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Wednesday, December 19. 2007QQQCivilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. Ayn Rand QQQ, plus Ayn RandA science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. Max Gluckman, as quoted in a piece at Overcoming Bias about the guardians of Ayn Rand
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Thursday, December 13. 2007Space/Time Continuum IntactThe members who comprised it were seven-eighths of them, ...the meanest kind of bawling and blowing officeholders, office-seekers, pimps, malignants, conspirators, murderers, fancy-men, custom-house clerks, contracts, kept-editors, spaniels well train'd to carry and fetch, jobbers, infidels, disunionists, terrorists, mail riflers, slave-catchers, pushers of slavery, creatures of the President, creatures of would-be Presidents, spies, bribers, compromisers, lobbyists, spongers, ruin'd sports, expell'd gamblers, policy-backers, monte-dealers, duellists, carriers of conceal'd weapons, deaf men, pimpled men, scarred inside with vile disease, gaudy outside with gold chains made from the people's money and harlots' money twisted together; crawling, serpentine men, the lousy combinings and born freedom-sellers of the earth. - Walt Whitman on a Democratic Party Convention.
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QQQWhere old-fashioned despotism tyrannizes over men, democratic despotism infantilizes them. Roger Kimball Wednesday, December 12. 2007QQQViking Pundit to run Citigroup - What? Oh. Never mind, it's Vikram Pandit. You can understand my confusion. QQQWhile a good society should certainly never want to go to war, it must always be prepared to do so. But a society will not fight for what it believes, if all it believes is that it should never have to fight. Robert D. Kaplan, in Forgetting the Obvious, about societal decadence. h/t, Roger Kimball QQQHistory does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. Dwight D. Eisenhower Saturday, December 8. 2007Alcohol QQQsThis came in over the transom: Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink I feel shame. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this wine, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, 'It is better that I drink this wine and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver. WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering what the hell happened to your bra and panties. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. ' ~Frank Sinatra WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, smarter, faster and better looking than most people. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.' ~Henny Youngman WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may lead you to think people are laughing WITH you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.' ~Stephen Wright WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause you to think you can sing. The rest on continuation page below - Continue reading "Alcohol QQQs" Friday, December 7. 2007QQQThursday, December 6. 2007Another QQQA plan is just a guess in a party dress. Michael Yon, in his exciting Aug, 2005 piece Gates of Fire. How things have changed in Mosul.
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QQQ"How can we continue to believe that by taxing more and working fewer hours, we can ever create wealth and jobs?" Sarkozy, as quoted at No Pasaran Wednesday, December 5. 2007QQQI'm telling you, I don’t think that it’s the primary responsibility of the federal government to tell you what to eat. QQQLeftoid authoritarians think they are smarter and kinder than me, which entitles them to tell me how to do my life. Obviously, they have never met me. The Barrister of Maggie's Farm, in a recent conversation Saturday, December 1. 2007QQQDo you sometimes wonder what God wants to say to you? It's easy: He's got a book out. An Episcopalian priest pal, in a recent talk Tuesday, November 27. 2007QQQ"Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea," but "reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so to make it finite.... The poet asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits." G.K. Chesterton, as quoted at One Cosmos in Lunacy and Salvation in the Cosmic Funhouse Saturday, November 24. 2007QQQFred Thompson on the Democrats this week (h/t, Surber) “It’s like they’re all in training for the NASCAR, you know, nothing but a left turn, just steady as she goes, all the way around.” Monday, November 19. 2007QQQ"Life would be so much easier if I could just ditch this religion crap and swallow atheism...but I'm not a man of faith." Doug TenNapel, (a good fellow who used to have a blog, but rightly gave it up after his wife had a baby, if my memory serves me) Wednesday, November 14. 2007QQQSome writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Tom Paine, in Common Sense (1776), as quoted by A Jacksonian in a comment here. Tuesday, November 13. 2007QQQ'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.' Theodore Roosevelt 1907 Monday, November 12. 2007QQQ: Department of Departments DepartmentThere has been a change in the policy on policies, and therefore all the policies have had to be rewritten in order to be in compliance with the new policies policy. A compliance officer at a large investment bank, during a compulsory compliance training seminar this week. (All of above borrowed from Samizdata.) Saturday, November 10. 2007QQQsHeard on the radio yesterday: "Hard work won't kill you, but why take the chance?" "America is not a country for the faint-hearted." Friday, November 9. 2007QQQ
CS Lewis, 1943 (h/t, Dr. Bob)
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Thursday, November 8. 2007QQQDid I ever want to acquire the Sixties? No. But if I own the Sixties, I'll give 'em to you if you want 'em. You can have 'em. Bob Dylan (h/t, K)
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QQQOne of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention, and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read. Samuel Johnson, The Idler, #30, 1758, via a piece on reading real books from Vanderleun
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