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A Truth Pick is a short, sharp commentary designed to extract 'Truth' from a Quote, pithy saying, epigram or graffiti. I send these out about 2-3 times per week. My goal is to see if they strike a chord with anyone and if they do, to continue generating them.
I am I plus my surroundings
and if I do not preserve the latter,
I do not preserve myself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Context is everything. Erase the white from the paper and we cause even wise words to vanish. Erase what connects us, we erase ourselves.
We look to the future and place great value on what is new, forgetting that what is old is not only what got us here, but what supports us in our daily progress. Cut too many ties to the past too fast and we drift forward aimlessly.
When building a future we offer the promise to make things better, and have the obligation to reinforce what was already good.
A future focused only on the new with no connection to what was good in the past, falls to ruin as a kite with a broken string.
The notation "You are here!" lacks meaning without the map.
(c) 2002 Peter de Jager - Pdejager@truthpicks.com
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