A man in love is not complete until he's married. Then he's finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor "Political correctness is like wearing duct tape over your mouth [in politics]." Senator Simpson If a committee designs a horse it will turn out to be a camel. [James Garner] I think I'd almost rather deal with a mogul than the committee. Anything run by a committee is going to get screwed up. [James Garner -Emmy TV Legends interview] Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have. [Marilyn Monroe] This is the last free generation. [Julian Assange speaking at CCC - Sysadmins of the world, unite! (30c3)] Trotter and Le Bon concluded that the group mind does not think in the strict sense of the word. In place of thoughts it has impulses, and habits and emotions. In making up its mind its first impulse is usually to follow the example of a trusted leader. [Edward Bernay Propaganda pg. 50] "That's the point of peer review: to keep you from fooling yourself." [Lucy Jones The Challenges of Science Communication, Hitchcock Lectures UCTV] Can't turn your adversaries into your enemies. [Colin Powell] The most dangerous phrase is, 'We've always done it this way',.. Grace Hopper WWII computer pioneer I think I gave up practicing the piano because I didn't have to make my own music anymore. [Early radio listener talking about the novelty of radio in the 1920's] I believe in reality and a little hard sell. [Ida Rosenthal One of the founders of the Madenform bra company. Regarding dreams.] A legal system where men substitute words for reality and then talk about the words. [Jack Armstrong about the legal system.] Our science does not make the wind. For all we know God could have planted a tree a thousand years ago to change one puff of wind today. Infinity is too big for us to put a label on. Greatness rarely presents itself. It must be found. [kb] Every program that has been devised to help the poor has hurt the poor. [?] All that people want are a few square feet where they can get out of the rain, stay warm, sleep and maybe store up a few supplies. So how did we get tied to these monstrosities called houses that the government uses to tax us relentlessly? kb When you're young the words people use to describe a process or method don't make sense. When you're old you realize they were obvious. kb For all we know God could have planted a tree a thousand years ago that diverts a single puff of wind today. kb Invention is gone from the internet. kb You have to suspect every historian because everyone is subjective in their own way. [Oliver Stone - Conversations with History interview, 2016] What gets rewarded gets done. [???] All day long they twist my words. [King David] When a man prays for a corn crop the Lord expects him to say amen with a hoe. [???] Those were the good old days. We had everything but money. [Old lady being interviewed about the thirties, on This American Life NPR radio show (episode about the Mason house.] I think I'd almost rather deal with a mogul than the committee. Anything run by a committee is going to get screwed up. [James Garner -Emmy TV Legends interview] I always wanted women to be my lovers but instead, in this modern age of woman's rights, they have become my adversaries. kb They say 'equal rights', but do they mean subjugation. kb How come dogs know what a rubber band is? kb Some men lack character but are educated. You can educate a fool. [???] "I hated every minute of training, but I said, `Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' " Muhammad Ali "A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." Muhammad Ali "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong." Muhammad Ali "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it." Muhammad Ali "Now the things that once were so effortless - my strong voice and the quickness of my movements - are more difficult. But I get up every day and try to live life to the fullest because each day is a gift from God." Muhammad Ali "At home I am a nice guy but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far." Muhammad Ali Institutional barrage. The massive amount of paper work, legalese and technical jargon corporations and government use to befuddle people. We need the strength of unity which Christianity gives us. I got a landline and I got more sleep. I look people in the eye. I eat food instead of photographing it and am not driving half a ton of metal into oncoming traffic while looking down at a tiny screen. My business, social life, and personal safety have not evaporated overnight either. [Jenna Woginrich - How I quit my smartphone addiction and really started living - The Guardian 16Feb11] ...as long as he can push a button and turn a switch he says he's living. [re. modern man, Vernon McGee TTB rec. no. 11018] We are all becoming part of the state whether we like it or not [our identities]. So our only hope is to determine what sort of state it is we are going to become part of. [Julian Assange speaking at CCC - Sysadmins of the world, unite! (30c3)] Is liability a good thing or a bad thing? Because of unfairness and injustice we cannot rule over ourselves. Let us embrace old age as the humbling experience we need to understand God's word. There's life and then there's money. It seems to be an either or situation. The doomsayers simply never account for the role of human cooperation and ingenuity in confronting challenges. [ Ronald Bailey (author of 'The End of Doom'-) quoted in the New York Post article "Ignore the dire warnings about our lives because it's just hysteria" New York Post August 15, 2015 http://nypost.com/2015/08/15/ignore-the-dire-warnings-about-our-lives-because-its-just-hysteria/] You may think you have free speech, but we’ll find a way to make you pay. Virginia Postrel You see Christ is the only one, friends, who can break down the walls today that are separating individuals, that separate families, that separate races, that separate religions, that separate nations. [Vernon McGee, Thru The Bible radio program recording number 03014, Leviticus, re sacrifices] If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it because it.s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. Grace Hopper WWII computer pioneer America is in the hands of those who do not comprehend our spiritual heritage. [get author] .What science becomes in any historical era depends on what we make of it. .Sandra Harding, Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? (1991) In the interest of health and safety we've turned our schools and retirement homes into prisons. Panic and paranoia imposes it's own censorship. Suspicion extorts oppressive censorship. Our arrogance is bedding for censorship. Nothing drains economic value like the absence of privacy. [Catherine Austin Fitts] ... caution is social responsibility which one may not neglect. [from Earth Air Fire and Water. The Pharmageddon Herbal. The Western Tradition. Chp. 6, The Heavy Metals (6.4) Ivor Hughes} Those that stand for nothing will fall for anything. Human knowledge must be understood to be believed but divine knowledge must be believed to be understood. [Pascal ??] The science to which I have pinned my faith has failed me. {Bernard Shaw] Ninety seven percent of fund managers can't make the expenses they charge. Money will buy a bed but it will not buy sleep, it'll buy food, but it will not buy and apatite. Money will buy medicine but it will not buy health. Money will buy a house, but it will not buy a home. Money will buy a diamond but it will not buy love. Money will buy a church pew but it will not buy salvation. A committee takes minutes and spends hours. An expert is a fellow from another town. [Vernon McGee] A mob never has a reason. [Vernon McGee] "I'm from Wyoming where gun control is how steady you hold your rifle." Senator Simpson and others There is no Western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses, and so on, if there's a profit to be made from them. Noam Chomski The thing that scares me about social media ... if people just start talking to the people they agree with [on social media], when do they stop looking left and right? Brian Johnson, retired KOMO TV/radio reporter. "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." Albert Einstein Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeites...the ladies would gang up in a corner and discuss my dangerous character. [Marilyn Monroe] It's getting harder and harder to see the truth. [Colin Powell] One of the easiest ways of controlling something is degrading its efficiency. Hal Sparks, mathematician. If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Ronald Reagan on ineffective government. "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."- President Ronald Reagan You're the one hittin that button to send a two thousand pound bomb into the air and it's a sobering experience. And it should be. [Navy pilot talking about adrenalin and the piloted flight experience] If you take the emotion out of it [robotics and drones] there's no doubt about it, the military will be a lot stronger. [soldier] The last fighter pilot has already been born. [common saying amongst military personnel] Abigail: When nobody knows who you are you can be anything in the whole World.... You really can. When you're nobody special, you can say I want to do this, and nobody can stop you. You can just ride off on your horse and be. Gillman: Don't you believe it. You are what they want you to be and nobody else. [From the TV show Wagon Train, the John Gillman Story episode.] Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage. [Alexander Tytler???] [Excellent research on this quote at http://www.lorencollins.net/tytler.html] Prior to 9/11, the idea that state-sponsored killing would become a normal part of American policy would have seemed unthinkable. But ten years after their debut, drone strikes piloted from the safety of Suburbia, U.S.A., had become an acceptable practice, even the norm. ["Top Secret America" Dana Priest, Willaim ARkin, pg 220.] Political correctness started out as a quirky parlorgame but it has now become the scarf we are using to autoasphyxiate ourselves. [Dennis Miller] It's always bad when you create a long term social compact based upon a short term crisis. [Clay Jenkinson or was he quoting Jefferson? I wasn't sure.] What if there are Angels among us and we were rude to them? [everyone] How would you like it if, for instance, one day you realized your underwear was reporting on your whereabouts? [California State Senator Debra Bowen, at a 2003 hearing re RFID.] This is not the first time superior capabilities have proven more valuable than professional credentials. [Spock to McCoy in giant amoeba episode.] It matters if you just don't give up. [Stephen William Hawking] Try sincerity. That's a virtue, but truth, that's an affliction. [from the movie The Tailor of Panama] The word responsibility is being eliminated from the english language. [Whoopi Goldberg] But surely he was right in this: democracy as we know it is not likely to survive for long without a Christian foundation under it. [Rev. Robert L. Edwards writing about Horace Bushnell] "They said I worked with the diligence of a ditch digger." Joan Crawford This hurry sickness [Anita Roddick (the Body Shop) During an interview on NPR's Morning Edition show talking about our sound bite culture and also referring to the statistic that in [1980] museum goers spent an average of ten seconds in front of a painting. In 1997 it was only three seconds.] The fascism of numbers. [Anita Roddick NPR's Morning Edition show saying something to the effect she was glad she and her friends who started the Body Shop didn't go to business school otherwise they would have been indoctrinated with the fascism of numbers.] Nervous with a thoroughly constructed behavior. [I don't know where this quote comes from but I marvel at its descriptiveness -- maybe from a movie.] 'I'll discuss it with you', she said, in a voice that could have been used to defrost her refrigerator. Rex Stout My brother cuts the time it takes to read a newspaper by skipping everything in the future tense; and it's amazing what he doesn't miss. Katharine Whitehorn There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things we know we don't know. But, there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don't know we don't know. Donald Rumsfeld [ This may be the ideal definition of our bureaucracy. You have to admire a guy who can say this.] The older I get the better I used to be. [Joe Loprinzi, 75 yr old Portland Fitness director.] Now we can live our lives being online all day. However, the truth of the matter is we still need to see each other's faces, read their expressions, hear their voices so we can fully understand their emotions - to coexist. [Azusa Hayano - researcher of Japan's suicide forest.] The darkness that poses a real threat to mankind, after all, is the fact that he can see and investigate tangible material things, but cannot see where the world is going or whence it comes, where our own life is going, what is good and what is evil. [Pope Benedict XVI - 2012 Easter vigil services] Whenever the government says:'we're going to keep you safe', get ready because you're going to loose your freedom. [Jesse Ventura] In 2012, there's the physical you. and the digital you; the former being clueless, and the latter being sold on open markets like a modern day slave. [rezn8d dot net] We gotta move forward. That's why we comb our hair backwards. [a barber] Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners. [Fred Allen] I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement. [Fred Allen] Television is the triumph of machine over people. [Fred Allen] Nothing drains economic value out than the absence of privacy. [Catherin Austin Fitts] Even great inventions can fail if they arrive before their time ... [Lev Grossman writing about Kurzweil for Time Magazine :2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299,00.html] Our currency is worthless, we no longer have jobs. People have to rely on themselves and not money and a paycheck from their employer. [Greek protester using barter] Tradition means keeping the fire going, not worshiping the ashes. [Captain of the Alexander von Humboldt II]. What I've seen is if a community is already divided it responds to a tragedy in the worst possible way; usually blaming the victims. Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the "I Heard The Sirens Scream" "You can't keep trouble from coming but you needn't give it a chair to sit on." Mrs. Charles Brees, Charitn, Iowa (found in Reminiscent Magazine Jan/Feb '92) "Rust ruins more tools than overuse." Paul Sorenson (found in Reminiscent Magazine Jan/Feb '92) "Advice is like snow. The softer it falls, the deeper it goes." Ola Hoffer, Bemiaji, Minn (found in Reminiscent Magazine Jan/Feb '92) "If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep." Connie Allendorf, Millington, Michigan (found in Reminiscent Magazine Jan/Feb '92) "I won't be any trouble, I don't eat anything and I won't try to manage things because I haven't got a brain." Scarecrow to Dorothy in Wizard of Oz "The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube it's very hard to have thoughts or ideas under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone." Noam Chomsky "The point is, is that you have to work. That's why the propaganda system is so successful. Very few people are going to have the time or the energy or the commitment to carry out the constant battle that's required to get outside of the McNeil Lehrer or Dan Rather or somebody like that. The easy thing to do, you know you come home from work, you're tired, you had a busy day, you know you're not going to spend the evening carrying on a research project so you turn on the tube and you say it's probably right or you look at the headlines in the paper or watch the sports or something. That's basically the way the system of indoctrination works. Sure the other stuff is there, but you're going to have to work to find it." Noam Chomsky "Correction does much but encouragement does more." Goethe "Acquisition, increase of money, mercantile achievement, considered in the middle ages vices comparable to lust and gluttony, became in the era of capitalism major virtues." From Ethics in a Business Society, Marquis W. Childse Douglas Cater "It is better to meet a mother bear robbed of her cubs than to meet some fool busy with a stupid project." Pr. 17:12 "A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument." ? "It's hard being the living extension of tradition." From the movie Paper Chase, 1973. "The last battle over constitutional rights is being waged over drugs against big brother." From the movie True Believer, 1989. Comment: now, 22 years later, we have a different battle over free speech and freedom. "I believe in freedom. I don't believe in license which many people believe freedom is supposed to be." Mildred Benson I'm not sure that's the first name. Heard it on the radio (probably NPR). It's the lady who wrote 23 of the original Nancy Drew mysteries. Mr. Warf: The Federation does have enemies. We must seek them out. Capt Pickard: Oh yes! That's how it starts. The road from suspicion to rampant paranoia is much shorter than we think. From an episode of Star Trek TNG "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." Adlai Stevenson "But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone." Thornton Wilder "It's brought home to you . . . that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior." George Orwell "When truth is discovered by someone else, it looses something of its attractiveness." Alexander Solzhenitsyn "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 for one." Wilhelm Stekel "If at first you don't succeed, try again. then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." W. C. Fields "We lived for days on nothing but food and water." W. C. Fields "I took a course in speed reading, learning to read straight down the middle of the page, and was able to read war and peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia." Woody Allen "They keep fooling you, don't they? You think everything's real and then you get close enough so you can see it's just made of plastic." From a Rockford Files episode. Only in Hollywood could they come up with something so end all depressing. Wisdom does more for a person than ten rules can do for a city. Ecclesiastes 7:19 "There is of course a certain amount of drudgery in newspaper work, just as there is in teaching classes, tunneling into a bank, or being president of the United States. I suppose that even the most pleasurable of imaginable occupations, that of batting baseballs through the windows of the RCA building, would pall a little as the days ran on." James Thurber "The tougher things are, the more you enjoy it." Jackie Gleason Each officer and soldier was made responsible, under the pain of death, for the safety and honour of his companions. Gibbon "Leadership comes with respect, not demand." Vietnam veteran interviewed on the radio. Well I tell ya it restored my faith in mankind with everybody. There's always so much talk about people, they don't care about each other. No way. There's no way. These people over here, they bust their backs, money, anything you want. If I took all the offers people gave me I'd be a millionaire. [Tornado victim interviewed among the wreckage of his home and neighborhood the morning after two tornados went through his Huntsville, Al neighborhood in 1974. Heard in the movie The Tornado Chronicles. ] The definition of poverty is self sufficiency. (heard on the radio show 'Tech Nation') Matt Ridley Excess caution can be ust as immoral as excess exuberance. (heard on the radio show 'Tech Nation') Matt Ridley