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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ron on April 03, 2020, 04:11:03 PM
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Let's post up some timely, timeless, profound, witty or inspiring quotes.
He wasn't talking about Covid 19 but if the shoe fits ...
"All models are wrong, many are useful, some are deadly." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Something I learned from working EMS, but it's equally applicable across many fields:
"Yield to tonnage."
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Well, that didn't work out as planned.
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"Out of an abundance of caution, we should...."
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I f'ing hate people. Oh wait that's my quote.
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"Murphy was an optimist."
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"I may close early today"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxoowglHU2w
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"I'll be back."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrsspTTpApI
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We already have a thread for those.
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Gun control is giving up your own tools in exchange for a nebulous promise that politicians and police will "do their best" to protect you. --Lawdog
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When you need help right now, the police are minutes away.
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"I’ll kill a man in a fair fight, or if I think he’s gonna start a fair fight… If he bothers me, or if there’s a woman… Or if I’m gettin’ paid. Mostly only when I’m gettin’ paid." - Jayne Cobb
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I'm getting to old for this *expletive deleted*it.
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"Everything they do is so dramatic and flamboyant, it makes me want to set myself on fire!" — Lucille Bluth
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“I refuse to wear a suit. I am gay- I've had two boyfriends most of my life- I've had kinky sex, I've tried drugs through most of the younger years of my life. I'm broke as sh**, I have a judgement against me from some b**** down there in Florida...”
Joe Exotic
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"It's fistfuls fault." Said by everyone here.
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"I’ll kill a man in a fair fight, or if I think he’s gonna start a fair fight… If he bothers me, or if there’s a woman… Or if I’m gettin’ paid. Mostly only when I’m gettin’ paid." - Jayne Cobb
"Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill ’em right back." - Malcolm Reynolds
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"We have to pass it to see what's in it."
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Women think they’re complaining about men in general, but they’re almost always referring to one man in particular.
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How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg. Abraham Lincoln
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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert Heinlein
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Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert Heinlein
That is 100% correct, I hadn't heard that one. I'll see your Heinlein and raise you one:
"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accept the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay -- and claims a halo for his dishonesty."
Robert Heinlein
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An armed society is a polite society
That should resonate nicely here! :cool:
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. GK Chesterton
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Truth is treason in the empire of lies. - Ron Paul
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"I'm the one that has to die when It's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. (damn right)"
Jimi Hendrix, "If 6 Were 9"
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Truth is treason in the empire of lies. - Ron Paul
Ron Paul was one of my heroes. That's a great quote.
Back when he was running for president I got ridiculed on these sites (maybe THR) for endorsing him (are you still with us, Wild Alaska?) but the people who ridiculed me were "careful" not to reveal who their choice was. I was out in the open and they were shooting at me from behind cover. "Smart", I guess. =|
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Ron Paul was one of my heroes. That's a great quote.
Back when he was running for president I got ridiculed on these sites (maybe THR) for endorsing him (are you still with us, Wild Alaska?) but the people who ridiculed me were "careful" not to reveal who their choice was. I was out in the open and they were shooting at me from behind cover. "Smart", I guess. =|
Ron Paul is the only politician whose campaign I've ever sent money to. I even caucused, and got myself elected to be a county delegate (to help elect other RP delegates to the state level) There were a lot of shennanigans in that primary; you'd think the R leaders were democrats.
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Ron Paul is the only politician whose campaign I've ever sent money to. I even caucused, and got myself elected to be a county delegate (to help elect other RP delegates to the state level) There were a lot of shennanigans in that primary; you'd think the R leaders were democrats.
I came away from that with the opinion that Sean Hannity was not a true Republican. But then again, neither was Ron Paul, he was a libertarian.
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"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."
- Jeff Cooper
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"Observe your cat. It is difficult to surprise him. Why? Naturally his superior hearing is part of the answer, but not all of it. He moves well, using his senses fully. He is not preoccupied with irrelevancies. He's not thinking about his job or his image or his income tax. He is putting first things first, principally his physical security. Do likewise."
- also from Jeff Cooper
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"One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it."
- yup, Jeff Cooper
We could easily create a thread entirely of Jeff Cooper quotes.
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"Observe your cat. It is difficult to surprise him. Why? Naturally his superior hearing is part of the answer, but not all of it. He moves well, using his senses fully. He is not preoccupied with irrelevancies. He's not thinking about his job or his image or his income tax. He is putting first things first, principally his physical security. Do likewise."
- also from Jeff Cooper
Jeff Cooper hasn't watched too many Youtube videos.
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https://youtu.be/2e7PA6q0RWU
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis
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If you offer violence to me or mine, you may get more violence in return than you can possibly enjoy.
Or something like that, again from Cooper.
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- Lazarus Long
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- Lazarus Long
Love that quote
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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Oscar Wilde
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"Hold my beer!" -anonymous
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“I’ve looked at all the models. I’ve spent a lot of time on the models. They don’t tell you anything. You can’t really rely upon models.”
- Anthony Fauci 4/3/20 (Washington Post)
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We are now Gods, but for the wisdom.
- Eric Weinstein
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In the United States of America, no one is above the law.
Hillary Clinton
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"That Bitch Carole Baskins" Joe Exotic
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“Every nation ought to endeavour to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply.”
Alexander Hamilton
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Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.
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"Models are merely your opinions, some observations, and a bit of wishful thinking reduced to computer programs that llustrate your opinions, some observations, and a bit of wishful thinking." --Terry, circa 2002.
A.D.
Terry, 230RN
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Found this on the internet ages ago. No clue who wrote it
There are criminals among us who are both homicidal and incorrigible. Their parents took a shot at civilizing them and failed. Their school teachers took a shot at them and failed. The odds are overwhelming that government welfare programs and penal institutions took a shot at them and failed. If it ever becomes your turn to take a shot at them, don’t fail.
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Same for this one
Incompetence is often mistaken for conspiracy
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“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.”
Source disputed
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Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.
Life is tough, it's tougher when you're stupid.
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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. -Edward Thorndike
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The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. -William Wordsworth
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares for more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -John Stuart Mill
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Tact is the ability to tell a man he's open minded when he has a hole in his head. -F.M. Kernan
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The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give, they trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them. - Madame de Lambert
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"Do not wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it." G.B. Shaw.
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It is a false idea of utility to sacrifice a thousand real advantages for the sake of one disadvantage which is either imaginary or of little consequence; this would take fire away from men because it burns, and water because it drowns people; this is to have no remedy for evils except destruction.
Laws forbidding people to bear arms are of this nature; they only disarm those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. On the other hand, how can someone who has the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity and the most important ones in the statute books be expected to respect the most trifling and purely arbitrary regulations that can be broken with ease and impunity and that were they enforced, would put an end to personal liberty- so dear to each man, so dear to the enlightened legislator- and subject the innocent to all the vexations that the guilty deserve?
Such laws place the assaulted at a disadvantage and the assailant at an advantage, and they multiply rather than decrease the number of murders since and unarmed person may be attacked with greater confidence than someone who is armed. These laws should not be deemed preventive, but rather inspired by a fear of crime. They originate with the tumultuous impact of a few isolated facts, not with a rational consideration of the drawbacks and the advantages of a universal decree.
Cesare Beccaria "An Essay on Crimes and Punishments" 1764
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My favorite ironic quote:
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. -Lyndon B Johnson
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Rather fail by honor than succeed by fraud. -Sophocles
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Well done is better than well said. -Benjamin Franklin
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From Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love":
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool)
Don't try to have the last word. You might get it.
An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.
Natural laws have no pity.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
You live and learn, or you don't live long.
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo Sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
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Let no one be discouraged by the belief that there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope. Crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples can build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance -Robert Kennedy
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
The way is actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
-Margaret Young
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He who goes unarmed in paradise had better be sure that that is where he is. -James Thurber
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this is true. -James Branch Cabell
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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth. -John Stuart Mill
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence- it is force. -George Washington
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A right is not what someone gives you. It is what no one can take away from you. -Ramsey Clark
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The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. -Lin Yutang
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
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A man may conduct himself well in both adversity and good fortune, but if you want to test his character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln
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"Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie; I put that envelope under that garbage." :)
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed to them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. -Ronald Reagan
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We in America do not have a government by the majority. We have a government by the majority who participate. -Thomas Jefferson
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In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress. -John Adams
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If you don't read the newspaper you are uniformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -Mark Twain
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Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. -Mark Twain
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Arson, the little man loved fire.
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I 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. -Winston Churchill
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The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it. -George Orwell
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A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -G Gordon Liddy
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -Will Rogers
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No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -Mark Twain
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The inherent vice of Capitalism is the unequal sharing of Blessings. The inherent blessing of Socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -Winston Churchill
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If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the slaughter.
-George Washington
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=D =D JN01 just found his Ole Book O Quotes he had stashed away. :rofl: :rofl: :old:
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With the schools closed down for the rest of the year I gave my daughter my complete works or mark twain
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=D =D JN01 just found his Ole Book O Quotes he had stashed away. :rofl: :rofl: :old:
Well, yeah, plus I’m bored.
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"When a liberal asks you a question, she's really looking for an excuse to tell you why you're wrong."
-- Unknown Just Barely Right-of-Center Political Wag
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"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." - Louis Brandeis
"Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin (disputed; he allegedly wrote something similar praising wine)
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Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.
- Louis L'Amour
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"Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!"
- Martin Luther
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"A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Anger is privilege for the strong, duty for the righteous, and self-harm for the weak." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"One thing global warming has taught the Ruling Caste: confer payola, positions, and prestige on the Scientific Caste and you can get whatever Science you want." Robert Gore
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"Protesting and revolting against your wise rulers goes against everything America was built on."
- TB Bee
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H.L. Menken
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If there’s one thing coronavirus did do with certainty, it increased global stupidity levels. - WM Briggs
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"Protesting and revolting against your wise rulers goes against everything America was built on."
- TB Bee
It took me a moment to realize who/what "TB Bee" is.
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What you're witnessing is the complete failure of Liberalism - which is, incidentally, indistinguishable from its total victory.
read on Twitter
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Found on youtube
A very unofficial comment by Admiral King regarding how the Bureau of Ordinance was progressing on the Mk 14 torpedo problems- "I've seen better organized monkey shlt fights at the zoo.."
Adm King was a colorful character to say the least
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Just how depleted of self-respect must one be to agree to get on their knees because someone of another race demands it?
I must be cut from an entirely different cloth because under no circumstances ever will you will catch me acting like a castrated animal.
- Candace Owens
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White privilege = being held responsible for the acts of your ancestors by folks who accept no responsibility for the acts of their children.
-A Teller
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"F*ck it; we'll do it live."
- Damn near everyone.
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White privilege = being held responsible for the acts of your ancestors by folks who accept no responsibility for the acts of their children.
-A Teller
Mic drop
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G. K. Chesterton
We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
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G. K. Chesterton
We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
Did he have a crystal ball or a time Machine? :O
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Did he have a crystal ball or a time Machine? :O
No kidding!
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G. K. Chesterton
We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
SOME WOMEN HAVE PENISES BIGOT!
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Just how depleted of self-respect must one be to agree to get on their knees because someone of another race demands it?
I must be cut from an entirely different cloth because under no circumstances ever will you will catch me acting like a castrated animal.
- Candace Owens
That is a magnificent quote by a brave woman.
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Another great quote by Chesterton
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes being corrected."
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50313555198_2a6a3f9e20_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jE384C)
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Take Coopers quote and replace "felon" with "mob"
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From what we've seen a very significant percentage of the mobs are felons.
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Absolutely significant overlap on ye olde Venn diagram.
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In fighting those who serve devils one always has this on one’s side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us.
The moment we disable the human pawns enough to make them useless to Hell, their own Masters finish the work for us.
They break their tools.”
- Lewis, C. S.
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It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what's going on. -- Amos Tversky
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If falsehood, like truth, had only one face, we would be in better shape.
For we would take as certain the opposite of what the liar said.
But the reverse of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and a limitless field.
- Montaigne
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In the last analysis, we see only what we are ready to see, what we have been taught to see.
We eliminate and ignore everything that is not a part of our prejudices.
- Jean-Martin Charcot
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"In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything else his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of the nation, must begin by subduing the freedom of speech; a thing terrible to publick (sic) traitors."
- Trenchard and Gordon, Cato, letter No 15.
Maybe should have posted it in the "digital long knives" thread instead.
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“Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching." -C.S. Lewis
"Religion is easy. Faith is hard."
"The true nature of a man is not evidenced by how many attend his funeral, but in why those who choose to attend are there." -unknown
"Show me the lowest paid, least respected group of people in an organization and I'll show you the group most responsible for that organization's success or failure." -unknown
Brad
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This puts my struggle to "love my neighbor as myself" into an interesting context :laugh:
“Individually, I love you all with affection unspeakable, but, collectively, I look upon you with a disgust that amounts to absolute detestation!”
I forgot to copy where I ran across this quote.
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"Urghst. Crag a baggle shee." Joe Biden
"Chet, pure and simple." Chet, from the Chet and Bernie novels.
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An ass can be a world traveler, but it will never come back as a horse. - anon
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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.
Ronald Reagan
A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.
Jean-Francois Revel
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
George Orwell
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The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
George Orwell
I don't know it's origin, but a popular German saying is, "The man who tells the truth needs the fastest horse."
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I don't know if I posted this earlier...but my grammaw used to say "The truth will out" and "Always tell the truth because then you don't have to remember the story."
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The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn't taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man.
Malcolm X
These Negros, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.
Lyndon B Johnson
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
-George Orwell
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“Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages, is approached upon the matter, and begins to say, in the arid manner of the Schoolmen, "Let us first of all consider, my brethren, the value of Light. If Light be in itself good--" At this point he is somewhat excusably knocked down. All the people make a rush for the lamp-post, the lamp-post is down in ten minutes, and they go about congratulating each other on their unmediaeval practicality. But as things go on they do not work out so easily. Some people have pulled the lamp-post down because they wanted the electric light; some because they wanted old iron; some because they wanted darkness, because their deeds were evil. Some thought it not enough of a lamp-post, some too much; some acted because they wanted to smash municipal machinery; some because they wanted to smash something. And there is war in the night, no man knowing whom he strikes. So, gradually and inevitably, to-day, to-morrow, or the next day, there comes back the conviction that the monk was right after all, and that all depends on what is the philosophy of Light. Only what we might have discussed under the gas-lamp, we now must discuss in the dark.”
-G.K. Chesterton
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“Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages, is approached upon the matter, and begins to say, in the arid manner of the Schoolmen, "Let us first of all consider, my brethren, the value of Light. If Light be in itself good--" At this point he is somewhat excusably knocked down. All the people make a rush for the lamp-post, the lamp-post is down in ten minutes, and they go about congratulating each other on their unmediaeval practicality. But as things go on they do not work out so easily. Some people have pulled the lamp-post down because they wanted the electric light; some because they wanted old iron; some because they wanted darkness, because their deeds were evil. Some thought it not enough of a lamp-post, some too much; some acted because they wanted to smash municipal machinery; some because they wanted to smash something. And there is war in the night, no man knowing whom he strikes. So, gradually and inevitably, to-day, to-morrow, or the next day, there comes back the conviction that the monk was right after all, and that all depends on what is the philosophy of Light. Only what we might have discussed under the gas-lamp, we now must discuss in the dark.”
-G.K. Chesterton
The monk needs to speak more succinctly ;)
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“It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.”
― Rod Serling
Happy National Twilight Zone Day, every day for the foreseeable future :laugh:
https://nationaltoday.com/national-twilight-zone-day/
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Terror can rule absolutely only over men who are isolated against each other - Anna Arendt
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“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” - Mark Twain
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"No plan survives first contact with the enemy."
- Helmuth von Moltke
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"No plan survives first contact with the enemy."
- Helmuth von Moltke
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." -- General Dwight Eisenhower =)
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"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." -- General Dwight Eisenhower =)
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."
- Mike Tyson
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"Boys, we caught 'em napping!!!" ~ ~ Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer. [tinfoil] [popcorn] ;/
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Speaking of plans, a two-fer:
“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”
“There are some aholes in the world that just need to be shot"
James Mattis
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"Always tell the truth. That way you never have to remember the story." My grammaw. :old:
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In fighting those who serve devils one always has this on one’s side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us.
The moment we disable the human pawns enough to make them useless to Hell, their own Masters finish the work for us.
They break their tools.”
- Lewis, C. S.
"That Hideous Strength".
I've got a new copy coming. I intend to re-read, with 40+ years more perspective than the last time.
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"That Hideous Strength".
I've got a new copy coming. I intend to re-read, with 40+ years more perspective than the last time.
Yeah, I had to re-read it recently, too. I hear it's not as popular as the other two books. That seems backward to me.
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"Their ain't no such thing as a sucker punch in a street fight." My Detective Lt mentor when I was in LE.
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This is the problem with subjecting everything to the marketplace. When the highest bidder gets to determine public morality, no one can ever question the morality of the highest bidder. Public opinion becomes another commodity to be traded, rather than a genuine exchange of ideas...
Like the economy as a whole, the marketplace of ideas has become a pirate’s cove. Everything is for sale and everything can be purchased, if the price is right. The consequences are for the suckers to bear.
This is what conservatism should oppose. One basic tenet of conservatism is that there is a transcendent moral truth. That means it is indifferent to the marketplace. it also means that truth itself is not up for bid. Once you concede this point, you are no longer on the Right, but just another kiosk in the bazaar of increasingly bizarre ideas. The way to end the pirate’s cove is to shut it down and hang the pirates. That’s the starting point for conservatism, if it is to be anything more than another grift.
- ZMan
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"I always hope for the best. Experience, unfortunately, has taught me to expect the worst." - Elim Garak,
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"You can't learn history from Instagram."
- Bill Maher
(yeah, he surprised me too)
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“Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.”
WILL ROGERS
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The ear that hears the reproofs of life abides among the wise.
- King Solomon in the book of Proverbs, The Bible, sometime pre 200 BC
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"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."
~ Edward Bernays
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"No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders." ~ Edward Bernays
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"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." ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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"The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim."
~ Gustave Le Bon
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“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”
– Thucydides
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We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
- Marshall McLuhan
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
- Marshall McLuhan
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"Beware of the man who goes to church six days a week - on the seventh, he'll steal your horse."
My Grandpa
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"If there is one constant in the world, it's that someone, somewhere, is shooting a 7.62x54R round at someone else right now."
- somebody on Arfcom
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Truth is treason in the empire of lies.
Ron Paul
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken
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Being self-righteous about your opinion is a great way to convince other people that you're an ahole. --The Deep Life
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken
or...
“His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink . . . . to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them.”
George Orwell, 1984 (1948)
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"Russian warship: go *expletive deleted*ck yourself!"
- Roman Hrybov
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“It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person; it’s damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.” -Bill Murray
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Related: "It is difficult to reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into."