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2"'... But everyone affirms he practiced Ketman and that in private he was extremely daring and precise in establishing order in the doctrines which bear his name today.' We cannot wonder, therefore, that, as a certain Persian admitted in conversation with Gobineau, 'there is not a single true Moslem in Persia.'" 
3-- Czeslaw Milosz in 'The Captive Mind'|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuu|:ethics|:freedom|:politics|:zzzzz|:qqqq|:gg|:vvv
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5"... proof that wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."
6-- Thomas Jefferson (to Richard Price, 1/8/1789)|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:politics|:ethics|:economics
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8"[I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion."
9-- John Locke|:ethics|:freedom|:politics|:uuuuu|:secondamendment|:zzzz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxxx|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:gg|:vvv
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11"[Nobody] has ever successfully explained to me how people who are too stupid and helpless to care for themselves are smart enough to elect individuals who will take care of them. Once you understand that contradiction, you understand how tyrannies come to [pass] around the world."
12-- Anonymous (disappeared from the internet)|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:politics|:ethics|:uuuuuu|:xxxxx|:ggg|:zzzzz|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
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14"[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."
15-- Patrick Henry|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:freedom|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:worldhistory|:gg|:bbbb|:qqqqqq|:oooooo|:vvv
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17"1. Identify a respected institution.    
182. kill it.    
193. gut it.    
204. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.    
21#lefties"
22-- @iowahawkblog|:politics|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:zzzzz|:hhhh|:humor|:xxx|:bbbb|:qqqqq|:gg|:iiiii|:vvv
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24"Accuse your opponent of what only you are doing as you are doing it to create confusion."
25-- apocryphally Saul Alinsky or V.I. Lenin|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:zzzzzzz|:xxxxxxx|:*|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:gg|:llllll|:oooo|:vvv
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27"A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."
28-- Granville Hicks|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:ethics|:learning|:uuuuuuuu|:firstamendment|:politics|:freedom|:zzzzzzz|:gg|:xxxxxx|:tttt|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:ooooo|:vvv
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30"A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs."
31-- German Proverb|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181110_1553_33|:uuuu|:gg
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33"Actually, rural America has access to the Internet, Netflix, Twitter, and Amazon. But does 'cosmopolitan' America have any understanding of tradition, religion, freedom, or optimism? [in response to an accusation that rural America is disconnected]"
34-- Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly)|:__20180930_1204_18|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:xxxx|:gg|:zzzzz|:politics|:bbbb
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36"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist as a permanent form of government until the majority discovers it can vote  itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loss of fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."
37-- Peterson, E. T., 9 December, 1951, 'The Hard Core of Freedom,' The Daily Oklahoman, quoting Alexander Fraser, Tyler|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:gg|:uuuuu|:bbbbb|:qqqq|:vvv
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39"Adolf Hitler is the story of a failed liberal art student who blamed it on ethnicities he deemed privileged."
40-- @CatlinNya (Michelle Catlin)|:__20181110_1553_33|:freedom|:politics|:zzzzzz|:nnnnnn|:xxxxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbbb|:qqqq|:gg|:vvv
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42"A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, the they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." 
43-- apocryphally George Washington|:politics|:freedom|:secondamendment|:uuuu|:secondamendment|:zz|:xxxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:gg
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45"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it."
46-- William S. Burroughs|:politics|:secondamendment|:humor|:uuu|:freedom|:zzzz|:hhh|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gg|:iiiii
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48"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. "
49-- Mark Twain|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:humor|:zz|:hhhhh|:ggg|:vv
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51"A good government remains the greatest of human blessings, and no nation has ever enjoyed it." 
52-- Dean William R. Inge|:politics|:humor|:uu|:hhhhh|:gg|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:iiii
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54"A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted."
55-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:politics|:ethics|:freedom|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:secondamendment|:zz|:xxxxxxx|:gg|:qq
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57"A great pleasure in life is doing what others say you can't."
58-- anon|:ability|:growth|:learning|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180822_2044_29|:uu|:gg|:tt
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60"A healthy person can accept criticism."
61-- Adrian Rogers|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:learning|:ability|:gggggggg|:uuuuuu|:tttttt|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:lll|:xxxxx|:oooooo|:vvvv
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63"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment."
64-- Willis Player|:__20181110_1553_33|:politics|:ethics|:uuuu|:nnn|:zzzz|:xxxxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:iiiiii|:humor|:hhh|:oooo|:vvvv
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66"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. "
67-- Mark Twain|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:ethics|:zzzz|:hhhhhh|:ggg|:xxx|:bbbb|:qqqqqqq|:iiiiii|:lllllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
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69"A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth."
70-- Joseph Goebbels|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:ethics|:politics|:firstamendment|:xxxx|:bbbbb|:ggg|:qqq|:lllllll|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
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72"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them."
73-- P. J. O'Rourke|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:politics|:ethics|:humor|:hhh|:zzz|:uu|:qq|:gg|:iiii
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75"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
76-- George Orwell|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:ethics|:humor|:hhhhhh|:uuuuuu|:xxxxx|:gggg|:zzzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:iiiiii|:oooo|:vvvvvvvv
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78"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
79-- I. F. Stone|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:uuuu|:humor|:freedom|:xxx|:hhh|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbb|:qqq|:gg|:lllll|:oooooo|:vvvv
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81"All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one. "
82-- Malala Yousafzai|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:learning|:growth|:tt|:gg
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84"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."
85-- Adolf Hitler|:politics|:zzzz|:gg|:qqqqq|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181119_1402_25|:lllll|:oooo|:vvv
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87"All science is either Physics or stamp collecting." 
88-- Lord Kelvin|:science|:learning|:uuuuuu|:humor|:hmm|:tech|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhhhhh|:xxx|:zzzzzz|:ggg|:tttttt|:bbbb|:ssssss|:qqq|:iiiii|:ooooo|:vvvvvvv
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90"All socialism involves slavery."
91-- Herbert Spencer|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuuuu|:politics|:freedom|:econ|:zzzzzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:gg|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
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93"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." 
94-- Edmund Burke|:politics|:zzzz|:uuuuuu|:freedom|:xxxxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gg|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:lll|:ooooo|:vvvvvvv
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96"Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency. "
97-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:economics|:zzzzzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:gg|:oooo|:vvv
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99"A man followed a young girl into a Target bathroom in Texas saying he self identified as a woman. The man's teeth were knocked out by the girl's father, who says he self identifies as the tooth fairy."
100-- anon|:politics|:freedom|:uuuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180822_2044_29|:zz|:humor|:hhh|:qqq|:gg|:iiiii
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102"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."
103-- Lysander Spooner|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:politics|:zzz|:xx|:qqq|:gg
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105"A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away."
106-- Charles Schwab|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:humor|:hhh|:politics|:gggg|:uuuuu|:qqq|:vv
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108"A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity."
109-- Joseph Goebbels|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:uuuu|:zzzzz|:xxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:*|:qqq|:gg|:ooo|:vv
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111"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
112-- Oscar Wilde|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:politics
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114"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
115-- James Madison, The Federalist Papers|:secondamendment|:politics|:freedom|:zz|:ggg|:qqq|:uuu|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181119_1402_25
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117"America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes."
118-- Ayn Rand|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:zzz|:qqq|:gg
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120"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
121-- Mahatma Gandhi|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uu|:politics|:secondamendment|:zz|:ggggggg|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:xxxxx
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123"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. ... A murderer is less to be feared."
124-- Cicero|:__20181128_0002_38|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:learning|:humor|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqqqqqq|:uuuuuuu|:zzzzz|:gggg|:llllll|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvvvv
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126"And Murti-Bing is more tempting to an intellectual than to a peasant or laborer. For the intellectual, the New Faith is a candle that he circles like a moth.  
127
128In the end, he throws himself into the flame for the glory of mankind.  
129
130We must not treat this desire for self-immolation lightly."
131-- Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind|:politics|:uuuuuuu|:zzzzzz|:xxxxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqqqqq|:bbbbbbbb|:gg|:oooooo|:vvv
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133"An educated public is the keystone of our arch of government." 
134-- Thomas Jefferson|:ethics|:politics|:learning|:uuuu|:freedom|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxx|:zzzz|:gg|:ttttttt|:qqq|:vvv
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136"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."
137-- T. S. Eliot|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:humor|:hmm|:uu|:hhh|:qqq|:gg|:iiii
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139"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."
140-- Thomas Jefferson|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:politics|:ethics|:zzz|:xxx|:qqq|:gg
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142"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them." 
143-- Werner Heisenberg|:science|:ability|:humor|:hmm|:uuu|:-short-|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzz|:hh|:learning|:ttttttt|:sssss|:gggg|:vvv
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145"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. "
146-- Mark Twain|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:zzzzzzz|:xxxxxxx|:gggggggg|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqq|:oooooo|:vvvv
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148"An unexamined life is not worth living."
149-- Socrates|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:ethics|:uuuuu|:xxx|:zzzz|:ggggg|:oooo|:vvv
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151"Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one." 
152-- Sam Rayburn|:ability|:learning|:humor|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhh|:tt|:gg
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154"Anyone smart enough to be President is smart enough not to be President." 
155-- anon|:politics|:humor|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:ggg|:hhhh|:qqq|:iiiii|:oooo|:vvv
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157"Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign."
158-- William J. Clinton|:z|:u|:politics|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gg
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160"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
161-- ARTHUR C. CLARKE, Profiles of the Future|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uu|:tech|:zz|:ggg
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163"A person who isn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory doesn’t understand what has been said."
164-- Neils Bohr|:science|:humor|:hmm|:hhhh|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:sss|:gg
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166"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. "
167-- Sun Tzu|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:gggg|:xxxx|:bbbb|:qqq|:ooooo|:vvvv
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169"A problem well stated is a problem half-solved."
170-- Charles Kettering|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:politics|:science|:zz|:uu|:sss|:gg
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172"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." 
173-- George Washington|:politics|:ethics|:uuuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxx|:zzzz|:qqq|:gg
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175"Argument is the worst sort of conversation."
176-- Jonathan Swift|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:ethics|:politics|:gggg|:uuuu|:ttttt|:learning|:qqq|:oooo
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178"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." 
179-- Abraham Lincoln|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuu|:xxxxx|:ethics|:gggggggg|:bbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:oooooo|:nnnn|:vvvvv
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181"Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from."
182-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:economics|:humor|:hhhh|:ggg|:qqq|:zzzzz|:iiiiii|:oooo|:vvv
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184"A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom."
185-- Milton Friedman|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:gg|:uuuu|:bbbb|:qqq|:oooo|:vvvv
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187"As someone who has worked both in private industry and in academia, whenever I hear about academics wanting to teach ethics to people in business, I want to puke. "
188-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:learning|:gg|:economics|:xx|:tt|:qqq|:zzzz|:oooo|:vv
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190"As used in this discussion, cultural Marxism relates to programs and activities that arise out of Gramscian Marxism, Fabian Socialism and most directly from the Frankfurt School. The Frankfurt strategy deconstructs societies through attacks on culture by imposing a dialectic that forces unresolvable contradictions under the rubric of critical theory. The result is induced nihilism, a belief in everything that is actually the belief in nothing." 
191-- Rich Higgins (from POTUS and Political Warfare)|:politics|:freedom|:z|:x|:1|:0|:*|:9|:uuuu|:zzz|:zcom Higgins understands the Red/Green alliance also|:qqq|:gg|:vvv
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193"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie."
194-- Vladimir Lenin|:__20181128_0002_38|:politics|:secondamendment|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqqqqqq|:uuuuu|:gggg|:xxxxx|:oooo|:vvvvv
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196"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
197-- Aristotle|:politics|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ethics|:uuuu|:zzzz|:xxx|:qqq|:gg
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199"At one time, it was well understood that adversity taught valuable lessons, which reduce the probability of repeating foolish decisions. But, today, the welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to flourish. "
200-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:zzzzzz|:bbbb|:qqqqqq|:gggg|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvv
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202"A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened."
203-- George Orwell|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:ethics|:ggg|:uuuuu|:xxxxx|:zzzzzz|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:lllllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
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205"A true friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are. "
206-- Anonymous|:__20180822_2044_29|:ability|:growth|:uu|:zz|:gg|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9
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208"At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all society, all groups, and states, exist for that person's benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western society."
209-- Robert Kennedy|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:freedom|:politics|:religion|:ethics|:economics|:uuu|:qqq|:gg|:vvvvvv
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211"At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose." 
212-- Aristotle|:ethics|:politics|:learning|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:ability|:zzzzz|:xxx|:gggggggg|:ttttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:vvvvvvv
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214"A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself."
215-- Albert Einstein|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:uu|:ethics|:qqq|:gg
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217"A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion."
218-- Hugo Black|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:religion|:ethics|:u|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:gg
219+++
220"A wise old man one told me when I was a kid 'remember, a free press can enslave you more quickly than a controlled press, because they are trusted'."
221-- @surveryortom|:firstamendment|:politics|:freedom|:worldhistory|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180822_2044_29|:zz|:qqq|:gg
222+++
223"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." 
224-- Wernher von Braun|:science|:humor|:hmm|:learning|:uuuu|:hhhhhh|:zzzz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ttttt|:sssss|:gggg|:vvv
225+++
226"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in." 
227-- Aristotle|:learning|:politics|:ethics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:xxxxx|:zzzzz|:gggggggg|:ttttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:lllllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
228+++
229"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. "
230-- (apocryphally) Mark Twain|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:humor|:health|:hhhhh|:gg
231+++
232"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."
233-- Sun Tzu|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48
234+++
235"Before we had the term, we used to deride 'virtue signalers' by noting they were people 'who knew the price of everything but the cost of nothing'. Now they have devolved to the point of knowing nothing at all while reinforcing it with strident bad manners."
236-- anon qcf|:uuuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:economics|:learning|:xx|:zzz|:tt|:qq|:gg
237+++
238"Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience."
239-- Viktor E. Frankl|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uu|:politics|:religion|:ethics|:learning|:ttt|:qq|:gg
240+++
241"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of."
242-- James Madison (Federalist 46)|:secondamendment|:politics|:freedom|:zzzzz|:gggg|:qqqqqqq|:uuuuuu|:__20181119_1402_25|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
243+++
244"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. "
245-- (apocryphally) Mark Twain|:__20180903_2112_08|:ethics|:humor|:ggg|:hhhhh|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:iiiii
246+++
247"Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos."
248-- John Marshall|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uu|:politics|:zz|:gg|:qqq
249+++
250"Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out."
251-- George Carlin|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:ethics|:humor|:hhhh|:uuuuu|:xxxx|:ggg|:zzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqqq|:iiiiii|:llll|:vv
252+++
253"Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks."
254-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:gg|:zzzzzz|:ooooooo|:vvvv
255+++
256"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education."
257-- Alfred Whitney Griswold|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:secondamendment|:learning|:uuu|:ttt|:qqq|:gg
258+++
259"But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."
260-- Mahatma Gandhi|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:gggggggg|:zzzzzzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:llll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
261+++
262"Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin."
263-- Adolf Hitler|:uuuu|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:religion|:economics|:*|:bbbbb|:qqq|:gg
264+++
265"Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge."
266-- Albert Einstein|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:economics|:learning|:zzz|:xxxxx|:tttttt|:gggg|:qqqqqq|:vvv
267+++
268"Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life." 
269-- (apocryphal Benjamin Franklin)|:ability|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:uuuu|:freedom|:ethics|:ability|:zz|:gg
270+++
271"Character is determined by choice, not opinion." 
272-- Aristotle|:politics|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:learning|:uuuu|:xxxx|:zzz|:tttttt|:ggg|:vvv
273+++
274"China is going to take over the USA, eventually. The average Federal official and the average citizen are, with respect, just far too stupid to collectively organize a decently coordinated & intelligent defense. The United States is doomed because people are just too dumb." 
275-- @langdaleca|:politics|:freedom|:x|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:zzzz|:zcom And the OPM hack compromised everyone with security clearances. If we were serious we'd fire the entire government and start over LOL|:qqq|:gg
276+++
277"Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure."
278-- Adolf Hitler|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:freedom|:politics|:religion|:ethics|:*|:bbbbb|:qqq|:zzzzz|:gg|:vv
279+++
280"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt."
281-- Mahatma Gandhi|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:politics|:ethics|:zzz|:qqq|:gg
282+++
283"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."
284-- Mao Zedong|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:freedom|:gg|:uuuu|:zzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:xxxxx|:oooooo|:vvvv
285+++
286"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. "
287-- John F. Kennedy|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:freedom|:bbbb|:qqq|:gg|:rrrrr|:ooooo|:vvv
288+++
289"'Confronting' everyone who politically disagrees with you, everywhere they go, seems like a call for civil war. Is that what @People4Bernie really want? Is that something they really think they could win? #shortsighted"
290-- Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly)|:__20180930_1204_18|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxxx|:zzzzz|:uuuuuu|:politics|:bbbbb|:qqq|:gg|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvv
291+++
292"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."
293-- Thomas Jefferson|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:zzz|:xx|:qqqqq|:gg|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
294+++
295"Conservatives have historically seen people falling through the cracks in society and said, That's the way things work, survival of the fittest. Liberals see people falling through the cracks and say, We've got to do something about those people falling through the cracks, so we need a strong government that can provide programs and assist those people. Populists say there shouldn't be any cracks; let's fix them."
296-- Jim Hightower|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181110_1553_33|:politics|:ethics|:tech|:hhh|:zzzz|:uuuu|:nnnnn|:bbbb|:qqqq|:gg
297+++
298"Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds."
299-- Milton Friedman|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:economics|:uuuu|:qqq|:gg
300+++
301"Control healthcare and you control the people."
302-- Saul Alinsky|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:politics|:zzzz|:xxxxx|:uuuuu|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:gg|:oooo|:vvvvv
303+++
304"Courage: Two cannibals having oral sex."
305-- anon|:humor|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhh|:gg
306+++
307"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
308-- Ambrose Redmoon|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:ethics|:politics|:ggg|:uuuuu|:bbbbb|:ooooo|:vvvv
309+++
310"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."
311-- Arthur Koestler|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:ethics|:learning|:ggg|:uuuu|:tttttt|:bbb|:vv
312+++
313"Darwinian adaptation to environment applies not only to nature but also to society. Just as you don't find eagles living in the ocean or fish living on mountain tops, so you don't find leftists concentrated where their ideas have to stand the test of performance. "
314-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:zzzz|:xxxx|:bbbb|:qqq|:gg|:vv
315+++
316"Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal."
317-- Adolf Hitler|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:religion|:ethics|:uuu|:*|:bbbbb|:qqqq|:zzzzzz|:gg
318+++
319"Democracy is indispensable to socialism."
320-- Vladimir Lenin|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuu|:politics|:*|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:gg|:xxxxx
321+++
322"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
323-- H.L. Mencken|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:humor|:hhhhhh|:ethics|:learning|:uuuuu|:xxxxx|:gggg|:zzzzz|:tttt|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:iiiiii|:ooooo|:vvv
324+++
325"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated." 
326-- G.K. Chesterton|:politics|:uuuuuu|:humor|:hmm|:hhhhhh|:xxxxx|:zzzzzz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:gg|:iiiiii|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
327+++
328"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
329-- James Bovard|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:politics|:zzz|:hhhh|:humor|:qqqq|:gg|:iiiiii|:oooo|:vvv
330+++
331"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future."
332-- Adolf Hitler|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:uu|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:*|:qqq|:zzzz|:gg
333+++
334"Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy."
335-- Ludwig von Mises|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:uuuu|:zzzz|:xxxx|:qqqq|:gg|:vvv
336+++
337"Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force."
338-- George Orwell|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:ethics|:uuuu|:xxx|:zzzzz|:bbbb|:qqq|:gg|:oooooo|:vvv
339+++
340"'Did what I want happen? No. Then my aim or my methods were wrong. I still have something to learn.' That is the voice of authenticity. 'Did what I want happen? No. Then the world is unfair. People are jealous, and too stupid to understand. It is the fault of something or someone else.' That is the voice of inauthenticity. It is not too far from there to 'they should be stopped' or 'they must be hurt' or 'they must be destroyed.'"
341-- Jordan Peterson (12 Rules for Life)|:__20181124_1255_41|:politics|:learning|:lllllll|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqqqqq|:gggggggg|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
342+++
343"Do not consider Collectivists as 'sincere but deluded idealists'. The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not 'idealistic,' no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives."
344-- Ayn Rand|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:uu|:qqqqqq|:zzzz|:gg|:xxxxx|:vvv
345+++
346"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."
347-- Socrates|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:ethics|:politics|:gggggggg|:zzzzzzz|:xxxxxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:ll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
348+++
349"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each." 
350-- Plato|:ethics|:learning|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uu|:zz|:tttt|:gg|:vvv
351+++
352"Don't let schooling interfere with your education. "
353-- Mark Twain|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:learning|:uu|:ggg|:ttttttt|:vvv
354+++
355"Do people who advocate special programs for blacks realize that the government has had special programs for American Indians, including affirmative action, since the early 19th century - and that American Indians remain one of the few groups worse off than blacks? "
356-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:xx|:zzzzz|:qqq|:gg|:oooo|:vvv
357+++
358"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. "
359-- Mark Twain|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:zzzz|:hhhhhh|:gggggggg|:xxx|:bbbb|:qqqq|:iiiiii|:ooooo|:vvvv
360+++
361"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." 
362-- Theodore Roosevelt|:ability|:uu|:growth|:learning|:ethics|:zzz|:gggg|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:tttttt|:qqqq|:vvv
363+++
364"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. "
365-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:xxxxx|:gggggggg|:zzzzzz|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
366+++
367"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
368-- Oscar Wilde|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:learning
369+++
370"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
371-- Malcolm S. Forbes|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:learning|:ethics|:uuuu|:ttttttt|:gggg|:vv
372+++
373"Elections should be held on April 16th - the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. "
374-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuu|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:economics|:humor|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhhh|:qqq|:eeeee|:gg|:zzzzz|:iiiiii
375+++
376"Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate."
377-- Sun Tzu|:politics|:worldhistory|:war|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180822_2044_29|:zz|:qqq|:gg|:oooo|:vvv
378+++
379"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."
380-- George Orwell|:politics|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:politics|:ethics|:uuuu|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:bbbb|:qqq|:ggg
381+++
382"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."
383-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:businessecon|:politics|:growth|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:xxx|:zzzzz|:gggg|:eeeee|:qqqq|:economics
384+++
385"Envy plus rhetoric equals 'social justice'. "
386-- Thomas Sowell|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:ethics|:zzzzz|:xxx|:bbbb|:qqqqq|:eeee|:gg|:oooo|:vvv
387+++
388"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
389-- Will Rogers|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:politics|:ethics|:humor|:hmm|:hhhhhh|:zz|:uuu|:gg|:vvv
390+++
391"Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an 'independent' agency operated by selfless public servants striving to 'fine-tune' the economy through monetary policy. In reality, however, a non-political governmental institution is as likely as a barking cat."
392-- Thomas DiLorenzo|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:humor|:uuu|:hhh|:eeee|:qqqq|:zzzzz|:gg|:iiii
393+++
394"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
395-- Will Rogers|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:economics|:humor|:hhhhhh|:gggggggg|:iiiiiii|:qqqq|:ooooo|:vvvv
396+++
397"Everybody wants to change the world but nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes."
398-- P. J. O'Rourke|:__20181128_0002_38|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhhhh|:iiiii|:ggggggg|:qqqqqqqq|:uuuuuu|:humor|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvv
399+++
400"Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action."
401-- Ayn Rand|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gg|:eeeee|:qqq
402+++
403"Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen."
404-- Ayn Rand|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:religion|:ethics|:uuuu|:eeeee|:qqq|:gg|:vvv
405+++
406"Everyone sees tactics, but only Generals see strategy. "
407-- Sun Tzu|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:gggg|:xxx|:zzz|:bbbb|:qqq|:oooo|:vvv
408+++
409"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:
410
411(1)  It's completely impossible.
412(2)  It's possible, but it's not worth doing.
413(3)  I said it was a good idea all along." 
414-- Arthur C. Clarke|:science|:tech|:humor|:-short-|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gggg|:hhhhhh|:vvv
415+++
416"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant." 
417-- Plato|:ethics|:politics|:uu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzz|:*|:qqq|:gg
418+++
419"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
420-- Albert Einstein|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:gggggggg|:zzzzzzz|:xxxxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqq|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
421+++
422"Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people."
423-- John F. Kennedy|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:zzzz|:qqq|:eeee|:gg
424+++
425"Evil always overplays its hand."
426-- anon|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48
427+++
428"Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments."
429-- Confucius|:politics|:freedom|:zzzz|:gggggggg|:qqqq|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181119_1402_25|:ll|:oooooo|:vvvv
430+++
431"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
432-- Thomas Jefferson (Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge)|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:zzzz|:bbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:gg|:lll|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
433+++
434"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."
435-- (apocryphally?) Mark Twain|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:humor|:hhhhhh|:zzz|:0|:1|:2|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ggg|:iiiii|:oooo|:vvv
436+++
437"Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all."
438-- Richard Feynman|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:politics|:ethics|:economics
439+++
440"False words are not only evil in themselves but they infect the soul with evil."
441-- Plato|:ethics|:politics|:zzzzzzz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:xxxxxxx|:gggggggg|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
442+++
443"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic."
444-- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:politics|:zzzzz|:freedom|:qqqqqq|:gggg|:lllll|:xxxxx|:oooooo|:vvvv
445+++
446"Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives: Anything that can go wrong, will ... at the worst possible moment."
447-- anon|:humor|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hh|:gg
448+++
449"Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us."
450-- Aristotle|:ethics|:politics|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uu|:zzz|:ggggg|:qqqq
451+++
452"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."
453-- Confucius|:__20181124_1255_41|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:lllll|:gggggggg|:qqqqqqqq|:zzzz|:xxxxx|:ooo|:vvv
454+++
455"Firearms are second only to the constitution in importance. They are the people's liberty teeth." 
456-- (apocryphally George Washington)|:politics|:freedom|:secondamendment|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzzzz|:xxxx|:bbb|:gg
457+++
458"For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find."
459-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:*|:ethics|:politics|:uuuu|:xxx|:zzzzz|:qqq|:gg|:lll|:vv
460+++
461"For Aristotle, friendship in its highest form has a political or civic dimension. 
462
463We love our friends not just because we like each other or are useful to each other, but because we share the same values and ideals for our society, and come together to advance those ideals."
464-- Jules Evans, Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations|:ethics|:politics|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uu|:qqq|:ggg
465+++
466"For some people, it is not enough that cops put themselves at risk to protect the rest of us. They want cops to risk their lives for the sake of handling criminals more gently. "
467-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:zzzzz|:xxx|:bbbb|:qqq|:gg|:oooo|:vv
468+++
469"For the compassionate, sorrow is more easily displaced by another sorrow than by joy."
470-- Nassim Taleb|:politics|:uuu|:zzz|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gg|:qqq
471+++
472"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are."
473-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:*|:ethics|:uuuuu|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:gggggggg|:qqqqqq|:lllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
474+++
475"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
476-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:uuuuu|:bbbbb|:gggg|:qqqqq|:ooooo|:vvv
477+++
478"Four legs good, two legs bad!"
479-- George Orwell|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:uuuuu|:xxxx|:ggg|:zzzzz|:bbbbbb|:qqqqq|:ooooo|:vvv
480+++
481"Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in temperament, character, and capacity - and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so."
482-- Frank Chodorov|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:qqq|:gg|:vvv
483+++
484"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."
485-- Ronald Reagan|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:freedom|:politics|:zzzz|:xxx|:qqq|:ggg|:ooooo|:vvv
486+++
487"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men."
488-- Mortimer Adler|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:zzz|:qqqqq|:ggg|:vvv
489+++
490"From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking." 
491-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:politics|:z|:*|:x|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:u|:qqq|:ggg
492+++
493"Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace."
494-- Milton Friedman|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:eeeee|:qqq|:ggg
495+++
496"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." 
497-- Elbert Hubbard|:humor|:learning|:hhhhh|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gg|:tt
498+++
499"Gentleman: Knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn't."
500-- anon|:humor|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hh|:gg
501+++
502"George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles."
503-- Author Unknown|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:learning|:humor|:hhh|:uuu|:ggg|:tt|:bbb|:iiii|:vv
504+++
505"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."
506-- Vladimir Lenin|:__20181128_0002_38|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:politics|:qqqqqqq|:gggg|:uuuu|:lllll|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvvvvv
507+++
508"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." 
509-- Plato|:ethics|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:xxx|:zzzz|:ggg|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:oooo|:vvvvvvv
510+++
511"Google Motto 2004: 'Don't be evil.' 
512Google Motto 2010: 'Evil is tricky to define.'
513Google Motto 2014: 'We build military robots.'"
514-- anon|:politics|:tech|:x|:z|:humor|:hhhhhh|:0|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gggg|:bbbbbb|:qqq|:iiiiiii|:lll|:oooooo|:vvvv
515+++
516"Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law."
517-- Clarence Thomas|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:qqqq|:ggg|:vvv
518+++
519"Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help."
520-- Mahatma Gandhi|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:qqq|:eeee|:ggg
521+++
522"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
523-- Ronald Reagan|:uuuuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:humor|:hmm|:hhhhh|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:iiiiii|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvv
524+++
525"Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence."
526-- Jim Babka|:uuuuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:zzz|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:eeee|:ggg
527+++
528"Government is just the word for the armed robberies we all do together. "
529-- @NoLongerBennett|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:secondamendment|:ethics|:bbbb|:qqq|:ggg|:vvvv
530+++
531"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
532-- Frederic Bastiat|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:zzzz|:qqqqqq|:eeeee|:gg|:xxxxx|:oooooo|:vvvvvv
533+++
534"Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free."
535-- Harry Browne|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:zzzz|:xxxxx|:qqqqqq|:ggg
536+++
537"Government should stay the hell out of people's business."
538-- Barry Goldwater|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:qqq|:gg
539+++
540"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
541-- Ronald Reagan|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:humor|:hhhhhh|:zzz|:qqq|:eeee|:ggg|:iiiiii|:oooo
542+++
543"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
544-- Albert Einstein|:politics|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:ethics|:ggg|:xxxxx|:zzzzz|:bbbbbbb|:qqq|:ooooo|:vvv
545+++
546"Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them."
547-- Walter F. Mondale|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:politics|:secondamendment|:ethics|:zz|:qqq|:gg
548+++
549"Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound."
550-- L. Neil Smith|:humor|:hh|:iiiiii|:secondamendment|:politics|:freedom|:zzzzz|:gg|:qqqqqqq|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181119_1402_25|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
551+++
552"Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
553-- anon|:humor|:politics|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ggg|:hhhh|:iiiii|:oooo
554+++
555"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have."
556-- Unknown|:politics|:ability|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:freedom|:learning|:uuuuuu|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:gggggggg|:ttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqq|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
557+++
558"Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today? "
559-- Thomas Sowell|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:xxx|:zzz|:bbbbb|:qqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
560+++
561"Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Ohm are driving down the highway when they’re pulled over. As the officer walks up to the car, Heisenberg rolls down the window. The officer asks him, "Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"
562
563To which Heisenberg replies, "No, officer, but I can tell you exactly where I was."
564
565The officer is confused, and says, "Sir, you were going 90 in a 60 zone."
566
567Heisenberg angrily smacks the steering wheel and says, "Well, great! Now I’m lost!"
568
569The officer continues to question Heisenberg, and becomes increasingly doubtful of his sobriety. He begins searching the car for alcohol, and when he gets to the trunk, he leans around the side and yells, "Did you know you have a dead cat in your trunk!?"
570
571Annoyed, Schrödinger complains, "Well, I do now!"
572
573The officer, quite disconcerted, moves to arrest the occupants.
574
575Ohm resists."
576-- Anon|:science|:humor|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhhh|:gg
577+++
578"Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. "
579-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:ethics|:economics|:zzzzzz|:xxxx|:bbbbb|:qqq|:eeeee|:ggg|:rrrrr|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
580+++
581"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." 
582-- Thomas Paine|:z|:politics||:ethics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:xxxxx|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:gg|:llll|:oooooo|:vvv
583+++
584"He who defends everywhere, defends nowhere. "
585-- Sun Tzu|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:zzz|:politics|:xx|:bbbb|:qqqq|:gggg|:ooooo|:vvv
586+++
587"He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists."
588-- Ludwig von Mises|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:politics|:economics|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:eeeeee|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:ooooooo|:vvvv
589+++
590"He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection."
591-- Confucius|:__20181124_1255_41|:lll|:ggggggg|:qqqqqq|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxxx|:oooooo|:vvvv
592+++
593"Hi, I'm Julian Assange. I give private information on corporations and government to you for free and the media calls me a criminal.
594
595Hi, I'm Mark Zuckerberg. I give your private information to corporations and government for money and the media called me Man of the Year."
596-- anon|:__20181124_1255_41|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:llllll|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvvvv
597+++
598"Historians of the future will have a hard time figuring out how so many organized groups of strident jackasses succeeded in leading us around by the nose and morally intimidating the majority into silence. "
599-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:zzz|:bbbb|:qqq|:ggg|:vv
600+++
601"History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn." 
602-- Edmund Burke|:politics||:ethics|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:zzzz|:xxx|:qqq|:gggggggg
603+++
604"Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."
605-- anon|:humor|:learning|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:humor|:hhhhhh|:ttt|:ggg
606+++
607"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an Anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
608-- Ronald Reagan|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:humor|:hhhh|:uuuuu|:bbbbbb|:qqqqq|:gg|:iiiiii|:zzzz|:ooooo|:vvvv
609+++
610"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." 
611-- George Washington|:politics|:freedom|:uuuuu|:zzzzz|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxxx|:qqqqqq|:ggggg
612+++
613"I am a German nationalist, that means I am openly committed to my Volkstrum. All of my thoughts and actions belong to it. I am a socialist. I see before me no class or rank, but rather a community of people who are connected by blood, united by language, and subject to the same collective fate."
614-- Adolf Hitler|:politics|:freedom|:zzzzzzz|:gg|:qqqqq|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181119_1402_25|:vv
615+++
616"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
617-- Winston Churchill|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:learning|:ability|:ttttttt|:gggg|:uuuuu|:vvv
618+++
619"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." 
620-- Benjamin Franklin (On the price of corn, and the management of the poor)|:politics|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:z|:uuuu|:freedom|:ethics|:politics|:eeee|:qqqq|:ggg
621+++
622"I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics."
623-- Ayn Rand|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uu|:politics|:humor|:zzz|:hh|:gg
624+++
625"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."
626-- Wilhelm von Humboldt|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ability|:ethics|:uuuu|:gggg|:tttt|:bbbb|:qqq|:ooo|:vvv
627+++
628"I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."                                  . 
629-- John F Kennedy|:humor|:science|:hhhhhh|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gg
630+++
631"I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights."
632-- Abraham Lincoln|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:zzzz|:economics|:eeee|:qqqqqq|:gggg|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvvvvvv
633+++
634"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." 
635-- James Madison|:ethics|:politics|:freedom|:zzzzz|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxxx|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:lllll|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
636+++
637"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
638-- Mark Twain|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:ethics|:humor|:hhhhhh|:gggg|:uuuu|:tttt|:ability|:qqq|:oooo|:vvv
639+++
640"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar."
641-- Richard Feynman|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:learning
642+++
643"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
644-- James Madison|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:politics|:economics|:zzz|:xxxx|:bbbbb|:qqq|:gg|:ooooo|:vvvvv
645+++
646"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery." 
647-- George Washington|:politics|:freedom|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:zcom See anachronistic bigoteering (via Taleb)|:zz|:xx|:gg|:qq
648+++
649"I can't respect anyone who shouts & claims moral superiority over another. I won't waste my time trying to dissuade hateful, judgmental rhetoric. Engaging those who are emotionally erratic is a waste of time. All learning is state dependent; they're simply in no state to listen."
650-- @imatriarch|:__20180930_1204_18|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxx|:uuuu|:politics|:bbbb|:qq|:gg
651+++
652"I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism & demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians."
653-- Thomas Jefferson (to Richard Price, 1/8/1789)|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:politics|:religion|:ethics|:economics|:vvv
654+++
655"Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare. "
656-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:learning|:zzzzzz|:xxx|:ttttttt|:bbbb|:gggg|:qqqqq|:oooo|:vvv
657+++
658"I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend."
659-- Abraham Lincoln|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:uuuu|:ggg|:vv
660+++
661"I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty. "
662-- Imelda Marcos|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:humor|:hhhhh|:gg
663+++
664"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. "
665-- Mark Twain|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:humor|:zzz|:hhhhhh|:gg|:vvv
666+++
667"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
668-- Voltaire|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:politics|:uuuu|:zzzz|:xxx|:ggg|:bbbb|:qqq|:vvv
669+++
670"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."
671-- Clarence Thomas|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:politics|:ethics|:zz|:qqq|:gg|:vv
672+++
673"I don't believe people should be able to own guns."
674-- President Barack Obama (in conversation with John Lott at UC)|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:u|:politics|:secondamendment|:*|:qqq|:zzzzz|:gg
675+++
676"I drink to make other people interesting. "
677-- Ralph Puke|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:hhhhhh|:humor|:ggg|:vvv
678+++
679"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
680-- Thomas Jefferson (1816, in a letter to C. Yancey)|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:freedom|:politics|:learning|:ttttttt|:gggg|:bbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvvvv
681+++
682"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
683-- Arthur C. Clarke|:science|:-short-|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:tech|:humor|:hhh|:uu|:gg
684+++
685"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution."
686-- Abraham Lincoln|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:zzzzz|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvv
687+++
688"If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words."
689-- anonymous|:humor|:hhhh|:secondamendment|:politics|:freedom|:zzzz|:gg|:qqqqq|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181119_1402_25|:iiiiii|:oooo|:vvv
690+++
691"If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." 
692-- Isaac Newton|:learning|:science|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zz|:gg|:ttttttt|:sssss|:vvv
693+++
694"If it wasn't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them."
695-- anon|:humor|:politics|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhhhh|:gg
696+++
697"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." 
698-- George Washington|:politics|:freedom|:ethics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:firstamendment|:xxxxx|:zzzz|:qqqqqq|:ggggg|:lllll|:ooooooo|:vvvv
699+++
700"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?"
701-- Frederic Bastiat|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:freedom|:politics|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:gg|:zzzzz|:lllll|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
702+++
703"If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies."
704-- Milton Friedman|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:learning|:zzz|:eee|:ttt|:ggg|:qqqq|:oooo|:vvv
705+++
706"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees. *"
707-- William J. Clinton|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:u|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:*|:qq|:zzzz|:gg
708+++
709"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."
710-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:firstamendment|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:zzzz|:llll|:xxxxx
711+++
712"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
713-- James Madison |:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:xxx|:zzzz|:qqqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
714+++
715"If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it."
716-- (apocryphally) Mark Twain|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:humor|:hhhhhh|:hmm|:uuuuu|:gggg|:xxxxx|:zzzzz|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:iiiiiii|:lllll|:oooo|:vvvv
717+++
718"If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there must be continued propaganda abroad to undermine the loyalty of citizens in general, and teenagers in particular. By making drugs of various kinds readily available, by creating the necessary attitude of chaos, idleness and worthlessness, and by preparing him psychologically and politically, we can succeed. "
719-- Vladimir Lenin|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:ethics|:xxxxx|:zzzzz|:bbbbbb|:qqqqq|:gg|:rrrrr|:llll|:ooooo|:vvv
720+++
721"If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
722-- Noam Chomsky|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:freedom|:politics|:firstamendment|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:gggg|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:lllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
723+++
724"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. "
725-- Vince Lombardi|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:humor|:zzzzz|:ggg|:ability|:xxxx|:hhhhhh|:bbbb|:oooo|:vvvvvvv
726+++
727"If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement."
728-- Leon Trotsky|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:u|:politics|:ethics|:communism|:*|:bbbb|:qq|:gg
729+++
730"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."
731-- Elbert Hubbard|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:ethics|:uu|:zz|:bbbb|:gg|:qqq
732+++
733"If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it."
734-- Lewis Goldberg|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uu|:politics|:economics|:qqq|:eee|:gg
735+++
736"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today. "
737-- Thomas Sowell|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:humor|:hhhhhh|:xxxxx|:zzzzz|:bbbb|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:iiiiiiii|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
738+++
739"If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace"
740-- Voltaire|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:u|:politics|:religion|:qqqq|:gg|:vvv
741+++
742"If you hold a permanent view of yourself as a victim you become your own oppressor."
743-- Candace Owens|:__20180930_1204_18|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxxx|:uuuuuu|:zzzzz|:politics|:gggg|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:oooooo|:vvv
744+++
745"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."
746-- Sun Tzu|:war|:politics|:*|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzz|:xx|:ggg|:qqqqq|:ability|:growth|:oooo|:vvvv
747+++
748"If you make a play for the king, you better kill the king."
749-- anon|:politics|:freedom|:worldhistory|:war|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180822_2044_29|:zz|:qqqq|:gg|:vv
750+++
751"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you." 
752-- Benjamin Franklin (to Jane Mecom)|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:zzzz|:uuuuu|:x|:z|:freedom|:politics|:qqqqq|:ggg|:oooooo|:vvv
753+++
754"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
755-- Milton Friedman|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:humor|:hmm|:hhhhh|:eee|:qqq|:zzzzz|:gg|:iiiiiii
756+++
757"If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does ... then someone will buy them - and it won't be you; you can't afford them."
758-- Juan Cole|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:uuu|:gg|:xxx|:zzz|:qq|:oooo|:vv
759+++
760"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself."
761-- Joseph Goebbels|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:xxxxx|:zzzzz|:qqqqqq|:gggggggg|:lllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
762+++
763"If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment."
764-- Ernest Rutherford|:humor|:hhhh|:zz|:ggg|:qq|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181119_1402_25|:science|:ssss|:vvv
765+++
766"If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him."
767-- Sun Tzu|:war|:politics|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:*|:uuu|:hhh|:zzzzz|:xxx|:humor|:qqqq|:gg
768+++
769"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." 
770-- Mark Twain|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:humor|:hmm|:hhhhhh|:xx|:zzz|:gggggggg|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
771+++
772"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free."
773-- P. J. O'Rourke|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:humor|:hhhh|:uu|:zzz|:eee|:qqq|:ggg|:iiiiii|:oooo|:vvv
774+++
775"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
776-- George Orwell|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:uuuuu|:xxxxx|:zzzz|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:oooooo|:vvv
777+++
778"If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist."
779-- Joseph Sobran|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:humor|:hmm|:uuuuu|:hhhhhh|:gggg|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:iiiiiiii|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
780+++
781"I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged."
782-- Roger Jones|:humor|:hhh|:politics|:freedom|:zzz|:qqqq|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181119_1402_25|:gg|:ooo|:vv
783+++
784"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." 
785-- Martin Luther King|:politics|:zz|:uuuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xx|:qqqqq|:gggg
786+++
787"I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents."
788-- Winston Churchill|:__20181110_1553_33|:politics|:nnn|:hhh|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbb|:qqqq|:ggg|:iiiii|:ooo|:vv
789+++
790"I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war."
791-- Thomas Jefferson|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:u|:qqqqq|:gggg|:zzzzz
792+++
793"I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money. "
794-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:zzz|:eeee|:qqq|:ggg|:oooooo|:vvv
795+++
796"I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse." 
797-- Mark Twain|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:*|:humor|:hmm|:hhhhhh|:xx|:zzz|:qqq|:ggg|:iiiiii|:ooooo|:vvv
798+++
799"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." 
800-- Thomas Jefferson|:politics|:zzzzz|:uuuuuuu|:firstamendment|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxx|:bbbbbbb|:gg|:qqq|:rrrrr|:ooooo|:vvvv
801+++
802"I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand."
803-- Confucius, 551-479 BC|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:learning|:ability|:ttttttt|:gggggggg|:uuuuu|:bbbbbbbb|:qqq|:ooo|:vvv
804+++
805"I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others."
806-- Socrates|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:learning|:zzzzzzzz|:gggggggg|:xxxxxxx|:ttttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
807+++
808"Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch."
809-- Harry Browne|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:freedom|:politics|:religion|:firstamendment|:ethics|:learning|:zzz|:economics|:tt|:qqq|:gg
810+++
811"Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty."
812-- Socrates|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:ethics|:u|:learning|:ttttttt|:ggg|:vvv
813+++
814"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
815-- George Orwell|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:ethics|:uuuuu|:xxxx|:gggg|:zzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqq|:rrrrr|:ooooo|:vvvvvv
816+++
817"In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces."
818-- Mikhail Bakunin|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:xxxxx|:zzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:llllll|:ooooooo|:vvvvvv
819+++
820"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. 
821Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. 
822Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. 
823Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. 
824Then they came for me - and by that time no one was left to speak up." 
825-- Pastor Martin Niemöller|:politics|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:z|:uu|:qqqq|:ggg
826+++
827"In government, the scum rises to the top."
828-- Friedrich August von Hayek|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:zzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:lll|:oooo|:vvv
829+++
830"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. 
831
832When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. 
833
834To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. 
835
836A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. 
837
838I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."
839-- Theodore Dalrymple|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:z|:uuu|:worldhistory|:qqqq|:ggg|:lll|:vv
840+++
841"In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty."
842-- Leo Tolstoy|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:politics|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:*|:gg|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:lllllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
843+++
844"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
845-- Friedrich Nietzsche|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:zzz|:*|:xxxxx|:gggggggg|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:lllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
846+++
847"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality." 
848-- Karl Popper|:science|:learning|:uuuuuu|:-short-|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxx|:zzzzzz|:tttttt|:bbbb|:sssss|:gg|:qqq|:oooooo|:vvvvvvv
849+++
850"In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all: security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."
851-- Edward Gibbon|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:worldhistory|:qqqqq|:gggg|:zzzz
852+++
853"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'"
854-- Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Grand Inquisitor)|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:politics|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:gg|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqq|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
855+++
856"In The Gulag Archipelago, for example, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarks that Shakespeare’s evildoers, Macbeth notably among them, stop short at a mere dozen corpses because they have no ideology." 
857-- Theodore Dalrymple (Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses)|:politics|:z|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:*|:uuuuuuu|:zzzzzzzz|:gggg|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:llll|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
858+++
859"In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car."
860-- Lawrence Summers|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:zz|:eeee|:ggg|:qqq|:humor|:hhhhh
861+++
862"In the midst of chaos there is opportunity. "
863-- Sun Tzu|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:gggg|:*|:bbbb|:qqq|:vv
864+++
865"I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them."
866-- Adlai Stevenson|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:ethics|:humor|:hhhh|:xx|:zzz|:uuu|:gg|:bbb|:qqq|:iiii|:vv
867+++
868"I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."
869-- Jane Wagner|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:ethics|:humor|:hhhhhh|:tttt|:uuuu|:bbbb|:ggg|:qqq|:ooooo|:vvv
870+++
871"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
872-- Thomas Jefferson|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:uuuu|:bbbb|:qqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
873+++
874"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. "
875-- Frederick Douglass|:politics|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:xx|:zzz|:bbbb|:qqq|:ggg|:ooooo|:vvv
876+++
877"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."
878-- Booker T. Washington|:uuuuu|:ethics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzzz|:xxx|:ggg|:bbbbb|:qqq|:rrrrr|:ooooo|:vvvvvvv
879+++
880"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
881-- Patrick Henry|:politics|:freedom|:worldhistory|:war|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180822_2044_29|:zz|:qqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vv
882+++
883"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. "
884-- Mark Twain|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:learning|:zzz|:humor|:hhhhhh|:ttttt|:bbb|:qqq|:gggg|:vvv
885+++
886"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God."
887-- Thomas Jefferson|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:religion|:uu|:qqq|:ggg|:vvv
888+++
889"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong." 
890-- Richard Feynman|:science|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:learning|:-short-|:zzzzzz|:ggg|:xxxx|:tttttt|:bbbbbb|:ssssss|:qqqq|:oooooo|:vvvvv
891+++
892"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." 
893-- Winston Churchill|:politics|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:humor|:uuuu|:hhhhhh|:zz|:bbbbbb|:ggg|:qqq|:iiiiiiii|:rrrrr|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
894+++
895"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
896-- Oscar Wilde|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:religion|:ethics|:vvvv
897+++
898"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
899-- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Ludlow (6 September 1824)|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:uuuu|:bbbb|:qqq|:eeee|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
900+++
901"I think that there's a discussion taking place in this country between two camps ... gun owners and the completely ill informed."
902-- Steven Crowder|:__20181127_2359_30|:politics|:secondamendment|:ethics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ggggg|:qqqqqqq|:uuuuuu|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvv
903+++
904"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
905-- John F. Kennedy|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:ethics|:learning|:science|:humor|:hmm|:hhhhhh|:zz|:xx|:tttt|:ssss|:qqq|:gggg|:iiiiiii|:ooooo|:vvv
906+++
907"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
908-- Voltaire|:politics|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:zz|:xx|:qqqqq|:ggg
909+++
910"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. "
911-- Voltaire|:politics|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:freedom|:gg|:zzzzzzzz|:xxxxxxx|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
912+++
913"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
914-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:politics|:ethics|:*|:x|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:zzzz|:qq|:gg
915+++
916"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
917-- Thomas Jefferson|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:politics|:ethics|:zzzz|:xx|:qqqqq|:ggg
918+++
919"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."
920-- Thomas Sowell|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:zzz|:xxx|:bbbb|:qqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
921+++
922"It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit." 
923-- Aristotle|:politics|:learning|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:xxx|:zzzzz|:ttttttt|:gggggggg|:bbbbbbbb|:qqq|:rrrrr|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
924+++
925"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
926-- Thomas Jefferson|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:uuuu|:bbbbb|:eeeee|:ggg|:qqq|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvv
927+++
928"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."                                                     .
929-- Henrik Ibsen|:science|:humor|:hhhhhh|:uu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gg|:qqq|:iiiii|:ssss|:oooo|:vvv
930+++
931"It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free."
932-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:*|:ethics|:uuuu|:-short-|:zzz|:xxx|:qqqqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
933+++
934"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men."
935-- George MacDonald|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:xxxx|:zzzzz|:gg|:*|:bbbbb|:qqq|:oooo|:vvv
936+++
937"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." 
938-- Aristotle|:learning|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:ethics|:zzzzz|:xxxxxx|:gggggggg|:tttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:llll|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
939+++
940"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."
941-- Carl Sagan|:science|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:-short-|:zzzz|:xx|:gggggggg|:sssss|:qqq|:oooooo|:vvvvvvv
942+++
943"It is through such post-modern constructs that interoperable narratives are established among various left-wing groups as well as between them and Islamist groups at all levels. For example, from the 2001 Conference of Foreign Ministers at Bamako, Mali, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) declared its commitment to fight racism and xenophobia and then declared Islamophobia a 'contemporary form of racism'" 
944-- Rich Higgins (from POTUS and Political Warfare)|:qqqqq|:politics|:freedom|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzzz|:uuu|:*|:zcom Higgins also understands the #MaoistInsurgency|:xxxx|:vvv
945+++
946"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
947-- Dean William R. Inge|:politics|:humor|:uuu|:*|:hhhh|:xxx|:zzzz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:ggg|:iiiiiii|:oooo|:vvvvv
948+++
949"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
950-- Oscar Wilde|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48
951+++
952"It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him."
953-- Edwin Feulner|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:ethics|:zzz|:xxxxx|:qqqqqqqq|:ggg|:ooooo|:vvvv
954+++
955"It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. 
956
957The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. 
958
959Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience."
960-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:businessecon|:politics|:growth|:uuuu|:zzz|:xxx|:ggg|:qqq|:oooo|:vv
961+++
962"It's illegal to say to a voter 'Here's $100, vote for me.' So what do the politicians do? They offer the $100 in the form of Health Care, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Food Stamps, tobacco subsidies, grain payments, NEA payments, and jobs programs."
963-- Don Farrar|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:uuuu|:bbbbb|:qqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
964+++
965"It's not cool to be smart."
966-- anon|:ethics|:politics|:freedom|:worldhistory|:learning|:ability|:tech|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180822_2044_29|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:gggggggg|:ttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
967+++
968"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
969--  Vince Lombardi|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:humor|:hhhhhh|:uuuu|:tttttt|:gggggggg|:learning|:bbbbb|:qqq|:oooo|:vvvvvvv
970+++
971"It takes a great deal of knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." 
972-- Thomas Sowell|:z|:politics|:learning|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:ethics|:xxxx|:gggggggg|:ttttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
973+++
974"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be tomorrow."
975-- Alexander Hamilton|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:learning|:tttt|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:zzzzz|:lllll|:xxxxx|:oooooo|:vvv
976+++
977"It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise."
978-- Joseph Goebbels|:__20181124_1255_41|:politics|:science|:lllll|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqqq|:gg|:ooo|:vv
979+++
980"I've never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. 
981
982But I've seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked." 
983-- Scott Adams|:ethics|:politics|:learning|:uuuuuu|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gggggggg|:ttttt|:bbbbb|:qqq|:rrrrr|:oooooo|:vvv
984+++
985"I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle: benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property."
986-- Adolf Hitler|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:uu|:*|:bbbbb|:qqq|:zzzzz|:gg
987+++
988"I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature."
989-- Sidney Hook|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:economics|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uu|:xx|:bbbb|:qqq|:ggg
990+++
991"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. "
992-- Mark Twain|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:zzzzzzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:gggggggg|:qqq|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
993+++
994"Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves."
995-- Thomas Jefferson|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:politics|:ethics|:zzz|:bbbb|:gggg|:qqq
996+++
997"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
998-- Thomas Jefferson's 'Commonplace Book' (1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764)|:__20181124_1255_41|:politics|:secondamendment|:ethics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqqqqqq|:gggg|:uuuuu|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:oooooo|:vvvvv
999+++
1000"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
1001-- Dwight D. Eisenhower|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:ability|:growth|:ethics|:zzzzzzz|:humor|:xxxx|:hhhhhh|:businessecon|:gggggggg|:bbbb|:oooooo|:vvvvvvv
1002+++
1003"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies."
1004-- Leon Trotsky|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:politics|:learning|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:*|:gg|:ttttt|:bbbb|:qqq|:rrrrr|:ooooo|:vvvv
1005+++
1006"Lefty rules:        
1007Their violence is speech; your speech is violence.        
1008Their threats are criticism; your criticism is a threat."
1009-- John Hayward @Doc_0|:politics|:uuuuuu|:__20180921_2155_26|:firstamendment|:ethics|:xxxxx|:bbbb|:qqqqqq|:gg|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:vvv
1010+++
1011"Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state."
1012-- Adolf Hitler|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:learning|:xxxxx|:*|:tttt|:zzzzzzz|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:gg|:lllll|:ooooooo|:vv
1013+++
1014"Let the questions be the curriculum."
1015-- Socrates|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:learning|:ethics|:ttttttt|:uuuu|:gggg|:qqq|:oooo|:vvv
1016+++
1017"Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their ranks. "
1018-- Michelle Malkin|:politics|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:xx|:zz|:bbbb|:qqq|:gg|:ooo|:vv
1019+++
1020"Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others."
1021-- William Allen White|:uuu|:freedom|:politics|:zzz|:xx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gg|:bbbb|:qqq|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvvvvvv
1022+++
1023"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it."
1024-- Learned Hand|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:learning|:zzz|:xx|:ttt|:qqq|:gg|:ooo|:vvv
1025+++
1026"Little minds think and talk about people.  
1027Average minds think and talk about things and actions.  
1028Great minds think and talk about ideas." 
1029-- (apocryphal Benjamin Franklin)|:ability|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:growth|:learning|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:tttttt|:bbbbb|:gggg|:qqq|:rrrrr|:vv
1030+++
1031"Logic is the anatomy of thought."
1032-- John Locke|:z|:x|:learning|:freedom|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uu|:tttttt|:qqq|:ggg
1033+++
1034"Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State."
1035-- Ralph Waldo Emerson|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuu|:politics|:qqq|:ggg
1036+++
1037"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire."
1038-- Ludwig von Mises|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:eee|:zzzz|:qqq|:ggg
1039+++
1040"Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny."
1041-- Aristotle|:politics|:x|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:*|:9|:uuu|:qqqqq|:ggg|:zzzz|:oooo|:vv
1042+++
1043"Master your mind or someone else will control it."
1044-- @Surreptitious|:__20181110_1553_33|:politics|:nnnnnnn|:uuuuuu|:zzzzz|:tttttt|:gggggggg|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
1045+++
1046"Maturity is not a matter of age. You have matured when you are no longer concerned with showing how clever you are, and give your full attention to getting the job done right. Many never reach that stage, no matter how old they get."
1047-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:economics|:zzz|:ethics|:ability|:devel|:growth|:xx|:bbbb|:gggggggg|:qqq|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1048+++
1049"Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless." 
1050-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:z|:uu|:qqq|:gg
1051+++
1052"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves."
1053-- D. H. Lawrence|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:gg|:qqqqqqq|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
1054+++
1055"Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn't know because they might reflect badly on Democrats."
1056-- @jtLOL|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:learning|:humor|:uuuu|:hhhhh|:ttt|:qqq|:gg|:iiiiii|:oooo
1057+++
1058"More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. "
1059-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:zzzzzz|:xxx|:bbbbb|:qqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
1060+++
1061"More law, less justice."
1062-- Cicero|:ethics|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:zzzzz|:xxxxxx|:ggg|:bbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1063+++
1064"Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72."
1065-- Mark Twain|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:humor|:hhhhhh|:uuuu|:gg|:vvv
1066+++
1067"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
1068-- Oscar Wilde|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:politics|:ethics
1069+++
1070"Most people will do almost anything you ask them to and almost nothing that you tell them to."
1071-- Stefan Molyneux|:__20180930_1204_18|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:gggggggg|:uuuuuu|:ethics|:politics|:freedom|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1072+++
1073"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. "
1074-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:zzzzz|:humor|:hhhh|:xxxxx|:bbbb|:qqqqqq|:gggg|:iiii|:oooo|:vvvvv
1075+++
1076"Muhammad was once a refugee taken in by the Jewish city of Medina. Within five years, he had driven out, executed, or enslaved every Jew living in Medina. "
1077-- unattributed|:politics|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:religion|:ethics|:xxxxx|:zzzzz|:bbbbbb|:qqqqq|:gg|:ooo|:vvvvv
1078+++
1079"Music is what happens when a smart, group-living, anthropoid ape stumbles into the evolutionary wonderland of runaway sexual selection for complex acoustic displays. "
1080-- Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly)|:__20180930_1204_18|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xx|:zzz|:ggg|:uuuu|:hhhhhh|:vvv
1081+++
1082"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." 
1083-- Adlai Stevenson|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:humor|:hhhh|:freedom|:ethics|:xxx|:ggg|:zzzz|:qqqq|:iiiiii|:ooo|:vvvvv
1084+++
1085"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right."
1086-- Ashleigh Brilliant|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uu|:politics|:ethics|:humor|:hmm|:hhhhhh|:gg|:vvv
1087+++
1088"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. "
1089-- Mark Twain|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:science|:tech|:z|:humor|:hhhhh|:gg|:sssss|:vvv
1090+++
1091"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."
1092-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:*|:politics|:ethics|:freedom|:zx|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzz|:xxx|:qqqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvvv
1093+++
1094"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." 
1095-- Plato|:learning|:z|:ability|:uu|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:tttt|:ggg
1096+++
1097"Never let a crisis go to waste."
1098-- Saul Alinsky|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:xxxx|:uuuuu|:zzzz|:bbbb|:qqqq|:gg|:ooo|:vv
1099+++
1100"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." 
1101-- Albert Einstein|:learning|:science|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzzz|:xxx|:tttttt|:sssss|:gggg|:qqq|:vvv
1102+++
1103"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."
1104-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:politics|:*|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzz|:xxx|:qqq|:ggg|:ooooo|:vvv
1105+++
1106"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
1107-- Thomas Jefferson (Proposal to Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334,[C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950])|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:freedom|:politics|:secondamendment|:uuuuu|:ggg|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:zz|:xxxxx|:oooooo|:vvv
1108+++
1109"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent." 
1110-- Abraham Lincoln|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:zzzzz|:xxxxxxx|:gggg|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1111+++
1112"No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life." 
1113-- Thomas E. Dewey|:politics|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:z|:uuu|:qqq|:ggg
1114+++
1115"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power." 
1116-- Jacob Bronowski|:science|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:xxxx|:zzz|:ggg|:sssss|:qqqq|:ooooo|:vvvvv
1117+++
1118"Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose."
1119-- Joseph Goebbels|:__20180724_2316_23|:firstamendment|:uuuu|:**|:xxxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
1120+++
1121"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
1122-- Thomas Jefferson|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuu|:ethics|:qqq|:ggg
1123+++
1124"Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered."
1125-- Socrates|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:learning|:ttttttt|:ggg|:vvv
1126+++
1127"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
1128-- Oscar Wilde|:__20181216_2212_48|:politics|:economics|:learning
1129|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:oooooooo|:ggggggg|:qqqqqq|:iiiiii|:hhhhh|:humor|:vvvvvvv
1130+++
1131"Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc."
1132-- George Orwell (The Principles of Newspeak)|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:xxx|:zzz|:qqqq|:gg|:vvv
1133+++
1134"Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments."
1135-- Ludwig von Mises|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:politics|:ethics|:qqqqqq|:gg|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvvvvv
1136+++
1137"One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them." 
1138-- Rosamond Lehmann|:politics|:ethics|:*|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:zzzzz|:xxx|:ggg|:qqqq|:ooo|:vvvvvvvv
1139+++
1140"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching."
1141-- Unknown|:ethics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:learning|:uuuuuu|:gggggggg|:xxxx|:zzzzz|:hhh|:ttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:rrrrr|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1142+++
1143"One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
1144-- (apocryphal?) Joseph Stalin|:__20181110_1553_33|:politics|:nnnnn|:uuuuuu|:zzzzzz|:freedom|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbbbbb|:gg|:qqqqqqq|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvvvv
1145+++
1146"One did commerce in German, made love in French, spoke to the servants in English, and related stories of disaster in Russian. "
1147-- apocryphally Trevanian via Thomas Wictor|:politics|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:humor|:hhhhhh|:ggg|:zzz|:bbb|:iiiii|:xxxxx|:rrrrr|:oooooo|:vvvvv
1148+++
1149"One man with a gun can control 100 without one."
1150-- Vladimir Lenin|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:politics|:secondamendment|:qqqqqq|:gg|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvv
1151+++
1152"One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts." 
1153-- George Washington (Farewell Address)|:politics|:zzzzz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:zcom Not just other districts now but your actual family and neighbors|:xxxxx|:ggg|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:lllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
1154+++
1155"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
1156-- Thomas Reed|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuu|:politics|:qqq|:ggg|:rrrrr|:ooooo|:vvvvv
1157+++
1158"One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests."
1159-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:*|:politics|:ethics|:freedom|:uuuuuuu|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ggg|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:lllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
1160+++
1161"One of the major contributions of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, The Gulag Archipelago, was his analysis of the direct causal relationship between the pathology of the Soviet prison-work-camp dependent state (where millions suffered and died) and the almost universal proclivity of the Soviet citizen to falsify his own day-to-day personal experience, deny his own state-induced suffering, and thereby prop up the dictates of the rational, ideology-possessed communist system."
1162-- Jordan Peterson (12 Rules for Life)|:__20181124_1255_41|:politics|:science|:lllllll|:ggggggg|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqqqqqq|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
1163+++
1164"One of the most dangerous trends of our times is making the truth socially unacceptable, or even illegal, with 'hate speech' laws. "
1165-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:firstamendment|:ethics|:zzz|:xx|:qqq|:ggg|:ooooo|:vv
1166+++
1167"One of the most pathetic - and dangerous - signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason. "
1168-- Thomas Sowell|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:ethics|:zzzz|:xxxxxxx|:ggg|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:lllll|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
1169+++
1170"One useless man is a shame; two is a law firm; three or more is a Congress." 
1171-- John Adams|:politics|:z|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:humor|:hmm|:uuuu|:hhhhhh|:ggg|:qqq|:iiiiiiii|:ooooo|:vvvv
1172+++
1173"On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
1174-- Thomas Jefferson|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:politics|:ethics|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvv
1175+++
1176"One way to reduce illegal immigration might be to translate some of our far left publications into Spanish and give everyone in Mexico subscriptions. After they read how terrible this country is, many may want to stay away. "
1177-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuu|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:zzz|:humor|:hhhh|:xxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:ggg|:iiiiii|:ooo|:vv
1178+++
1179"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."
1180-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:*|:politics|:ethics|:uuuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxx|:zzz|:qqqq|:ggg
1181+++
1182"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."
1183-- Aristotle|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:secondamendment|:xxxxx|:zzzz|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1184+++
1185"Only small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by the public's incredulity."
1186-- Marshall McLuhan|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:uuuuuuuu|:ggggggg|:zzzzz|:xxxxxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:lllllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
1187+++
1188"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." 
1189-- Robert F. Kennedy|:ability|:z|:growth|:learning|:uu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:tttt|:ggg|:qqq|:vvv
1190+++
1191"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."
1192-- Albert Einstein|:science|:humor|:hmm|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:hhhhhh|:zzz|:xx|:hhhhhh|:sss|:ggg|:oooo|:vvvvvvv
1193+++
1194"O'Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law: The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum."
1195-- anon|:humor|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhh|:gg
1196+++
1197"Our children are not born to hate, they are raised to hate."
1198-- Thomas della Peruta|:politics|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xx|:zz|:qqq|:ggg
1199+++
1200"Our societies are intellectual shanty towns. Our beliefs about the world and each other have been created by the same system that has lied us into repeated wars that have killed millions."
1201-- @JulianAssange|:politics|:freedom|:worldhistory|:war|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180822_2044_29|:zzzzzzzz|:xxxxxxx|:ggg|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:lllllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1202+++
1203"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
1204-- Thurgood Marshall|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:firstamendment|:qqqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
1205+++
1206"Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence."
1207-- Thomas Sowell|:__20180930_1204_18|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:learning|:politics|:zzzzz|:uuuuu|:ttttt|:bbbb|:qqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
1208+++
1209"Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history." 
1210-- Will and Arial Durant|:ethics|:politics|:zzzzz|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxx|:gggg|:worldhistory|:learning|:ttttt|:qqqq|:oooo|:vvv
1211+++
1212"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
1213-- Groucho Marx|:__20181127_2359_30|:humor|:hhhh|:ggggg|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ooo|:vv
1214+++
1215"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." 
1216-- George Washington|:politics|:uuuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxx|:zzz|:qqq|:ggg
1217+++
1218"Over the years, liberal judges have twisted the First Amendment's phrase about 'free exercise of religion' to mean the opposite-that you are not free to exercise your religion if atheists or members of non-Christian religions say that they are offended. "
1219-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:freedom|:politics|:religion|:ethics|:zzz|:xx|:qqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vv
1220+++
1221"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'."
1222-- George Orwell|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:ethics|:zzzz|:xxx|:uuuu|:bbbbb|:qqq|:ggg|:rrrrr|:vvv
1223+++
1224"Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people." 
1225-- Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice|:politics||:u|:x|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zcom We don't have a free press|:qqqq|:gg|:zzzzzz
1226+++
1227"Parkinson’s First Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
12281. Officials want to multiply subordinates, not rivals.
12292. Officials make work for one another."
1230-- C.N. Parkinson|:politics|:z|:humor|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhh|:gg
1231+++
1232"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. "
1233-- Mark Twain|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:zzzzz|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvvvv
1234+++
1235"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. "
1236-- Soren Kierkegaard|:politics|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:freedom|:firstamendment|:ethics|:ggggggg|:zzzzzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:llll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1237+++
1238"People fear witches, and burn women."
1239-- Louis D. Brandeis|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:zzzzzzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbb|:gggg|:qqqqqqq|:oooooo|:vvv
1240+++
1241"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
1242-- George Orwell|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:ethics|:xxxx|:zzzz|:uuuu|:ggg|:bbbb|:qqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1243+++
1244"People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work."
1245-- L. Neil Smith|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:politics|:secondamendment|:ethics|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
1246+++
1247"People who think that they don't owe anything to anybody should read David McCullough's outstanding new book '1776,' to see what hell other people went through to create the freedom that we enjoy and abuse today. "
1248-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:worldhistory|:zzz|:xx|:ggg|:qqq|:ooo|:vvv
1249+++
1250"People who think they know everything greatly annoy those of us who do."
1251-- anon|:humor|:hmm|:z|:learning|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhhhhh|:ttt|:gg|:vv
1252+++
1253"People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important."
1254-- P. J. O'Rourke|:__20181128_0002_38|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:qqqqqq|:ggggg|:iiiii|:hhhh|:xxxxx|:oooo|:vv
1255+++
1256"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)"
1257-- Saul Alinsky|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:freedom|:politics|:uuuuu|:xxxxx|:ggg|:zzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:lll|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
1258+++
1259"Plato in both the Gorgias and the Republic looked back to Socrates and asserted that "it is better to suffer tortures on the rack than to have a soul burdened with the guilt of doing evil." 
1260
1261Aristotle does not confront this position directly: he merely emphasizes that it is better still both to be free from having done evil and to be free from being tortured on the rack."
1262-- Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History Of Ethics: 
1263A History Of Moral Philosophy From The Homeric Age 
1264To The Twentieth Century|:ethics|:politics|:humor|:hhhhh|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:z|:uuu|:qqq|:ggg
1265+++
1266"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." 
1267-- Aristotle|:ability|:learning|:z|:uu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:tttt|:gggg|:vvv
1268+++
1269"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
1270-- Charlton Heston|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuu|:politics|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:llll|:xxxxx
1271+++
1272"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
1273-- Mao Zedong|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuu|:politics|:secondamendment|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:gg|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
1274+++
1275"Political warfare is one of the five components of a Maoist insurgency. Maoist methodologies employ synchronized violent and non-violent actions that focus on mobilization of individuals and groups to action. This approach envisions the direct use of non-violent operational arts and tactics as elements of combat power. In Maoist insurgencies, the formation of a counter-state is essential to seizing state power." 
1276-- Rich Higgins (from POTUS and Political Warfare)|:politics|:freedom|:*|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:zzzz|:zcom Higgins understands the Red/Green alliance also|:xxxx|:qqqq|:gg|:vvv
1277+++
1278"Political warfare is warfare. Strategic information campaigns designed to delegitimize through disinformation arise out of non-violent lines of effort in political warfare regimes. They principally operate through narratives." 
1279-- Rich Higgins (from POTUS and Political Warfare)|:politics|:freedom|:*|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:zcom Higgins understands the Red/Green alliance also|:qqqqq|:gg|:vvv
1280+++
1281"Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs."
1282-- P. J. O'Rourke|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuu|:politics|:humor|:hmm|:hhhh|:qqq|:ggg|:iiii
1283+++
1284"Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money."
1285-- Joseph Sobran|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:humor|:hmm|:hhhhhh|:qqqq|:ggg|:ii
1286+++
1287"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
1288-- John Kenneth Galbraith|:__20181110_1553_33|:politics|:uuu|:nnn|:hh|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbb|:gg
1289+++
1290"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
1291-- Ronald Reagan|:__20181110_1553_33|:politics|:economics|:hhhhhh|:ggg|:zzzz|:nnnnn|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbb|:qqqq|:iiiiii|:ooooo|:vv
1292+++
1293"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
1294-- Groucho Marx|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:humor|:hmm|:hhhhhh|:gggg|:qqq|:iiiiiiii|:ooooooo|:vvvv
1295+++
1296"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."
1297-- Paul Valery|:__20181110_1553_33|:politics|:nnnnn|:zzzzz|:hhh|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:gggg|:iiiiiii|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvvv
1298+++
1299"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other."
1300-- Oscar Ameringer|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuu|:politics|:economics|:humor|:hmm|:hhhh|:bbbbb|:qqqq|:ggg|:iiiiii|:ooooo|:vvv
1301+++
1302"Politics is the systematic organization of hatreds."
1303-- Henry Adams|:__20181110_1553_33|:politics|:uuuuuuu|:zzzzzzz|:nnnnnnn|:gggg|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:lll|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:ttttt|:vvvvv
1304+++
1305"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
1306-- Lord Acton|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:uuuuu|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1307+++
1308"Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours."
1309-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:politics|:*|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ethics|:uuuuuuuu|:-short-|:zcom Sounds like congress and the bureaucracy doesn't it?|:zzzzzz|:xxxxx|:ggg|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
1310+++
1311"Principles have no real force except when one is well fed." 
1312-- Mark Twain|:politics|:uuuuuuuu|:humor|:hhhhhh|:ethics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzzzz|:xxxxx|:gggggggg|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:iiiiiii|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1313+++
1314"Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis."
1315-- Llewellyn Rockwell|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuu|:politics|:economics|:eeee|:gggg|:qqq|:oooo|:vvv
1316+++
1317"Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred."
1318-- Joseph Goebbels|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:ethics|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbbb|:qqqqq|:ggg|:llll|:ooooooo|:vvv
1319+++
1320"Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent."
1321-- Adolf Hitler|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:ethics|:qqq|:zzzzzzz|:gg|:llll|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvv
1322+++
1323"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will."
1324-- Joseph Goebbels|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:freedom|:politics|:zzzzzzzz|:xxxxxxx|:ggg|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:lllllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1325+++
1326"Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve."
1327-- John Pugsley|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:tech|:qqq|:gg
1328+++
1329"Q: What's the difference between a 'Democratic Socialist' and a 'Socialist'? 
1330A: Nothing. 
1331Q: What's the difference between a 'Socialist' and a 'Communist'? 
1332A: Socialists aren't honest about being Communists."
1333-- @thealexvanness|:politics|:x|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:gg
1334+++
1335"Question: What has been your biggest disappointment?    
1336Answer: Learning that even intelligent people can be cowards and that courage is a much rarer attribute than intelligence."
1337-- Julian Assange|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:learning|:uuuu|:tttt|:qqq|:ggg|:ooo|:vv
1338+++
1339"Quickness is the essence of the war."
1340-- Sun Tzu|:war|:politics|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:gg|:ooo|:vv
1341+++
1342"Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups. "
1343-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:ethics|:economics|:zzz|:xx|:qqq|:ggg|:ooooo|:vvv
1344+++
1345"Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society." 
1346-- George Washington|:politics|:freedom|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:z|:uuu|:zcom Note that both of these can be hijacked|:qqq|:gggg
1347+++
1348"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." 
1349-- Richard Feynman|:science|:learning|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuuu|:zzzzzz|:xxxx|:gggggggg|:tttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:sssssss|:qqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1350+++
1351"Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats."
1352-- Harry Browne|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:freedom|:politics|:humor|:hhhh|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:iiiiiii|:zzzz|:llll|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvvvv
1353+++
1354"Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty." 
1355-- Montesquieu|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuuuu|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:gggggggg|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
1356+++
1357"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."
1358-- Aristotle|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:xxx|:zzzz|:gg|:qqqqqq|:oooo|:vvv
1359+++
1360"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."
1361-- William O. Douglas|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:freedom|:politics|:firstamendment|:ethics|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:zzzzz|:lll|:xxxxx|:oooo|:vvvv
1362+++
1363"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men." 
1364-- Plato|:ethics|:politics|:*|:zx|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxxx|:ggg|:zzzzz|:qqqqqqqq|:ooooooo|:vvv
1365+++
1366"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."
1367-- Saul Alinsky|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:secondamendment|:ethics|:uuuu|:xxxxx|:zzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
1368+++
1369"Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans. "
1370-- Thomas Sowell|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:zz|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:gg
1371+++
1372"Robert Conquest's Three Laws of Politics:
13731. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
13742. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
13753. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies."
1376-- Robert Conquest|:politics|:ability|:humor|:hhhhhh|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:*|:ggggggg|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:hhhhhh|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:iiiiiii|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1377+++
1378"Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years."
1379-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:politics|:z|:*|:x|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:qqq|:gg
1380+++
1381"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." 
1382-- Richard Feynman|:science|:humor|:hmm|:hhhhhh|:learning|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzzzz|:xxxxxx|:gggggggg|:tttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:sssssss|:qqqq|:iiiii|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1383+++
1384"Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths."
1385-- Karl Popper|:science|:learning|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:zzz|:xxxx|:tttttt|:bbbb|:ssssss|:gggg|:qqq|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvvvv
1386+++
1387"See, when the government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs."
1388-- Dave Barry|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:religion|:ethics|:economics|:learning|:humor|:hhhh|:uuu|:xx|:gg|:hhhh|:tt|:qqq|:iiiii|:oooo
1389+++
1390"Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it." 
1391-- Vauvenargues|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:humor|:hhhhhh|:xxxxx|:zzzzzz|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:iiiiiiii|:oooooo|:vvvvvvv
1392+++
1393"Seven Dangers to Human Virtue:    
13941. Wealth without work    
13952. Pleasure without conscience    
13963. Knowledge without character    
13974. Business without ethics    
13985. Science without humanity    
13996. Religion without sacrifice    
14007. Politics without principle"
1401-- anon|:freedom|:econ|:zzzz|:gggggggg|:qqqqqq|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181119_1402_25|:xxxx|:oooo|:vvv
1402+++
1403"Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior."
1404-- Dee Hock|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:politics|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:oooooo|:vvv
1405+++
1406"Since America is such a oppressive, racist, and bigoted country, shouldn’t we be warning immigrants not to come here?"
1407-- Charlie Kirk|:immigration|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:humor|:uuu|:hhhhh|:zzz|:xxx|:qqqq|:gggg|:iiiiiii|:lllll|:oooo|:vvv
1408+++
1409"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage."
1410-- C. S. Lewis|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:politics
1411+++
1412"Since outright slavery has been discredited, 'democracy' is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept."
1413-- Joseph Sobran|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:politics|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:xxxxx|:zzzzz|:lll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1414+++
1415"Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been."
1416-- Walter Gretzky|:sports|:ability|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:xxxx|:zzzz|:gggggggg|:uuuuu|:bbbbb|:qqq|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvvvvvv
1417+++
1418"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. "
1419-- Mark Twain|:uuuuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:learning|:zz|:humor|:hhhhhh|:ttttttt|:ggg|:qqq|:vvv
1420+++
1421"So basically, a crowd of people crying in multi-colored propeller beanie hats are controlling what we see on the internet. "
1422-- @ARmastrangelo|:politics|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:secondamendment|:tech|:humor|:hmm|:hhhhhh|:ggg|:bbbb|:qqqqqq|:iiiiiiii|:zzzzz|:lllllll|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1423+++
1424"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all . . . . It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain"
1425-- Frederic Bastiat|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:eee|:qqqqqqq|:ggg|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvvv
1426+++
1427"Socialism has been described as a method of loving humanity so that you can be indifferent to your actual neighbor."
1428-- Richard Fernandez (original source unknown)|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:economics|:learning|:humor|:hhhhhh|:uuuuuu|:xxxxx|:ggg|:zzzzz|:tt|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:iiiiiiii|:llllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
1429+++
1430"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. "
1431-- Thomas Sowell|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:freedom|:xxxx|:zzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqq|:ggg|:ooooo|:vvvvvv
1432+++
1433"Socialism is much more about hating the rich than helping the poor."
1434-- Charlie Kirk|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:economics|:qqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
1435+++
1436"Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution."
1437-- Ben Shapiro|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:uuuu|:bb|:qq|:gg|:vv
1438+++
1439"Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society."
1440-- Herbert Spencer|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:uuu|:qqqqq|:ggg|:zzzz|:xxxx
1441+++
1442"Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. "
1443-- Anonymous Greek Proverb|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:learning|:zzzz|:xx|:ttt|:bbbbb|:gg|:qqq|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvv
1444+++
1445"Society's needs come before the individuals needs"
1446-- Adolf Hitler|:uuuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:*|:bbbbbb|:qqqqq|:zzzzzzz|:gg
1447+++
1448"Someone once said that a fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him. The implications of that undermine most of the agenda of the political left. "
1449-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:zzzzzzzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbbbb|:gggg|:qqqqqqq|:oooo|:vvvvvv
1450+++
1451"Some people dream of great accomplishments while others stay awake and do them." 
1452-- anon|:devel|:humor|:hhhhhh|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:zzzzzz|:xxxx|:gggggggg|:bbbbbbbb|:ooooo|:vvvvvvv
1453+++
1454"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels, in the form of kings, to govern him? Let history answer this question."
1455-- Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address)|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:uuuuu|:ggg|:bbbbbbb|:zzzzz|:qqqqqqqq|:lllll|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvvvv
1456+++
1457"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it."
1458-- (apocryphally Mark Twain)|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuuuuu|:humor|:hmm|:zzzzzzz|:xxxxxx|:hhhhhh|:bbbbbbbb|:gggggggg|:qqqqqqqq|:iiiiiiii|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1459+++
1460"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
1461-- Friedrich Nietzsche|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:qqq|:ggg
1462+++
1463"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough." 
1464-- Mark Twain|:humor|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uu|:hhhhhh|:ggg|:vvv
1465+++
1466"Some words, on the other hand, displayed a frank and contemptuous understanding of the real nature of Oceanic society. 
1467
1468An example was 'prolefeed', meaning the rubbishy entertainment and spurious news which the Party handed out to the masses." 
1469-- George Orwell (The Principles of Newspeak)|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:xxx|:zzz|:bbbb|:qqqq|:gg|:vvvvvvv
1470+++
1471"So much of left wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot." 
1472-- George Orwell (Inside the Whale and Other Essays)|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:xxxxxxx|:zzzzzzz|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:ggg|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
1473+++
1474"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
1475-- Saint Francis of Assisi|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:ability|:learning|:tttt|:uuuu|:gggg|:vv
1476+++
1477"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but hollow point expands on contact."
1478-- anon|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:secondamendment|:humor|:hhhh|:zzzzz|:uuuuu|:xxxx|:bbbbbb|:qqq|:gg|:iiiii|:rrrrr|:vvv
1479+++
1480"Stripped of most meaningful religious, geographic, cultural, family or labor-related bonds, Americans will identify most with what historically mattered least: their political affiliations. The stage is set for the same politics-as-holy-war that followed the Reformation."
1481-- Antonio Garcia Martinez (@antoniogm)|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:religion|:ethics|:uuuu|:zzzz|:nnnn|:bbbb|:qqq|:gg|:vv
1482+++
1483"Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized."
1484-- Llewellyn Rockwell|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:eeeee|:qqqq|:zzzz|:gg|:vv
1485+++
1486"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
1487-- Mark Twain|:zz|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:humor|:hhhhh|:ggg|:vv
1488+++
1489"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
1490-- Winston Churchill|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:freedom|:humor|:hmm|:ability|:growth|:politics|:hhhhhh|:gggg|:ooooo|:vvv
1491+++
1492"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. "
1493-- Mark Twain|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:humor|:zz|:hhhhh|:politics|:qqq|:gg|:iiii|:oooo|:vvv
1494+++
1495"Teachers open the door... You enter by yourself."
1496-- Chinese proverb|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:learning|:ability|:ttttttt|:gggg|:uuuu|:oooooo|:vvv
1497+++
1498"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand."
1499-- Archibald Putt (Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat)|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:tech|:humor|:hhhhhh|:ggg|:oooo|:vvvvvvv
1500+++
1501"Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers."  
1502-- Aristotle|:politics|:learning|:humor|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:humor|:hhh|:tttt|:gg
1503+++
1504"Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand."
1505-- Chinese proverb|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:learning|:ability|:tttt|:uuuu|:gggg|:oooo|:vv
1506+++
1507"Term limits aren't enough. We need jail."
1508-- P. J. O'Rourke|:__20181128_0002_38|:hhhh|:humor|:iiiii|:qqqqqqq|:gggggg|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvv
1509+++
1510"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
1511-- Thomas Jefferson|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:z|:uuuu|:qqq|:ggg|:ooooo|:vvv
1512+++
1513"The agenda of the left is to take the decision out of the hands of those directly involved and transfer that decision to third parties, who pay no price for making decisions that turn out to be counterproductive. "
1514-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:zz|:xxx|:qqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
1515+++
1516"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism." 
1517-- George Washington (Farewell Address)|:politics|:ethics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuuuu|:zzzzzzzz|:gggg|:xxxxx|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
1518+++
1519"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
1520-- Norman Thomas|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:learning|:tt|:qqqqq|:zzzzz|:gg|:ooooo|:vvv
1521+++
1522"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform."
1523-- (apocryphally? adaptation from Khrushschev?) Norman Thomas|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:learning|:uuu|:tt|:bbbbb|:zzzzz|:qqqq|:gg|:oooo|:vv
1524+++
1525"The America Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money." 
1526-- Alexis de Tocqueville|:zzzzz|:politics||:ethics|:economics|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:humor|:hhhh|:xxxxx|:hhhh|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:iiiiiii|:oooooo|:vvv
1527+++
1528"The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined."
1529-- Dick Armey|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uu|:politics|:economics|:eee|:qqq|:gg
1530+++
1531"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name."
1532-- Confucius|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:uuuu|:gggggggg|:ttttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:zzzzz|:qqqqqqqq|:lllllll|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1533+++
1534"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
1535-- Winston Churchill|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:ethics|:humor|:hhhhhh|:uuuuu|:xxxx|:ggg|:zzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqq|:iiiiiii|:rrrrr|:ooooo|:vvv
1536+++
1537"The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said."
1538-- Nassim Taleb|:ethics|:politics|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:humor|:hhhhh|:qqq|:zzz|:gg
1539+++
1540"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency."
1541-- Vladimir Lenin|:__20181128_0002_38|:economics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqqqqqq|:ggggg|:eeeee|:politics|:uuuuu|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvvvv
1542+++
1543"The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed."
1544-- Joseph Goebbels|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:uuuu|:*|:qqqq|:gg|:lllll
1545+++
1546"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."
1547-- Adolf Hitler|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:uuu|:*|:qqq|:zzzz|:gg
1548+++
1549"The common and continual mischief's [sic] of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion." 
1550-- George Washington (Farewell Address)|:politics|:zzz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuu|:zcom How about that world government?|:qqqqqqq|:gg|:lllllll|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvvvv
1551+++
1552"The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. 
1553
1554He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague." 
1555-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, EWD340|:tech|:learning|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:tttt|:gg
1556+++
1557"The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."
1558-- John Marshall|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uu|:politics|:qqq|:ggg
1559+++
1560"The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government."
1561-- Joseph Sobran|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:humor|:hhhhhh|:gg|:qqq|:iiiiiii|:rrrrr|:ooooo|:vvvvv
1562+++
1563"The constitutions of most of our states assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, both fact and law, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person; freedom of religion; freedom of property; and freedom of the press."
1564-- Thomas Jefferson (to John Cartwright, 1824)|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:freedom|:politics|:religion|:secondamendment|:ethics|:economics|:uuuuu|:bbbbbb|:qqqqq|:ggg|:zzzzz|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
1565+++
1566"The Democrats are playing you for a political CHUMP and if you vote for them, not only are you a CHUMP, you are a traitor to your race!"
1567-- Malcolm X (killed two days later)|:politics|:freedom|:worldhistory|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180822_2044_29|:z|:qqq|:gg
1568+++
1569"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
1570-- William Shakespeare|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:ethics|:politics|:humor|:hhh|:qqq|:gg|:iiii|:oooo|:vvv
1571+++
1572"The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence."
1573-- Leon Trotsky|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uu|:politics|:*|:qqq|:zzzzzz|:gg|:oooo|:vvv
1574+++
1575"The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community."
1576-- David Boaz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:freedom|:politics|:communism|:zzzzz|:qqqqqq|:gg|:xxxxx|:oooo|:vvvvvv
1577+++
1578"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." 
1579-- Gandhi|:ability|:politics|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:qqq|:gggg
1580+++
1581"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
1582-- Leon Trotsky|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:u|:politics|:ethics|:*|:qqq|:ggg
1583+++
1584"The ends justify the means." [* Do they?]
1585-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:ethics|:politics|:*|:uuuu|:zzzz|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxx|:zcom * Do they?|:qqqq|:gg|:rrrrr|:ooo|:vv
1586+++
1587"The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot."
1588-- Dean William R. Inge|:politics|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:z|:uuuu|:qqq|:gg
1589+++
1590"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it."
1591-- Joseph Goebbels|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181124_1255_41|:politics|:lllll|:qqqqqqq|:gg|:zzzz|:hhh|:uuuu|:xxxxx|:vvv
1592+++
1593"The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force."
1594-- Milton Friedman|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:communism|:qqq|:gg|:eeee|:ooo|:vvv
1595+++
1596"The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists. "
1597-- unknown|:politics|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:zzzzzzz|:xxx|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:ggg|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvv
1598+++
1599"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. "
1600-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:economics|:zzzzz|:humor|:xxxxx|:hhhhhh|:eee|:ggg|:qqqqqq|:iiiiiiii|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
1601+++
1602"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
1603-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:*|:politics|:freedom|:uuu|:zz|:xx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:gg|:ooo|:vvv
1604+++
1605"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."
1606-- Mark Twain|:__20180930_1204_18|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:humor|:hhhhhh|:zzz|:xx|:uuuuu|:gggggggg|:bbb|:oooo|:vvvvv
1607+++
1608"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." 
1609-- Richard Feynman|:science|:learning|:-short-|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:zz|:xx|:ttttttt|:sssss|:ggg|:humor|:hhhhhh|:iiiiii|:qqq|:ooooo|:vvv
1610+++
1611"The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own."
1612-- Aristotle|:politics|:z|:9|:uuuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gggggggg|:qqqq|:oooo
1613+++
1614"The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it."
1615-- Harry Browne|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:humor|:hhhh|:eeee|:ggg|:qqq|:iiiiiii|:vv
1616+++
1617"The general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend, and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack. "
1618-- Sun Tzu|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:learning|:ggg|:xxx|:zzzz|:tt|:bbbb|:qqqq|:ooooo|:vvvv
1619+++
1620"The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side."
1621-- Theodore J. Forstmann|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uu|:politics|:ethics|:qqq|:gg
1622+++
1623"The goal of socialism is communism."
1624-- Vladimir Lenin|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:uuuuu|:bbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:gg|:zzzzz|:llll|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
1625+++
1626"The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice."
1627-- Harry Browne|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:humor|:hhhh|:ggg|:qqq|:iiiiii|:oooo
1628+++
1629"The grand fallacy of the political left is that evil is localized in some set of 'oppressors' from whom we can be 'liberated.' That is also its great attraction, for it allows people to attribute their dissatisfactions to other people. "
1630-- Thomas Sowell|:politics|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:xxxxx|:zzzzzzz|:bbbbbbb|:gg|:qqqqqq|:llllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
1631+++
1632"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. "
1633-- George Santayana|:politics|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:learning|:gg|:zzz|:xx|:ttttttt|:oooo|:vvv
1634+++
1635"The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event."
1636-- Adolf Hitler|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:*|:qqqqq|:zzzzzz|:gg|:llll|:oooo|:vv
1637+++
1638"The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want."
1639-- Aristotle|:ethics|:politics|:z|:uu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:gg|:oooo|:vvv
1640+++
1641"The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning." 
1642-- Aristotle|:politics|:learning|:q|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxx|:zzzY|:ttttttt|:gg|:vvv
1643+++
1644"The great ideological divide is between those who believe that theories should be adjusted to reality and those who believe that reality must be adjusted to fit their theories. "
1645-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:zzzzz|:humor|:hhhhhh|:xxxx|:hhhhhh|:bbbb|:qqq|:gg|:llll|:rrrrr|:oooooo|:vvvvvvv
1646+++
1647"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."
1648-- Adolf Hitler|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:firstamendment|:uuu|:*|:qqq|:zzzzzz|:gg|:llll
1649+++
1650"The great tragedy of science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." 
1651-- Thomas Huxley|:learning|:humor|:hmm|:science|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhhhh|:tttt|:sssss|:gg|:vvv
1652+++
1653"The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another."
1654-- Milton Friedman|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:freedom|:politics|:religion|:ethics|:economics|:uu|:eee|:qqq|:gg
1655+++
1656"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."
1657-- Wayne Dyer|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:learning|:gggg|:uuuuu|:xxxx|:zzzz|:ttttt|:bbbb|:qqqq|:oooo|:vvv
1658+++
1659"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
1660-- Aristotle|:ethics|:politics|:x|:learning|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zz|:tttt|:qqq|:ggg|:ooooo|:vvv
1661+++
1662"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
1663-- Mark Twain|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:humor|:hhh|:zzz|:hhh|:ggg|:vv
1664+++
1665"The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all."
1666-- H. L. Mencken|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:uuu|:qqq|:gg
1667+++
1668"The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer." 
1669-- Henry Kissenger|:politics|:humor|:hhhh|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:u|:ethics|:gg|:qqq|:iiiii
1670+++
1671"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
1672-- Friedrich Nietzsche|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:qqq|:gg|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1673+++
1674"The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called 'society,' or the 'nation,' which is only a collection of individuals."
1675-- Emma Goldman|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:u|:politics|:ethics|:uu|:qqq|:gg
1676+++
1677"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite."
1678-- (apocryphally?) Thomas Jefferson|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuuu|:politics|:zzzzz|:xxxxxxx|:gggg|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:ooo|:vvv
1679+++
1680"The left is so invested in the idea that they are helping the disadvantaged that they seldom bother to check the actual consequences of what they are doing. "
1681-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:ethics|:politics|:xxx|:zzzzz|:qqqqq|:gg|:oooo|:vvv
1682+++
1683"The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living."
1684-- Socrates|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:ethics|:gggg|:oooo|:vv
1685+++
1686"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of hearts, there remains an uprooted small corner of evil."
1687-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|:__20181110_1553_33|:politics|:nnnnnnn|:gg|:zzzzz|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:llllll|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1688+++
1689"The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood."
1690-- Adolf Hitler|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:*|:bbbbbb|:qqqq|:zzzzzzz|:gg|:oooo|:vv
1691+++
1692"The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty."
1693-- Ludwig von Mises|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:zzzzzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:gg|:ooooooo|:vvvvvv
1694+++
1695"The majority of Americans get their news and information about what is going on with their government from entities that are licensed by and subject to punishment at the hands of that very government."
1696-- Neal Boortz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:politics|:firstamendment|:ethics|:zzzzz|:qqqqq|:gg|:oooo|:vv
1697+++
1698"The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave."
1699-- Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America)|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:zzzzzz|:xxxxx|:gg|:bbbb|:qqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
1700+++
1701"The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances."
1702-- Aristotle|:ethics|:politics||:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xx|:zzz|:qqq|:gggggggg|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvv
1703+++
1704"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
1705-- Thomas Jefferson|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:firstamendment|:learning|:humor|:hhhhhh|:zzz|:xxx|:gggggggg|:ttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:iiiiiiii|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1706+++
1707"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
1708-- Plato|:ethics|:politics|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxxx|:gggg|:zzz|:qqqqqq|:ooooo|:vvvv
1709+++
1710"The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood."
1711-- Joseph Goebbels|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:economics|:*|:qqq|:zzzz|:gg
1712+++
1713"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."
1714-- Joseph Goebbels|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:qqqq|:gg|:llll|:oooo|:vv
1715+++
1716"The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state."
1717-- Anthony Gregory|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:qqqqqqq|:ggg|:lllll|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
1718+++
1719"The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results."
1720-- Saul Alinsky|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:ethics|:uuuu|:xxx|:ggg|:zzzz|:bbbb|:qqqq|:ooo|:vv
1721+++
1722"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms."
1723-- Adolf Hitler|:secondamendment|:politics|:freedom|:zzzzz|:gg|:qqqqqq|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181119_1402_25|:rrrrr|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvvv
1724+++
1725"The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. 
1726
1727To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. 
1728
1729Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." 
1730-- Aristotle|:ethics|:politics|:learning|:zzzz|:q|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxx|:ttttttt|:ggg|:rrrrr|:vvv
1731+++
1732"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home. "
1733-- William Temple|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:learning|:ggg|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:ttttttt|:bbbbb|:qqqq|:oooo|:vvvvvvv
1734+++
1735"The most powerful form of lie is the omission." 
1736-- (apocryphally?) Orwell|:politics||:ethics|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzzzzzz|:firstamendment|:xxxxx|:gggggggg|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:lllllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1737+++
1738"The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace."
1739-- H. L. Mencken|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:uuuuu|:humor|:hhhh|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gg|:xxx|:qqq|:iiiii|:ooo|:vv
1740+++
1741"The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department."
1742-- Thomas Sowell|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uu|:politics|:ethics|:learning|:ttt|:qqq|:zzzzz|:gg
1743+++
1744"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant."
1745-- John Stuart Mill|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuu|:politics|:secondamendment|:ethics|:qqqqq|:ggg|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
1746+++
1747"The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree."
1748-- Saul Alinsky|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:politics|:ethics|:learning|:xxxx|:uuuuuu|:zzzzzzz|:tt|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:gg|:llllll|:rrrrrr|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
1749+++
1750"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
1751-- (inexact) Joseph Stalin|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:uuuuu|:xxxxx|:gg|:zzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvv
1752+++
1753"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
1754-- Abraham Lincoln|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:learning|:ttttttt|:gggg|:qqqqq|:zzzz|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvv
1755+++
1756"The plans differ; the planners are all alike."
1757-- Frederic Bastiat|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:zzzz|:xxxxx|:rrrrr|:oooooo|:vvv
1758+++
1759"The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away." 
1760-- John S. Caldwell|:politics|:econ|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:z|:uuu|:qqq|:gg
1761+++
1762"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."
1763-- Thomas Jefferson|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:ggg|:qqq
1764+++
1765"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."
1766-- Vladimir Lenin|:__20181128_0002_38|:qqqqqqq|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ggggg|:uuuu|:llllll|:xxxxx|:ooo|:vvv
1767+++
1768"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." 
1769-- Plato|:ethics|:politics|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzz|:xxxxx|:ggggg|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:lll|:oooo|:vvvvv
1770+++
1771"The prideful, rational mind, comfortable with its certainty, enamoured of its own brilliance, is easily tempted to ignore error, and to sweep dirt under the rug. Literary, existentialist philosophers, beginning with Soren Kierkegaard, conceived of this mode of Being as 'inauthentic.' An inauthentic person continues to perceive and act in ways his own experience has demonstrated false. He does not speak with his own voice."
1772-- Jordan Peterson (12 Rules for Life)|:__20181124_1255_41|:politics|:lllllll|:qqqqqqqq|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ggg|:zzzzz|:uuuuu|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
1773+++
1774"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."
1775-- Henry Cate, VII|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:humor|:hhhh|:uuuu|:xxx|:ggg|:zzzz|:qq|:iiiii|:ooo|:vv
1776+++
1777"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
1778-- Margaret Thatcher|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:economics|:humor|:hhhh|:uuuuu|:bbbb|:qqq|:zzzzz|:gg|:iiiiiii|:oooo|:vvv
1779+++
1780"The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property."
1781-- Ludwig von Mises|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:economics|:eeeee|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:gg|:zzzz|:xxx|:ooooo|:vvv
1782+++
1783"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
1784-- Oscar Wilde|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:politics
1785+++
1786"The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles."
1787-- Socrates|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:ggg|:ooo|:vvv
1788+++
1789"There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough US congressmen."
1790-- Author Unknown|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:humor|:hhhh|:ethics|:learning|:ggg|:zzz|:xxx|:uuuu|:tt|:bbb|:qqq|:iiiii|:ooo|:vv
1791+++
1792"There are many kinds of people in the world. Are you one of them?"
1793-- anon|:humor|:hhh|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gg
1794+++
1795"There are no rights if you can't defend them."
1796-- NRA (retweet?)|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:politics
1797|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:secondamendment|:oooooo|:qqqqqq|:vvvvv
1798+++
1799"There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs." 
1800-- Thomas Sowell|:ethics|:politics|:zzzzzzz|:*|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gggggggg|:xxxxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1801+++
1802"There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. "
1803-- @tech_faq|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:tech|:science|:humor|:hhhhhh|:gggg|:uuu|:zzz|:ss|:vvvv
1804+++
1805"There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation."
1806-- Frederic Bastiat|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:qqq|:ggg|:rrrrr|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
1807+++
1808"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them."
1809-- George Orwell|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:humor|:hhhh|:uuuu|:xxxx|:ggg|:zzzz|:bbbbb|:qqq|:iiiiiiii|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1810+++
1811"There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies and statistics."
1812-- Benjamin Disraeli (apocryphally Mark Twain)|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:humor|:hhhhh|:zzz|:0|:1|:2|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ggg|:iiiii|:lll|:ooo|:vvv
1813+++
1814"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man."
1815-- George Bernard Shaw|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:ethics|:humor|:hhh|:uuuuu|:ggg|:bbbb|:qqq|:rrrrr|:ooooo|:vvv
1816+++
1817"The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity."
1818-- Adolf Hitler|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:religion|:politics|:*|:xx|:bbbb|:qqq|:zzzzz|:gg|:ooo|:vv
1819+++
1820"There can be no freedom without freedom to fail."
1821-- Eric Hoffer|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuu|:freedom|:politics|:qqq|:ggg|:rrrrr|:ooooo|:vv
1822+++
1823"There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust."
1824-- Martin Luther King, Jr.|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuu|:politics|:ethics|:qqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvvv
1825+++
1826"There has now been created a world in which the success of others is a grievance, rather than an example."
1827-- Thomas Sowell|:ethics|:politics|:freedom|:worldhistory|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180822_2044_29|:zzzzzzz|:gggg|:xxxxxx|:bbbbbb|:qqq|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvv
1828+++
1829"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as De Tocqueville describes it, 'a new form of servitude'."
1830-- Friedrich Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order (1948)|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:uuuu|:bbbb|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvv
1831+++
1832"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."
1833-- Thomas Jefferson|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:ethics|:ability|:uuuuu|:xxxxx|:gggg|:zzzzz|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:oooooo|:vvvv
1834+++
1835"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. "
1836-- Mark Twain|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:humor|:hhhhhh|:zzzzzzz|:ggg|:xxxx|:hhhhhh|:bbbbb|:qqq|:iiiiiiii|:oooooo|:vvvvv
1837+++
1838"There is no learning without remembering."
1839-- Socrates|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:learning|:ttttttt|:gg|:oooo|:vv
1840+++
1841"There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have."
1842-- Harry S. Truman|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:firstamendment|:qqqqq|:ggg|:zzzz|:xxxx|:oooo|:vvv
1843+++
1844"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."
1845-- Mark Twain|:uuuuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:humor|:ethics|:hhhhh|:gg|:vvvv
1846+++
1847"There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all."
1848-- Antonin Scalia|:uuu|:politics|:ethics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zz|:ggg|:xx|:qqq|:ooo|:vv
1849+++
1850"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
1851-- Robert A. Heinlein|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uu|:politics|:ethics|:qqq|:ggg
1852+++
1853"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."
1854-- P. J. O'Rourke|:__20181127_2359_30|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ggggg|:uuuuu|:qqqqqq|:hhhhh|:iiiii|:humor|:xxxx|:ooooo|:vv
1855+++
1856"There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes."
1857-- Karl Marx|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:politics|:economics|:*|:zzz|:eee|:qqqq|:gg
1858+++
1859"There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed."
1860-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:politics|:z|:x|:uuu|:secondamendment|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:gg
1861+++
1862"There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions."
1863-- Milton Friedman|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:humor|:hhhhh|:bbbbbb|:gggg|:qqqq|:iiiiiii|:oooo|:vvvv
1864+++
1865"The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone."
1866-- Louis D. Brandeis|:uuuu|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzz|:ggg|:qqq|:ooo|:vvv
1867+++
1868"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."
1869-- Mark Twain|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:humor|:zz|:hhhhh|:gggg|:vv
1870+++
1871"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions." 
1872-- Claude Levi-Strauss|:science|:uu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gg|:ssss|:vvv
1873+++
1874"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."                                                            .
1875-- Mike Russell|:humor|:science|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhhhh|:gg|:vv
1876+++
1877"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
1878-- Carl Jung|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuu|:ethics|:gggg|:qqq
1879+++
1880"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
1881-- Ayn Rand|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:qqqqq|:gg|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:oooo|:vvvvvv
1882+++
1883"The social media companies have already lost control of the AI running the algorithms, that's why none of the tech CEOs can give clear answers to media or Congress. (replying to 'AI that brainwashes humans, that's the danger.' from Wisdomination) "
1884-- Mike Cernovich|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:politics|:tech|:gggg|:xxxx|:zzzzz|:bbbb|:qqq|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvv
1885+++
1886"The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified."
1887-- Friedrich Nietzsche|:__20181128_0002_38|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:science|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:qqqqqqq|:gggg|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1888+++
1889"The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science."
1890-- Carl Sagan (in Cosmos)|:__20181110_1553_33|:politics|:religion|:learning|:science|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gggg|:zzzzz|:nnnnn|:ttttt|:sssss|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:xxxx|:oooooo|:vvvvvvv
1891+++
1892"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
1893-- Sun Tzu|:war|:politics|:*|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzz|:xxxxx|:gg|:qqqqqq|:rrrrr|:ooooo|:vvv
1894+++
1895"The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not."
1896-- Friedrich August von Hayek|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:freedom|:politics|:economics|:eee|:qqqqq|:ggg|:zzzz
1897+++
1898"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
1899-- Thomas Jefferson|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:secondamendment|:uuuu|:bbbbbb|:zzzzz|:qqqqq|:ggg|:xxxx|:oooooo|:vvvvv
1900+++
1901"The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society."
1902-- Mark Skousen|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:politics|:ethics|:qqqqq|:ggg|:zzzz
1903+++
1904"The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching."
1905-- John Wooden|:ethics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:uuuuuu|:xxxx|:zzzzz|:gggggggg|:bbbbb|:qqq|:rrrrr|:oooooo|:vvvvv
1906+++
1907"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
1908-- Winston Churchill|:politics|:freedom|:worldhistory|:ethics|:learning|:uuuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180822_2044_29|:zz|:tttt|:ggg|:qqq
1909+++
1910"The truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
1911-- Joseph Goebbels|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:*|:xxxxx|:zzzzz|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:rrrrr|:llll|:ooooo|:vvv
1912+++
1913"The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you figure out why. "
1914-- Mark Twain|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:growth|:ability|:zzzzz|:gggggggg|:xxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1915+++
1916"The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, 
1917
1918keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and 
1919
1920spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, 
1921
1922is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief." 
1923-- Aristotle|:ethics|:politics|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuu|:*|:gggg|:qqq
1924+++
1925"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."
1926-- Herbert Spencer|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuuuu|:ethics|:ggg|:zzzzzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
1927+++
1928"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
1929-- apocryphally George Washington|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:politics|:secondamendment|:uuu|:xxx|:zzzz|:bbbb|:qq|:gg|:oooo|:vv
1930+++
1931"The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence."
1932-- Adolf Hitler|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:uuu|:*|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qq|:zzzz|:gg
1933+++
1934"The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly may not be submitted to vote; they depend on no elections."
1935-- Robert H. Jackson|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:freedom|:politics|:firstamendment|:economics|:zzzzzz|:gg|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:xxxx|:ooooo|:vvvvv
1936+++
1937"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men."
1938-- John F. Kennedy|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:ggg|:bbbbbb|:qqq|:oooo|:vvvvv
1939+++
1940"The way of the masters was to find their own way."
1941-- Zen proverb|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ability|:learning|:ethics|:tttttt|:uuuuu|:gggggggg|:bbbbbbbb|:zzzz|:qqqq|:oooooo|:vvvvvvv
1942+++
1943"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
1944-- Vladimir Lenin|:__20181128_0002_38|:politics|:economics|:ggggg|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:eeeeee|:qqqqqqq|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvv
1945+++
1946"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."
1947-- Albert Camus|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:politics|:*|:zzzzz|:xxx|:bbbbbbb|:gggg|:qqq|:rrrrr|:ooooooo|:vvvvvv
1948+++
1949"The welfare state is the greatest confidence racket of all time. The government takes your money in taxes and then turns around and spends some of it to give you things. For this, you feel dependent on them, when in fact they are dependent on you. "
1950-- Thomas Sowell|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:ethics|:economics|:zzzz|:xxxx|:bbbb|:qqq|:ggg|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvvv
1951+++
1952"The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take the people's money quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly. "
1953-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:economics|:zzzzzzz|:xxxx|:bbbbb|:qqqq|:gg|:oooo|:vv
1954+++
1955"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
1956-- H. L. Mencken|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:humor|:hhhh|:uuuuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:*|:zzzzz|:ggg|:xxxxx|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:iiiiiii|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
1957+++
1958"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."
1959-- Gustave Flaubert|:__20181110_1553_33|:politics|:hhhhhh|:nnnnn|:uuuuu|:zzzzz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbbb|:qqqq|:gg|:iiiiiiii|:ooooooo|:vvvv
1960+++
1961"The whole political vision of the left, including socialism and communism, has failed by virtually every empirical test, in countries all around the world. But this has only led leftist intellectuals to evade and denigrate empirical evidence."
1962-- Thomas Sowell|:__20180930_1204_18|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:politics|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:uuuuu|:uuuuuu|:bbbbbb|:qqqqq|:ggg|:oooooooo|:vvvv
1963+++
1964"The will of the people is as shifty as the sands of the seashore. The truth is that men are tired of liberty."
1965-- Benito Mussolini|:uu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:*|:xx|:qqq|:gg
1966+++
1967"The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we created them."
1968-- Albert Einstein|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:ethics|:politics|:ttttttt|:uuuuu|:gggggggg|:learning|:bbbbbbbb|:zzzzz|:sssss|:qqqqq|:oooooo|:vvv
1969+++
1970"The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all." 
1971-- Tacitus|:politics|:z|:x|:ethics|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:gg
1972+++
1973"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
1974-- Ludwig von Mises|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:qqq|:ggg|:rrrrr
1975+++
1976"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
1977-- Aristotle (rephrase of: 'But that the unequal should be given to equals, and the unlike to those who are like, is contrary to nature, and nothing which is contrary to nature is good.')|:ethics|:politics|:zzzzz|:*|:uuuuuuu|:xxxxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:ggg|:rrrrr|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
1978+++
1979"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government." 
1980-- Henry Ward Beecher|:politics|:humor|:hhhh|:uuuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzz|:xx|:qqq|:gg|:iiiiii|:ooooo
1981+++
1982"The years of peak mental activity are undoubtedly between the ages of four and eighteen.  At four we know all the questions, at eighteen all the answers." 
1983-- unknown|:humor|:hhhhh|:learning|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ttttt|:ggg|:vv
1984+++
1985"They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet."
1986-- Saul Alinsky|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:politics|:secondamendment|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:uuuuu|:*|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:gg|:lll|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
1987+++
1988"They laughed when I said I'd be a comedian. They aren't laughing now."
1989-- anon|:humor|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhhhh|:gg
1990+++
1991"Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do."
1992-- Aristotle|:politics|:z|:uu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:ggg
1993+++
1994"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."
1995-- Joseph Goebbels|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:*|:zzzzzzzz|:gg|:xxxxxxx|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:lllllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
1996+++
1997"This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it."
1998-- Joseph Goebbels|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:ethics|:*|:xxxxx|:zzzzz|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqq|:gg|:llll|:ooooo|:vvvvv
1999+++
2000"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
2001-- Santayana|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:worldhistory|:uuuuu|:xxxxx|:gggggggg|:zzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:ooooooo|:vvvv
2002+++
2003"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it. "
2004-- Abraham Lincoln|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:freedom|:religion|:ethics|:xxx|:ggggg|:bbbbb|:qqqq|:oooo|:vvv
2005+++
2006"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than those who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
2007-- Aristotle|:ethics|:learning|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:tttt|:ggg
2008+++
2009"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." 
2010-- Thomas Paine|:politics|:freedom|:uuuu|:zzz|:xxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
2011+++
2012"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell." 
2013-- Karl Popper|:politics|:zzzzz|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxx|:qqqqq|:ggg|:ooooooo|:vvv
2014+++
2015"Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
2016-- C. S. Lewis|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:zzzzzzzzz|:gggggggg|:xxxxxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2017+++
2018"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." 
2019-- Benjamin Franklin (reply to the Governor)|:ethics|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:xxx|:zzzz|:bbbbb|:qqq|:gggg|:ooooooo|:vvv
2020+++
2021"Through discipline comes freedom."
2022-- Aristotle|:politics|:ethics|:uuu|:zzz|:xx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gggg|:qqq|:ooo|:vvv
2023+++
2024"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. 
2025
2026Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. 
2027
2028Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
2029
2030This is known as "bad luck."
2031-- Robert A. Heinlein|:politics|:humor|:hhhh|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxx|:zzzz|:ggg|:qqqq|:iiiiii|:ooooo|:vvv
2032+++
2033"Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy."
2034-- Sun Tzu|:war|:politics|:*|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzz|:xx|:qqqq|:gg|:oooo|:vvv
2035+++
2036"To assent to obvious lies is ... in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control." 
2037-- Theodore Dalrymple|:politics|:worldhistory|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuuuuu|:zzzzzzzzz|:gggggggg|:xxxxxxx|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:lllllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2038+++
2039"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." 
2040-- George Washington|:politics|:freedom|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzz|:xx|:gggg|:qqq|:ooooo|:vvvv
2041+++
2042"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
2043-- Ralph Waldo Emerson|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:ethics|:xx|:gg|:ooo|:vvv
2044+++
2045"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."
2046-- Thomas Jefferson|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:uuuuu|:bbbbb|:zzzz|:qqq|:ggg|:lll|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvv
2047+++
2048"To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master."
2049-- David Nasaw|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuu|:politics|:ethics|:learning|:tttt|:qqq|:ggg|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvv
2050+++
2051"To him who is in fear, everything rustles."
2052-- Sophocles|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:ethics|:politics|:ggg|:uuuu|:bbbb|:zzzz|:qqqq|:oooo|:vv
2053+++
2054"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt."
2055-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuu|:politics|:ethics|:qqq|:gg|:rrrrr
2056+++
2057"To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."
2058-- Thomas Jefferson|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:freedom|:politics|:economics|:eeeee|:qqq|:zzzzz|:gg|:ooooo|:vvvv
2059+++
2060"To regard the majority of Western peoples as possessing malign motives; to approach all books, art & human interactions with suspicion is not a sign of clear-eyed perception, but rather, as one of my psychology professors once put it, a diseased mind. "
2061-- Stephen Harrod Buhner|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:xxxxx|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:ggg|:zzzzz|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2062+++
2063"To this very moment slavery continues in parts of Africa and the Islamic world. Very little noise is made about it by those who denounce the slavery of the past in the West, because there is no money to be made denouncing it and no political advantages to be gained. "
2064-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:religion|:ethics|:economics|:zzzzzzzz|:gggg|:xxxxx|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:ooooooo|:vvvv
2065+++
2066"Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. " 
2067-- George Washington (Farewell Address)|:politics|:zzzzz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:uuuuu|:*|:zcom Saul Alinsky and Cloward and Piven aim directly at breaking down and going around the system.|:qqqqq|:ggg|:ooooooo|:vvvv
2068+++
2069"True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within."
2070-- Saul Alinsky|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:uuuuuu|:xxxx|:ggg|:zzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
2071+++
2072"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. "
2073-- Mark Twain|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:ethics|:humor|:hhhhh|:zzz|:gggg|:hhhhh|:xx|:qqq|:oooo|:vv
2074+++
2075"TV is called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done."
2076-- anon|:humor|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhhhh|:gg|:qqq
2077+++
2078"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom." 
2079-- Charles Peguy|:politics|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:zzzzz|:uuuuu|:freedom|:qqqqq|:gg|:rrrr
2080+++
2081"Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true."
2082-- Will Rogers|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:economics|:humor|:hhhhhh|:xx|:zzz|:gg|:qqqqq|:iiiiiiii|:oooooo|:vvvv
2083+++
2084"Understanding the limitations of human beings is the beginning of wisdom. "
2085-- Thomas Sowell|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:gggggggg|:xxxx|:zzzz|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2086+++
2087"Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money."
2088-- Thomas Hobbes|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:qqq|:gg|:ooo|:vv
2089+++
2090"Venality, not pride, is the gravest human sin, for ultimately it destroys everything else of value."
2091-- Jason Jordan|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:economics|:politics|:ethics|:zzzzzzzzz|:gggggggg|:xxxxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2092+++
2093"Victor Frankl, the psychiatrist and Nazi concentration camp survivor who wrote the classic Man's Search for Meaning, drew a similar social-psychological conclusion: deceitful, inauthentic individual existence is the precursor to social totalitarianism."
2094-- Jordan Peterson (12 Rules for Life)|:__20181124_1255_41|:politics|:ethics|:lllllll|:gggg|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqqqqqqq|:zzzzz|:uuuuu|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2095+++
2096"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
2097-- Sun Tzu|:war|:politics|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xx|:zzz|:qqqq|:ggg|:ooooo|:vvv
2098+++
2099"Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. 
2100
2101Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time."
2102-- Aristotle|:ethics|:politics|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:*|:xx|:zz|:gg|:qq
2103+++
2104"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
2105-- George Orwell|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:freedom|:ethics|:uuuuuu|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:ggg|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2106+++
2107"War is the health of the state."
2108-- Randolph Bourne|:ethics|:politics|:freedom|:worldhistory|:war|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180822_2044_29|:zzz|:bbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:ggg|:xxxxx|:oooooo|:vvv
2109+++
2110"War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself." 
2111-- (apocryphal Benjamin Franklin)|:politics|:zzzzz|:*|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gggg|:xxxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2112+++
2113"Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now."
2114-- Thomas Jefferson (Notes on the State of Virginia)|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:health|:uuuuu|:ggg|:bbbbb|:zzzzz|:qqqqqqq|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
2115+++
2116"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking."
2117-- Mark Twain|:__20181216_2212_48|:ethics
2118|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:ggggggg|:humor|:vvvvvvv
2119+++
2120"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
2121-- Oscar Wilde|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:humor|:hhhhh|:uuuuu|:ggg|:bbbb|:zzzz|:ooo|:vv
2122+++
2123"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."
2124-- Richard Feynman|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:learning|:science
2125+++
2126"We are not punished for our sins, but by them."
2127-- Elbert Hubbard|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:*|:zzz|:xx|:gggg|:qqq|:rrrr|:oooo|:vvv
2128+++
2129"We are now approaching the state of Orwell's dictum, that 'he who controls the present, controls the past.'        
2130He who controls internet servers controls the intellectual record of mankind.        
2131And by controlling that controls our perceptions of who we are.        
2132And by controlling that controls what laws and regulations we make in society. "
2133-- Julian Assange (10 May 2010)|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:politics|:ethics|:gg|:xxxxx|:bbbbb|:qqq|:ooo|:vv
2134+++
2135"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions."
2136-- (apocryphally?) Adolf Hitler|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:uuu|:bbbb|:zzzz|:qqq|:gg|:ooo|:vv
2137+++
2138"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." 
2139-- Aristotle|:ethics|:politics|:learning|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzzzzzz|:uuuuuuuu|:xxxxxxx|:gggggggg|:ttttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2140+++
2141"We are working to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, for only in that way can we find progress." 
2142-- Richard Feynman|:science|:zzzzzz|:learning|:-short-|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ssssss|:gggggggg|:xxxxx|:ttttttt|:bbbbbb|:qqq|:rrrrr|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2143+++
2144"We cannot recapture the past, but sometimes it can recapture us - if we are not careful. "
2145-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:worldhistory|:ggg|:xxx|:humor|:hhhh|:qqqq|:iiiii|:oooo|:vvv
2146+++
2147"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans."
2148-- William J. Clinton|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uu|:*|:politics|:gg|:qq
2149+++
2150"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
2151-- Winston Churchill|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:economics|:eee|:qqq|:gg
2152+++
2153"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
2154-- William Hazlitt|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:u|:gg|:qqq
2155+++
2156"We have the best government that money can buy. "
2157-- Mark Twain|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:humor|:hhhhhh|:zzzzzz|:hhhhhh|:ggg|:xxxx|:bbbb|:qqqqq|:iiiiiii|:ooooo|:vvv
2158+++
2159"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
2160-- Thomas Jefferson|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:gggg|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvvv
2161+++
2162"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." 
2163-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow|:ability|:growth|:learning|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuu|:tttt|:gg
2164+++
2165"Well, our friend Dirac has got a religion and its guiding principle is 'There is no God and Paul Dirac is His prophet.'"
2166-- Wolfgang Pauli|:science|:humor|:-short-|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uu|:hhhhhh|:gg|:vvv
2167+++
2168"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
2169-- William Casey, CIA Director|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:learning|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:humor|:hhh|:tt|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:gg|:iiiiiii|:lllllll|:oooooo|:vvv
2170+++
2171"We need either less corruption or more chance to participate in it."
2172-- anon|:humor|:politics|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uu|:hhhhh|:gg|:qqq
2173+++
2174"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread."
2175-- Thomas Jefferson|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:economics|:humor|:hhhh|:uuuuu|:bbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:gggg|:iiiiiiii|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:oooooo|:vvv
2176+++
2177"We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice."
2178-- Woody Allen|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:humor|:hhhhh|:uuuu|:xxx|:ggg|:zzzz|:bbb|:vv
2179+++
2180"We totally deny the allegations, and we are trying to identify the allegators."
2181-- anon|:humor|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:u|:hhhh|:gg
2182+++
2183"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."
2184-- Thomas Jefferson to James Madison (Dec. 20, 1787, in Papers of Jefferson, ed. Boyd et al.)|:__20181124_1255_41|:freedom|:politics|:secondamendment|:ethics|:zzzzz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqqqqqq|:ggg|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvv
2185+++
2186"What distinguished Nazism from other brands of socialism and communism was not so much that it included more aspects from the political right (though there were some). What distinguished Nazism was that it forthrightly included a worldview we now associate almost completely with the political left: identity politics. This was what distinguished Nazism from doctrinaire communism, and it seems hard to argue the marriage of one leftist vision to another can somehow produce right-wing progeny."
2187-- Jonah Goldberg|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:uuuu|:bbbbb|:zzzzzz|:qqq|:gg|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvv
2188+++
2189"What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place."
2190-- Joseph Goebbels|:*|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:religion|:uuuu|:zz|:xx|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:gg|:rrrrr
2191+++
2192"What do we know now that we didn't know before?" 
2193-- ACG|:humor|:zz|:learning|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:hhhhh|:tttt|:gg|:rrrr
2194+++
2195"What good fortune for those in power that people do not think."
2196-- Adolf Hitler|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:*|:zz|:xxx|:bbbbbb|:qqq|:gg|:oooooo|:vvvv
2197+++
2198"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage." 
2199-- Marcus Tullius Cicero|:politics|:uuuuu|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gggggggg|:ethics|:qqq|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvvv
2200+++
2201"What is most frightening about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. All problems seem to them to be due to other people not being as wise or as noble as they are. "
2202-- Thomas Sowell|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:zzzzzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbbb|:qqq|:ggg|:oooo|:vvvv
2203+++
2204"What is the difference between leftists and cannibals? Cannibals don't eat their friends. "
2205-- attributed to Lyndon Johnson|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:xxxx|:hhh|:humor|:bbbb|:zzzz|:gg|:iiiiiii|:qqqq|:oooo|:vv
2206+++
2207"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. "
2208-- Mark Twain|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:politics|:economics|:humor|:zzzz|:hhhhhh|:xxxx|:gg|:*|:xxxx|:zzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:iiiiiii|:ooooo|:vvv
2209+++
2210"What men value in this world is not rights but privileges."
2211-- H. L. Mencken|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuu|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:qqq|:gg
2212+++
2213"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."
2214-- Confucius|:__20181124_1255_41|:gggggggg|:qqqqqqqq|:lll|:zzzzz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2215+++
2216"What would I replace the Fed with? When someone removes a cancer, what do you replace it with? "
2217-- Thomas Sowell|:__20180903_2112_08|:econ|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xx|:qqqq|:gg|:ooo|:vv
2218+++
2219"'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given without hesitation." 
2220-- John Buchan|:ability|:growth|:learning|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:ethics|:ttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:zzzzz|:gggggg|:ooooo|:vvvvvvv
2221+++
2222"When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... This violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people."
2223-- P. J. O'Rourke|:__20181128_0002_38|:politics|:secondamendment|:ethics|:economics|:humor|:hhh|:iiiiii|:qqqqqq|:gggg|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxxx|:oooo|:vvv
2224+++
2225"When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."
2226-- Thomas Jefferson (to C. Hammond)|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:*|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:ggg|:lll|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
2227+++
2228"When a man says he wants to kill you... you should believe him." 
2229-- Anonymous Holocaust Survivor|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:worldhistory|:ethics|:*|:xxxxx|:zzzzzz|:gg|:bbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2230+++
2231"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."
2232-- Mark Twain|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:politics
2233+++
2234"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
2235-- Donald James|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:ethics|:qqqqqqq|:ggg|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:lllllll|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
2236+++
2237"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." 
2238-- P.J O'Rourke|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuuu|:ethics|:zzzzzz|:gggg|:xxxxx|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2239+++
2240"Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions."
2241-- Milton Friedman|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:qqq|:ggg|:oooooo|:vvvv
2242+++
2243"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." 
2244-- Mark Twain|:politics|:zzz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:humor|:gggggggg|:hhhhhh|:xxx|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqq|:iiiiiiii|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
2245+++
2246"When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles. "
2247-- Frank Herbert, Children of Dune|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:freedom|:politics|:xxxxx|:gg|:zzzzz|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:rrrrr|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
2248+++
2249"When men found the mirror they began to lose their souls."
2250-- unknown|:__20181110_1553_33|:ethics|:learning|:ggg|:uuuu|:nnnn|:zzz|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbb|:qqq
2251+++
2252"When people have to resort to words like 'greed' or 'exploitation,' it is hopeless to try to have a rational discussion with them. "
2253-- Thomas Sowell|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:ethics|:xxx|:bbbb|:qqqq|:gg|:ooooo|:vvvv
2254+++
2255"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
2256-- Frederic Bastiat|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:uuuu|:bbbbb|:zzzzz|:qqqqq|:ggg|:xxxx|:oooooo|:vvvv
2257+++
2258"When someone is honestly 55% right, that's very good and there's no use wrangling. And if someone is 60% right, it's wonderful, it's great luck, and let him thank God. But what's to be said about 75% right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100% right? Whoever says he's 100% right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal." 
2259-- An old Jew of Galacia (from Milosz's 'The Captive Mind')|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:ethics|:politics|:gggggggg|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2260+++
2261"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers."
2262-- Socrates|:uuuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:gggggggg|:zzzz|:xxxxxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
2263+++
2264"When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny."
2265-- Thomas Paine|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuuuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:zzzzzzzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:ggg|:rrrrr|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
2266+++
2267"When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end."
2268-- Aristotle|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:xxx|:zzz|:ggg|:bbbb|:qqq|:rrrrr|:ooooo|:vvv
2269+++
2270"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."
2271-- Thomas Jefferson|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:uuuuu|:gggggggg|:bbbbbbbb|:zzzzz|:qqqqqqqq|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvv
2272+++
2273"When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty."
2274-- Confucius|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:gggg|:qqqqq|:rrrrr|:ooo|:vv
2275+++
2276"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."
2277-- Harry S. Truman|:uuu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:bbbb|:qqq|:ggg
2278+++
2279"When you've seen one non-sequitur, the price of tea in China."
2280-- anon|:humor|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhh|:gg
2281+++
2282"When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. "
2283-- Thomas Sowell|:politics|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:ethics|:gg|:xx|:bbbb|:qqq|:oooo|:vv
2284+++
2285"Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation."
2286-- Leon Trotsky|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:*|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqq|:gg|:rrrrr|:ooooooo|:vvvvv
2287+++
2288"Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people." 
2289-- Heinrich Heine|:politics|:learning|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzzzzzzz|:uuuuuuuu|:firstamendment|:gggggggg|:xxxxx|:tttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqqq|:lllllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2290+++
2291"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." 
2292-- Benjamin Franklin (Silence Dogood, No. 8)|:ethics|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuuuuu|:firstamendment|:zzzzzzzz|:xxxxxx|:bbbbbbb|:ggg|:qqq|:rrrrr|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2293+++
2294"Why invade a country when you can just buy its institutions, turn its women against its men, make transvestites of its children, sell the wealth generated by its labor to foreign investors, then introduce a foreign army as 'refugees' and 'diversity' to finish it off?
2295-- anon|:politics|:freedom|:zzzzz|:gg|:qqqqqq|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181119_1402_25|:rrrrr|:xxxxx|:oooo|:vv
2296+++
2297"Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?"
2298-- Adolf Hitler|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:*|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:gg|:rrrrr|:oooooo|:vvvv
2299+++
2300"Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. "
2301-- Author Unknown|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181015_2201_20|:politics|:economics|:learning|:humor|:hhhh|:uuuu|:xxx|:ggg|:zzzz|:tt|:bbb|:iiii
2302+++
2303"Without Islamic slavers, there would have been no black slave trade in the Western Hemisphere. "
2304-- Bill Warner|:politics|:uuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180921_2155_26|:religion|:ethics|:economics|:xxxxx|:bbbbb|:qqqqqq|:gg|:rrrrr|:oooooo|:vvvv
2305+++
2306"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. "
2307-- Mark Twain|:uuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180903_2112_08|:humor|:zz|:hhhhh|:ggg|:vv
2308+++
2309"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."
2310-- Socrates|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:u|:gg
2311+++
2312"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing - that's what counts."
2313-- Richard Feynman|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:learning
2314+++
2315"You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest."
2316-- Ambrose Bierce|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:politics|:ethics|:xx|:zzzz|:bbbbb|:qqq|:gg|:ooooo|:vvv
2317+++
2318"You cannot help small men by tearing down big men."
2319-- Abraham Lincoln|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuuu|:ethics|:politics|:qqqqq|:ggg|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvv
2320+++
2321"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
2322-- Adrian Rogers|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:freedom|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:uuuu|:bbbb|:qqq|:gg|:oooo|:vv
2323+++
2324"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself."
2325-- Galileo|:science|:learning|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuu|:gggggggg|:xx|:zzz|:ttttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:oooooo|:vvvvv
2326+++
2327"You can replace lies with truth, but myth is only displaced with a narrative."  
2328-- Nassim Taleb|:politics|:learning|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:*|:zzzzz|:xxx|:tttt|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:gg|:lllll|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvv
2329+++
2330"You can't badger people to change but you can seduce them with your sense of joy..."
2331-- Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:ethics|:tttt|:uuuuu|:ggg|:vv
2332+++
2333"You can't get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about Communism."
2334-- P. J. O'Rourke|:__20181128_0002_38|:politics|:learning|:economics|:eeeee|:iiiiii|:humor|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqqqqq|:gggg|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvvv
2335+++
2336"You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook."
2337-- Harry S. Truman (paraphrase from the original: An honest public servant can't become rich in politics.)|:__20181110_1553_33|:politics|:ethics|:economics|:nnnnnn|:zzzzz|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbbbbbb|:gggg|:qqqqqqqq|:llllll|:xxxxx|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2338+++
2339"You can't learn to think for yourself if you don't take the time to do it."
2340-- anon (qcf)|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:new|:__20181216_2212_48|:ethics|:learning
2341+++
2342"You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society."
2343-- Vaclav Havel|:__20181110_1553_33|:politics|:ethics|:nnnnnn|:zzzzz|:uuuuuu|:ggg|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:xxxxx|:ooooooo|:vvvv
2344+++
2345"You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him."
2346-- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:z|:uuu|:ethics|:politics|:qqq|:ggg|:rrrrr|:oooooo|:vv
2347+++
2348"You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. 
2349
2350And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem."
2351-- Niccolo Machiavelli|:*|:politics|:ethics|:freedom|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxx|:zzz|:qqqq|:gg|:oooo|:vvv
2352+++
2353"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
2354-- (apocryphally) Trotsky|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:politics|:ethics|:*|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:qqqqq|:ggg|:rrrrr|:ooooo|:vvvv
2355+++
2356"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."
2357-- Sam Levenson|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:learning|:humor|:hhhhhh|:ttttttt|:uuuu|:ggg|:oooo|:vvv
2358+++
2359"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
2360-- Charles A. Beard|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:politics|:qqqqqq|:gggg|:zzzzz|:xxxxx|:ooooo|:vvv
2361+++
2362"You never win an argument until they attack your person." 
2363-- Nassim Taleb|:politics|:ethics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:x|:z|:uuu|:firstamendment|:qqq|:gg|:oooo|:vv
2364+++
2365"Your best teacher is your last mistake."
2366-- anon|:politics|:ability|:learning|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180822_2044_29|:z|:ttttttt|:gg|:vv
2367+++
2368"Your children will live under Communism... You Americans are so gullible.  No, you won't accept Communism outright; but we will keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you finally wake-up and find that you already have Communism.  We won't have to fight you, we'll so weaken your economy until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands."
2369-- Nikita Khrushschev, Premier of the Soviet Union, 1958 to 1964 in a recorded conversation with Ezra Taft Benson, President Eisenhower's Secretary of Agriculture in 1959|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181021_2229_50|:politics|:economics|:uuuu|:bbbbb|:zzzzz|:qqq|:ggg|:rrrrr|:oooo|:vvv
2370+++
2371"You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"
2372-- Adolf Hitler|:politics|:zzzzz|:gg|:qqqqq|:uuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20181119_1402_25|:rrrrr|:religion|:ooo|:vv
2373+++
2374"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." 
2375-- Aristotle|:ethics|:politics|:learning|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuuu|:gggggggg|:zzzzz|:xxxx|:ttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:qqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2376+++
2377"You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve YOUR freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it.  "
2378-- John Adams|:politics|:freedom|:worldhistory|:war|:uuuuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180822_2044_29|:zzzz|:xxx|:bbbb|:qqq|:gg|:oooo|:vv
2379+++
2380"You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more."
2381-- Adolf Hitler|:uuu|:*|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:__20180724_2316_23|:politics|:ethics|:qqq|:gg
2382+++
2383
2384+++
2385~ Everything you say is a lie, including the words 'and' and 'the'. ~
2386-- a paraphrase of Mary McCarthy on Lillian Hellman|:politics|:humor|:hhhhh|:uuuuu|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzz|:xx|:hhhh|:ggg|:qqqq|:iiiiii|:lll|:ooo|:vv
2387+++
2388“Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.” 
2389-- Aristotle|:ethics|:politics|:uu|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqqq|:gg
2390+++
2391'An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.' 
2392-- Robert A. Heinlein|:-const|:secondamendment|:ethics|:uuuuu|:zzzzz|:politics|:freedom|:qqqqqqq|:ethics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:xxxxx|:ggg|:ooooo|:vvvvvv
2393+++
2394'A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims ... but accomplices.' 
2395-- George Orwell|:-const|:zzzzz|:politics|:uuuuuu|:freedom|:ethics|:xxxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbbb|:qqqqq|:ggg|:ooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2396+++
2397'As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.' 
2398-- Albert Einstein|:-const|:zzzzz|:science|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:learning|:*|:uuuuu|:hmm|:humor|:hhhhhh|:gg|:hhhhhh|:tttttt|:ssssss|:ooooo|:vvvvv
2399+++
2400'As good as you are, and as bad as I am, I'm as good as you are as bad as I am.' 
2401-- Scottish toast (anon zbf)|:-const|:humor|:hhhhh|:zzzz|:freedom|:ethics|:uuuu|:q|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gggggg|:hhhhh|:bbbbbbbb|:iiiiiiii|:ooooooo|:vvv
2402+++
2403'Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.' 
2404-- George Orwell|:-const|:politics|:ethics|:learning|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuu|:firstamendment|:xx|:zzz|:hhhhh|:humor|:ggg|:tttt|:qqq|:iiiiiii|:rrrrr|:oooooooo|:vvvvv
2405+++
2406'Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.' 
2407-- Max Planck|:-const|:science|:zzzzz|:learning|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuuu|:gggggggg|:xxxx|:ttttttt|:bbbbbbbb|:sssssss|:qqqqq|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2408+++
2409'Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.' 
2410-- George Orwell|:-const|:zzzzzzzz|:politics|:qqqqqqqq|:uuuuuuuu|:freedom|:ethics|:gg|:xxxxxxx|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:bbbbbbb|:llllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2411+++
2412'Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.' 
2413-- Henry Thomas Buckle|:-const|:qqqqq|:politics|:learning|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:zzzz|:uuuuuu|:tttt|:gggggggg|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2414+++
2415'If you thought science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.' 
2416-- Richard Feynman|:zzzzz|:science|:humor|:hmm|:uuuuuu|:-const|:ggg|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhhhhh|:xxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:sssssss|:iiiiii|:oooooo|:vvvvv
2417+++
2418Menu is in lower right
2419-- Help|:?
2420+++
2421'No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.' 
2422-- George Orwell|:-const|:zzzzz|:politics|:*|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuuu|:freedom|:ethics|:xxxxx|:bbbbbbb|:gg|:qqqqqq|:rrrrr|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
2423+++
2424'Sometimes I stop to think and forget to start again.' 
2425-- anon|:-const|:humor|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhhh|:gg
2426+++
2427'The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.' 
2428-- E.O. Wilson|:-short-|:zzzzz|:ethics|:politics|:tech|:qqqqqqqq|:uuuuuuuu|:-const|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:gggggggg|:xxxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2429+++
2430'The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it.' 
2431-- H.L. Mencken|:-const|:politics|:zzzzzz|:*|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuuu|:freedom|:ethics|:xxxxx|:bbbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:gg|:lllll|:oooooooo|:vvvvvv
2432+++
2433'We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.' 
2434-- George Orwell|:-const|:politics|:ethics|:uuuu|:zzz|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:qqq|:gg|:oooooo|:vvv
2435+++
2436What do you call 1000 lawyers on the bottom of the sea?   A good start. 
2437-- anon|:humor|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:hhhh|:gg
2438+++
2439'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.' 
2440-- George Orwell|:politics|:freedom|:worldhistory|:qqqqqqq|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:-const|:uuuuuuuu|:zzzzz|:gggggggg|:zcom Controlling the entire historical narrative is all important|:xxxxxx|:bbbbbbbb|:oooooooo|:vvvvvvv
2441+++
2442'Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.' 
2443-- Albert Einstein|:-const|:zzzz|:politics|:ethics|:science|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuu|:ggg|:xxx|:sssss|:qqqq|:oooo|:vvv
2444+++
2445'You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.' 
2446-- William J. H. Boetcker|:-const|:zzzz|:ethics|:politics|:0|:1|:2|:3|:4|:5|:6|:7|:8|:9|:uuuuuu|:ggg|:xxxxx|:bbbbb|:qqqqqqq|:zzzzz|:oooooooo|:vvvvv