tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58686313844586099842023-12-12T04:24:05.998-05:00Uncle Donald's Gnomic ChaffUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-63189594629188726192023-09-05T20:19:00.000-04:002023-09-05T20:19:05.088-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">100</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">. </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">Institutional transcendence is
the situation that occurs when an organization’s original reason for being has
become incidental to its continued existence.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-23548477994490630812023-09-05T20:17:00.003-04:002023-09-05T20:17:54.540-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">99. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">There’s only one
commodity, and that’s power in all its myriad guises.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-36707104272105032962023-09-05T20:16:00.002-04:002023-09-05T20:16:32.850-04:00<p> <b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">98. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt;">When you write, avoid using
words and phrases commonly found in the job description section of a resumé;
you’ll know them when you see them.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-67805064271079120272023-09-05T20:14:00.002-04:002023-09-05T20:14:51.563-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">97. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Living a
creative life means starting afresh each day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-87654700174993089812023-09-05T20:13:00.002-04:002023-09-05T20:13:44.109-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">96. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Nobody ever woke
up wishing they’d gotten drunker the night before.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-49242465471007341302023-09-05T20:12:00.002-04:002023-09-05T20:12:42.389-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">95.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> Systems are
structured means to accomplish particular ends.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-26883327075579106872023-09-05T20:11:00.004-04:002023-09-05T20:44:30.432-04:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">94. </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt;">People are generally made
uncomfortable by rapid social change—unless they see, or think they see,
immediate benefit for themselves.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-18151961715431213182023-09-05T20:10:00.004-04:002023-09-05T20:42:04.794-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">93. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Sometimes the
box you’re supposed to think outside of has a good reason for being there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-37397202383246626792023-09-05T20:04:00.003-04:002023-09-05T20:40:00.323-04:00<p><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">90. </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">The biosphere is
characterized by an ever-evolving balance of species, often disordered by
abrupt natural events and human activity.</span> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-59094812051279244422021-09-08T11:52:00.005-04:002021-09-08T12:13:36.128-04:00<p><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">89. </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Corrective social changes are typically attempted
only when they are long overdue, by which time any change faces severe
opposition from those who profit from the established malfunction.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-84391992811995181962021-09-08T11:49:00.006-04:002022-08-26T17:05:53.031-04:00<p> <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">88. </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">If you eventually turn into an old
grouch, you haven’t been paying attention.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-20865653237114605972021-09-08T11:48:00.004-04:002021-09-08T12:12:54.499-04:00<p><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">87. </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Q. How does one account for the poor who
vote Republican?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">A. They’re filled with deeply felt fear
and envy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-33053354862477336472021-09-08T11:47:00.003-04:002021-09-08T12:12:33.518-04:00<p> <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">86.<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Governmental errors are not
usually systemic, but the result of human failings</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-30197488540703761402021-09-08T11:45:00.018-04:002021-09-08T12:12:08.418-04:00<p><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">85. </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Animals have a finely tuned sense of
property: what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is also mine. Many humans share
that trait.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-82176125070689659222021-09-08T11:45:00.016-04:002021-09-08T12:08:46.008-04:00<p><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">84. </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">The best way to learn from a mistake is to
remember the lesson learned and to forget any pain it caused.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-49818738127305369972021-09-08T11:44:00.002-04:002021-09-12T15:08:36.005-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">83. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">People like to say that anything is
possible. I'm afraid not. It’s not possible, for example, that you are going to
wake up tomorrow speaking fluent, idiomatic Etruscan. <o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-7825627504007281932021-09-08T11:39:00.005-04:002021-09-08T12:10:32.562-04:00<p><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">82. </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Political and social conservatives believe
the way to improve society is by improving individuals. Their liberal
counterparts believe the way to improve individuals is by improving society.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-74217901748392245342021-09-08T11:38:00.003-04:002021-09-08T12:10:02.410-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">81. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">The existence of God is as irrelevant to
humans as the existence of humans is to the average paramecium. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-55874867152424842952021-09-08T11:37:00.002-04:002021-09-08T12:08:13.899-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">80.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> Hindsight is never 20-20. If it were,
every history book would be correct in all its particulars, and this is
obviously not true.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-79393352627305819882021-08-29T10:34:00.002-04:002021-09-07T17:17:32.070-04:00<p> 79. You'll rarely meet self-identified libertarians who don't believe they're superior beings.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-40994181566561262172021-04-12T10:51:00.002-04:002021-04-12T10:51:49.522-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">78. Only by forcefully expressing the current zeitgeist can artists and philosophers initiate change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-91890890098726315302021-04-12T10:42:00.002-04:002021-04-12T10:42:25.400-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">77. There are sham empathizers. They
really feel the pain, but it’s always their own.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-86464997741193886212021-04-12T10:38:00.002-04:002021-04-12T10:39:26.826-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">76. The
people most likely to change the world for the better are those with idealistic
hearts and practical brains.. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-89696547126783381082021-04-12T10:17:00.002-04:002021-04-12T10:34:51.940-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">75. The entry fees paid by bad poets are what subsidize poetry
contests and their prizes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868631384458609984.post-46947963076045258042021-04-12T10:15:00.003-04:002023-04-10T11:21:19.045-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">74. If you use more words than necessary
to relate something, they’d better be good words.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com