You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure, Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren.
You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
Life doesn’t get easier. But you get better at it.
So true.
via anarchyandscotch:
One of my favorite professors from undergrad told me that when I was a senior.
The older I get, the more I realize how right he was.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
The Creation-Evolution Debate in a Nutshell - OR - Dogma is Usually Not Your Friend →
sds:
This is an excellent summary of the various positions within Christianity. The author’s conclusion:
In the end, I believe that the best anyone can do is lean in one direction or another. Being overly dogmatic about these issues expresses, in my opinion, more ignorance than knowledge. Each position has many apparent difficulties and many virtues.
Dogma is usually not your friend.
There are things that are knowable, and things that are not. With all things that are not knowable, this entire quote applies. And the list of things that are not knowable - to any individual person - is pretty long.
I work pretty hard at this, but lots of people don’t. We could all do a better job of leaning in one direction without denigrating those who don’t lean in that direction, and without closing off the possibility that new information could change our own minds.
Again: “Being overly dogmatic about these issues expresses, in my opinion, more ignorance than knowledge.”
A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments, soccer games, romances, best friends, location of friend’s houses, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
‘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.’
Most people don’t sleep well next to a hungry tiger.
The Euro crisis isn’t just the crisis of a single currency. It is reality’s referendum on the Welfare State project. The real significance of a collapse in Spain or Italy isn’t simply that it means the end of the Euro, but that it signifies the end of a lie. You just can’t write a check that you can’t cash.
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that California privacy law allows its 1.5-million government workers and some of their families to keep their home address private. A result: They “zip along toll roads and past red-light cameras with almost no worries about being caught because collection agencies have no address to send citations.
How many times have we heard the silly platitude about having to “pay” for tax cuts? We pay for spending, not tax cuts.
