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NO MATTER YOUR VIEWS  --  THERE'S ALWAYS THE NEWS
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If you can’t help what you are, and you can’t help how you feel;
and the only thing you can apparently have any effect on is what you think --
then even if you can’t really do that   --  at least it seems like you can,
and when you’re in the kind of bind that's just been described  --   hey –
 grab hold of any little thing you can.
 
 
 
 

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From one view the great thing about drugs & alcohol is that they
put your brain & thinking into a state that is an exaggerated version of

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De Facts, Edition 698:

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There is nothing more enlightening and informative  --   inspiring even  --
 than hearing people talk about themselves.
 
 
 
 
 

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There are two types of thought:
technical thought and dream thought  --
 which is thought unwittingly about
naught but other thought.
 
 
 
 

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“My boy, let me tell you something: talk is the cheapest form of human entertainment;
talk is the most popular form of human entertainment;
talk is also the most meaningful form of human entertainment,
and talk is also the most annoying form.............. (but don’t say I told you this).”
 
 
 
 

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The most important (in fact, damn near essential) ingredient for self-improvement is -- to have a self.
 
 
 
 

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Minor Rule # 1832:

The less there is to a man  --   the more he enjoys hearing his name.
 
 
 
 
 

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For any idea about man to be of practical use it must be objective –
and to be objective it must be dispassionate --
and to be dispassionate it must be indifferent  --  and to be indifferent,
the man who thunk it must not care whether or not
the idea seems valid to others;

thus it be that the only ideas about man that can be of any use
are those beyond any mortal concept of validity.
 

  “Do you grasp what this means?”

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An ordinary man  --   not arguing  --   has no intellectual life.
 
 
 
 

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Sleuth News:

Clues (even evidence) in a case about nothing   --
solves nothing.
 
 
 
 

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In matters of in-house intellectual transactions:
one man somehow always manages to gouge himself.
(“A semi pleasure doing business with me,” says he.)
 
 
 
 

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A man who will define himself and describe his life
has no real life.
 
 
 
 

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Legal News: Wills, Trusts (and the exercise of the former):

One man set up a tontine whereby his last remaining routine brain wave would get a free shot to the head.
 
 
 

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Any antagonism yet in your head
is proof you still do not realize.
 
 
 
 

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One man says: “While it took me over fifty years to get this thing figured out,
it only took a couple to un figure it and be able to take in the whole deal."
 
 
 

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More Confusing Facts For The Pseudo Few:

A man who does not talk to himself may be on to something.
 
 
 
 

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You begin with not being able to stand other people’s thoughts  --
then on to not being able to stand your own;
the step forward after that is when none of them matter to you one way or the other.
 
 
 

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There is hardly so dear a friend & ally to the certain man as silence
(and scarcely anything as scary to an ordinary one.)
 
 
 
 

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Although all said about the realization misses the mark, funny thing is:
the closer it comes to the bone  --   the less people like it.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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J
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

“As absurd as it sounds, my boy  --
you may ultimately have to give up your sense of the absurd.”
 
 
 

J
 
 
 

"Pa pa, when did you move from your original concept into fiction?"

J
 
 

"Is conquering something  --  being able to resist it?"
"Try  --   forgetting-about-it."

J
 
 

"How am I supposed to tell the difference between your allegories and your facts?"
"Who said there is any."
 
 
 

J

JAN'S DAILY REAL NEWS