November 5th, 2015
You never know until you try, except sometimes.
You can not predict the future with 100% accuracy. But on the other hand, you’ve been around the block a few times; sometimes you can see events before they happen with uncanny precision. People are very predictable, or you know that your snowboarding skill is *well* below the level required to stay upright on the way down this cliff. Sometimes you know.
Obsolete saying:
You never know until you try.
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October 30th, 2015
Seeing is believing, but anecdotal evidence is not real evidence.
It’s easy to see things that aren’t there. It’s easy to believe things that aren’t true. The scientific method is formalized distrust of personal experience and experiential evidence in general. If you believe everything you think you see, and if you accept as truth everything you believe, you are doubly wrong.
Obsolete saying
Seeing is believing.
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October 28th, 2015
A penny saved is pretty much worthless.
It’s just a penny. If you had 200 of them, you still couldn’t afford a cup of coffee. If you religiously save pennies for 45 years, you’ll have about $5000.

Now if I had 200 of these…
Obsolete Saying
A penny saved is a penny earned.
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