The example of closing time is easy to understand. Whatever barroom need or hope you have has to get done before closing time. Life has its own closing time. Keeping that limitation in mind focuses attention on what really needs doing.

Sorry. There's no anything, anywhere, but strong quantum entanglements of energy that masquerade as hard reality. The hard stuff you see around you is empty space in which the illusion of, stars, planets, and everything else, is created by impenetrable force-fields of energy. The illusion is overwhelming realistic, but it isn't real.

I increasingly found myself defending the Christian position. This surprised people who knew me. They thought of me as a committed rationalist. What was I doing talking about God, and Good, and Evil.

Some few people recognize Classics when they're first made; centuries must pass before the rest of us can be sure. good stays the same.

After lugging the kill to a nearby tree the leopard ate a quick meal, then stored the rest of the carcass in a handy crotch of the tree. A thorough clean-up followed - then the big cat returned to standby mode.

Prisoners are the extreme case, but none of us are free from limitation. Limitation focus us to concentrate on what can be done. If you can't do whatever you like, then, what can you do?

The Mad Tea party in Alice in Wonderland took place at a very long table filled with one tea service after the other.
When the tea and crumpets were exhausted at one station the party moved on to the next, saying, "Move down, move down"!

Did anyone force you to take that job, or get involved with that person, or that crowd?
No, you chose who, what, and where.

Government, "service", is now approaching 40% of the entire economy. Eventually we'll live in a Country: of the Government, by the Government, and for the Government

I hear a lot of roaring these days in emotional arguments. Emotional argument is an oxymoron. Argument is done with reason. Nothing comes from emotional roaring but annoying sound, signifying nothing

In times of old - like twenty or thirty years ago - knowledge was held in esteem. Now it's not nearly as important as going viral on Tik-Tok.

Back in the late sixties I thought I might like to move to Denver. You know, the wild west, the mountains, maybe even a little of the old-time cowboy life.

Insurance is a gamble. You bet you'll win back the money you put in the Insurance pot. The Insurance company bets they'll keep most of it.

Skillful writers paint with words that resonant with other words.

When you walk away from God you necessarly walk toward Satan.

Psychological labels are benevolently intended. Too often the labeling results in people being treated with less respect than the respect accorded everyone else

Nonparticipation requires knowing what you want and what you don't.

Yes the person you're listening to may prattle on about nothing important. That's not the important part.
The important part is that you're listening. Someone else cares about them. Someone gives a damn. How amazing.

The one-world, no-more-war crowd has been taught that the only people who support war are war-mongering adventurers and stupid patriots.