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for love and joy
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young cashiers keep telling me i look less than 18yo; i keep telling them i carry the weight of centuries in my mind (and physically almost old enough to be their mom). eh
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”Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.“
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— "My uncle Malky use to say that love was a bad bargain because you get no guarantees."
— "Your uncle Malky was a wise man."
— "He was stupid! Love needs no guarantees."
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“The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices ... [that] usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems...A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors... [Good administrators] depend on verbal orders. They never lie about what they've done if their verbal orders cause problems, and they surround themselves with people able to act wisely on the basis of verbal orders. Often, the most important piece of information is that something has gone wrong. Bad administrators hide their mistakes until it's too late to make corrections ... One of the hardest things to find is people who actually make decisions.”
God Emperor of Dune
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The energy spent resisting a thing gives it power. The energy spent accepting a thing gives you power.
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