Friday, March 16. 2018
Two from Karl Kraus:
"Education is what most people receive, many pass on, and few have."
"Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein."
Thursday, March 15. 2018
"The same people who insist that buying a gun at a store, which at a minimum requires a government-issued ID and background check, is too easy will also tell you that requiring an ID to vote is an impossibly high hurdle to expect average people to overcome."
Via Woodpile Report
Monday, March 12. 2018
"We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us."
Golda Meir
Sunday, March 11. 2018
Sweetest thing heard yesterday, from a 7 year-old boy to 3 year-old little brother:
"Jamesie, would you like to help me blow out my birthday candles?"
Wednesday, March 7. 2018
Alexis de Tocqueville celebrated American women’s worldliness as a youthful humor that evolves into a matronly reserve. In Democracy in America, he described the daughters of our young republic and predicted “that the social changes which bring nearer to the same level the father and son, the master and servant, and superiors and inferiors generally speaking, will raise woman and make her more and more the equal of man.” Between cloistered superiority—for America owes its “singular prosperity and growing strength . . . to the superiority of their women”...
de Tocqueville, via Understanding the feminist movement that's remaking America.
Tuesday, March 6. 2018
"So please don't ask me why I write about God. Ask me why I ever write about anything else."
Matt Walsh
Saturday, March 3. 2018
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
John A. Shedd
Friday, March 2. 2018
"Don't be so humble, you aren't that great."
Golda Meir
Wednesday, February 28. 2018
Sunday, February 25. 2018
Society until yesterday had notables; today it only has celebrities.
Don Calacho. More at American Digest
Wednesday, February 21. 2018
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand (h/t Remus)
Tuesday, February 20. 2018
“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.”
- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Friday, February 16. 2018
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
From Frank Herbert's Dune, The Litany Against Fear
Thursday, February 15. 2018
Wednesday, February 14. 2018
“One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.”
Marty Rubin
Monday, February 12. 2018
Sunday, February 11. 2018
Via Thomas Sowell:
If, at a given time, three-quarters of the consumers prefer to buy the Acme brand of widgets to any other brand, then Acme Inc. will be said to ‘control’ three-quarters of the market, even though consumers control 100 percent of the market, since they can switch to another brand of widgets tomorrow if someone else comes up with a better widget, or stop buying widgets altogether if a new product comes along that makes widgets obsolete.
Should this apply to Google? Is Google a "utility"?
Friday, February 9. 2018
"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
Theodore Roosevelt practiced what he preached, to a fault
Thursday, February 8. 2018
"Vanity always thinks it knows best. And it thinks the end justifies the means.
Verily, the Twisted Nanny State is built on this premise: “In God we don’t trust.”"
David Warren
Wednesday, February 7. 2018
Wednesday, January 31. 2018
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life."
Jean-Luc Picard
Monday, January 29. 2018
There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
Norwegian saying, via Althouse.
Wednesday, January 3. 2018
There are sins I have entirely given up. Not, however, because I am so holy, but because I got sick of committing them; and tired of the associated self-loathing.
David Warren's post titled Protomartyr
Thursday, December 21. 2017
A quote: "If it doesn't suck, we don't do it."
And the SEAL's "40% Rule," which claims that, when anybody thinks they are giving their all, they usually unknowingly have another 60% in reserve.
Both via Navy SEAL’s Secret to Mental Toughness - Use this (scientifically) proven mental framework to push yourself beyond your limits. It sounds cheesy, but it works.
Monday, December 18. 2017
“The madman is not someone who has lost his reason, but someone who has lost everything except his reason.”
G.K. Chesterton
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