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The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. Thomas Stearns Eliot ~ We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin ~ The most intelligent recedes. The world domination of stupidity is based on this sad truth. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ~ Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. George Lois ~ Three things are needed to be happy: to be imbecile, to be selfish and to have good health. But if you miss the first, everything is over. Gustave Flaubert ~ Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of the human existence. Carl William Brown

Paradoxical Commandments

In 1968, when Kent M. Keith was a 19-year-old sophomore at Harvard, he wrote the Paradoxical Commandments as part of …