Words Of Wisdom
Behold the wisdom of Ryder Duncan! Actually, this is an experimental page devoted to something I often do: I'll come up with interesting observations or phrases and then promptly forget them. I could just get a notebook and write these things down for my own benefit, but where's the fun in that? No, in this information age in which we live, I feel it's my duty to offer everything I have to the collective stock of human experience and wisdom.
This page is pretty much a hodgepodge of everything and anything that comes to my mind. Some of it will make sense. Some of it won't. Such is life. In any event, the following will be a list that is appended on an irregular basis. Check back from time to time, or else find the links to the right if you'd like to navigate elsewhere in the site.
Note that this page was updated in early May, 2009. I axed the transparency (it didn't really do much for the layout) and added some new items to the list. Yay.
- Know thyself, and accept no substitute.
- A great nation exhalts what it can do. A fallen nation convinces its citizens of what it cannot do.
- Without consequence, there is no morality.
- Leaving out all the good bits of an event to cast it in a negative light is "spin by exclusion."
- Many men are definitely pigs; this is true. But, come to think of it, the women have to say "yes", don't they? I guess something about that whole thing must be attractive after all. Oink, oink.
- Wayne State University is not a part of the known universe, but is instead a member of a completely alternate universe, one that hopelessly confuses and torments the inhabitants of our own dimension.
- I don't want to tell you what to think. I just wish that you would think. (Subsequently made famous by Oprah, I swear I was saying it years before she said it.)
- E.M.C. is a psychopathic bitch. This isn't wisdom, but fact.
- It is never in a time of strife that a nation becomes weak; only immediately following a time of peace and prosperity.
- Have you really ever seen anybody frown? As in, the corners of his mouth actually point downward? I have not.
- The height of nerve is to traipse into the Library of Congress, glance around as though bewildered, and then ask, "Anything good to read here?"
- Increment is a unit or degree. Excrement is fecal matter.
- You can access tremendous worlds through reading, meet unforgettable people and embark upon fantastic quests. But you don't get to stomp any Goombas.