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Thought For Today - TFT

Posted on 25-6-13
Look after the negative, positive looks after itself.
 
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Posted on 25-6-13
Don't fall in love with hate.
 
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Posted on 20-6-13
To understand life one has to first live it.
 
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Posted on 15-6-13
Human genes as privately owned assets may be the bridge too far for modern capitalism, maybe.
 
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Posted on 10-6-13
Society values the passive participant, life values the active participant.
 
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Posted on 6-6-13
After failing to solve everyone's problems wisdom dictates we solve only our own.
 
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Posted on 3-6-13
Human society is a world not the world.
 
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Posted on 30-5-13
Latest NZ Government policy, `The State is not going to help'.
 
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Posted on 23-5-13
What happened ... to wearing brown?
 
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Posted on 20-5-13
Wanting and believing a future enslaves the present.
 
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Posted on 10-5-13
Only philosophy is forever.
 
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Posted on 5-5-13
Badness can't exist without goodness.
 
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Posted on 2-5-13
If life's meaning is achievement of some thing, success is accompanied by meaninglessness.
 
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Posted on 24-4-13
If it is, it isn't wrong.
 
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Posted on 24-4-13
Live each day as it comes, even a child can say that but one has to be enlightened to action it.
 
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Posted on 22-4-13
Anything anyone says about themselves, they aren't.
 
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Posted on 19-4-13
Ignorance of advertising is bliss.
 
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Posted on 16-4-13
Society, like the rest of nature, is indifferent to the individual, or in other words, cruel.
 
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Posted on 14-4
Oh good, it's raining.
 
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Posted on 8-4-13
Learning rewards what pain teaches.
 
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Posted on 8-4-13
Freedom is the enemy of comfort, to be fully human is to choose the former.
 
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Posted on 1-4-13
Right now, that is life and its meaning.
 
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Posted on 27-3-13
The more I run away from needs the more I run into them.
 
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Posted on 17-3-13
Voter desire makes political liar.
 
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Posted on 13-3-13
Definitions of Democracy: Mob rule (loaners of capital). Equal opportunity (borrowers of capital). Pipe dream (capital-less).
 
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Posted on 10-3-13
Beware of good intentions.
 
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Posted on 6-3-13
Laughing at oneself signals the highest state of consciousness.
 
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Posted on 3-3-13
Having achieved isn't the best thing in life, it's release from having to achieve.
 
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Posted on 22-2-13
Sorry is what you get in the absence of a fence at the top of the cliff or ambulance at the bottom.
 
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Posted on 20-2-13
I'm relatively comfortable with Absolutes.
 
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Posted on 19-2-13
Any fool can be happy with life, only the mystic is happy with death.
 
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Posted on 18-2-13
Ecstasy and panic - based as they are on the entirely false belief that the future can be known - are the great contaminants of human being.
 
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Posted on 12-2-13
Finance-capital's empire is falling, better not to fall with it.
 
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Posted on 11-2-13
Pure thoughts are very poor guides to life.
 
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Posted on 2-2-13
Unhappiness, like ships, pass in the night.
 
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Posted on 30-1-13
Enlightenment trades ecstasy and panic for equanimity and calm.
 
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Posted on 23-1-13
No fortune, no misfortune.
 
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Posted on 21-1-13
Question to self, am I addicted to money?
 
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Posted on 20-1-13
Pain is necessary for life, anxiety isn't.
 
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Posted on 13-1-13
Predictions are the most attractive and least valuable of thoughts.
 
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Posted on 3-1-13
Look after the seconds and the days will look after themselves.
 
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Posted on 23-12-12
In no is freedom.
 
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Posted on 20-12-12
Perfection is dead.
 
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Posted on 18-12-12
Money everywhere and always trends to its real value, zero.
 
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Posted on 17-12-12
Maturity begins where romance ends.
 
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Posted on 16-12-12
There's nothing important that can't be learned on a school playground.
 
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Posted on 8-12-12
Debt is for fools, commerce relies on debt.
 
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Posted on 1-12-12
Identity centres one's own universe not an other's.
 
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Posted on 28-11-12
No life without work.
 
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Posted on 20-11-12
Information is like water, life-giving in sips, life-destroying in floods.
 
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Posted on 14-11-12
Cynics live in the past which is always dead, romantics the future, which is never born and realists the moment at hand, which lives eternally.
 
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Posted on 12-11-12
Freedom comes from a well managed loss of control.
 
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Posted on 10-11-12
One's fortune is misfortune for many but one's enlightenment is fortunate for all.
 
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Posted on 4-11-12
Are we not more than just human?
 
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Posted on 3-11-12
Aloneness is the basis of companionship.
 
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Posted on 1-11-12
Getting something is good, forgetting something bad is better.
 
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Posted on 29-10-12
A problem once clarified immediately yields the answer.
 
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Posted on 29-10-12
Perfection is knowledge of ones own flaws and the acceptance of same in others.
 
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Posted on 28-10-12
In most societies prostitution is illegal, and obligatory.
 
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Posted on 26-10-12
The price of any empire's glory is always and at all times measured in the blood of the human-sacfifice that is its wars.
 
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Posted on 17-10-12
The best and only evidence we have for anything objectively real is our own subjective experience
 
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Posted on 30-9-12
Shit flows down hill in the army to be picked up and passed off as gold by politicians.
 
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Posted on 30-9-12
To devalue any part of one's life is to devalue the whole of it.
 
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Posted on 28-9-12
Key stones cops.
 
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Posted on 25-9-12
There's no problem so big it can't be walked away from.
 
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Posted on 20-9-12
Nothing is absolute or in other words the absolute is nothing therefore one should make the most of relatives.
 
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Posted on 18-9-12
It takes at least 40 years to learn the future is overrated.
 
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Posted on 12-9-12
The well informed do not read newspapers and magazines nor watch television.
 
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Posted on 6-9-12
Joy is the absence of fear.
 
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Posted on 2-9-12
For every kilogram of loss there's 900 grams of relief.
 
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Posted on 31-8-12
The only thing a human being can ever change, is their mind.
 
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Posted on 27-8-12
It's at once reassuring and deeply worrying to know that whatever it is, it's only temporary.
 
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Posted on 24-8-12
Commerce is a good servant but a bad master.
 
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Posted on 19-8-12
Personal ambition seeks to eliminate or exploit everyone else.
 
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Posted on 18-8-12
motions are the tone of life and as one gets older that done trends toward B-Flat, which makes for the best music.
 
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Posted on 16-8-12
We learned 95% of our everyday social skills and behaviours on the playing fields of our primary school.
 
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Posted on 14-8-12
Life in antiguity was nasty, brutish and short and in modernity nasty, brutish and long.
 
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Posted on 4-8-12
Higher, faster, further, stronger, pay-for-viewer.
 
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Posted on 30-7-12
Money is to democracy what arsenic is to health.
 
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Posted on 20-7-12
The naked truth is like all public nakedness, illegal.
 
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Posted on 18-7-12
The unexpected is much more valuable than the planned.
 
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Posted on 15-7-12
Money is as good for life as ashtrays for motorbikes.
 
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Posted on 10-7-12
At night all sheep are black.
 
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Posted on 3-7-12
The meaning of life is life itself.
 
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Posted on 30-6-12
We defy all reason when we make anything absolute, including absolution.
 
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Posted on 21-6-12
A good plan gains joy, a good philosophy looses fear.
 
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Posted on 12-6-12
We quickly go mad in a crowd and only later slowly and individually come to our senses.
 
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Posted on 6-6-12
Emotions add colour but fundamentally everything is grey.
 
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Posted on 2-6-12
A lot of hard work goes into making something easy.
 
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Posted on 30-5-12
Romance is a luxury many pay for but few can afford.
 
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Posted on 27-5-12
The Internet has proved what has been suspected since Babylon's heyday, when it comes to threats of and actual damage, governments top the list.
 
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Posted on 24-5-12
For 40 years we have to endure listening to other people and for 40 more years other people have to endure listening to us.
 
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Posted on 22-5-12
History, moves other people made on the chessboard of life.
 
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Posted on 18-5-12
Freedom is appreciated only when it has been first taken away and later won back, the essential trick known to all effective managers/parents/teachers.
 
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Posted on 12-5-12
No thing is all bad.
 
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Posted on 10-5-12
For a while, at parties, bullshit smells like roses.
 
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Posted on 5-5-12
Words are useful in all human relations except bullying, when only body language matters.
 
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Posted on 2-5-12
In the spaces between constraints is freedom.
 
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Posted on 20-4-12
The quality of our life equals the quality of our thoughts.
 
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Posted on 18-4-12
Don't buy uncertain security, certain insecurity is free.
 
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Posted on 16-4-12
When something is totally unacceptable only acceptance will do.
 
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Posted on 13-4-12
Black Friday, is that New Zealand Day?
 
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Posted on 12-4-12
The world can no longer afford the rich.
 
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Posted on 11-4-12
"Life is work, work is life "
 
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Posted on 9-4-12
National like most political parties has three kinds of truth: Half-truth,
true-in-parts and lies. The fact that John Key purveys them all equally with
first-class confidence and sincerity explains National's political leadership.
 
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