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Monday, July 2. 2007Experience: A QQQ BundleI took the photo below yesterday during a delightful sail on Long Island Sound. The Bauer Island sandbar is clearly indicated on nautical charts, but this is the second-best way to find it. The wiser and now more experienced skipper must be a grand fromage in Rye, NY, because a Rye Police boat came several miles into Connecticut to offer assistance and ferrying services! "Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." Gwynnie . “Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience." Theodore Roosevelt . "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." Aldous Huxley . "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." Mark Twain
QQQMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905, (h/t Anchoress, who has a cornucopia of fine QQQs in her piece: Bloom where you are planted) Friday, June 29. 2007QQQMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. George Orwell Thursday, June 28. 2007QQQ, plus the Court's school decision today“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discrimination on the basis of race.” Chief Justice John Roberts, in today's school decision. I have three comments: 1) It always seemed insane to me to discriminate by race in order to pretend to try to eliminate discrimination, 2) There is no racial discrimination in the US anymore, except in schools and businesses which are trying to keep their black and Hispanic (which isn't a race anyway - it's a language) numbers up, and thus discriminate against all other races, especially Asians, and 3) It was interesting, but not surprising, to see the dissenters focused on their preferred results, as they imagine them, instead of on the law. That's not what we pay them to do - their job is not to make policy and, when they do, they are playing God. We are a nation of laws, not men. QQQIn our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. George Orwell Wednesday, June 27. 2007QQQWe have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. George Orwell QQQ"In polite society, you don’t say certain things lest there be violence. In civil society, you can say what you need to, and there won’t be violence. Let’s stop being so damned polite to the wrong people." Augean Stables, in a piece on the NYT's handling of the Rushdie knighthood. Sunday, June 24. 2007QQQ"My first daughter is married to a NYFD firefighter, my second daughter is married to a NYPD officer, and my third daughter teaches in a Catholic school. It's like a New York triple crown." A caller on NYC's Religion on the Line radio show today. Tuesday, June 19. 2007QQQTeddy Roosevelt wrote to one of his sons: "I would rather have a boy of mine stand high in his studies than high in athletics, but I would a great deal rather have him show true manliness of character than show either intellectual or physical prowess." A quote from Cassandra's very fine Father's Day essay. QQQMarxism is the opiate of academia. Anonymous Thursday, June 14. 2007QQQThe ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated. Ronald Reagan (h/t, Tammy Bruce) Friday, June 8. 2007QQQIf my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. Albert Einstein (h/t, Free Market Fairy Tales) Thursday, June 7. 2007QQQRe "humanitarians": “A strange coldness and unreality hangs about their love for men. If you ask them whether they love humanity they will say, doubtless sincerely, that they do. But if you ask them touching on any of the classes that go to make up humanity, you will find that they hate them all. They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity” G.K. Chesterton, as quoted by Pat Deneen. Prof. Deneen's blog has got to be yet another regular read for us. QQQ"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 Thursday, May 31. 2007QQQ"Not since I was 16 have I wanted so badly to be on my own." Powerline's Scott Johnson, in response to Hillary Clinton's statement this week: "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few and for the few, time to reject the idea of an "on your own" society and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity. I prefer a "we're all in it together" society." How is that as a contrast to the earlier QQQ today from our hero Maggie Thatcher in 1980?
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QQQ"It is not the State that creates a healthy society. When the State grows too powerful people feel they count for less and less. The State drains society, not only of its wealth but also of initiative, of energy, the will to improve and innovate as well as to preserve what is best. Our aim is to let people feel that they count for more and more." Margaret Thatcher (h/t, Samizdata) Wednesday, May 30. 2007QQQ“…go figure out who is trying to kill you and who is actually trying to save your foolish ass.” The Anchoress, to Rosie O'Donnell Saturday, May 26. 2007QQQPost-modernism is the idea that everything is just an affectation, and so you can pull it apart and make little jokes out of the bits. I reject the approach, and not just in architecture. The problem with the Daily Show and Colbert is not that they are smarmy wags, it's that they derive their smugness from making fun of a establishment that no longer exists, if it ever did. Yes, everything sucks. But I hate to break it to you: You're the everything now. The proprietor of Sippican Cottage Friday, May 25. 2007QQQYou can't arrest me. I am a very important community member. New Hampshire State Senator Burt Cohen (D-Portsmouth), via No Looking Backwards Wednesday, May 23. 2007QQQWhen you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred. Niccolo Machiavelli Tuesday, May 22. 2007QQQ with photo"We don't think our way into how to live: we live our way into how to think." Rev. Tom King, S.J., in his homily at Georgetown's graduation Mass on Sunday morning.
Monday, May 21. 2007QQQHow am I going to prove that Al Gore doesn't know how to run an ice cream parlor, never mind a country - never mind a whole planet? How am I going to prove that someone that can't find billing records when they appear to be the most important thing in the world, is unlikely to be of use running the entire healthcare industry, where laying your hands on records in a timely fashion seems kind of important to the persons involved, as they point the physicians towards the correct limb to remove and so forth? Roger de Hauteville, King of Sicily, from this Maggie's Farm piece with His Majesty's usual fine photoshopping. Friday, May 18. 2007QQQThe man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. Muhammed Ali, who I still remember as Cassius Clay Thursday, May 17. 2007QQQI'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck. PJ O'Rourke
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