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PART A: A FEW EXAMPLES
1:
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"If everyone goes somewhere new... who is the trail for?"
I.
2:
"Great minds think alike"
"It is only those who have not really thought that appear to agree,
truly great minds stand out as different and innovative..."
Myself.
3:
"A picture paints a thousand words"...
"What if the words are truly great...... and the picture truly awful?"
PTK..
4:
"Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available"
Jim Beggs
"...At a funeral?"
Me
5:
First Man: “but two wrongs don't make a right.”
Proverb...
Second Man: "Very true!, .... but three do..."
Peter..
6:
"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read"
Mark Twain
"Doesn't that depend on each one's capacity to think..." (look up the meaning of the word "no")
Peter the Knotter.
7:
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends?
Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
Walter Anderson
Short answer: I'm not a puppy...
Long one:
If I did that, people would just laugh at me.... and have done so...
Also: strangers in the street now find being smiled at very suspicious...
Moi..
8:
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream...."
John Lennon
"I have a dream ...."
Martin Luther King
9:
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
10:
"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself"
Laozi
"Always be yourself... unless you suck"
Joss Whedon
11:
"Don't think or judge, just listen."
Sarah Dessen
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself....
Doris Lessing
PART B: CONCLUSIONS
12:
"OK... I know, ... but surely I can be forgiven since I'm just trying to make what I think is a valid point:
It's totally understandable to want to read up on the literary giants and giantesses,
the poetry heroes and heroines,
the scientific minds and mindesses...
to absorb the ideas and garner inspiration from people of vision... etc. etc.
13:
But!, ultimately: I am persuaded that one really oughtto think for oneself...? That's the thing about following a trail... it's that it's someone else's.... and surely you want to be held to account for your own mistakes... and not somebody elses.....although it does help to listen to others to omit avoidable incidents or events from hindering your progress .... WAIT A MINUTE....! Aaaaaargh! OMG! Emerson was right! .....OK! that's why Emerson is Emerson....! Sorry people!! I'm gonna have to start again...?
14:
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
15:
"..............
1:
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"If everyone goes somewhere new... who is the trail for?"
I.
2:
"Great minds think alike"
"It is only those who have not really thought that appear to agree,
truly great minds stand out as different and innovative..."
Myself.
3:
"A picture paints a thousand words"...
"What if the words are truly great...... and the picture truly awful?"
PTK..
4:
"Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available"
Jim Beggs
"...At a funeral?"
Me
5:
First Man: “but two wrongs don't make a right.”
Proverb...
Second Man: "Very true!, .... but three do..."
Peter..
6:
"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read"
Mark Twain
"Doesn't that depend on each one's capacity to think..." (look up the meaning of the word "no")
Peter the Knotter.
7:
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends?
Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
Walter Anderson
Short answer: I'm not a puppy...
Long one:
If I did that, people would just laugh at me.... and have done so...
Also: strangers in the street now find being smiled at very suspicious...
Moi..
8:
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream...."
John Lennon
"I have a dream ...."
Martin Luther King
9:
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
10:
"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself"
Laozi
"Always be yourself... unless you suck"
Joss Whedon
11:
"Don't think or judge, just listen."
Sarah Dessen
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself....
Doris Lessing
PART B: CONCLUSIONS
12:
"OK... I know, ... but surely I can be forgiven since I'm just trying to make what I think is a valid point:
It's totally understandable to want to read up on the literary giants and giantesses,
the poetry heroes and heroines,
the scientific minds and mindesses...
to absorb the ideas and garner inspiration from people of vision... etc. etc.
13:
But!, ultimately: I am persuaded that one really oughtto think for oneself...? That's the thing about following a trail... it's that it's someone else's.... and surely you want to be held to account for your own mistakes... and not somebody elses.....although it does help to listen to others to omit avoidable incidents or events from hindering your progress .... WAIT A MINUTE....! Aaaaaargh! OMG! Emerson was right! .....OK! that's why Emerson is Emerson....! Sorry people!! I'm gonna have to start again...?
14:
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
15:
"..............
(Subtitle: Or: Emerson is, in fact, a pretty good writer...)
Starting Points for more info on any of these people you may possibly be unaware of:
W. Anderson: Amazon [link]
A. Camus: Nobel Prize bio' [link] wiki: [link]
S. Dessen: [link]
R. W. Emerson: wiki: [link]
A. France: Nobel bio: [link]
Dr M. L. King Jr: Nobel Prize bio' [link]
Laozi /Lao-Tsu: wiki: [link]
J. Lennon: JL Website: [link]
D. Lessing: Nobel Prize bio' [link]
F. Nietzsche: [link]
M. Twain: [link]
J. Whedon: [link]
Starting Points for more info on any of these people you may possibly be unaware of:
W. Anderson: Amazon [link]
A. Camus: Nobel Prize bio' [link] wiki: [link]
S. Dessen: [link]
R. W. Emerson: wiki: [link]
A. France: Nobel bio: [link]
Dr M. L. King Jr: Nobel Prize bio' [link]
Laozi /Lao-Tsu: wiki: [link]
J. Lennon: JL Website: [link]
D. Lessing: Nobel Prize bio' [link]
F. Nietzsche: [link]
M. Twain: [link]
J. Whedon: [link]
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3 lefts make a right.
As to MLK, his dream was never realized as others came and took it away. Now they believe it is what they are owed... An entitlement...
In which case, they can be blowed for that load of bollocks.
Ask not what the country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. JFK
He was another man who had a dream and that was taken away from us all.
As to MLK, his dream was never realized as others came and took it away. Now they believe it is what they are owed... An entitlement...
In which case, they can be blowed for that load of bollocks.
Ask not what the country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. JFK
He was another man who had a dream and that was taken away from us all.