“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant
@edgarblythe,
That's Ted Cruz in a nutshell!
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― Henry Ford
Alcohol will not solve your problems. Then again, neither will milk. - Unknown
Don't you wish you'd been able to get away with this sort of thing in school...
Shuzan (926-992 A.D.) once held up his bamboo stick to an assembly of his disciples and declared: "Call this a stick and you assert. Call it not a stick and you negate. Now, do not assert or negate, and what would you call it? Speak! Speak!" One of the disciples came out of the ranks, took the stick away from the master, and breaking it in two, exclaimed, "What is this?"
--From:
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
(Note: That was the last time Shuzan taught that lesson. He had had only the one stick.)
@Kolyo,
He, then, became the master....
@Kolyo,
Quote:(Note: That was the last time Shuzan taught that lesson. He had had only the one stick.)
No, he then had two bamboo sticks.
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― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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― C.G. Jung
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Elizabeth Warren
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