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“Mankind is averse to true wisdom because it will demand of us what we prefer not to give. Therefore we craft something that will give us everything that we want, and this we call wisdom.”

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“It is our mission to enrich the lives of those around us. Therefore, such an action is not a choice nor does it fall to the bane of our selfish preferences. Nonetheless we presume it a choice that we defer to others who might be more aligned with such ideals. And in doing so we trudge through our lives leaving footprints empty and barren. And should a passerby catch sight of those prints, they might wonder why we were so foolish as to walk in such a way. And if at some point that passerby should happen to be us, regret will be added to the footprints which we already regret.”

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“Detours are paths to regret.”

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“A detour that holds itself out as the road from which it deviated is a path to regret.”

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“Too many people are willing to die for the very thing that’s killing them.”

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“Why do we tend to dread tomorrow? Because we weren’t all that wise in living out the ‘today’ that put that ‘tomorrow’ out into tomorrow.”

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“It may have been that the detour was easier to walk and more permissive in the walking.”

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“The only fool that we can control is the one that we hope to never become.”

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“The closest enemy ship might be your own.”

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“If you give a dog a bone and then try to take it away you will most certainly get something, but it won’t be a bone. For when our stupidity drives a decision, we’re going to end up bleeding somewhere.”

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“Be careful that the decisions that you ‘make’ are not forging the chains that you cannot ‘unmake’ because those are the chains that will eventually ‘unmake’ you.”

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“It’s not so much about the difficult place that I’m at, although that’s what’s probably got most of my attention. Rather, it’s more about how I got here. Because whatever that is, if I don’t change it I’m going to live out the whole of my life is some pretty similar places.”

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“If I end up at the edge of this cliff one more time than the number of times I’ve walked away from it, I need to burn my map, trade in my compass and ask God for a new set.”

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“I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty.”

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“My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.”

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“Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.”

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“Wisdom keeps intelligence humble.”

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“The greatest battle in the fight for ‘something better’ is the fight against all of the things that we’ve been deluded into believing are better.”

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“Have you ever thought that ‘the blind leading the blind’ is about two people? The former assumes that they know where they’re going. The latter assumes that the former knows where they’re going. And that neither end up in either place.”

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“I have had the privilege of meeting a host of people who are totally blind. Yet despite their blindness, these individuals possess some of the most remarkable vision that I have ever encountered. And every time I meet one these incredible individuals, I am forced to rethink what blindness really is.”

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“There are those dubious causes that destroy our lives, all the while leading us to believe that the murder was sacrifice.”

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“We tediously parse the verb all the while ignoring the action demanded of us by the verb.”

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“The crickets usher in a softness that smooths the harsh edges of a day now passing. And if their song does not somehow lull us to a softer sleep, then we have become deaf to things that matter in the process of listening to all that does not.”

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“Define bravery if you will. It is not standing for rogue causes that are varnished thick with misused adjectives such as ‘progressive’ or ‘cutting edge’ or ‘woke.’ Bravery is not greed off-the-leash as some sort of pristine form of long-overdue liberation. It is not to rise in raucous defense of some supposedly cherished social movement from the safety of the rear echelon because we’ve embraced a movement that really hasn’t moved us to the front of anything. Bravery is not an act of abjectly denying fact and defying reality because our selfishness has become sufficiently audacious to render both as stifling and the stuff of visionless souls. None of these are bravery. Rather, bravery is marked by the stalwart and resolute determination to acknowledge the cowardice that drives illusions such as these so that we will forever be driven from them.”

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“To keep an ostrich from putting its head in the sand, it would make sense to get rid of the sand. Yet in our culture today, so many of us seem to be in the import business.”

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“Don’t underestimate how far your stupidity can take you.”

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“How many times do we have to repeat a failed strategy before it dawns on us that it’s a failed strategy? The answer, I think, depends on the size of our ego and the depth of our arrogance.”

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“I can pretend to be my own god, but I have an awfully hard time pretending that failing to be a god didn’t happen.”

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“It is the fool who declares ‘I am ascending the summit,’ while he’s toddling around in the ditch.”

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“The problem with the truth is that it will demand everything of us, but in the end it will give everything to us. If we make it ‘relative’ it will demand nothing of us, but in the end it will take everything from us.”

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“A rant is the product of someone attempting to defend the belief that a round peg is a square hole and a square hole is a round peg in order to defend the opinion that each fit the other and can be used interchangeably. But this requires that we explain that all of the damaged holes and broken pegs are neither.”

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“Sometimes I think that we need a war to wake us up. And now that we’ve got one, don’t be so foolish as to roll over and hit the snooze button.”

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“A road that is circular never has an end. And while I don’t drive down any of those kinds of roads, I’ve certainly found myself in a lot of those kinds of arguments.”

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“Wisdom can never be borrowed, for unless it is earned by stepping into both the floods and fires of life we will spew meaningless platitudes that will drown in the floods and burn in the fires.”

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“Ignorance is the thing that we attribute to everyone else, which is a far greater ignorance than that which we’re accusing everyone else of.”

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“The fool will tell you that there is no God. Yet, the fool is the one who believes himself to be what he is not, and God not to be what He is.”

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“In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.”

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“Intelligence without wisdom is knowledge being stupid.”

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“We often throw rocks not realizing that they’re going to land somewhere.”

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“I must observe that which I speak of before I speak of it, otherwise I claim an understanding that I don’t have with words that convey an ignorance that I do.”

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“Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.”

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“The criteria for being an armchair quarterback is that you don’t need any. The benefit of being an armchair quarterback is that there isn’t any. And the outcome of being an armchair quarterback is that you’ll eventually wear out a bunch of chairs and a whole lot of people.”

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“I don’t think that most opportunity is ‘missed.’ Rather, I think it’s forfeited.”

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“At the point that I have confused ‘rights’ with ‘privileges,’ I will have lost both.”

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“I don’t settle. Or more accurately, I can’t. To settle is to abandon great things to the death of smaller things. It is to desert what could have been for what never should have been. To settle is to bargain away the wildly rich abilities of our humanity in a ruinous trade-off for a lackluster existence. Settling is to declare an indefensible surrender to the evils of mediocrity at the expense of God’s resplendent and wholly viable vision for this existence of ours. No, I don’t settle because I can’t. And the fact is, neither can you. Therefore, I would suggest that you begin settling your life squarely on the reality that settling is far too unsettling to settle for.”

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“The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating the focus of the moment.”

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“Due north’ on my compass is largely ‘due’ to the fact that in ‘due’ time I have been ‘unduly’ lax in recalibrating my compass. And I’m apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I’m lost.”

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“To incessantly define ‘where we’re at’ as a means of convincing ourselves that we know ‘where we’re at’ suggests that we’re lost about being lost. And while the wilderness of life is teeming with these kinds of people, I have to make certain that I never enter the woods.”

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“There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences.”

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“When the bottom falls out and you’re in a free-fall, you can certainly pull the ripcord of blame. However, blame never packed a chute because it had no idea that it got on a plane.”

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