Subject: Viridian Note 00059: Viridian Aphorisms Key concepts: Viridian Ranking, Viridian aphorisms Attention Conservation Notice: We Viridians customarily camouflage our list housekeeping by stealing witty remarks from dead people. Links: http://www.bespoke.org/viridian http://www.well.com/conf/mirrorshades/ ****************** VIRIDIAN APHORISMS ****************** Send in a Viridian aphorism, and you will receive a valuable and attractive chevron >^< for your log-in name. "There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problems of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand." John Jay Chapman "In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." Robert Ingersoll "People care more about being thought to have taste than about being either good, clever, or amiable." Samuel Butler "The first act of significance humans did was to rise out of the muck and peer up at the stars. The second has yet to be written." Anonymous "No one looks at the blazing sun; all do when it is eclipsed." Baltasar Gracian "Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst." Francis Herbert Bradley "Belief in progress is a doctrine of idlers and Belgians. It is the individual relying on his neighbors to do his work." Charles Baudelaire "The aged are those who, before all things, desire not to make a mistake." Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy "One thing led to another, and before we knew it, we were dead." Michael O'Donoghue *********************** VIRIDIAN RANKING SYSTEM *********************** The Viridian Ranking System has been hand-created with a vintage fountain pen and fine art paper. 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