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The right actions for the wrong reasons reinforce the wrong reasons. -- Friday, March 26, 2004 at 21:54:03 (PST)
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions..." -- Friday, March 26, 2004 at 21:44:19 (PST)
"To not follow in the footsteps of the wise men of old. Seek what they sought." --Basho -- Friday, March 26, 2004 at 21:26:05 (PST)
To be offended, there must be some element of truth. -- Friday, March 26, 2004 at 21:23:20 (PST)
You must believe you're right to act. However, you have to *doubt* you're right to choose to act well. -- Monday, March 15, 2004 at 20:50:24 (PST)
It's not an issue of time. It's an issue of priority -- Monday, March 15, 2004 at 20:49:16 (PST)
There's a difference between safe and cautious. -- Monday, March 15, 2004 at 20:24:24 (PST)


The right actions for the wrong reasons reinforce the wrong reasons. -- Friday, March 26, 2004 at 21:54:03 (PST)

This is kind of a twist on "the ends justify the means" -- and is just as wrong.
  
Not to get too political here, but it's clear that the motivation to invade Iraq and Afghanistan was NOT humanitarian.  If that were an important motivator, then we would also go to places like Liberia and the Congo and help stop the human atrocities there, not to mention many other places in the world.
  
We went to fight wars in the Middle East for other reasons.  It is for these other reasons that I strongly oppose the wars there.
  
  
When you take this particular truism into your life, it makes cutting through to the heart of the matter far easier.  You can see more clearly which actions you should support -- and do yourself -- or oppose.
  


"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions..." -- Friday, March 26, 2004 at 21:44:19 (PST)

Here's the whole quote:
  
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions.  Small people always dothat, but the truly great make you feel that you too can be truly great."
  
        --  Samuel Clemens


"To not follow in the footsteps of the wise men of old. Seek what they sought." --Basho -- Friday, March 26, 2004 at 21:26:05 (PST)

There is no path to enlightenment.  There is only attaining it.
  


To be offended, there must be some element of truth. -- Friday, March 26, 2004 at 21:23:20 (PST)

Ooo, does this one sting!  But is oh so true.


You must believe you're right to act. However, you have to *doubt* you're right to decide what to do. -- Monday, March 15, 2004 at 20:50:24 (PST)

Those who never doubt their decisions as they make them, will invariably become corrupted.  You must always be checking yourself, your heart, your motives.
  


It's not an issue of time. It's an issue of priority -- Monday, March 15, 2004 at 20:49:16 (PST)

Everyone gets the same amount of time.  You have not run out of time.  But you have things that have a higher priority.
  
Those priorities might be very good ones, however!


There's a difference between safe and cautious. -- Monday, March 15, 2004 at 20:24:24 (PST)

Cautious people tend to fool themselves into thinking they are safe -- to the point that they are often dangerous!  We can never be *truly* safe.  But we can adjust our risks to where we are comfortable -- this is "safe".
  
To do that, however, you must have two things: knowledge, and wisdom.


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