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Ideas
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?” — Joseph Stalin General...
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Feb 14, 20221 min read


The Birth of Fury
“It was in my anger that she was conceived. And it was in my rage that she was born. Through that anger; through that rage, I invited...
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Feb 7, 20221 min read


Humane
“. . .it was easier to be humane when one was not human.” ~ the character Nergal from “The Fifth” #FavoriteQuotes
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Jan 31, 20221 min read


Permits
“Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit.” - Robert A. Heinlein, Author, ‘Stranger In A Strange Land’. #FavoriteQuotes
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Jan 24, 20221 min read


Secrecy
Secrecy begets tyranny. ~Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land #FavoriteQuotes
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Jan 17, 20221 min read


Insanity
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ~often attributed to Albert Einstein, but also to...
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Jan 10, 20221 min read


Nice Fellas
“Guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus’ works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain’t...
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Jan 3, 20221 min read


Don't Dream it. Be it
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." ~ George Elliot #FavoriteQuotes
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Dec 27, 20211 min read


I Think Therefore I Can
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." ~ Henry Ford #FavoriteQuotes
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Dec 20, 20211 min read


Lucky
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." ~Thomas Jefferson #FavoriteQuotes
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Dec 13, 20211 min read


Injury
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” ~Marcus Aurelius #FavoriteQuotes
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Dec 6, 20211 min read


No Returns
"He's an honest politician--he stays bought." ~Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
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Nov 29, 20211 min read


You Be You
"If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There’s turkey ham, turkey bologna,...
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Nov 22, 20211 min read


Lies, Lies, Lies
"I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time — and then shut up.” ~ the character...
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Nov 15, 20211 min read


Viva la revolución
“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial...
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Nov 8, 20211 min read


Confusing
"Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, 'Never take candy from strangers.' And then they dressed me up and said, 'Go beg...
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Nov 1, 20211 min read


Laughter Is the Best Medicine
“I’ve found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it’s the only thing that’ll make it stop hurting.” ~...
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Oct 25, 20211 min read


No Butts
“A desire not to butt into other people’s business is at least eighty percent of all human ‘wisdom’...and the other twenty percent isn’t...
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Oct 18, 20211 min read


Unintended Consequences
”The law of unintended consequences, often cited but rarely defined, is that actions of people—and especially of government—always have...
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Oct 11, 20211 min read


Tyranny
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under...
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Sep 20, 20211 min read
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