Love without sacrifice is like theft.
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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms | 
Love without sacrifice is like theft.
You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
Engineers can compute but not define, mathematicians can define but not compute, economists can neither define nor compute.
Over the long term, you are more likely to fool yourself than others.
Pharmaceutical companies are better at inventing diseases that match existing drugs, rather than inventing drugs to match existing diseases.
Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.
Universities have been progressing from providing scholarship for a small fee into selling degrees at a large cost.
You have a real life if and only if you do not compete wth anyone in any of your pursuits.
Life's beauty: the kindest act toward you in your life may come from an outsider not interested in reciprocation.
It is those who use others who are the most upset when someone uses them.
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds