Cool thoughts, things, and quotes to wonder about

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<li>Do you ever think about the things you don't think about
--inherit the wind--sort of. (correct statement is:
-I do not think about things I do not think about.
-Do you ever think about things that you do think about?) </li>
<li>Everything is awesome. Fundamentally.</li>
<li>Nothing can ever be truly, fully understood. Not even the simplest thing. Not even this.
--Bickford Shmeckler's book</li>
<li>Is the answer to this question yes?</li>
<li>This statement is false.</li>
<li>Catch-22</li>
<li>All other paradoxes in life.</li>
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<p>Feel free to add more. I love spending time on these, especially paradoxes.</p>

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<p>I lie to people</p>

<p>^cannot be false</p>

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<p>If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the others swimmers drown?</p>

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<p>Not completely on topic, but a deep quote:</p>

<p>Give a man a match, he’ll be warm for a moment. Light a man on fire, he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.</p>

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<p>what good is something if you can’t have it until you die?</p>

<p>People never really stop doing drugs, they just take long breaks.</p>

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<p>“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” - Chinese Proverb</p>

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<p>Pinocchio Paradox:
Pinocchio says “My nose will grow”
What happens?</p>

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<p>“Fall down 7 times get up 8.” - Japanese Adage</p>

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<p>Some people are like slinkies–utterly useless, but fun to push down the stairs.</p>

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<p>The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of concious thought.</p>

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<p>Time flies like an arrow fruit flies like a banana.</p>

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<p>10^50 is a long way from infinity.</p>

<p>Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.</p>

<p>No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.</p>

<p>What I cannot create, I do not understand.</p>

<p>A great deal more is known than has been proved.</p>

<p>After dark all cats are leopards.</p>

<p>The rain falls on the just and the unjust.</p>

<p>A person is blessed once, but his troubles never come alone.</p>

<p>But I make a profit of three and a quarter cents an egg by selling them for four and a quarter cents an egg to the people in Malta I buy them from for seven cents an egg. Of course, I don’t make the profit. The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share.</p>

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<p>Why we are.</p>

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<p>“What you don’t understand, you can make mean anything.”</p>

<p>I really like that one.</p>

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<p>^^^ OMG Catch-22 OMG I loved that book more than anything/ ish.</p>

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<p>The only people allowed to ask questions were those that never did.</p>

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<p>There’s also, “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.”</p>

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<p>The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.</p>

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<p>Animals have these advantages over man; they never hear the clock strike- they die without any idea of death- their last moments are undisturbed by any unwelcome or unpleasant ceremonies and no makes lawsuits over their wills.

  • Voltaire
    Everything is at least 90% ****- ( truest thing ever)</p>
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<p>I love all the Catch-22.
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.”</p>