Ed's Formula, Formulae

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Rather a lasting peace founded on mutual and empathetic respect,

than the lust for peace despite its absence.

 

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'Totalitarian' is a function of your impending degeneration, or regeneration,

Not its conclusion,

Which is called 'Democracy'.

 

Betwixt, you will find the midwife, The Coping Mechanism.

 

The question you'll have to ask is, have you Coped yourself into corner, or out of it.

 

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To Question Laws renders us a part of the movement that displaced the governments and iniquities of the past with the governments and virtues of the present.

To refrain from doing so in the present is to displace the governments and virtues of the present with the governments and iniquities of the past.

That, in my opinion, would be treasonous.

 

 

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The best way to get a horse to drink is not to bring it to the stream, but to incite in it the weakness of thirst.

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A Lesbian is a heterosexual without a penis,

A Heterosexual is a Lesbian with one.

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Not forgetting to question a law is the only protection against ‘Rules’ becoming the ‘Reason’

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It is the scientifically verifiable opaqueness of transparency that turns Conspiracy theory into a science.

 

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Music was once an expression meandering through the myriad tributaries of the depths of the human soul.

Now it has become nothing more than a premature ejaculation from its nether regions

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Till Democracy has been verifiably realised,
‘opposition’, or ‘supposing otherwise’
will serve as the vehicle for its realisation. 
Upon the realisation of Democracy,
the freedom to ‘oppose’, or ‘supposing otherwise’,
will serve as the evidence of its realisation.

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S/he who knows not More,
Knows no Better.

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In my life,

I've met many who sought the Perfect Love,
But none who strived to Deserve It.

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Sir.  I’m not here to protest. 

I’m here to afford your views the favour of skepticism.

How else would you able to afford the opportunity of refining, modifying or throwing out your views.

 

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What makes a baby special is not the date they're born,

but how they're brought up between birthdays.

 

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I suppose, sometimes, the 'art' is not in the picture, but the 'perspective'. 

That's what makes an otherwise boring picture, aesthetically picturesque.

 

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Style Never Goes Out of Fashion,

It just gets laughed at by those who confuse Fashion for Style

 

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I suppose, sometimes, the 'art' is not in the picture, but the 'perspective'. 

That's what makes an otherwise boring picture, aesthetically picturesque.

 

 

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The problem with the idea of peace lies not in itself, but in its serving to maintain a status quo that requires address.

 

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The role of the Disciple is not only to replicate, but to refine that which is learnt at the feet of the Master.

In this, the Master bestows the disciple his feet, the Disciple, in turn, bestows the master her eyes.

 

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With Knowledge comes Potential,
With Reflection comes Insight,
With Cross-Application comes Wisdom

...and With Wisdom comes the Knowledge that one has to start all over again with step 1  to become as much as can be imagined only after passing step 3.

 

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Without the desire to emulate that which one admires,

one immediately excuses oneself from emulation,

and condemns oneself to eternal complacency

and in being less than that which one otherwise might be.

 

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I’m an intellectual communist.  Do not expropriate my ideas.  Extrapolate from them! 

I'll await the dividends. 

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When a ‘Job’ became ‘a Career’, ‘Humanity’ became ‘an Opportunity’, and ‘Family’, ‘a Pastime’.

That's how 'work-life' balance came to mean something else other than what it ought to be.

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The first duty of the Inspired is to seek out the answers for the questions left unanswered by the source of Inspiration.

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Every song that is unaccompanied by a thesis, leaves the song only half-sung.

And, In consequence,
Only half-heard

 

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Appreciating Music,

Without appreciating the less celebrated Thesis,

turns the former into a refuge,

as opposed to a springboard.

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To imagine without knowing is to be able to imagine a stairway, but not of Heaven.

 

 

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There is little reason to believe that we are smart now simply because we aren’t as dumb as then,

if all it takes to be as dumb as then is to think we are smarter now

 

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A society with laws without loopholes is one that toils under the purported fallibility of the few.

 

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It is the bliss derived from unfettered curiosity that renders the pursuit of bliss pregnant with unimaginable bliss.

 

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the Art of Reciprocity ought to be reciprocally appreciated for it to come to maximal fruition

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If Nostalgia is a Crime, Banish me to the Past.

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The Greatest Challenge in Life is to Transcend One's attributed and taken-for-natural Identity. 
For in that, one opens oneself to potentials not appreciated via the vantage of one's prior identity.

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The respect of Culture ought to be complemented by a Culture of critique for the purpose of creating a Culture that engenders mutual Respect. 
That, indeed, would accord a culture the status of one that is worthy of respect.

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I Refuse to Die,
but I'm Open to being Recycled into Life within the Breast of Another

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Pop music, like those of the 80s, has its place. 
It's like an inspirational footstool which you stand upon to reach up towards the stars.
 
Just don't confuse the footstool for the stars that's all.

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The lesser the Gods we worship, the lesser the wo/men we be.

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A Jack of Many Trades is more a Master of Life than a Master of One,
for the senses awakened via a myriad of pastimes,
enables one to appreciate a single phenomenon in more ways than enabled by one.

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It's unfortunate that viruses can spread more easily amongst bloggers than humanitarian initiatives.

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To Love the World Empathetically,
Is to Love Yourself Effectively,
For the more their Gain,
The more your Dividends.

(But, another system is required for this formula to work)

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I don’t have a way with words,

I have a way with Ideas.

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The truly intelligent person is not one who seeks to walk the road right,

But one who pauses at the appropriate juncture to discern the right road.

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The 'Welfare System' may be paraphrased with, 'taking gratitude-induced care of the source of your gain'