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• Idealism + Pragmatism = Cynicism
• In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- That Everything is to be undertaken with Circumspection, -- Discourses, Book iii, Chap....
• Cynicism is disillusioned idealism. -- Harry Kemelma
• Sanity, n. A state of mind which immediately precedes and follows murder.
• parent message n. What a followup follows up.
• What follows two days of rain? MONDAY!
• parent message: n. What a {followup} follows up. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• The reputation of a man is like his shadow: It sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.
• Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
  -- Aldous Huxley, in "Reader's Digest", 1956...