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When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

What I learned on my own I still remember

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms