Politics is a Popularity Pageant in Pursuit of Power
Originally : "Politics is no longer an art of compromise but a pageant, a popularity-contest where truth is soft spoken and valued less, where image is everything and the true purpose is power"
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Reflecting on the present will make the past look much better.
Or reflecting on the now will improve the picture you see looking back.
Everybody appreciates being appreciated.
Thank You - Danke (Photo credit: AlicePopkorn ) It sounds truthful. It's probably true. We forget it all the time. The trick to this quote is repeating the noun as verb. Both have to be spelled or sound similar. Try it. "Everybody likes being liked". "The hated hate more." "Confusion make everyone confused". Or take it up a notch. "Only the needy need to need"
Where do answers come from? Questions!
Someone asked me that and I answered it. It is a question that answers itself in more than one way.
Idiocy knows no bounds
Stupidity Sign (Photo credit: Bill Gracey ) There are probably measurements for stupidity but often we do not know what it is, what more than use it. The problem is that there is no end to it.
A person who has never lost something, has never found anything.
(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Originally I wrote this as "A person who has lost nothing, has never searched and found anything" but the above sound catchier.
Knowledge is never proportionate to Understanding
(Photo credit: @Doug88888 ) I am always interested in the difference between the two. I used to think that learning is bridge between knowledge and understanding until I met people who did not know yet understood. Related articles Confusion. The Diarrhea of Questions Scale Factor and Proportionality. Stress is conversely proportionate to food consumption...and inversely proportionate to desire to work out.