Fortune Quote #2555

Wisdom lies in being able to imagine a solution that resides outside the
realm of your own expertise. -- Jonah Goldberg

Fortune Quote #2554

Appeasement wins applause for its ethical posturing and non-belligerency;
and even when the corpses later pile up it rarely earns the disgust it
deserves for getting thousands killed. In contrast, preemption is always
equated with blood lust; and even when it saves thousands, critics sigh
that in retrospect there must have been a better way. -- Victor
Davis Hanson

Fortune Quote #2553

Neither the United States of America, nor the world community of nations
can tolerate deliberate deception and offensive threats on the part of any
nation, large or small. We no longer live in a world where only the actual
firing of weapons represents a sufficient challenge to a nations security
to constitute maximum peril. -- President Kennedy, October 1962

Fortune Quote #2552

If you miss the present, you miss all there really is. -- Joel
Kramer

Fortune Quote #2551

Knowledge is of two kinds: there is knowing a thing, and there is knowing
where we may find information upon it. -- Samuel Johnson

Fortune Quote #2550

Those who are too good for this world are adorning some other. --
Swami Sri Yukteswar

Fortune Quote #2549

Virtually everyone suffers from the deeply ingrained habit of considering
language as a medium of communication. -- Dmitri Borgmann

Fortune Quote #2548

I expect a good deal of the problem is that you are busy disbelieving a
different God than the one I am busy believing in. -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #2547

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies
within us. -- Emerson

Fortune Quote #2546

Love is to our moral nature exactly what the Sun is to earth. --
Balzac