Clifford Cohen

Chronic problems tend to come from chronic habits.

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

You have to know you don__ know before you can know.

There__ no arguing with a song that writes itself.

A psychologist__ job (if it__ done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself.

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

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

If someone tells you that they__e called __lueberries_ because they__e berries and they__e blue__elieve them.

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

If you can__ be brave in the face of adversity, at least be practical.

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.

If you want to impress someone, simply make up a vocation and preface it with the words __olecular_ or __heoretical_ (as in __olecular biologist_ or __heoretical physicist_). After you do this no one will question the veracity of anything you say__hether it is related to your putative vocation or not.

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

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

Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.

Why do the powerful always insist on having a __ack story_ to justify whatever they do? Why can__ they__ust once__o 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.

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.

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