I've never been a great one for slogans. Tell me to Just Do It and part of me thinks, well, that's a supremely silly piece of advice, I must say.
But I found some small entertainment today in considering if there are any slogans that do somehow do something for me. A swift realisation: pretty much anything pithy from Blake, of course. And then, more gradually, two gems from the world of rock'n'roll to live by: RUST NEVER SLEEPS (courtesy of Neil Young, in case you didn't know, who in turn got it from an actual advert, I think) and STOP MAKING SENSE (courtesy of David Byrne or Talking Heads or both, being pretty much one and the same, I suppose.)
In some odd and disturbing ways such choices throw some light on my character, I'm afraid. Worrying, eh?
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Here are three I particularly like:
"The threat of execution is more powerful than the execution of threat." — Aron Nimzovich
"Do others before they do you." — Simon Templar via Leslie Charteris
"Justice, like lightning, ever should appear to few men's ruin, but to all men's fear." — Milo Sweetman
Sweet! Especially the one from Saintly Simon Templar.
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