CDOQ

Am I organic? 

Regardless of the seed and how it is rolled, a cigar's burning is affected by how it is cut and how it is lit. 

"The drawbacks of corporate life are more difficult to specify yet just as pervasive. The need to get on by pleasing others in ways that you don't quite understand, the sense of being watched to see if you are measuring up, the ludicrous yet intense jealousies over cars, furniture, and office space and pay, all contributed to a kind of enervating paranoia. In the world of the corporation there was no such thing as simply doing a job well - you must be either rising or falling within the organization. Management of companies was based on fostering low-level fear among staff, the result being a peculiar mixture of individual ambition and corporate conformity - you stayed safe and got on by second-guessing what others wanted, and by adhering to some never-quite-defined corporate code. Adherence to the corporation became a necessary part of workers' psychology, even if they disliked their jobs; conformity became the price of security." - Roger Osborne  (in the bo...

Is the idea that one is somehow (religion, nation, race, money, job, looks, etc.) better than some humans necessary for individual identity? 

The burden of the society is carried by the middle class. The poor are worried about survival and the rich can get away with breaking the norms. 

Human love for ideas far exceeds human love for another human.  

The problem with shorting a stock is that you don't know for how long the irrationality of the market will last. 

Beauty of yoga lies in graceful transition through poses.