{"id":3018,"date":"2013-11-17T19:15:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T02:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2013-11-17T19:15:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T02:15:38","slug":"thirty-lessons-ive-learned-in-61-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3018","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Lessons I’ve Learned in 61 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Defy convention.<\/li>\n
  2. Question authority.<\/li>\n
  3. Keep your promises.<\/li>\n
  4. Nothing is simple. Simplicity is bait on somebody else’s hook.<\/li>\n
  5. Never wear anybody’s advertising but your own.<\/li>\n
  6. When you think you’ve heard too much Gustav Holst, play some Madonna.<\/li>\n
  7. Friends are a revenue center. Enemies are a cost center.<\/li>\n
  8. Never believe anything an angry person says, especially when they’re not angry.<\/li>\n
  9. Fat makes you thin. Sugar will kill you.<\/li>\n
  10. Political parties exist to take everything you have and hand it to psychopaths on a silver platter.<\/li>\n
  11. Fathers matter.<\/li>\n
  12. Time shatters what cannot hold, and perfects what cannot be broken.<\/li>\n
  13. If you can still wear a shirt thirty years later, you know you’re doing OK. This is a good reason to keep a shirt or two for thirty years.<\/li>\n
  14. Join a political party and you’re selling youself into slavery.<\/li>\n
  15. Evil<\/em> is the root of all evil. There is no middleman.<\/li>\n
  16. Love matters way more than who’s got a plug and who’s got a socket.<\/li>\n
  17. Don’t try to make a bowling ball out of 2 X 4’s.<\/li>\n
  18. You’re not really an adult until you can run around the house in your underwear, reciting Dr. Seuss at the top of your lungs.<\/li>\n
  19. Certainty is a species of mental illness.<\/li>\n
  20. Self-esteem is confidence without calibration.<\/li>\n
  21. Think outside the box. Then make something out of the box.<\/li>\n
  22. If you see a pinata, remember that somewhere close by is a blindfolded person swinging a stick.<\/li>\n
  23. Pitch can be useful. It’s politics<\/em> that defileth all it toucheth.<\/li>\n
  24. Don’t settle for an iron will. Gram for gram, aluminum is stronger.<\/li>\n
  25. A dog is a fingertip of the Almighty, thrust briefly into our lives to measure the breadth and depth of our kindness. Remember Whose fingertip it is.<\/li>\n
  26. Dance, especially if you’re not good at it.<\/li>\n
  27. Stand by your spouse no matter what<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  28. They build too low, who build beneath the stars.<\/li>\n
  29. Kick ass. Just don’t miss.<\/li>\n
  30. Think!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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