The Longing within

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.
And yet, after such a great number of years, no one without faith has reached the point to which all continually look. All complain, princes and subjects, noblemen and commoners, old and young, strong and weak, learned and ignorant, healthy and sick, of all countries, all times, all ages, and all conditions.
A trial so long, so continuous, and so uniform, should certainly convince us of our inability to reach the good by our own efforts. But example teaches us little. No resemblance is ever so perfect that there is not some slight difference; and hence we expect that our hope will not be deceived on this occasion as before. And thus, while the present never satisfies us, experience dupes us and, from misfortune to misfortune, leads us to death, their eternal crown.
What is it, then, that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present? But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself. He only is our true good, and since we have forsaken him, it is a strange thing that there is nothing in nature which has not been serviceable in taking His place; the stars, the heavens, earth, the elements, plants, cabbages, leeks, animals, insects, calves, serpents, fever, pestilence, war, famine, vices, adultery, incest. And since man has lost the true good, everything can appear equally good to him, even his own destruction, though so opposed to God, to reason, and to the whole course of nature.

-Blaise Pascal

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Dog Aggression

Here is a list of some common breeds that are more likely to bite you than a pit bull.

AFGHAN HOUND
AIREDALE TERRIER
AKITA
AUSTRALIAN CATTLE DOG
AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD
AUSTRALIAN TERRIER
BASENJI
BEAGLE
BEARDED COLLIE
BICHON FRISE
BLOODHOUND
BORDER COLLIE
BOXER
BULLDOG
BULLMASTIFF
CAIRN TERRIER
CARDIGAN WELSH CORGI
CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIEL
CHIHUAHUA
CHINESE CRESTED DOG
CHINESE SHAR-PEI
CHOW CHOW
CLUMBER SPANIEL
COCKER SPANIEL
COLLIE
DACHSHUND (MINIATURE SMOOTH)
DACHSHUND (MINIATURE WIREHAIRED)
DACHSHUND (STANDARD LONGHAIRED)
DACHSHUND (STANDARD SMOOTH)
DACHSHUND (STANDARD WIREHAIRED)
DALMATIAN
DANDIE DINMONT TERRIER
DOBERMAN PINSCHER
ENGLISH FOXHOUND
ENGLISH SETTER
FIELD SPANIEL
FINNISH LAPPHUND
FINNISH SPITZ
GERMAN PINSCHER
GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG
GERMAN SHORTHAIRED POINTER
GERMAN WIREHAIRED POINTER
GIANT SCHNAUZER
GORDON SETTER
GREAT DANE
GREATER SWISS MOUNTAIN DOG
GREYHOUND
HAVANESE
IRISH TERRIER
ITALIAN GREYHOUND
JACK RUSSELL TERRIER
KEESHOND
KERRY BLUE TERRIER
KUVASZ
LAKELAND TERRIER
LHASA APSO
LOWCHEN
MALTESE
MINIATURE PINSCHER
MINIATURE POODLE
MINIATURE SCHNAUZER
NEAPOLITAN MASTIFF
NORWEGIAN ELKHOUND
NORWICH TERRIER
NOVA SCOTIA DUCK TOLLING RETRIEVER
OLD ENGLISH SHEEPDOG
OTTERHOUND
PAPILLON
PATTERDALE TERRIER
PEMBROKE WELSH CORGI
PHARAOH HOUND
POMERANIAN
PORTUGUESE WATER DOG
RAT TERRIER
RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK
ROTTWEILER
SAINT BERNARD
SALUKI
SAMOYED
SCOTTISH TERRIER
SHETLAND SHEEPDOG
SHIBA INU
SHIH TZU
SHILOH SHEPHERD
SILKY TERRIER
SKYE TERRIER
SMOOTH FOX TERRIER
SOFT COATED WHEATEN TERRIER
SPINONE ITALIANO
STANDARD SCHNAUZER
TIBETAN MASTIFF
TIBETAN TERRIER
TOY FOX TERRIER
TOY POODLE
TREEING WALKER COONHOUND
VIZSLA
WEIMARANER
WELSH TERRIER
WIRE FOX TERRIER
YORKSHIRE TERRIER

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Open-Mindedness

Gombojav Tribe said...
Logically, one only needs to be open-minded until they are convinced. Once they decide what to believe, logically, they should be closed-minded. What's with perpetual open-mindedness anyway?