Live quietly; leave a loud legacy.
Bury the dead; keep their stories alive.
Live in such a way that you leave behind an entertaining funeral.
Love helps heal life; ceremonies help mend death.
A funeral, a microphone, verbosity — it’s a modern repeat of Thermopylae.
Love your family; craft an inspiring funeral.
Treat your children in such a way that they don’t hate each other at your funeral.
Facelifts, implants and wigs don’t ward off death; they just make the corpses weirder.
Eulogies are all the good stuff, nothing bad; how odd when the only criteria to be invited is to know otherwise.
All it takes to ignite a vicious family funeral is for one wealthy member to die.
Funerals seem to draw a disproportionate number of folks who appear to have been already been buried.
Prevent disappointment; attempt nothing.
Realities disappoint; tenacities anoint.
Smelt love; discard the slag.
Expectation begets disappointment; it also births success.
To avoid being disappointed avoid being human.
Heal all disillusionments with hope — and hard work.
Expectation is a slope; disappointment is a wall.
Perfectionism dismays; gratitude hoorays.
For the dissatisfied it is prescribed — gaze outside.
Harm embitters, the hopeful future brightly glitters.
Disappointments are the by product of caring — so are deep relationships.
Software thrives on innovation — and thievery.
Software can’t fix a hard heart.
We are what we program.
Software is made out of math and smarts — and the arts.
1 and 0 make the world go.
Modern life is input, output, left foot, right foot.
Wiki’s not picky; it’s open and sticky.
Create amazing software; marry a visionary to an engineer.
When we digitalized symbols, we invented the future.
First we invented the imbecile, then we made it digital.
Find out what’s yet; hit on the net.
Click like a monkey; surf like a junkie.
Online is wine.
Prime time is online.
A good Internet is like a good life; it lies in a good story.
The blog saved the Web for the people.
Knowledge without access is like a search without an engine.
The web is up all eyes are down.
Astronomy expands the universe; the Internet shrinks it.
Free speech created the World Wide Web.
The computer put the planets in our pockets.
An MBA, one click away.
The desk top computer became a commuter.
A computer without the Internet is like a person without a family.
Achilles needs a tendon; mobility needs a battery.
Computer memory is the new hegemony.
The computer, our servant, until more observant.
Artificial intelligence occurs every time a human lies.
The computer began with a conception; it was born at an execution.
What began in a garage has flown off to Mars.
Buy using comparisons; sell using idiosyncrasies.
The comparison informs; the juxtaposition norms.
Individuate — similes and metaphors hate.
To categorize is drudgery, but fail and — discovery!
Compare, get bothered; unaware, get clobbered.
A category is an elephant gun; uniqueness lies in every baby elephant.
Every assessment compares — and dares.
Compare, stack it; contrast, hack it.
Hatch, catch; match, batch.
To compare may snare, but to be unaware — it’s a nightmare.
To compare is to care.
Grill good food; season it with good people.
Go out to eat; for the entrée select friends.
Fine conversation improves the flavor of ordinary food.
The restaurant din is half the fun.
Life’s a soufflé, cafe au fait.
The good menu is the venue.
The presentation is the sensation.
Savor flavor, texture, scent — relish food’s embellishment.
Eat your pie humbly; harangue not the crumbly.
Build a successful team: clink, think; dine, sync.
Eat with with your staff — both gaff and laugh.
Dress up; haunt restaurants; frighten food.
Eat out; fast within.
Tenacity swings a hammer; sagacity swings a head.
Develop a capacity for pain — loose, growl, gain.
Track apathy, hunt down laxity — kill them both.
Sporadically quit; henceforth and therefore to begin again.
Within tenacity runs an underground river of stupidity, within quitting — great geysers of genius.
The first three tries don’t keep the fourth from succeeding.
Stand on your losses; run on top of your crosses.
It’s most efficacious to be perspicaciously tenacious.
Tenacity is the best policy — and ontogeny.
Divorce mendacious; banish fallacious; marry the truth, be vicious tenacious.
Give up every night; this will provide precisely what is needed to begin again the next day.
Live like your dying — you are.
Love it or litigate it.
Others may pick your battles, but you pick your forgivenesses.
Jack your age; act like you please.
Go big; then head for the hospital.
Let it all hang out, unless you can keep some of it stuffed in.
If it ain’t broke, sell it and update.
We are not alone; children insure that.
The stuck stops here.
The customer isn’t always right, but there is good money to be made by acting like it.
Just do it — again and again and again.
Get mad; stay even.
It is a jungle out there — run, rip, roar!
Stick your neck out; first cover your rear.
The right word is a picture worth a thousand dollars.
By crude oil we are fleetingly made royal.
Drill the earth; fly the sky; reign on high.
We drag carbon from the ground, we race upon the earth, we fill the air — these are the ways of modern ephemera.
Oil is limited; machinery is temporary; love is infinite.
Gasoline is speed; jet fuel is heroin.
Oil toil, roil and boil, wind and soil and sea we spoil.
We put life in our bodies, death in our cars.
Gold, diamonds and oil draw men together, then these three tear families apart.
A town is boomed, morality entombed.
The oil that made us rich will one day make us poor.
Expectancy is gift wrapped in the soul’s protectancy.
Expect a gaff, rejoice and laugh.
Expect nothing; you’ll still get something.
The path of expectancy is paved with reality.
Expect your pay check; assiduously neglect the lottery.
Love bedecks; hate neglects; hope expects.
Hope has its own ascendancy, a bright ballon of expectancy.
The unexpectant are dejectant.
Expectancy lives breathlessly — ostensibly.
At birth there is an expecting, at death an expected.
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