“You can’t make good decisions unless you have good information and can separate facts from opinion and speculation.” — Colin Powell
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QUOTE: Separate facts from opinion
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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QUOTE: About hope and fear
Friday, October 17, 2025“Hope and fear are two sides of the same coin.
When you accept that whatever comes is beyond your control, both hope and fear lose their power.
Peace begins where attachment to outcomes ends.”
— Stoicism
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QUOTE: “Just cause your mother says that she loves you … …. ….”
Thursday, October 16, 2025“Just cause your mother says that she loves you, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t check it out.” — Dick Blood New York Daily News CityDesk and Columbia journalism professor reported by Catherine Herridge 2025-09-18 On Watch podcast
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QUOTE: Success – Freddie Mercury
Thursday, September 25, 2025“Success has brought me world idolization and millions of pounds. But it’s prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.” – Freddie Mercury
[JR: Guess we should pity all the “celebrities”]
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QUOTE: Hate speech does not exist legally in America … … … …
Sunday, September 21, 2025“Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There’s ugly speech, there’s gross speech, there’s evil speech, and all of it is protected by the First Amendment. Keep America free.” — Charlie Kirk
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QUOTE: Conspiracy theorists … …
Thursday, September 11, 2025“Conspiracy theorists underestimate the ingenuity of the past and overestimate the competence of the present.” — Fred Anderson
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QUOTE: “Time is money. It’s not. Money is time.”
Sunday, July 13, 2025From “Nautilus”
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In your book, Time Smart, you write, “Nothing less than our health and our happiness depends on reversing the nearly innate notion that time is money. It’s not. Money is time.” What do you mean by that?
Behavioral scientist Ashley Whillans: We’re indoctrinated with this idea that money and productivity are the path to greater happiness and success. My data speaks to the fact that this is not necessarily the best way by which to measure the satisfaction, productivity, and meaningfulness of your life. If anything, focusing on money is a path to unhappiness as opposed to satisfaction. My colleagues and I find consistent evidence that people who feel time-affluent, and in control of their schedules, report greater happiness, less stress, better health. They’re less likely to get divorced. They’re more likely to choose jobs that are satisfying. Time is not money, but happiness.
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“Time is money. It’s not. Money is time.” — Behavioral scientist Ashley Whillans
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Also I like:
“Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able — be good.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
and
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Bertrand Russell
FWIW (For What It’s worth)
TANSTAAFL (“There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch” From Robert Heinlein’s classic)
faiwwypfi (Free Advice Is Worth What You Pay For It! ?zero?)
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QUOTE: Who said “better to be uninformed than misinformed.”
Sunday, June 22, 2025https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/12/03/misinformed/
“One must select wisely a source of news; otherwise it would be better to be uninformed than misinformed.” — Ezra Taft Benson
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Mark Twain? Denzel Washington? Thomas Jefferson? Thomas Fuller? Orville Hubbard? Ezra Taft Benson? Apocryphal?
Question for Quote Investigator: A cynical attitude toward the media is widespread today, but this is not a new development. Supposedly, Mark Twain made the following remark:
If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
Are these really the words of the famous humorist?
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I love the investigation of quotes done on this website. They do a real service to prevent misattribution.
Kudos!
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QUOTES: Don’t let mistakes live rent free in your head
Wednesday, February 26, 2025“You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. Don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johnny Cash
Today is the anniversary of the worst day in my life. While she and I always lived with the expectation it would happen, it still was metaphorical punch in the gut when it happened.
I wrote about it in my book long before it did happen.
“You can’t be afraid. It’s not right to be afraid. It’s as if you don’t trust the Lord with our lives. I’m not a big Bible Banger, but it seems rude to joggle God’s elbow. Like a little kid, who has no concept of what is happening.” — character “John” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 2 Page 206
“My love, were it in my power, I would sadly grant thee this boon. But, we have to continue to follow His Plan for us. Let’s go forth and speak no more of this. Who ever is last will be last. It will be His choice; not ours. We’re but humble custodians of His temple on earth. It’s not our place to trump His plan. Whatever that plan be, know that I will be with you to my last breath.” — character “John” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 2 Page 399
And each year I reflect on the thing I might have done to delay or prevent it.
“You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. Don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johnny Cash
I have a theory that, unless you care crazy, you always make the best decisions among the available options at the time. Hence there are no “mistakes”. There are only choices that worked out well and those that worked out badly. Like in sports, doing the high percentage play doesn’t guarantee in the short run; maybe not even in the long run either.
Unfortunately, we live in the Fourth Dimension of Time. And, there’s no do overs to test other outcomes.
“… checked the Eternal Possibilities Machine, which generates all the possibilities for use in creating the alternative worlds. In all those probability lines …” CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 45
Wish I had that Eternal Possibilities Machine to go back and look at all the other paths possible and their results.
But, unfortunately, no such device exists. (Yet?)
So we just have to trudge along. “Let’s go forth and speak no more of this.”
So today ends my reflection. I’ll put the mental folder away for next year and put one foot in front of the other on my way to whatever life has in store for me next.
Sigh!
YMMV
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QUOTE: Each morning … …
Saturday, February 22, 2025“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”
– Groucho Marx
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QUOTE: Gooferment Skrules have made us helpless!
Friday, February 21, 2025
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QUOTE: Reach out in freindship to all
Thursday, February 6, 2025“We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.” — Arthur Ashe
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Sounds like a foreign policy that the Dead Old White Guys would approve of!
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QUOTE: Life is not a spectator sport – Jackie Robinson
Friday, January 31, 2025“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on … you’re wasting your life.” — Jackie Robinson
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For some reason, this struck me this morning. And, I wonder what could have been?
“… checked the Eternal Possibilities Machine, which generates all the possibilities for use in creating the alternative worlds. In all those probability lines …” CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 45
Still wish I have one of these. How would my life have been different? How would human history evolved? Could we have avoided the disastrous 16th, 17th, and 18th amendments?
Probably not, but it’s nice to imagine as we advocate for #endthefed and repealing those stupid ill-considered and disastrous amendments.
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QUOTE: “Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
Wednesday, January 1, 2025QUOTE: “Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
– Carl Bard
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QUOTE: “They murdered, … … but they kept the Faith.”
Thursday, October 24, 2024Motto for Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Military Chaplains and Military Chaplaincies Around the World
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
October 15, 2024
“They murdered, they tortured, they maimed, they raped, they hated, they lied, they robbed, they plundered—but they kept the Faith.” — Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
https://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org/
Thank you for visiting this website, which is a compilation of all the work that Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy has done in the last fifty (50) years plus. The purpose of this website is to provide information on the Nonviolent Jesus of the Gospel, which calls for a radical alteration in thought patterns, verbal patterns, behavioural patterns, and emotional patterns.
Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, born October 9, 1940, is a priest of one of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Byzantine-Melkite, in communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. He has been a Catholic priest for forty years, ordained on August 9, 1981, in Damascus, Syria. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree with majors in philosophy and English from the University of Notre Dame in 1962.
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I found this quote and it shocked me. Since VietNam, I’ve always been against war as a strategy or tactic. I’ve seen the two children of a VietNam vet die prematurely from the effects of Agent Orange on their father.
The “peace movement” during Nixon’s administration was mostly and astroturfed Communist / Democrat / Leftist attack on the conservative Republicans. It was inauthentic! When the D’s came to control the Gooferment, nothing changed. And, ever since the welfare / warfare state as delivered on what Ike warned about — perpetual war for the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex. We have the deficits to show for it along with the debt and unfunded liabilities.
Maybe MLK, Gandhi, and Bob Murphy are right. Non-violence is the path to peace.
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QUOTE: How much does “Independnece Day” cost?
Thursday, July 4, 2024Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it. —John Quincy Adams
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QUOTE: Warmth
Friday, July 28, 2023“Give a man a fire, he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.” — attributed to Sir Terry Pratchett
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First time I ever heard this. Made me Laugh!
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QUOTE: Conspiracy Theories?
Thursday, July 15, 2021“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth is far more frightening – Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.” was Alan Moore
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QUOTE: Another RAH gem
Sunday, May 30, 2021“Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.”
Robert A. Heinlein
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QUOTE: “Chief among the policies that reward inferiority and irresponsibility … …”
Monday, December 7, 2020https://www.creators.com/read/walter-williams/09/20/today-and-yesterday
… is from my late, great colleague Walter Williams’s September 9th, 2020, syndicated column “Today and Yesterday“:
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The poverty we have today is spiritual poverty. Spiritual poverty is an absence of what traditionally has been known as various human virtues. Much of that spiritual poverty is a result of public and private policy that rewards inferiority and irresponsibility. Chief among the policies that reward inferiority and irresponsibility is the welfare state.
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So sad!
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QUOTE: Where will you be?
Sunday, March 15, 2020“Three hundred years from now where will you be and where shall I be?” — Thich Nhat Hanh
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QUOTE: Life is full of beauty
Wednesday, February 26, 2020https://www.positivityblog.com/monday-motivation-quotes/
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
– Ashley Smith
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Shot from the Sky, by Jim Davidson
Thursday, February 20, 2020“To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you’re all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary.”― Dr. Jerry Pournelle
Source: Shot from the Sky, by Jim Davidson
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It’s sad to think of the losses due to wars though out the ages.
One would think that humans would have learned from their mistakes.
Let’s bring all the girls, boys, women, and men home now! We have so many politicians and bureaucrats to send in their place if it’s really needed!
“…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.
Requiescat In Pacem
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QUOTE: Ignorance
Monday, February 18, 20192019-Feb-18
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
— Charles Darwin “The Descent of Man”
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QUOTE: “I don’t know, man. I’m just a fisherman.” — David Morris
Friday, June 30, 2017FROM THE WSJ
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I don’t know, man. I’m just a fisherman.”
Capt. David Morris on being nervous during a failed polygraph test for a multimillion-dollar fishing competition. High-stakes tournaments are using the tests to tamp down fish tales.
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Seems a simple thing to me. Start the “contest fishing time” when the boat leaves the dock?
No polygraph required!
— Captain Obvious?
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QUOTE: “… … … goes downhill from there.”
Monday, October 24, 2016‘I Was Told There’d Be Cake’ by Sloane Crosley
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