If you have earned your self-respect, respect by others is a luxury; if you haven't, respect by others is a necessity. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You cannot be both soldier and judge.

I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about - and the reader is no fool. So I use procrastination as a message from my inner self and my deep evolutionary past to resist interventionism in my writing.Yet some psychologists and behavioral economists seem to think that procrastination is a disease to be remedied and cured.

There is something common to modern "liberal" and Sunni-Salafi education: They teach students answers rather than how to ask questions.