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#261One day the King decided that he would force all his subjects to tell the
truth. A gallows was erected in front of the city gates. A herald announced,
"Whoever would enter the city must first answer the truth to a question
which will be put to him." Nasrudin was first in line. The captain of the
guard asked him, "Where are you going? Tell the truth -- the alternative
is death by hanging."
"I am going," said Nasrudin, "to be hanged on that gallows."
"I don't believe you."
"Very well, if I have told a lie, then hang me!"
"But that would make it the truth!"
"Exactly," said Nasrudin, "your truth."
#262One learns to itch where one can scratch.
-- Ernest Bramah
#263One meets his destiny often on the road he takes to avoid it.
#264One monk said to the other, "The fish has flopped out of the net! How will it
live?" The other said, "When you have gotten out of the net, I'll tell you."
#265Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
-- Baba Ram Dass
#266Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about
can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.
-- Lao Tsu
#267Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much, much better.
-- Laurie Anderson
#268Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but
when there is no longer anything to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
#269Perhaps the biggest disappointments were the ones you expected anyway.
#270Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
-- John Keats
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