governs modern society. According to official reports, only a small fraction of the population is capable of what you and I call mental life: creative thought, analytical thought, judgmental thought, a trio occupying the three highest positions on Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Just how small a fraction would shock you. According to experts, the bulk of the mob is hopelessly dumb, even dangerously so. Perhaps you’re a willing accomplice to this social coup which revived the English class system. Certainly you are if your own child has been rewarded with a ‘gifted and talented’ label by your local school. This is what Dewey means by ‘proper’ social order.”

I’ve always regarded ejaculation as a type of bowel movement and detox strategy.

The further away you are from a doctor, the safer you are.

Interpreting the injury *after* it happens instead of *before* it happens is the New Rule of Thumb.

It’s a good thing minor injuries are portents of major ones!