... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.
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Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one.
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You think a man is a man cause he wears team colors and guzzles beer in front of the tube Can't you see, boys, the sands of time are dribbling through the hourglass
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Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube.
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.
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Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
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Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
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Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in
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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
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You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
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