From: Dave Long (dl@silcom.com)
Date: Mon Nov 27 2000 - 18:36:05 PST
> # of tickets for not wearing a seatbelt: 2
> # of serious auto accidents Rohit and I have been in this year: 3
> We are what we repeatedly do.
> Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
> -- Aristotle
...and habits can just as easily be base as /arete/.
(I trust the experience is common enough that it is
easier to learn good habits than to cure poor ones?)
Wayne, what's the opposite of /kudos/?
/aidos/ for the karmakids?
-Dave
Clausewitz, I believe, said that prosecuting a war
involves chance and violent emotion as much as any
rational calculation. Analytical ability may help
with the last, but habit answers for the first two.
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