The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no
decisions and escape all responsibility. -- Brooks Atkinson
Friday, September 30, 2022
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Fortune Quote #3717
Scientists are people who work in an unusual kind of local community. This
community is characterized by high prestige, lengthy training and
initiation, notoriously bad fashion choices, and expensive toys. --
Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Theory and Reality"
community is characterized by high prestige, lengthy training and
initiation, notoriously bad fashion choices, and expensive toys. --
Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Theory and Reality"
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Fortune Quote #3716
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or
other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. -- Michael
Crichton
other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. -- Michael
Crichton
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Fortune Quote #3715
Prices are like a thermometer reading, and a patient with a fever is not
going to be helped by plunging the thermometer into ice water to lower the
reading. -- Thomas Sowell
going to be helped by plunging the thermometer into ice water to lower the
reading. -- Thomas Sowell
Monday, September 26, 2022
Fortune Quote #3714
Just as poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an
issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is
not economics. -- Thomas Sowell
issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is
not economics. -- Thomas Sowell
Sunday, September 25, 2022
Fortune Quote #3713
We need education in the obvious more than investigation of the
obscure. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
obscure. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Saturday, September 24, 2022
Fortune Quote #3712
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught from itself, love possesses
naught, nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient to love.
-- Kahlil Gibran
naught, nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient to love.
-- Kahlil Gibran
Friday, September 23, 2022
Fortune Quote #3711
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall
each moment. First, to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without
feet. -- Jalal ad-Din Rumi
each moment. First, to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without
feet. -- Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Fortune Quote #3710
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired. -- Mother Theresa
What we need is to love without getting tired. -- Mother Theresa
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Fortune Quote #3709
What is love? I have met on the streets a very poor young man who is in
love, his hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes
and the stars through his soul. -- Victor Hugo
love, his hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes
and the stars through his soul. -- Victor Hugo
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Fortune Quote #3708
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than
oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of
reality. -- Iris Murdoch
oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of
reality. -- Iris Murdoch
Monday, September 19, 2022
Fortune Quote #3707
What most people really object to when they object to a free market is
that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market
gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they
ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is
really lack of belief in freedom itself. -- Milton Friedman
that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market
gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they
ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is
really lack of belief in freedom itself. -- Milton Friedman
Sunday, September 18, 2022
Fortune Quote #3706
I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe
that it is not the business of government to tell people what fraction of
their incomes they should devote to providing for their own or someone
else's old age. -- Milton Friedman
that it is not the business of government to tell people what fraction of
their incomes they should devote to providing for their own or someone
else's old age. -- Milton Friedman
Saturday, September 17, 2022
Fortune Quote #3705
It is taken for granted that workers should receive their pay partly in
kind, in the form of medical care provided by the employer. How come? Why
single out medical care? Surely food is no less essential to life than
medical care. Why is it not at least as logical for workers to be required
to buy their food at the company store as to be required to buy their
medical care at the company store?" -- Milton Friedman
kind, in the form of medical care provided by the employer. How come? Why
single out medical care? Surely food is no less essential to life than
medical care. Why is it not at least as logical for workers to be required
to buy their food at the company store as to be required to buy their
medical care at the company store?" -- Milton Friedman
Friday, September 16, 2022
Fortune Quote #3704
Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will
almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the
few, and long-term gain for all. -- Milton Friedman
almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the
few, and long-term gain for all. -- Milton Friedman
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Fortune Quote #3703
'Fair' is in the eye of the beholder; free is the verdict of the market.
(The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and
once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The
word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.) --
Milton Friedman
(The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and
once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The
word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.) --
Milton Friedman
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Fortune Quote #3702
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are
neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things
worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to
encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with
greater confidence than an armed one. -- Thomas Jefferson, quoting
Cesare Beccari's "On Crimes and Punishment"
neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things
worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to
encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with
greater confidence than an armed one. -- Thomas Jefferson, quoting
Cesare Beccari's "On Crimes and Punishment"
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Monday, September 12, 2022
Sunday, September 11, 2022
Fortune Quote #3699
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a
beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the
dawn. It is possible to believe that all that the human mind has ever
accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. We cannot see, there
is no need for us to see, what this world will be like when the day has
fully come. We are creatures of the twilight. But it is out of our race
and lineage that minds will spring, that will reach back to us in our
littleness to know us better than we know ourselves, and that will reach
forward fearlessly to comprehend this future that defeats our eyes. All
this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will
come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who
are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon
this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out
their hands amidst the stars. -- H.G. Wells
beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the
dawn. It is possible to believe that all that the human mind has ever
accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. We cannot see, there
is no need for us to see, what this world will be like when the day has
fully come. We are creatures of the twilight. But it is out of our race
and lineage that minds will spring, that will reach back to us in our
littleness to know us better than we know ourselves, and that will reach
forward fearlessly to comprehend this future that defeats our eyes. All
this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will
come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who
are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon
this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out
their hands amidst the stars. -- H.G. Wells
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Fortune Quote #3698
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge
of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His Blessing
and his help but knowing that here on earth, God's work must truly be our
own. -- John F. Kennedy
of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His Blessing
and his help but knowing that here on earth, God's work must truly be our
own. -- John F. Kennedy
Friday, September 9, 2022
Fortune Quote #3697
Many people have urged that I call the Nation into a single day of special
prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that
our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to
each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on
our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts. -- Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that
our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to
each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on
our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts. -- Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
Thursday, September 8, 2022
Fortune Quote #3696
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding
Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights
which they found implicit in the Bible's teachings of the inherent worth
and dignity of each individual. This same sense of man patterned the
convictions of those who framed the English system of law inherited by our
own Nation, as well as the ideals set forth in the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution. -- Ronald Reagan
Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights
which they found implicit in the Bible's teachings of the inherent worth
and dignity of each individual. This same sense of man patterned the
convictions of those who framed the English system of law inherited by our
own Nation, as well as the ideals set forth in the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution. -- Ronald Reagan
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Fortune Quote #3695
The basis of those ideals and principles is a commitment to freedom and
personal liberty that, itself, is grounded in the much deeper realization
that freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought and
humbly accepted. The American experiment in democracy rests on this
insight. -- Ronald Reagan
personal liberty that, itself, is grounded in the much deeper realization
that freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought and
humbly accepted. The American experiment in democracy rests on this
insight. -- Ronald Reagan
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Fortune Quote #3694
We are a religious people and our institutions presuppose a Supreme
Being... When the state encourages religious instruction or cooperates with
religious authorities by adjusting the schedule of public events to
sectarian needs, it follows the best of our traditions. We cannot read
into the Bill of Rights a philosophy of hostility to religion. --
Justice William O. Douglas, Zorach v. Clauson (1952)
Being... When the state encourages religious instruction or cooperates with
religious authorities by adjusting the schedule of public events to
sectarian needs, it follows the best of our traditions. We cannot read
into the Bill of Rights a philosophy of hostility to religion. --
Justice William O. Douglas, Zorach v. Clauson (1952)
Monday, September 5, 2022
Fortune Quote #3693
I am not at all concerned about [the Lord being on our side], for I know
that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant
anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's
side. -- Abraham Lincoln
that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant
anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's
side. -- Abraham Lincoln
Sunday, September 4, 2022
Fortune Quote #3692
God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be
secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift
of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just,
that his justice cannot sleep forever. -- Thomas Jefferson
secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift
of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just,
that his justice cannot sleep forever. -- Thomas Jefferson
Saturday, September 3, 2022
Fortune Quote #3691
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness...
-- The Declaration of Independence
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness...
-- The Declaration of Independence
Friday, September 2, 2022
Fortune Quote #3690
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of
tyranny over the mind of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
tyranny over the mind of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Fortune Quote #3689
My views... are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very
different from the anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know
nothing of my opinions. -- Thomas Jefferson
different from the anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know
nothing of my opinions. -- Thomas Jefferson
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