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Stephen L. Carter:

We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.

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July 27, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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George Alec Effinger:

Government by emotion is identified with rule by tyranny.

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July 26, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Stacy Keach, in the voice of Mike Hammer:

Self-esteem is overrated. A lot of bad people love themselves.

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July 25, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Flemming Rose:

The lesson from the Cold War is, if you give in to totalitarian impulses once, new demands follow… The West prevailed in the Cold War because we stood by our fundamental values and did not appease totalitarian tyrants.

I pray that we will not forget this lesson, though some amongst us seem to have done so.

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July 24, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Theodore Roossevelt:

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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July 23, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Pearl S. Buck:

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

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July 22, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Ken Kesey:

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

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July 21, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Ameen Rihani:

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

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July 20, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Bob Cesca:

Make politics boring again.

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July 19, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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John HOpe Franklin:

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

Aside:

Which is precisely why so many of the New Secesh are attempting (again) to erase the past.

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July 19, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Honore de Balzac:

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

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July 18, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Stacy Keach, in the voice of Mike Hammer:

Forget Vegas and Atlantic City. Wall Street is the ultimate casino.

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July 17, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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John Stuart Mill:

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

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July 16, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jesse Owens:

Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

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July 15, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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John Kenneth Galbraith:

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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July 14, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette:

I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.

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July 13, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Salmon Rushdie:

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

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July 12, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Henry Rollins:

More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.

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July 11, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Paddy Chayefsky:

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Afterthought:

I wonder what he would thought about “social” media.

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July 10, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jamelle Hill:

No problem in the history of humankind has ever gotten solved by evading it.

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July 9, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |
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