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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


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


Maturity
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly...
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Sep 13, 20211 min read
Labors
“Labor not unwillingly, nor without regard to the common interest, nor without due consideration, nor with distraction; nor let studied...
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Sep 6, 20211 min read


The Guest
"I distinctly remember, Addison, crossing you off of my guest list. What are you doing here?" Margo Channing in All About Eve...
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Aug 30, 20211 min read


Simplicity
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." -Confucius #FavoriteQuotes
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Aug 23, 20211 min read


Nice to Meet You
“I am always saying ‘Glad to’ve met you’ to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff,...
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Aug 16, 20211 min read


The Meaning of Equity
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” ~ George Orwell, Animal Farm #FavoriteQuotes
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Aug 9, 20211 min read


The Myth
"I assure you from a God's Olympian perch that government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies.” ~ Leto Atreides II...
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Aug 2, 20211 min read


Terror
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." ~ Ronald Reagan #FavoriteQuotes
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Jul 26, 20211 min read


Pitchforks
“Really loving this uneducated, mid-evil [sic] pitch fork carrying, burn the witch at the stake mentality though. The world needs more of...
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Jul 19, 20211 min read


Practice Makes Perfect
"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." ~ William Faulkner #FavoriteQuotes
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Jul 5, 20211 min read


Reform
"In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. Show me someone who says,...
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Jun 28, 20211 min read


Stop
The “way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” ~ Parents Involved, 551 U.S. at 748...
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Jun 21, 20211 min read


I Think Therefore I Am
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with...
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Jun 14, 20211 min read


Just Do It
“It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.” ~ J.D....
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Jun 7, 20211 min read
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