Robin: You need to get on the phone and start calling clients.
Ted: The longer I put off starting my own firm, the longer it can remain a dream, and not something I screwed up at. I mean I’m giving up before I even started.
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Cars – Need Or Want?
Dani then wrote a letter to the Argus setting out the difference between “wanting” a car and “needing” a car, a distinction that seems to elude many people …
What’s the big deal about not owning a car? It doesn’t have to be some kind of crusade. Sometimes, it’s just about weighing up the costs and benefits of car owning so as to make a more rational choice.
What’s amazing is not that there are people like Dani, but that there aren’t more people like her: people willing to take a more rational approach to car ownership. People prepared to think about the costs, think about the benefits, and then weigh up the balance. Not forgetting that crucial distinction between a need and a want.
Stephen, on Car-free in Brighton
John McCain saw 23 years of Mitt’s tax…
John McCain saw 23 years of Mitt’s tax returns . . . and chose Sarah Palin as his running mate.
YvonneofNC, in comments on this post
Everyone is a genius but if you judge…
Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’s going to spend its life believing it’s an idiot.
Einstein (HT: Asymco)
Everyone has a right to make their own…
Everyone has a right to make their own decisions.
They also have a responsibility to face the consequences of those decisions, even if they seem unfair and disproportionate.
They go together. You can’t demand one and refuse the other.
Adi
Charlie You’re like an Alzheimer’s patient in a…
Charlie: You’re like an Alzheimer’s patient in a whorehouse.
Alan: What do you mean?
Charlie: You’re constantly surprised that you’re getting screwed, and you don’t want to pay for it
Two And A Half Men
Thought of accusing someone of taking the blue…
Thought of accusing someone of taking the blue pill. Thought better. Accused them of not even earning a knock on the door.
Adi
I hope that in the afterlife we will…
I hope that in the afterlife we will get a chance, each of us, to say our sorries to people we have wronged. I’ll have plenty of sorries to say, believe you me.
J M Coetzee, in Summertime
What I was determined to avoid was emotional…
What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another.
J M Coetzee, in Summertime
Leslie Winkle Yes Leslie Winkle The answer to…
Leslie Winkle.
Yes, Leslie Winkle. The answer to the question, ‘Who made Sheldon cry like a little girl?’
BBT