A Tusk of Wisdom

So, my nativity celebrations at the Gradhouse and Stage Nine last night essentially turned from "Chris' 24th Birthday" to "Professor Frank Harvey, Distinguished Fulbright Chair And Writer of Many Books, Deftly and Unequivocally Defeats All of His Students at Pool."

A few good lines:
"Frank, are you sure you can handle that much wood?"

And...

"Chris, how do you want this racked? Oh wait, I already beat you."

(He didn't even buy me a drink!)

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On to the purpose of this post. It's a new month, and that means new wisdom. November's selection has been brought to by none other than Devin DeCiantis, "Special Projects Manager" (fancy title, eh?) at The Walrus in Toronto. Drum roll...

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. - Otto Von Bismarck

Coincidentally, I happen to have a Bismarck quote as one of the openers for my thesis -- a similar one, to boot:

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.

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In other news, North Korea is now allegedly returning to the Six-Party Talks, meaning that I might have to rewrite another chunk of my thesis.... ugh.

再见。