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Fool
Red Lights
Running red lights is the No. 1 cause of car crashes in American cities. Annual cost to society: $7 billion in damages, medical bills, and lost work time. The average amount of time saved by running a red light is 50 seconds.
U. S. Department of Transportation, quoted in MSC Health Action News, January, 1996
Opposite of Wisdom
The opposite of wisdom is folly, meaning the short-term self-indulgence which marks out the person who doesn’t think about long-term priorities and goals but lives on a day-to-day basis, asking, “What is the most fun thing to do now?”
Your Father Loves You by James Packer, (Harold Shaw Publishers, 1986), page for July 5
Quotes
- Living in a fool’s paradise is great fun, until the rent comes due.
- The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still ‘tis nonsense. - B. Franklin
- If a man wants to make a fool of himself he will always find plenty of help.
- You are not a fool just because you have done something foolish—only if the folly of it escapes you. - Jim Fiebig
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