“Life’s hard when you’re stupid.” Sergeant John Stryker (John Wayne) Sands of Iwo Jima
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QUOTE: “Life’s hard when you’re stupid.”
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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QUOTE: As if someone had set out to *prevent* children from learning – John Taylor Gatto
Sunday, August 22, 2010“I’ve come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us… I began to wonder, reluctantly, whether it was possible that being in school itself was what was dumbing them down. Was it possible I had been hired not to enlarge children’s power, but to diminish it? That seemed crazy on the face of it, but slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to *prevent* children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.” – John Taylor Gatto
http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Gatto.html
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QUOTE: Sit in confinement (like prison) – John Taylor Gatto
Sunday, August 15, 2010“It’s absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to sit in confinement with people of exactly the same age and social class. That system effectively cuts you off from the immense diversity of life and the synergy of variety; indeed it cuts you off from your own past and future, sealing you in a continuous present much the same way television does…” – John Taylor Gatto
http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Gatto.html
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QUOTE: Education should make you a unique – John Taylor Gatto
Sunday, August 8, 2010“Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.” – John Taylor Gatto
http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Gatto.html
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QUOTE: Children will not have an education – John Taylor Gatto
Sunday, August 1, 2010“By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers – backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, et al. – has ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.” – John Taylor Gatto
http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Gatto.html
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QUOTES: “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore.”
Monday, July 26, 2010“Network (1976) – Memorable Quotes.” The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Web. 20 July 2010. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/quotes>.
Howard Beale: I want you to go to the window, open it, stick your head out and yell: “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore.”
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QUOTES: “our guy” versus “their guy”
Friday, July 23, 2010“The Constitution is intended to shield us from the government, and if we lower that shield because “our guy” is in the White House, you’ll be left without protection when “their guy” gets the White House the next time around.”
— The Pacific Legal Foundation’s Tim Sandefur
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QUOTES: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot
Wednesday, July 21, 2010“These are times that try men’s souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine, from his essay “The Crisis”
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Perhaps, he should have written that “There are times in EACH generation that try men’s souls.”? Seems like we are being presented with ours. With politicians and bureaucrats that are as any as those that served King George!
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QUOTES: The cello can’t learn
Sunday, July 18, 2010http://desertedcities.com/cello.html
Musical analogies as to what makes for better pictures stood out even more clearly in my mind as friends, relatives, and former students shared memories in the Berkeley Hills garden of the home where my mother had lived her last sixty years. One ex-student and renowned teacher related how my mother used to say, “I don’t teach the cello. The cello can’t learn. I teach the human being.” She described my mother’s interest as less in prize proteges than in the development of human potential through unconventional approaches that allow people, “whether they are aged seven or seventy, amateur or professional, farmer or nun, to cross personal hurdles toward satisfaction when practicing their chosen art.” I remember coming home from school to find her crawling on the floor with a middle-aged Nobel laureate to demonstrate how his hands could carry lots of weight while his fingers could still move freely. She never confused physical tightness, or mental tightness, with lack of innate ability.
– Excerpt from Galen Rowell’s Inner Game of Outdoor Photography, by Galen Rowell
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QUOTE: The objection ofthe defense has been heard and overruled.
Saturday, July 10, 2010http://www.subzin.com/s/Objection!+-+Overruled
A Few Good Men (1992)
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01:17:07 The defense strenuously objects and requests an 802 conference so that His Honor might have a chance to hear discussion before ruling.
01:17:15 The objection of the defense has been heard and overruled.
01:17:19 – Move to reconsider. – Your objection is noted.
01:17:22 The witness is an expert, and the court will hear his opinion!
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For some reason, I like this quote. It’s not used frequently enough. Peole just repeat and repeat themselves. Argh!
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QUOTE: The most sensitive “nerve” in the human body is the one attached to the wallet
Friday, July 2, 2010“In my business arena, Tax Preparation, Audit Representation and Bookkeeping, the customer is SELDOM right. They are in fact not Customers but Clients (in the same sense that Doctors of Medicine have Patients and not Customers). Everybody is a tax or accounting expert (your bartender, your barber, neighbor, co-worker, etc.), and they firmly believe the half truths they hear about on the TV News or read in the Tabloids (such as the NY Times). Why? Because what their other sources tell them is less painful than what I tell them. It is human nature. The most sensitive “nerve” in the human body is the one attached to the wallet and that is where I often have to do surgery. So I have to take control of the relationship with my Clients and educate them so they ask me first before they make a move. If they could be ALWAYS right then Turbotax would put me out of business instead of bringing me so many more Clients.”
By Roger Garay, CEO at On Line Bookkeeping & Tax Service Inc
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Interesting, I’ll have to reflect upon the difference between Customer / Patient, Customer / Client, and Payer / Client.
Interesting about “The most sensitive “nerve” in the human body is the one attached to the wallet”. I disagree. It may be surpassed by the one attached to their perception of what is theirs (e.g., failing to let some one over in traffic; cutting in the queue ahead of others; (or the one that I do all the time) failure to merge early to get ahead. (Yeah, if I do pass the “final judgement”, vel non, then I’ll be doing a lot of time in Purgatory for my venial sins. I got a lot of them to atone for. Sigh!) And, another nerve is the one attached to their self-image.
Argh!
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QUOTE: “I never questioned my decision in letting her go”
Monday, June 14, 2010http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100612/D9G9N3BO0.html
“I never questioned my decision in letting her go,” he told reporters Friday. “In this day and age we get overprotective with our children. If you want to look at statistics, look at how many teenagers die in cars every year. Should we let teenagers drive cars? I think it’d be silly if we didn’t.”
Laurence Sunderland, the father of 16-year-old Abby Sunderland,
who failed trying to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo.
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p.s., Interesting quote
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The Australian maritime authority did not say how much the rescue mission would cost but said it would not be seeking compensation for the search, which initially fell just outside of Australia’s search and rescue region. It was not immediately clear if the French vessel would seek compensation.
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Unfortunately, I don’t think it is fair for the Taxpayer to bear the cost. It may or not have been foolish. But, for sure, it shouldn’t be the taxpayers’ problem. Not that I wouldn’t bust a gut to save anyone. Kid or not. But this wasn’t an accident. The military can use the practice. But Dad should get the tab! He should have found a sponsor to pay for it?
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QUOTE: Art Linkletter who made childhood gaffes funny
Thursday, May 27, 2010http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-us-obit-art-linkletter,0,634064.story
“Life is not fair … not easy.” Art Linkletter (Arthur Gordon Kelly; July 17, 1912 – May 26, 2010)
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QUOTE: “Do every act of your life as if it were your last.” ~Marcus Aurelius
Sunday, May 23, 2010“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.” ~Marcus Aurelius
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QUOTE: You!
Sunday, May 9, 2010“Luck is wining the lottery. Hard work is … …!”
(Please fill in the blank in the comment.)
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QUOTE: Self-ownership and the implications thereof
Monday, April 26, 2010“Once one accepts the principle of self-ownership, what’s moral and immoral becomes self-evident. Murder is immoral because it violates private property. Rape and theft are also immoral — they also violate private property. Here’s an important question: Would rape become morally acceptable if Congress passed a law legalizing it? You say: “What’s wrong with you, Williams? Rape is immoral plain and simple, no matter what Congress says or does!” If you take that position, isn’t it just as immoral when Congress legalizes the taking of one person’s earnings to give to another? Surely if a private person took money from one person and gave it to another, we’d deem it theft and, as such, immoral. Does the same act become moral when Congress takes people’s money to give to farmers, airline companies or an impoverished family? No, it’s still theft, but with an important difference: It’s legal, and participants aren’t jailed.” — Walter Williams
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QUOTE: Three or more useless men
Monday, April 19, 2010FROM LUDDITE:
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In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
—John Adams
Fight organized crime: Re-elect NO ONE…
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Seems simple enough!
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QUOTE: Bubble? What Bubble? Barney Frank (D-MA) 6/2005
Saturday, April 17, 2010http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/04/graph_of_the_day_for_april_17.html
“We have, I think, an excessive degree of concern right now about home ownership and its role in the economy… those who argue that housing prices are now at the point of a bubble seem to me to be missing a very important point… This is not the dot-com situation… you’re not going to see the collapse that you see when people talk about a bubble.” Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), June 2005.
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Right before the housing bubble popped in 2006!
Thanks, Taxachusetts for electing such a perceptive leader. Think you might find someone else?
How about we pick the next Lottery winner? Or someone from the jury duty pool. Do you have a village idiot? Even they’d be better.
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QUOTE: The Sixteenth Amendment
Thursday, April 15, 2010“It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war, but it took until 1872 for it to be repealed. During the Grover Cleveland administration, Congress enacted the Income Tax Act of 1894. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1895. It took the Sixteenth Amendment (1913) to make permanent what the Framers feared — today’s income tax.” — Walter Williams
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QUOTE: Choose power widely dispersed over 50 states
Monday, April 12, 2010“Try this thought experiment. Pretend you’re a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a United States with political power centralized in Washington, powerful government agencies with detailed information on Americans and compliant states or power widely dispersed over 50 states, thousands of local jurisdictions and a limited federal government?” — Walter Williams
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QUOTE: “Do it Right The First Time!”
Wednesday, March 24, 2010“Do it Right The First Time!”
and
“Make It Right!
Mike Holmes
Holmes on Homes
http://www.hgtv.ca/holmesonhomes
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QUOTE: Poverty — L. Neil Smith
Saturday, February 27, 2010Poverty is a solved problem – all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
— L. Neil Smith
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QUOTE: the sex lives of teenagers
Friday, February 26, 2010Any idiot, upon seeing the first automobile, could easily predict that it would revolutionize transportation. Only someone with exceptionally keen insight could have foreseen that it would also revolutionize the sex lives of teenagers.
— Isaac Asimov
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QUOTE: Communist
Wednesday, February 24, 2010“How do you tell a communist? It’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. How do you tell an anti-communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
—-Ronald Reagan
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Very applicable to the District of Corruption and all the various inhabitants.
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QUOTE: On the Constitution
Thursday, February 18, 2010FROM THE “MANY A TRUE WORD IS SAID IN JEST” FILE
When the Iraqis were endeavoring to enact a new constitution … …
“Let’s send them ours. It served us well for two hundred years, and we’re not using it anymore!”
— Jay Leno
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And it was a pretty good one. It did last more than 200 years.
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QUOTE: Epitaph on the Politician Himself
Friday, January 29, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/47878.html
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Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
~Hilaire Belloc, Epitaph on the Politician Himself
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ROFL!
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