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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Someone has been pulled over by the fuzz. I wonder what they did? I was thinking the other day (always dangerous). I was thinking that in order to bridge the gap between what one thinks one knows, and what one knows , one must know what one thinks , and one must know what one knows and - more importantly - doesn't know . That's the trouble, don't you think?

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Here you can see Henry saying " Happy Birthday Nana ". He's a generous chap in that regard. I was talking about decisions and all that. Thinking about decisions, especially what are ostensibly difficult decisions, the worrying aspects primarily concern the externalities of the situation: the known knowns are fine, the unknown knowns must not be relevant, the known unknowns can’t be controlled and the unknown unknowns really don’t matter. All that you’re left with is action ...