 The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
Johnny Carson
Investor Words Quote of the Day http://www.investorwords.com
Beswick took over ... in a flurry of MBA jargon ... which ended up defeating us. There were executive summaries, flow charts, key accounts, spread sheets, listener psychographics, membership marketing plans, and strategic alliances -- all of which, in the end, amounted to bullshit.
Deborah Coddington
Page 131 of Perigo! Politically Incorrect
Israel has never been in such a state of retreat and weakness as it is today following more than four years of the intifada. Hamas's heroic attacks exposed the weakness and volatility of the impotent zionist security establishment. The withdrawal marks the end of the zionist dream, and is a sign of the moral and psychological decline of the Jewish state.
Ahmed al-Bahar, a leading Hamas official in Gaza
The less things change, the more they stay the same.
R. D. Reynolds
Wrestlecrap: the very worst of professional wrestling
How would you feel if you lived on an island populated, apart from yourself, exclusively by retarded, malicious chimpanzees? Well, that's how I feel. Don't laugh, because your'e one of those retarded, malicious chimpanzees.
Arthur Jones
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose Free Will.
Rush
Civility in the face of evil is no virtue; rage in the face of nihilism is no vice.
Lindsay Perigo
From his essay "This Boy's Not For Turning."
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world was here first.
Mark Twain
Please don't feed the trolls
Adam Reed
Everywhere
Lindsay, While you know I value polite conversation and have taken you to task on several occasions for being less than...diplomatic, I'm starting to see your point of view. While I'll never sanction insulting people who don't deserve it, I take back any and all recriminations for dealing with assholes in as blunt terms as possible. You have my apologies
Ethan Dawe
http://solohq.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/0939_6.shtml#131
She was a great man whose only fault was in being a woman.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Commenting on scientist Emilie du Chatelet
Did you ever meet these rehab people? I liked them better when they were drunks! When they're drunk, they just ask you to buy them a drink. Now they've got to tell you how happy they are, how they found God ... then they've got to give you a test to see if you're an alcoholic: ... 'Do you ever find yourself looking forward to a drink? Hmmmmmm?' What kind of test is this? I look forward to eating. Does that make me a food addict? I look forward to sex. Does that make me a sex addict? I'll be honest with you: Sometimes I look forward to taking a big shit! Does that make me a shitaholic?
Jeff Wayne
It's OK To Be a White Male Comedy CD
There is only one reason I could accept for building anything but the Twin Towers and that is if it were the will of the people — and it is not.
Margaret Donovan
www.Rebuild-the-Towers.org
The idea of universal rights—the idea of rights that are universal to all people because they correspond to our natures as human beings, not to where we live or what our cultural background is—is an incredibly important one. This belief is being challenged by apostles of cultural relativism who refuse to accept that such rights exist. If you look at those who employ this idea, it turns out to be Robert Mugabe, the leaders of China, the leaders of Singapore, the Taliban, Ayatollah Khomeini. It is a dangerous belief that everything is relative and therefore these people should be allowed to kill because it’s their culture to kill.
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
Benjamin Franklin
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.
Thomas Paine
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, and to have the two as close together as possible.
George Burns
Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more.
Rush
Anthem
No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
G'Kar
The Long, Twilight Struggle - Babylon 5 Season 2
"He secured from a Saudi sheik named Hamid bin Fahd a rather long treatise on the possibility of using nuclear weapons against the Americans. Specifically, nuclear weapons," says Scheuer. "And the treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them. Muslims argue that the United States is responsible for millions of dead Muslims around the world, so reciprocity would mean you could kill millions of Americans." Scheuer says the fatwa was issued in May 2003, "and that's another thing that doesn't come to the attention of the American people."
Steve Kroft, in an interview with ex-CIA official Scheuer, an expert on Osama bin Laden
CBS News, August 21, 2005
The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.
Audrey Sutherland
... actually, I think I may have lost my train of thought there. But don’t run with pointy, shitty sticks, okay?
Fraser Stephen-Smith
Article, SOLOHQ
I’m the President and I’ll do whatever I goddamned please. They don’t know shit.
George W. Bush
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_7267.shtml
I had to call my own bluff.
Sylvester Stallone
Sly had the choice of taking $300,000 for the Rocky screenplay and walking away, or risking everything to also star in the movie. He called his own bluff and got both.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one.
Frank Lloyd Wright
"...All my interests were concentrated on political activity or study. By then I was a graduate student and all my courses were in politics. I went to a lot of meetings and was out every night, mostly to do with politics. I'd found something I was really interested in and that totally absorbed me. From 1973 on I was also earning a living at it, as a junior lecturer, and enjoying that. It was all very fulfilling.
Helen Clark
Head and Shoulders: Successful New Zealand Women Talk to Virginia Meyers.
That's one of the wonderful things about this great nation of ours...everybody is free to do what he wants to do...as long as it doesn't injure anybody else!
Stan Lee
"The Raving Maniac," Suspense #29, March, 1953
"To abolish vice, establish virtue. To establish virtue, enshrine thought. To enshrine thought, identify its relationship to reality.
Leonard Peikoff
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi [burden of proof] rests on the theist
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H. Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.
Robert Anson Heinlein
http://atheism.about.com/library/quotes/bl_q_RHeinlein.htm
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes aware of it when one is choking. Similarly, it is only when one confronts political tyranny that one really grasps the meaning and importance of freedom.
William E. Simon [1928 - 2000]
P. 19 - A Time For Truth - ISBN 0-07-057378-6
SOS: I'm being attacked by the perpetual "quote" block in the threads.
source of quote
By now you've probably seen at least one instance of this spate of tiresome ruminations on how the hurricane is some sort of ultimate gotcha to deploy against the idea of small government. This is all profoundly stupid. There is no deep overarching ideological point here, because for pretty much everyone short of the anarchists, preventing the collapse of civilization into a huge Hobbesian clusterfuck makes the list—whether yours is short or long—of things governments are supposed to do—state governments when feasible (assuming adequate preparation on the ground is better than airlifts later), federal government when it isn't.
Julian Sanchez
www.reason.com
Justice is the armed defense of innocent liberty.
Wolf DeVoon
http://billstclair.com/organic-law/
Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.
Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations
Unlike 9/11, when the cult of victimhood was temporarily suspended in honour of the many real, actual victims under the rubble, in New Orleans everyone claimed the mantle of victim, from the incompetent mayor to the "oppressed" guys wading through the water with new DVD players under each arm. Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.
Mark Steyn
"The Big Easy rocked, but didn't roll," The Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/09/06/do0602.xml
Only an idiot – someone utterly ignorant of basic principles of economics, and of the morality of free-market capitalism – would decry business profits or would think that “price-gouging” is a bad thing.
Dr. David N. Mayer
http://users.law.capital.edu/dmayer/Blog/
Somebody needs to get the collected works of Ayn Rand down to New Orleans right away, preferably in a waterproof edition.
Scott McLemee
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2005/09/06/mclemee
I believe in death. The U.S.A. believes in life. That is the difference between us.
Osama bin Laden
National Geographic's "Inside 9/11"
It is terrifying when evil is so confident that it seeks no subterfuge, but instead, plainly presents itself.
Scott DeSalvo
Scott DeSalvo, SOLO
When Barbara Branden was asked by a student"What will happen to the poor in an Objectivist society?" she answered "If you want to help them, you will not be stopped."
Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness
There are too many people spending money they haven't earnt buying things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Will Smith
Reader's Digest
If living like the Amish is the only way to avoid 'consumerism', then..what is wrong with consumerism in the first place?
Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter
Nation of Rebels
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
Thomas Jefferson
Letter to John Adams, 11 April 1823
Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and to worship of reason.
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations, Book 4, verse 16
[New Zealand Prime Minister, Helen Clark]... never had a grand vision for New Zealand. She had a grand vision for herself.
Bob Jones
Radio Interview
I am. I exist - that is certain; but for how long do I exist? For as long as I think; for it might perhaps happen, if I totally ceased thinking, that I would, at the same time, cease to be.
Rene Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy
The American people believe that they have a God-given right to as many health care services as they want, paid for by someone else.
Arnold Kling
EconLog weblog, Sept. 14, 2005
I do agree Muslim Americans are just as law abiding and patriotic as most others bla bla bla.But can we stop pretending there is absolutely NOTHING intrinsic to Islam that promotes fanatical zealotry, terrorism, and violence against women?Can we stop pretending that what young Muslim boys are learning in Madrasahs of Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan is good old fahsioned "love thy neighbor" theology?Can we stop ignoring the fact that the subjugation of women is a scripturally based tradition?Can we ignore the fact that Islam has become a religion bankrupt of intellectualism?Can we ignore the fact that any public figure who voices these concerns faces death threats?Say what you want about Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and the rest of the whackjob religious right, but if you criticize them on TV, one does not typically need to worry about being shiskabobbed by a motorcycle riding zealot.
Simon Magus
FARK.com, "Iranian president willing to share nuclear technology with other Arabic nations" thread at 2005-09-15 06:44:49 PM
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