quotations, courage, arena, Presidents, Teddy Roosevelt

symmetry, asymmetry, philosophy, science, art, culture, sports

food, burger, carpe diem, calories

creativity, memory, butterflies

mind set, attitude, vision, belief

psychology, creation, self-creation, personality

contradiction, freedom, slavery

speculation, immortality, accidents, aging, technology

artificial intelligence, ai, speculation

contradiction, self-reference

politics, language, connotation

irony, contradiction

personality, envy, cool

culture, meme, inference, Saturday Night Live, snl, Christopher Walken, Will Ferrell

irony, hypocrisy

music, myth, creation story, Tolkien, Silmarillion

democracy, capitalism, Armageddon, nuclear weapons

literature, deconstruction, postmodernism, Jacques Derrida

contradiction, self-reference, sincerity, shallowness

Donald Duck, Disney, anger, judgment

boundary, morality, principles

envy, deadly sin, jealously

paradox, contradiction, Epimenides, Greek philosophy

existentialism, irony, humanity

death, dying, fear, mortality

free speech, irony, politics, Constitution

irony, movies, Godfather, Marlon Brando, Don Corleone

irony, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, goodness, racism

quotation, Emerson Pugh, brain, understanding, neurology

irony, Ernest Becker, symbolism, culture

contradiction, Kevin Spacey, House of Cards

contradiction, Jonah, Abraham Maslow, success, happiness

equality, freedom, history, Constitution

brain, intelligence, pre-history, history, literature

contradiction, productivity

literature, absurd, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, nihilism

psychology, personality, time

movies, movie lines, Gone With the Wind, Clark Gable

ecology, Earth Mother, tragedy, nature

music, aesthetic, beauty, silence

mystery, human nature, psychology

paradox, time

contradiction, self-reference, psychology

food, apple pie, ice cream, carpe diem, calories

power, politics, psychology, Lord Acton, freedom

procrastination, self-reference, Scarlet O'Hara

psychodyamics, thermodynamics, psychology, conservation

universe, physics, incompatibility, relativity, quantum mechanics

research, knowledge, argument, credibility

literature, Romanticism, Realism, William Wordsworth, Albert Camus

reality, contradiction, inconsistency

self-reference, storytelling

robot, sentience, creation, God, theology

literature, Thornton Wilder, Our Town, common man, hierarchy, significance

pessimism, Eeyore, Disney, attitude

anxiety, stress, decisions, psychology, simplification

love, romance, timidity, regret

dramatic irony, Shakespeare, Macbeth, nihilism

storytelling, story, ancient history

hope, probability, psychology

suffering, transformation, metamorphosis, fire

quantum physics, superposition, mathematics, irony

music, syncopation, rhythm, irony, humor, creativity

heroism, insecurity, psychology

cause/effect, thermodynamics, knowledge

meaning, life

symbolism, death, rebirth, seasons

philosophy, ignorance, Plato, allegory, cave

wisdom, contradiction, context, dilemma

bullshit, pseudo-intellectual, meaningless

philosophy, humor, Ludwig Wittgenstein

philosophy, logic, deduction, induction

wisdom, decisiveness, Star Wars, Yoda

evil, God, meaning, death

self-reference, philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre, freedom, responsibility

psychology, culture, syndrome, therapy, therapeutic

psychology, culture, syndrome, therapy, therapeutic

precocious, children, sacrifice

leadership, followers, democracy, totalitarian, dictatorship

time, death, meaning, Ray Kurzweil, immortality

hypocrisy, judgmental, decadence

rats, vermin, public relations, humor, infection

false prophet, deception, naivete, manipulation

music, minor key, story, tragedy

contradiction, self-reference, magic, abracadabra

self-awareness, hierarchy, infinity

truth, falsity, self-reference

John Wayne, western movies, movie star, leading man

espresso, coffee

quotation, John Fowles, The Magus, geography, social isolation, estrangement

poetry, rhyme, physics, outer space

infinity, eternity, reality

nothing, something, self-reference

humanity, forgiveness, hate

hell, chaos, deceit, separation, distrust, meaningless

self-discipline, impulse, goal-setting, slavery

anonymous, passivity, patience, provocation

rich, wealthy, flaunt, humility, pretentious

decisive, indecisiveness, regret, irony

allusion, envy, greed, witch goddess