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The way I'm constituted: it's critical not to be (confidently) wrong. But, maybe insufficiently important to be right? Is it Taoism light or just anxiety and laziness?

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it's the same grunt whether it's good news or bad news.

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We commonly use whoever, whatever, wherever, and whenever, but never whyever.

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One ought never to turn one's back on threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half.

I don't know whether to be relieved he didn't actually say it (see: Churchillian Drift) or annoyed that I have no idea who said it, because I think it is a great sentiment.

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When information is contextualized, it becomes knowledge. When knowledge compels convictions, it becomes wisdom.