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You can do anything…but before you can do anything, you have to do something.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen First Things First Motivation Self Discovery Starting Out Taking First Step

Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Battle Military Strategy Tactics War

Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other.

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Clifford Cohen Building A Better World Contradiction Hope Opportunity Peace Vigilance War

Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Building A Better World Contradiction Hope Opportunity Peace Vigilance War

All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Common Sense Political Platforms Political Theory Politics Problem Solving Social Policy

We live in an age of equivocal competency: if you want, you can be a competent dictator, a competent self-promoter, a competent terrorist. Just because you can do something well does not mean you should be doing it.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Dictators Dictatorship Politics Racism Self Promotion Terrorism Tyranny

Why do the powerful always insist on having a “back story” to justify whatever they do? Why can’t they—just once—do something for the simple reason that it is the right thing to do, in itself, for reasons understood and accepted by all? In politics, laws are passed to secretly serve hidden agendas, for without such agendas many lawmakers would never find the motivation to support anything at all.

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Clifford Cohen Back Room Deals Honesty Politics Transparency

We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Authority Exercising Authority Following Rules Leadership Leading Rules Succession

Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.

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Clifford Cohen Appeasement Chaos Decision Making Governance Leadership Management Stagnation

Note from Alien cookbook: “The more intelligent the human is, the better it tastes.

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Clifford Cohen Aliens Hubris Humor Intelligence

If you want to impress someone, simply make up a vocation and preface it with the words “molecular” or “theoretical” (as in “molecular biologist” or “theoretical physicist”). After you do this no one will question the veracity of anything you say—whether it is related to your putative vocation or not.

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Clifford Cohen Buzz Word Deference Intellect Intelligence Stereotype Vocation

Just because you say you will do something does not mean that you are also willing to do that thing. Ensuring that both things are true is especially important in the matter of either making or receiving a proposal of marriage.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Direction In Life Doing Good Good And Evil Integrity Life Decisions Making Important Decisions Marriage Marriage Proposal Righteousness

If you can’t be brave in the face of adversity, at least be practical.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Adversity Bravery Clear Thinking Courage Dealing With Adversity Grace Under Pressure Practicality

Amazing how too much passion in one part of your life can destroy passion in other parts of your life.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Balance Everything In Moderation Finding Balance Passion Pursuit Of Passion Regaining Balance Taking The Middle Road

If someone tells you that they’re called “blueberries” because they’re berries and they’re blue—believe them.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Advertising Honesty Living In The Real World Reality Seeing Reality Truth Veracity

Sex can be the result of love, but never the cause of it.

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Clifford Cohen Commitment Love Sex

Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent.

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Clifford Cohen Child Children Father How To Parent Mother Parenting Raising A Child

A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Acceptance Healing Psychology Therapy

You have to know you don’t know before you can know.

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Clifford Cohen Humility Learning

It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Depth Vs Breadth Gaining Understanding Gaining Wisdom Learning Patience Savoring The Moment Understanding Wisdom

Chronic problems tend to come from chronic habits.

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Clifford Cohen Ailment Chronic Habits Chronic Problems Habits Healing Life Habits Self Imposed

Be careful not to think that just because you know what a person is going to say, you know what that person is going to do.Be careful not to think that just because you know what a person is going to do to others, you know what that person is going to do (or not do) to you.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Dealing With Dangerous People Knowledge Is Power Self Awareness Self Deception

The tyrant’s formula for every genocide since the beginning of time: differentiate, divide, destroy.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Dictatorship Fascism Genocide Hate Tyranny

When someone apologizes to you, be sure you know whether they’re sorry, or just scared.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Apologies To Secaucus New Jersey Honest Apology Honesty Making An Apology

Rare is not synonymous with valuable.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Rarity Value

Eating healthy is not so much about what you eat, but what you don’t eat.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Diet Dieting Eating Healthy Eating Right Health Living Healthy Nourishment

Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Competence Humility

Indiscretion is weighted heavily towards youth, inaction is weighted heavily towards old age.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Age Generational Conflict Humility Inaction Indiscretion Respect Youth

My philosophy of life: “Don’t just sit around doing nothing and wasting your time—get off your butt and start doing something and wasting your time.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Not Wasting Time Philosophy Of Life Productivity Staying Active Staying Engaged Staying Productive Using Time Well

As I get older I find it more and more easy to watch a pot until it boils.

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Clifford Cohen Acceptance Expectancy Experience Of Time Patience Time Waiting

Emotion is the timbre of thought.

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Clifford Cohen Emotion Thought

A few thoughts on crime and punishment:Punishment—either don’t merit it, or learn to embrace it.It is easy to endure punishment, much harder to accept it.Committing a crime is like incurring a debt: you can either pay it off now, or pay it off later—with interest.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Accepting Consequences Accepting Punishment Changing Your Ways Crime Feeling Remorse Punishment

There is no reason to assume our species will survive itself.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Building A Better World Fate Of Humanity Survival Survival Of The Human Race Survival Of The Species

In any career, there is a moment when you are no longer need to be pushed up from below, but rather pulled up from above. Know when that moment comes and adjust your strategy accordingly.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Advancement Career Career Strategy Climbing The Corporate Ladder Getting Ahead Job Job Promotion Management Managing People Office Politics

Don’t think for a moment that you’ve gotta be perfect to be paid.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Assertiveness Belief In Oneself Compensation Dignity Getting Paid Self Confidence Self Respect

Just because something is ubiquitous does not mean that it is innocuous.

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Clifford Cohen Avoiding Danger Danger Responding To Threat Risk Risk Mitigation Self Preservation Threat

Feeling guilty is not a substitute for loving somebody, it only is an indicator that you have failed to love somebody.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Caring Failure To Love Guilt Remorse

What is the meaning of life…to give life meaning.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Meaning Of Existence Meaning Of Life Purpose Universal Truth Why We Are Here

Always try to align your loyalties and commitment with the largest scope of the context you find yourself in. For example, if you work for a department in a company, align yourself with the company—not the department; if you are in an army platoon, align yourself with the army.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Allegiance Benefiting Others Loyalty

Observing stupidity in others is a sure sign of stupidity in the observer.

~ Clifford Cohen

Clifford Cohen Disparaging Others Stupidity
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