tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62130082012-01-06T01:43:07.904-05:00QuotesQuotes I found and liked.Ritchienoreply@blogger.comBlogger4811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-82626422768000550132012-01-06T01:31:00.002-05:002012-01-06T01:43:07.913-05:00womenWomen. They are a complete mystery.Stephen Hawking, on being asked what he thought the most about during the day.Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-91742717892209510622011-12-19T13:06:00.000-05:002011-12-19T13:07:16.689-05:00mistakesExperience is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar WildeRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-64803380999373349402011-12-16T13:02:00.002-05:002011-12-16T13:10:54.861-05:00capitalismThe only trouble with capitalism is capitalists - they are too damn greedy.Herbert HooverRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-50845591206893353392011-12-06T03:30:00.001-05:002011-12-06T03:30:59.769-05:00lifeWhen we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.Mark TwainRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-88447405304427305692011-12-04T23:59:00.001-05:002011-12-05T00:04:06.027-05:00heavenThe Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.GalileoRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-68820880623558630072011-11-21T10:41:00.003-05:002011-12-05T02:34:53.198-05:00erotic/kinkyWhat's the difference between erotic and kinky? Erotic is when you use a feather and kinky is when you use a whole chicken.NOT MERitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-87744493108043006452011-11-21T10:30:00.001-05:002011-11-21T10:33:21.341-05:00Chinese monsterThis rotten system is the mongrel of Stalinist-Maoism and Imperial Chinese political culture, a cross-breed of the rule of the jungle with traditional Chinese trickery and communism. Decades later, this creature now has become a monster. This monster is vain, tyrannical and arrogant. It never admits to mistakes. It destroys people in the name of justice and rehabilitates them, also in the name ofRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-85030385212002420622011-11-19T19:50:00.002-05:002011-11-19T20:02:37.735-05:00golfI guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.Will RogersRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-64266661647661310092011-11-19T02:41:00.002-05:002011-11-19T19:50:22.755-05:00golfBut golf combines the two great American pastimes: taking walks in the park and beating on things with a stick.?Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-75284872066522514212011-11-19T01:05:00.001-05:002011-11-19T01:08:52.171-05:00adviceAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.Erica JongRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-77945709034460902162011-11-18T00:39:00.000-05:002011-11-18T00:40:14.030-05:00Occupy Wall StreetRemember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half our 401K’s, took billions in taxpayer-funded bailouts, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses and paid no taxes? Yeah, me neither!OWS sign in Shelburne Falls, MassachusettsRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-88187209302419829392011-11-11T13:12:00.000-05:002011-11-11T13:13:26.081-05:00thinkingA great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.William JamesRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-52469024584653080452011-11-01T11:41:00.001-04:002011-11-01T11:41:43.320-04:00warSomeone once asked me if I had learned anything from going to war so many times. My reply: Yes, I learned how to cry.Joe GallowayRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-47208448909691049142011-11-01T11:22:00.002-04:002011-11-01T11:25:01.028-04:00liberalLiberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-68415620770585217122011-09-30T15:02:00.001-04:002011-09-30T15:02:53.291-04:00happinessOne swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-3376829277740731702011-09-28T03:12:00.001-04:002011-09-28T03:31:11.435-04:00Social SecurityShould any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-89632055312423648972011-09-20T14:58:00.000-04:002011-09-20T14:59:17.099-04:00taxesThe really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway.President George W. Bush, 2004Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-53928744368341091852011-09-07T13:02:00.002-04:002011-09-07T13:02:42.576-04:00persistenceNothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.Calvin Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-85067328301468200652011-09-02T02:23:00.000-04:002011-09-02T02:25:04.567-04:00capitalismCapitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes
Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-10329798607490620182011-07-22T23:34:00.002-04:002011-07-22T23:44:45.286-04:00theory/practiceThe difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is.Tom VoglRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-88282014913109169742011-07-21T13:02:00.000-04:002011-07-21T13:03:49.684-04:00debt ceilingUnfortunately, Congress consistently brings the Government to the edge of default before facing its responsibility. This brinkmanship threatens the holders of government bonds and those who rely on Social Security and veterans benefits. Interest rates would skyrocket, instability would occur in financial markets, and the Federal deficit would soar. The United States has a special responsibility Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-89725969830338623732011-06-22T13:22:00.001-04:002011-06-22T13:22:21.151-04:00bankersWhen a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-68699225557748251042011-06-11T14:51:00.000-04:002011-06-11T14:52:28.286-04:00ReaganPoor dear, there's nothing between his ears.Margaret Thatcher on Ronald Reagan, quoted June 2, 1988Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-59494340981619207312011-02-18T02:22:00.000-05:002011-02-18T02:23:04.683-05:00Bill O'ReillyAll you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.Mark TwainRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-5974951511618727152011-02-04T17:39:00.001-05:002011-02-04T17:39:33.344-05:00economicsOne of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.John Kenneth GalbraithRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-16273209886291916092011-02-03T02:52:00.000-05:002011-02-03T02:53:21.222-05:00changingFaced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.John Kenneth GalbraithRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-46104310357594149482011-02-03T02:51:00.000-05:002011-02-03T02:52:15.876-05:00historyHistory does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.Mark TwainRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-49868030550478753612011-02-03T02:42:00.001-05:002011-02-03T02:42:55.713-05:00contradictionsI write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind — and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.Michel de MontaigneRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-4319803820849779972010-12-19T23:22:00.001-05:002010-12-19T23:22:24.826-05:00intelligenceSo far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.Bertrand RussellRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-76692964080732206462010-12-07T02:37:00.000-05:002010-12-07T02:38:36.719-05:00appetiteYou can’t trust optics but you can depend on appetite.Wallace StegnerRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-85758134726504793402010-12-06T21:57:00.000-05:002010-12-06T21:58:06.943-05:00doubtA state of doubt is unpleasant, but a state of certainty is ridiculous.VoltaireRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-10304283182612120432010-12-04T12:04:00.000-05:002010-12-04T12:05:17.213-05:00truthThe search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.Albert EinsteinRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-90502155231785320022010-12-04T12:03:00.000-05:002010-12-04T12:04:02.190-05:00truthGod offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.Ralph Waldo EmersonRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-41896869910862555852010-12-03T11:50:00.001-05:002010-12-03T11:51:54.009-05:00taxesThe really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway.George W BushRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-81292651012059221802010-12-03T02:31:00.001-05:002010-12-03T02:34:09.913-05:00marketsSeven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world:1. Think short term. 2. Be greedy. 3. Believe in the greater fool 4. Run with the herd. 5. Overgeneralize 6. Be trendy 7. Play with other people's moneyPaul Krugman, FortuneRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-89046916424434662462010-12-02T14:32:00.002-05:002010-12-02T17:33:24.641-05:00historyIn times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these.Paul HarveyRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-12521166815612541092010-11-28T20:03:00.001-05:002011-02-18T02:31:02.004-05:00patriotismPatriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.George Bernard ShawRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-13965089504734726432010-11-14T22:58:00.002-05:002010-11-15T02:00:11.862-05:00first...Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.William A WardRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-33105857673219554952010-11-14T19:16:00.002-05:002010-11-14T19:20:48.205-05:00certaintyOne of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.Bertrand RussellRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-30245201169311960052010-11-08T00:36:00.000-05:002010-11-08T00:38:52.534-05:00realityEither you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.Alex HaleyRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-25039305849852596232010-11-07T23:47:00.001-05:002010-11-07T23:47:58.328-05:00republicansAs for the Republicans-how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-8802188851045679952010-11-07T22:22:00.001-05:002010-11-07T22:24:49.199-05:00disobedienceDisobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.Oscar WildeRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-35167471726433785802010-11-05T14:24:00.001-04:002010-11-07T22:26:41.266-05:00governmentIf men were angels, no government would be necessary.FEDERALIST No. 51Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-55490030957558501932010-11-05T11:44:00.002-04:002010-11-07T22:28:49.947-05:00timePeople who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert EinsteinRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-15168982002573592292010-11-04T10:32:00.000-04:002010-11-04T10:33:39.373-04:00complexityFor every complex question, there is a simple answer -- and it's wrong.H L MenckenRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-60456908597500909232010-10-25T23:58:00.001-04:002010-10-26T00:00:02.663-04:00home ownershipThis Administration will constantly strive to promote an ownership society in America. We want more people owning their own home. It is in our national interest that more people own their own home. After all, if you own your own home, you have a vital stake in the future of our country.George W. Bush, December 16, 2003Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-46206259702370759162010-10-25T23:53:00.001-04:002011-09-07T13:11:43.746-04:00democracyCapitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.David KortenRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-18114873242043800402010-10-25T14:02:00.002-04:002010-10-25T14:06:07.785-04:00bear marketsBear markets of sufficient size appear to bring about a desire to slaughter groups of successful people. In 1793-1794, radical Frenchmen guillotined countless members of high society. In the 1930s, Stalin slaughtered Ukrainians. In the 1940s, Nazis slaughtered Jews. In the 1970s, Communists in Cambodia and China slaughtered the affluent. In 1998, after their country's financial collapse, Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-66753602992903470722010-10-21T13:40:00.001-04:002010-10-21T13:43:06.206-04:00tortureBad jokes and gay marriage are destroying this country. But torture can save it.Jon StewartRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-11060105328534525492010-10-11T19:53:00.003-04:002010-10-21T13:39:33.546-04:00stupidityGenius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.Elbert HubbardRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-10813937341935155702010-10-08T19:56:00.001-04:002010-10-08T19:57:59.046-04:00scoundrelsThe world has always been betrayed, not by scoundrels, but by decent men with bad ideas.Sydney J H HarrisRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-37414657652829672232010-10-06T12:37:00.002-04:002010-10-06T12:43:06.536-04:00desireDesire is endless and unappeasable, Is most intense where most forbidden, And is never far from Despair.Allen WheelisRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-72505238526202877792010-09-21T20:36:00.001-04:002010-09-21T20:38:55.892-04:00certaintyInquiry is fatal to certainty.Will DurantRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-55542689518066586002010-09-21T20:29:00.001-04:002010-09-21T20:34:14.885-04:00passionPassion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.Benford’s Law of ControversyRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-89087346416968717222010-09-21T14:53:00.001-04:002010-09-21T20:18:44.829-04:00thinkingThinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.Henry FordRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-65341448107805393082010-09-21T14:44:00.002-04:002010-09-21T20:27:47.836-04:00follyThe ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.Herbert SpencerRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-79582461593295562462010-09-15T15:33:00.002-04:002010-09-21T20:26:03.798-04:00religionMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.Blaise PascalRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-50709384293261274402010-08-16T13:54:00.000-04:002010-08-16T13:56:51.059-04:00religionReligion is what the common people see as true, the wise people see as false, and the rulers see as useful.SenecaRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-34417778578689683512010-08-07T00:53:00.002-04:002010-08-07T02:37:17.839-04:00deathWhat we do for ourselves, dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.Albert PikeRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-80947559922030886082010-08-01T00:30:00.000-04:002010-08-01T00:31:46.320-04:00radicalThe notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.H L MenckenRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-45439756020029185592010-03-27T15:03:00.001-04:002010-03-27T15:05:00.408-04:00tyrannySuccessful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.Lucius Annaeus SenecaRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-42689971097915986562010-03-27T15:01:00.000-04:002010-03-27T15:02:08.406-04:00happiness and desireIf thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.EpicurusRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-8315995643004152612010-03-27T14:53:00.001-04:002010-03-27T14:53:30.307-04:00meaningEver more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.Viktor FranklRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-29978602249546851602010-03-27T14:49:00.001-04:002010-03-27T14:49:44.714-04:00evil and religionMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.Blaise PascalRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-2055191246457701712010-03-27T03:19:00.001-04:002010-03-27T03:22:25.947-04:00foolsThe ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.Herbert SpencerRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-54530294424593280252010-03-26T00:59:00.002-04:002010-03-26T01:22:38.243-04:00warWAR is a racket. It always has been.Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC Retired 1936WAR IS A RACKET by Major General Smedley D ButlerRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-87733107787302729342010-01-27T01:17:00.003-05:002010-01-27T01:19:20.133-05:00tyrannySuccessful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.Lucius Annaeus SenecaRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-43783129096353137152010-01-27T01:15:00.001-05:002010-01-27T01:17:13.864-05:00tyrannySingle acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing a people to slavery.Thomas JeffersonRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-36118388273144812132010-01-22T01:08:00.000-05:002010-01-22T01:09:48.655-05:00newsTo a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.Henry David ThoreauRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-63895395570949207542010-01-10T22:22:00.002-05:002010-01-10T22:27:41.588-05:00catsWhen I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?Montaigne Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533–1592)Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-91697004139152070222010-01-05T13:46:00.001-05:002010-01-05T13:49:23.085-05:00taxesAnyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, forRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-248552142361647022010-01-03T03:22:00.000-05:002010-01-03T03:23:36.745-05:00gutsBy 'guts' I mean, grace under pressure.Ernest HemingwayRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-23206219569153954832010-01-02T14:07:00.000-05:002010-01-02T14:08:43.698-05:00sinceritySincerity is the key. If you can fake that, you've got it made!Ronald ReaganRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-74129531839832426742009-12-19T23:28:00.001-05:002009-12-19T23:51:27.799-05:00HellHell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-45594557194098084262009-12-18T02:47:00.001-05:002009-12-18T02:49:19.530-05:00deathMost things may never happen: this one will.Philip LarkinRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-35980659844601626262009-12-18T02:18:00.001-05:002009-12-18T02:20:44.599-05:00death penaltyMere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.Antonin ScaliaRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-6904076402934672872009-12-09T20:53:00.000-05:002009-12-09T20:54:58.473-05:00deathDeath is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.Norman CousinsRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-14910346352175071272009-12-03T01:37:00.000-05:002009-12-03T01:38:55.128-05:00languageMan acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.Martin HeideggerRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-36971906450842983942009-11-21T18:58:00.002-05:002009-11-21T19:12:21.408-05:00principlesIt is often easier to fight for a principle than to live up to it.Adlai StevensonRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-37098499540221242402009-11-08T13:05:00.000-05:002009-11-08T13:06:52.546-05:00newspapersOur newspapers, for the most part, present only the caricatures of disaffected minds. Indeed, the abuses of the freedom of the press here have been carried to a length never before known or borne by any civilized nation.Thomas JeffersonRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-14731799010567706132009-11-07T02:50:00.001-05:002009-11-07T02:50:52.969-05:00governmentI ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.Henry David ThoreauRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-57189270195871863732009-11-07T02:47:00.001-05:002009-11-07T02:49:14.118-05:00truthBelieve nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.BuddhaRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-69151664321037392972009-11-07T02:45:00.001-05:002009-11-07T02:47:14.104-05:00educationEducation is not the filling of a pail; it is the lighting of a fire.YeatsRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-22464146099623886162009-11-04T13:46:00.001-05:002009-11-04T13:53:56.667-05:00scienceThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.Isaac AsimovRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-69921382110345865172009-11-04T02:22:00.002-05:002009-11-04T02:28:47.390-05:00faultsTruly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.Blaise PascalRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-80332812613601681322009-11-04T00:35:00.001-05:002009-11-04T00:36:46.685-05:00problemsA problem cannot be solved by the same consciousness that caused it.Albert EinsteinRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-64823775943024410612009-11-03T18:53:00.001-05:002009-11-03T18:56:57.005-05:00solutionsI have had my solutions for a long time; but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.Karl F GaussRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-50606761862175117532009-11-03T13:29:00.001-05:002009-11-03T13:31:06.019-05:00warAll men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.Sun TzuRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-21014016015542926812009-11-02T11:38:00.001-05:002009-11-07T02:50:10.433-05:00governmentI ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.Henry David ThoreauRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-72900822112148786022009-11-02T11:36:00.000-05:002009-11-02T11:38:00.116-05:00consciousnessI know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.Henry David ThoreauRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-91730839696187302402009-11-02T01:30:00.002-05:002009-11-02T01:32:25.822-05:00knowledgeThe more you know, the less you understand.Tao Le ChingWho also said…..In dwelling, live close to the ground.In thinking, keep to the simple.In conflict, be fair and generous.In governing, don’t try to control.In work, do what you enjoy.In family life, be completely present.Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-51402933609960893492009-11-01T12:29:00.002-05:002009-11-01T12:31:14.004-05:00circumstancesPeople are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.George Bernard ShawRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-5657518501076699972009-11-01T03:14:00.001-05:002009-11-03T13:28:50.850-05:00suckersA man who stands for nothing, will fall for anything.Malcolm XRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-39131268669955211872009-10-31T11:26:00.001-04:002009-10-31T11:29:20.066-04:00the richPeople would rather defend the possibility of becoming rich rather than to admit to their own poverty.John HancockRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-9471443308868228952009-10-30T12:26:00.001-04:002009-10-30T12:28:13.289-04:00persistenceNothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.Calvin Ritchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-87341522747930295382009-10-28T23:10:00.001-04:002009-10-28T23:13:22.464-04:00realityWe don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.Anais NinRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-41839227073059878452009-10-26T12:42:00.001-04:002009-10-26T12:44:38.282-04:00truthI think well of all skepticism to which I may reply Let us try it. But I no longer want to hear anything of all those things and questions which do not permit experiments. This is the limit of my sense of truth for there courage has lost its rights.NietzscheRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-20024695543405720462009-10-25T14:37:00.002-04:002009-11-03T13:29:05.244-05:00capitalismCapitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.John Maynard KeynesRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-12032739363178590332009-10-22T14:43:00.001-04:002009-10-22T14:45:20.511-04:00realityThe great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities.MachiavelliRitchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213008.post-13168739293714446582009-10-18T14:38:00.001-04:002009-10-18T14:40:30.708-04:00simplicity/complexityThe art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.Douglas HortonRitchienoreply@blogger.com