Or all the above
Never met a farmer whose answer to a problem didn’t involve shooting it, poisoning it, cutting it down, or pumping something dry.
Bon mots
Bee line
You save a bee trapped behind the window as night falls and release him out into the dusk. But you never know if he makes it home safely.
Always
The youngest in the room The smartest in the room The poorest in the room The happiest in the room The saddest in the room The oldest in the room The sickest in the room The deadest in the room
Like flies on a carcase
Every time a poem on the internet mentions cancer the spammers and the scammers instantly swarm
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Directions
There is an old joke, where you ask some yokel “How do I get to xxxx?” and he replies “Well I wouldn’t start from here.” My life feels like that but in reverse – how did I get here from there?
But proportions matter
We all need to live simultaneously in past, present, and future.
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Lucky, lucky, lucky
To succeed in academic life you need three things – genius, hard work and luck. By far the most important of these is luck.
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