To wish

To wish that one had done differently is to wish that one had been different.

We never asked

We never asked if we should ask if we should.

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Maybe

We evolved to see Yes and No, but everything is Maybe.

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The shenanigans

I am opposed to those who would eliminate the shenanigans.

Wealth

Treasure is for the youth; the mature won't settle for anything less than wealth.

If we didn't die

If we didn't die, how soon we would become occluded.

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With poetry

I have metastasized with poetry.

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On friendship

Without other, there is no friendship.  But without self, also, there is no friendship.

On labor

Labor is the pride of those who can find nothing in themselves to honor.

Existence

Existence is the aberration.  And so what?

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You can only

The trouble is, we feel like we remember backwards, but you can only remember forward.

No bearing

What one prefers has no bearing on what is.

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The evil

Economics is the evil they tried to portray communism as.

Violence escalates

Violence escalates because of our competitive instinct.

Always

Deprivation is always injustice.

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The best life

A life spent overcoming temptation is not the best life.

The tragedy

The tragedy is that the comedy is not enough to offset the tragedy.

Rarely

A mind that doesn't expose itself to the ideas of others must rely exclusively upon its own, which are rarely much good.

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