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“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” -- C.S. Lewis
"Building a bar may seem like a trivial way to shift gears....[but] an enormous percentage, by their own admission, have no desire to shift gears..."
Please, dear reader, don't become a withered flower, with you life spent and all but over by your mid-30s...build that subterranean bar and become a lonely basement alcoholic!
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From a series of circa-1960s D.I.Y. books called "Easi-Bild" that were published by a fellow named Donald Brann. In the beginning of each one, he wrote a little homily that tried to link up his own Confucius-like wisdom with whatever Easy Bild project was at hand.
So there would be a couple of paragraphs where he waxed poetic about some general concept essential to the good life, and then there would be a paragraph where he'd try to make you think you'd never done better by yourself than you did the moment you decided, say, to purchase the Easy Bild book on building a plywood bar in your basement.
A tragically overlooked 20th-century Thoreau was Mr. Brann.
QuoteoftheDay ‘Once your heart is purified and cleansed, God himself will settle in.’ - HH @Younus_AlGohar