
Some of the crazy stuff that rolls around in my head or passes before my eyes. It's stuff that might make you think, make you laugh, make you cry, or maybe make you angry.... but most likely it will make you sleep.
In vanquishing the conventional wisdom, sometimes it seems we have vanquished wisdom itself. Bill Keller
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them. Dick Clark
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. Jacques Maritain
Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one. John J. Sweeney
Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley
The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence. Ludwig von Mises
On Sept. 3, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 381 -- and it did not reach that level again until November 1954. That's an incredible rough patch that pained investors for a full 25 years.
The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. Bill Strickland
The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless. Hugh Downs
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. Washington Irving
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. Thomas Jefferson
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. Dwight D. Eisenhower
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. Albert Einstein
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. Alan Greenspan
You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin
AKITA MANI YO
Observe everything as you walk. from the Lakota Sioux
The main battle field for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Yann Martel-From: Life of Pi
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