Aphorisms by Sherry Dalton
Posted on April 20, 2009
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A while back, Sherry Dalton pointed out some mis-attributions and typos in Geary’s Guide (which are duly noted on this site’s Corrections & Clarifications page) and sent along a copy of The Answerer, which she describes as “your personal adviser for the 21st century.” The Answerer is a kind of online oracle, a database of Dalton’s collection of some 26,000 quotations cross-referenced by author, subject, and keywords. It works sort of like the I Ching: Type in your question and The Answerer comes back with what it thinks is a relevant reply. Hopefully, Dalton has included some of her own aphorisms, wry and rueful reflections on some of the big questions to which we never seem to get the definitive answer…
The root of all evil is fear; its stem is abuse of power.
Nothing more fundamentally naive than cynicism.
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is interned.
They say it’s the cream that rises to the top. It’s the cream, alright; and the dead goldfish.
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I’d probably like to say something defensive here about cynicism, but I’d only have to be cynical about it…at any rate I like it, as it makes me happy… As for the rest of the aphorisms, I can leave them alone, as I can agree with their viewpoint too easily.
When you’re brought up in chains it’s hard to imagine being free without them.
A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us.
The cynics are right. But it does them no good to be right.
Stealing is legitimate in baseball and basketball.
Obedience corrupts; absolute obedience corrupts absolutely.
I’m a cynic when I want to be funny; I’m a Taoist when I want to be happy.
Man! I’d like to take a quick gander at this educated woman’s “Answerer”, the semi-wise man’s e-book/database, but I can’t seem to find it out there on the world-wild-web! Perhaps I’m just too dumb to find the answerer…