Conventional Wisdom is More Often Convention than Wisdom

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/What’s the difference between wisdom, and conventional wisdom? Shouldn’t wisdom be sufficiently universal and timeless you shouldn’t have to qualify it with anything? And why conventional, of all qualifiers, meaning generally accepted as if common sense rather than wise knowledge known to a few? In that sense, conventional wisdom is an oxymoron, which is hardly wise, symbolically or literally.

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Life Isn’t Fair, Live to Make It Fairer

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/I think most people know that life isn’t fair, whether in English, in another language via an analogous expression, and/or intuitively. Yet, I’ve rarely heard anyone respond to life isn’t fair with fighting words. I’ve only generally heard people begrudgingly agree with the statement and/or curse the fact.

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Treat Everyone Fairly, Not Equally

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/Do you still think of treating everyone equally as the way to attain a just society? If you don’t, can you describe how people should be treated to attain said just society?

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The Best Thing You Can Give Someone, Including Yourself, is a Chance

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/What’s the best thing you can give someone? Love? Time? Kindness? There’s no answer to that question that is 100% correct, but I’m going to make a case for a chance because it could represent all those other things, while allowing someone to form part of their identity to someone else.

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