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Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War. Show all posts

Sunday, July 07, 2024

John Stuart Mill

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"I don't do focus groups." - Elon Musk

"Your reputation is your most important asset. It precedes you before you walk into a room and lingers after the work is done." - James Clear

"These are not assertions. What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence." - Colin Powell

"Nothing clarifies gender roles as much as war." - Scott Adams

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Some Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- Never noticed this

The funny thing is - this would work. Any politician would have to deploy for any war they vote funds for. If over 35-years old their kids would have to sign up

- Some economics humor

- Heh Heh

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly; but the good endures. If you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure; the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures." - Gaius Musonius Rufus

"Offer me money. Offer me power. I don't care. I'll say what I want to say and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it." - Elon Musk

"War is when the government tells you who the bad guyis. Revolution is when you decide for yourself." - Benjamin Franklin

"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." - Samuel Johnson

Friday, August 04, 2023

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand." - Paul Dirac

"Sweat more  during peace: bleed less during war." - Sun Tzu

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

Wednesday, March 02, 2022

The Great Illusion

Europe in the summer of 1914 enjoyed a peaceful productivity so dependent on international exchange and co-operation that a belief in the impossibility of general war seemed the most conventional of wisdoms. In 1910 an analysis of prevailing economic interdependence, The Great Illusion, had become a best-seller; its author Norman Angell had demonstrated, to the satisfaction of almost all informed opinion, that the disruption of international credit inevitably caused by war would either deter its outbreak or bring it speedily to an end. - John Keegan The First World War  

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." - Abraham Lincoln

"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire." - Seneca

"War's rancours are quick to bite and slow to heal." - John Keegan

"Be nice to people, eat well, get some exercise, and spend less than you make. Those four reduce about 90% of life's problems." - The Motley Fool 

Monday, January 31, 2022

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law." - Winston Churchill

"In war there is no substitute for victory." - Douglas MacArthur

"Distrust all men in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion." - Paul Coelho