Quotes
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Reading for Friday the 7th
Random thought – it’s hard to be enraged and well rested at the same time.
Utah Quote
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
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Quote of the day – Thursday edition
Not many people realize it, but food, clothing, housing, durable goods, travel, and a host of other things are cheaper today than they have been throughout most of history. These prices have actually been dropping in inflation-adjusted terms for decades. So if you focus your spending on meeting your needs, as the MMM family likes to do, you couldn’t have been born at a better time. Life is fantastic.
On the other hand, corporate marketing skill and consumer envy have been rising faster than inflation for quite some time.
every time an HR rep gets fired, a life coach is born
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Quote of the day
From Utah Phillips
It doesn’t have to be perfect, the engineering mindset is a series of personality disorders anyway.
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Comment of the day
“West Virginia – a state where it takes three frogs to survive, and two of them better be doctors.”
Also….
“Back East, they have a tremendous sense of place, out West we have a sense of event.”
From Loafer’s Glory
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Line of the day
Via Megan McArdle “History may not repeat itself, but it stutters like hell.”
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Quote of the moment
I remembered this recently, it’s from Findlay Dunne, not Mencken
A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer and remains at large.
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Laughing out loud
“As for the little green men… they don’t want us to know about them, so they refrain from making contact… then they do silly aerobatics displays within radar range of military bases… with their exterior lights on… if that’s extraterrestrial intelligence, I’m not sure I want to know what extraterrestrial stupidity looks like.”
— Russell Wallace -
My new favorite Mencken
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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My new favorite title for any long story
“A funny thing happened on the way to the grave…”
Tommy Womack -
The quotable General Sherman
I’m surprised that no one on the left has picked up this little Nugget from General Sherman, specifically
You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and defeat.
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other always.
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.
Vox populi, vox humbug!
War is, at its best, barbarism.