On 2/19/06, Maria Manemann <Markleaf at earthlink.net> wrote: > > Some people claim that smart people pick the fights they can win and > > letting the others slide. > > I'm not sure I agree with that. I've always understood the phrase to > mean not to fight the battles you know you can win but the ones that are > important to win. Resources are limited, life is short, win the fights > that matter to you. Ah, but now we're into motivation and values. Smart people pick the fights they can win, earnest people enter fights where they feel they must, foolish people fight out of habit, and a certain rare breed fight because they love fighting. To further belabor the point, for some, fighting is a bit like dying because it has come to this, while for others, fighting is the essence of life because that is how they feel truly alive. There is so much bundled up in this. The brilliance of all this, of course, is that Steven has put the emphaaaaasis on different sylaaables, not just two, but seventeen different variants. -- johne cook - wisconsin, usa | http://dkamagazine.com | http://theswordreview.com | |http://phywriter.com