Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Mason Cooley
Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
opportunity
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
imagination
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
rules imagination
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
failure
Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
philosophy
A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
places
To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
style
Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
talent
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
rules
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
silence
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
example
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
enemies
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
funny humor
Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
listening
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