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Old saw?

Anyone, yours truly included, understands this, of course. It’s the price we pay for having relationships and working with other people.

Still and all, we try whenever we can to practice what we preach.

In the long run, that’s what pays.

In China, the ultimate Taoist tenet shares this exact simple rule: Do what you say and say what you do.

Easy to say, of course, but anyone who has a thriving political or business career knows this is impossible to practice. Sometime, often, most of the time, they’ll say, one has to tell an untruth. If one tells the truth, all the truth and nothing but the truth, one won’t go far – at all.

Going far or near, it is my belief that it pays to practice what you preach. Otherwise, sooner or later they’ll find you out. And then, you’ll lose everything you have gained by saying one thing and doing another.

If you have gained anything of value at all, that is.

Anyways, it takes time for find things out. It takes time to find out if an old saw like “practice what you preach” is even true for you. That process, by the way, is called wising up.

With no further ado, let’s examine a few various media examples of “old saw” as something sentient and observant:

1. History may not repeat itself, as the old saw goes, but it does rhyme. Which historical times best “rhymes” with our current economic predicament? And what can we take away from such an analogy?