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| P.S.: You can't fix stupid. Image via Theo Spark |
Truth:
- “Happiness is its pursuit.” — TheBigHenry's Truth
- “Honor and good sense can only be lost. What you must fight for is Liberty.” — TheBigHenry's Personal Truth
- “Truth is not assertion, and assertion is not proof.” — TheBigHenry's Truth Predicate
- “Entitlementalia is the audacity of dopes.” — TheBigHenry's Truth Axiom
- “An unfalsifiable truth is not worth examining.” — TheBigHenry's Truth Serum
- “Any sufficiently advanced chaotic behavior is indistinguishable from free will.” — TheBigHenry's Third Law
- “Good enough is not good enough.” — TheBigHenry's Dad (The Perfectionist)
- “10% of life is getting directions.” — TheBigHenry's 10% Rule
- “Nature abhors everything, with the single exception of perfect symmetry.” — TheBigHenry's Law of Nature
- “Anything is possible, except certainty.” — TheBigHenry's Law of Possibility
- “I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Thursday's not good for me either. How about never? Does never work for you?” — TheBigHenry's Schedule
- “You must worry all the time to become worry free.” — TheBigHenry's Law for Conservation of Worry
- “You can't choose not to worry, but you can choose what you worry about. Choose wisely.” — TheBigHenry's Law of Restricted Choice
- “Moral relativism is all the rage; anti-Semitism is a statistic.” — TheBigHenry's Maxim №1
- “Waterboarding a couple of terrorists is a travesty; murdering thousands of civilians is a statistic.” — TheBigHenry's Maxim №2
- “I'm suggesting that your outrage is unbalanced; as is your psyche.” — TheBigHenry's Law of Balance
- “Free lunch is a fig leaf of the unimaginative.” — TheBigHenry's Law of Imagination
- “Some inconsistency is the requisite lubricant for functioning compromise.” — TheBigHenry's Law of Mechanics
- “There are no shortcuts to expertise. The only known exceptions were Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Rain Man, and Barry Bonds.” — TheBigHenry's Expertise Rule
- “You're never ‘completely lost’; you're always ‘here’.” — TheBigHenry's Law of Special Relativity
- “Narcissism is the purgatory of evil.” — TheBigHenry's Handbasket Rule
- “Truth doesn’t change, only its degree of inconvenience.” — TheBigHenry's Inconvenient Truth
- “People are never as good as we hope nor as bad as we fear. They're always worse.” — TheBigHenry's Law of Diminishing Returns
- “If we cannot put solar-power plants in the Mojave desert, I don't know where the hell we can put them,” said Schwarzenegger at Yale. “Put solar-power plants where the sun don't shine,” cracked TheBigHenry at Remembrance in Spacetime.
- “In a free-market economy, you can't legislate supply and demand.” — TheBigHenry's Economic Truth
- “Solutions are a dime a dozen; problems are free of charge.” — TheBigHenry's Sad Truth
- “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but it is not entirely devoid of implication.” — TheBigHenry's Implicit Truth
- “Nothingness is irreducible, therefore something exists.” — TheBigHenry's Ultimate Truth
Ten Commandments for Our New Century, by Victor Davis Hanson:
- Wealth and poverty are now more relative than absolute conditions.
- Regulators are never the problem; a dearth of regulations always must be.
- Debt is a mirage.
- In our new age of diplomacy, being liked trumps being respected.
- Collective national wealth is natural; private wealth is unnatural.
- Medieval exemption is not medieval.
- Victimhood is always sought, never questioned.
- Neanderthals need nerds.
- Ideology, for all the protestations of the zealot, is now not to be taken too seriously — not in this age of global leisure and affluence.
- Owing in our new millennium shall be less stressful than saving.
