Disclaimer: I don't always agree with my quotes, but that is beside the point. Things in my quotes are things that inspire, frighten, intrigue, anger, and amuse me. Those that know me can probably guess which is which. I just figured I would put that disclaimer in. Mostly I use facebook as a quick online bank for quotes from things I read.
"Of all the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven." -Mark Twain
"If I have any intelligence at all, it lies in knowing who to listen to." ~ Mark Twain
"As if there was much of anything in any human utterance, oral or written, except plagiarism!...The kernel, the soul -- let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances -- is plagiarism." ~ Mark Twain to a 12 yr old Helen Keller
Prices are like messengers carrying the news of supply and demand. Like other messengers carrying bad news, they face the danger that some people think the answer is to kill the messenger, rather than taking steps to change the news. ~ Thomas Sowells
Oil company executives make big bucks incomes, almost as much as liberal movie stars who are never criticized for "greed." And if Big Oil CEOs worked for nothing, it is unlikely to be enough to bring the price of a gallon of gas down by a nickel. ~ Thomas Sowells
"Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus." ~ Michael Crichton
"the first concerns among defenders of democracy arose with radio. And that's why the equal time provision and the fairness doctrine and the public interest standard were put in place here. Those protections were almost completely removed during President Reagan's term." - Al Gore 5/30/07 (in reference to problems in the media that need to be fixed for democracy to work.)
"All governments find a use for as much money as they can raise." ~ Melancton Smith 1787
"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." ~ Hillary Clinton 1993
"When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?" ~ Henry David Thoreau
"Fairness doesn't just happen. It requires the right government policies." ~ Hillary Clinton 5/29/07
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