Jim Holt
Jim Holt
enough enjoy
Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.
came cleaning drove people saw sun sunday town
The sun came up Sunday and the rakes started flying. I drove all over town and that's all I saw was people cleaning up their yards.
collectors garbage picking
Those are the same sandbags our garbage collectors will probably be picking up this week.
control government growth stop turn upside
We've got to stop government growth (and get it) under control before too long, or it's going to turn upside down.
afford cost good hurt job looks market people price trying unskilled welfare workers
It looks good on the surface, but it is going to hurt people trying to get their first job and hurt the unskilled workers that can least afford to get hurt. It will price them out of the job market and put them on welfare and then it will cost all of us.
days flooding helped hurricane kept leaves noticed pulling shopping spent three worked
They've worked their buns off. What wasn't noticed in all this was the preplanning we did kept a lot of the flooding down. We spent three days before the hurricane made landfall going through all the ditches in town, pulling out shopping carts, basketballs, leaves and trash. That helped a lot.
days flooding helped hurricane kept leaves noticed pulling shopping spent three worked
They've worked their buns off, ... What wasn't noticed in all this was the preplanning we did kept a lot of the flooding down. We spent three days before the hurricane made landfall going through all the ditches in town, pulling out shopping carts, basketballs, leaves and trash. That helped a lot.
central control facilities premise problem program
The problem with this program is its premise that the state's central bureaucracy should control all facilities construction.
beaten both bunch field guys
They've beaten a bunch of those guys in the field and they both are straight-forward kind of players,
dream mean common
Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common origin in the unconscious. Both are essentially means of outwitting our inner 'censor.
ideas danger attraction
You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas...
simplicity would-be world
To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world
real self feelings
Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered.
children simple profound
It has been said that the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is so profound that it would occur only to a metaphysician, yet so simple that it would occur only to a child.