cobb's rules

 

 

I know a few things...

 

 

"The most important thing in life is to be free to do things. There are only two ways to insure that freedom — you can be rich or you can you reduce your needs to zero."
--John Boyd

cobb is michael bowen

 

"Humankind still lives in prehistory everywhere, indeed everything awaits the creation of the world as a genuine one... if human beings have grasped themselves, and what is theirs, without depersonalization and alienation, founded in real democracy, then something comes into being in the world that shines into everyone's childhood and where no one has yet been -- home."
--Ernest Bloch
"..woncha tell someone to meet me, I'm comin...home."
--Phillipe Wynne
All you are ever told in this country about being black is that it is a terrible, terrible thing to be. Now, in order to survive this, you have to really dig down into yourself and re-create yourself, really, according to no image which yet exists in America. You have to impose, in fact - this may sound very strange - you have to decide who you are, and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you
--James Baldwin
"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. "
-- Daniel Hudson Burnham
"The fundamental role of the public intellectual - distinct from, yet building on, the indispensable work of academics, experts, analysts, and pundits - is to create and sustain high-quality public discourse addressing urgent public problems which enlightens and energizes fellow citizens, prompting them to take public action."
-- Cornel West
"I cherish the twilight. I maximize, my soul is the right size. I look for the power to run out on the moon, and that'll be sometime soon"
-- Kelvin Mercer
"When there is no hero, you be the hero."
-- Rabbi Hillel
 
  1. A little bit of everything adds up to a whole lot of nothing.
  2. There is Marriage, and there is everything else.
  3. Talk what you know.
  4. Civilization is where you put it.
  5. Don't second guess people.
  6. Always have stretch goals.
  7. Never trust anyone whose shoes cost more than your whole day's pay.
  8. An enemy is someone who doesn't mind if you fail.
  9. It's better to be the King of a small hill, than a Prince at a higher elevation.
  10. An early start beats fast running.
  11. Perfect is the enemy of good.
  12. The Planet is fine.
  13. None of your ideas are any good until somebody else can take advantage of them without your permission.

 

Corollary Wisdom

What do you give a man who has everything? An irresistable opportunity to throw it all away.

The Devil's Advocate only argues because he is disgusted and contemptuous.

No matter where you park your car, the birds will always find it.

How to Handle Black People: A Beginner's Manual

 

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