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Things That Turn Out To Matter

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is never sufficient --- A wound is not cured by the unbending of the bow.

A wound is not cured by the unbending of the bow.

is, on some occasions, nothing but rudeness.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

APOLOGY. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

 only accounts for that which it does not alter.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.

Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

, by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.