Nov. 8, 2006
Let's Hear It For Deadlock
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The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
- Harry Truman
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
- Daniel Webster
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
- P.J. O'Rourke
Oct. 31, 2006
The flier that changed history...
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Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, the following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg, under the presidency of the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and of Sacred Theology, and Lecturer in Ordinary on the same at that place. Wherefore he requests that those who are unable to be present and debate orally with us, may do so by letter.
In the Name our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
-introduction to Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Martin Luther (1517), a.k.a. The 95 Theses
Other Luther quotes:
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Pray and let God worry.
Happy Reformation Day!
Aug. 20, 2006
Sometimes You Find Great Philosphy In Unlikely Places
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Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding.
-Henri Ducard, Batman Begins
And sometimes you find terrible philosophy in the same place.
It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you.
- Rachel Dawes (repeated by Batman), Batman Begins
Praise God for grace!
Then the Lord said to him, "Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? But give what is inside the dish to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.
- Luke 11:39-41
Aug. 15, 2006
Free Education
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I am opposed to free education as much as I am opposed to taking property from one man and giving it to another who knows not how to take care of it... I do not believe in allowing my charities to go through the hands of robbers who pocket nine-tenths themselves and give one tenth to the poor... Would I encourage free schools by taxation? No!
-Brigham Young
Mar. 30, 2006
I'm gonna like this book
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Because this book is written for the general public, it does not feature long, convoluted sentences with escape clauses designed to prevent words from being twisted to mean something that they were never intended to mean. Common sense can be more readily expected when writing for the general public than when writing for the intelligentsia.
- Thomas Sowell
Preface to Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Mar. 24, 2006
Being haunted by Stephen King...
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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
-Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
Mar. 15, 2006
Can I Hear An Amen?!
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The greatest danger for most of us
is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it.
~Michaelangelo
(Thank you, Stepping Heavenward for the reminder!)
Mar. 14, 2006
It's Just Been One of Those Days
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Today's Slogan
Sell crazy someplace else. We're all full up here.
- Jack Nicholson in
As Good As It Gets
Today's Theme Song
They're coming to take me away, HA HA
They're coming to take me away, HO HO HEE HEE HA HA
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see
Those nice, young men
In their clean, white coats
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!
- Lard's They're Coming To Take Me Away
Mar. 10, 2006
Life is but a stage?
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Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own approbation. But upon the stage of life, while conscience claps, let the world hiss! On the contrary if conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
- John Adams
