If you don’t think…
If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much. – Ted Williams [Theodore Samuel Williams] (1918 – 2002) (Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »


![IMAGE: You sometimes have to use the carrot and the stick to motivate someone. [You sometimes have to use carrot and stick to motivate someone.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/horse-934534_640_silhouette-3350706_640-200x133.jpg)


![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)

![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)


![IMAGE: What you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others. / Do (to others) as you would be done by. [Whatever you would have people do for you, do the same for them.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/confucius-547153_640_statue-43361_640-100x75.jpg)
![IMAGE: The biter is bit. [The biter is sometimes bit.] / Many go for wool and come back shorn. [Many go out for wool and come home shorn.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/skull-476740_640-100x66.jpg)