Saturday, April 1. 2006
April 1. This is the day we are reminded of what we are the other three hundred and sixty four. Mark Twain
Friday, March 31. 2006
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. G.K. Chesterton (1924)
Thursday, March 30. 2006
A sampling of military staff officer quotes: "His knowledge on that topic is only power point deep..." MAJ (JS) "Ya know, in this Command, if the world were supposed to end tomorrow, it would still happen behind schedule." CWO4 (EUCOM) "No. Now I'm simply confused at a higher level..." Foreign GO/FO when asked if he had any questions following a transformation brief at JFCOM Read more of them at Irish Pennants
Tuesday, March 28. 2006
... if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Nietzsche
Monday, March 27. 2006
"I am serene. I have full awareness of what I have chosen. If I must die, I will die."
Friday, March 24. 2006
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. C.S. Lewis
Wednesday, March 22. 2006
The Judiciary...has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither force nor will. Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 78, 1788), as quoted in the Patriot Post yesterday.
Tuesday, March 21. 2006
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill
Monday, March 20. 2006
We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers. Robert E. Lee
Wednesday, March 15. 2006
Time and the hour run through the roughest day. William Shakespeare
Tuesday, March 14. 2006
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him no good. Samuel Johnson
Monday, March 13. 2006
A bad peace is even worse than war. Tacitus
Friday, March 10. 2006
I accept chaos. I'm not sure whether it accepts me. Bob Dylan
Wednesday, March 8. 2006
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. Winston Churchill
Tuesday, March 7. 2006
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? Abraham Lincoln
Monday, March 6. 2006
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. Mark Twain
Friday, March 3. 2006
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. William Shakespeare
Thursday, March 2. 2006
Some things need to be believed to be seen. Guy Kawasaki
Wednesday, March 1. 2006
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town? Mark Twain (1835-1910) Huckleberry Finn
Tuesday, February 28. 2006
We dedicate today's QQQ to Larry Summers. "I, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzo Galilei of Florence, being 70 years old... swear that I have always believed, believe now and, with God's help, will in the future believe all that the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church doth hold, preach and teach. But since, after having been admonished by this Holy Office entirely to abandon the false opinion that the sun is the center of the Universe and immovable, and that the Earth is not the center of the same and that it moves. That I was neither to hold, defend, nor teach in any manner whatsoever, either orally or in writing, the said false doctrine. After having received a notification that the said doctrine is contrary to Holy Writ, I wrote and published a book in which I treat this condemned doctrine and bring forward very persuasive arguments in its favor without answering them. I have been judged vehemently suspected of heresy, that is of having held and believed that the Sun is at the center of the Universe and immovable, and that the Earth is not at the center and that it moves. Therefore, wishing to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith these errors and heresies. I curse and detest them as well as any other error, heresy or sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. And I swear that for the future I shall neither say nor assert orally or in writing such things as may bring upon me similar suspicions. And if I know any heretic, or one suspected of heresy, I will denounce him to this Holy Office, or to the Inquisitor or Ordinary of the place in which I may be." - Galileo Galilei (recanting his scientific beliefs before the Inquistion, 1633)
Monday, February 27. 2006
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
Wednesday, February 22. 2006
Improbable things happen frequently because there are lots of opportunities for them to occur. Dr. Charles Bennett, NASA
Tuesday, February 21. 2006
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. Niccolo Machiavelli
Monday, February 20. 2006
How soon we forget history... Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. George Washington (Cool trivia, re his name. Wassa - a Saxon name. "Ing" Saxon for tribe. "Tun" - Saxon for a fortified village. Thus Wassa's family's fortified town. In England. The Saxons...then the Normans...then the Moslems? Good Grief! "The soul of the nation is under the knife" - Dylan)
Friday, February 17. 2006
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Bohr
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