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2026-04-08T22:00:50Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* Bach, Johann Sebastian */

==Introduction==
*[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good musicwriting freeware

*[https://www.lifewire.com/free-classical-music-downloads-1358036 Top Five Free Classical Music] download sites.

*[https://www.stringquest.com/all-open-strings-violin-viola-cello-bass/ Viola open notes in alto clef], and cello and violin too.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGeBem72R3Y Clock diagram] you-tube that shows how you can arrange the notes in a circle and then different scales's choice of notes show patterns around the circle.

==[[Sheet music]]==

==[[Obscure Composers Article]]==
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==Music Criticism==
*[https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1283/the-art-of-the-musical-stephen-sondheim "Stephen Sondheim, The Art of the Musical,"]
Interviewed by James Lipton The Paris Review (1997). Excerpted in https://www.unz.com/isteve/into-the-woods/.

===Send in the Clowns, and Sondheim generally===
*[https://www.steynonline.com/11936/send-in-the-clowns#.YadcBPGuLPs.twitter Mark Steyn's article] (2021).

*[https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1283/the-art-of-the-musical-stephen-sondheim "Stephen Sondheim, The Art of the Musical,"] Interviewed by James Lipton The Paris Review (1997). Excerpted in https://www.unz.com/isteve/into-the-woods/.

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==Songs==
See [[Songs]].
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==Allegri==
*[https://youtu.be/H3v9unphfi0 Allegri's Miserere Mei]. See [https://richardvigilantebooks.com/what-song-did-mozart-steal-from-the-vatican/ Richardvigilantebooks.com/] : "Writing down ‘Miserere’ by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri, was punishable by excommunication, but 14 year old Mozart committed it to memory…". [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6hD8YtO5HI The Story of Allegri's Miserere].

==Alpert, Herb (Tijuana Brass)==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jouzf79QNuA Fandango]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3p8ll5JQ0c The Beat of the Brass] (30min)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYJtU6WV_J4&list=PLlYFBQULBYC48gjtG7rCCCmDEygF8YDoH The Lonely Bull, etc.], 2 hours.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI5aDT3WPgE Tribute] to Herb Alpert (50 minutes).

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==Bach, Johann Sebastian==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zveKEk3A5fo The Musical Offering] as orchestrated by Webern. 9 minutes.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw2dlZ8V4-0 Brandenburg Concertos]

== BEATLES==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=0pGOFX1D_jg Love Me Do. ] Audio only.

== BEETHOVEN==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbBmH9mj2R0 Complete quartets] by the Hungarian Quartet (lots of ads, YouTube) and
Quartets [http://youtube.com./watch?v=77xBZf0XcBY 1] and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=TPk0Gv3LBpA 2] and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=Jbi09i3iPoo 5](with members all telling us about it, as classical performers always should do), opus[http://youtube.com./watch?v=QQWVlCZyrWY 59-1 ] , opus [http://youtube.com./watch?v=VcVOOv0pl9g 59-2](starts with two chords), opus [http://youtube.com/watch?v=S4cOshcxRFE 59-3](starts with lots of chords), [http://youtube.com/watch?v=JVVdMzv02s8 Quartet 12] and [http://youtube.com/watch?v=a7wk0M125JM 14 ] opus 131, and [http://youtube.com/watch?v=gumi5pEpOaA 15](Lydian mode, slow start) and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=MVOQu481uZQ 16 ] .

* Symphonies [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CplmVMyPH80 One with Bernstein] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLHqr2e5TA Two] (Oslo, 35 minutes) and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=W5NsPOgyALI Seven with Karajan ]

*The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NOF_ueaxJ4 Kreutzer Sonata].

* The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4muQttjFxE Ghost Trio] (with score)

*[https://vimeo.com/69119967?turnstile=0.mm5QyK7FxXTCUI12h4CFbjp7Im0hI-gpSMpC3kagCCpjNoWnMdIAI0oEMI2uDzEh0Fd-WpME2fDtutXNsU3-2RN8jBBTO4mwSyP-tX4Yf9lx3MgQz_J9nkZO6MJpSHcIH5cjU4Kw4qvUuRw1eKbM_SAPBcwm3rKU9vN6cNtNQRc3UBy62vcWyGSHhkaPSfSsFD4CpLf9Xm2w1XAQTocAyhMtDD0VLKnPIDwKy3d0nB6Orrpnj2mI-prMtuJGJ1qA0AKO0tXd05go-3uRxuPGLxBK4LeC5dR_uIWGVPoLK83KHDbh43zTuAwr8rLAEmvnfR5CcKeU_xDfcMSar2JFXHsghZNteKdEL09iE6AICSaMf8NXQbhNMZMhrNDJk8a6h79slYxR6t_4wA8Li_4UlP5uZhcmWMp0om5KZAvHSiUaeifogeVY0CbNI_vu6MtaCTs2X7MDvkDHBDx8OZkFaHOdTPjmcpqvjlvqmFmjFjG-CYnpSjH7l270FvDYqIous3-sd4-aAWDNa-BeZcpsXRikNF1ANUdG_UIFJsSoaDLFRIcGfkqAzeb1DGjCp5e47GuFiBFPA23N9cRuqe4nFHdEbimm8cCJufsWSwFZAHfJyqQRIbNgWmpSdUPjCixB5rAlABuLiyhIoZ1rlw_dPCqocZ1OPcDygyJAitA65NYOyawnTOvJG2P5QIyQfTer4_grTSi7379-ShUWlssM64vpI_UrhEw2LiqUg-MOvws4JFuMcuSZ5Xy4BNwja6zKh2P5Ym7kfl67k5IXXYk6QYbswLKN4Kj5vR9TnYh_9sEdotnSUsrQJngKv4hgTyCJ8eVBetRAFw8ZZVA8FRc9opBw_kGmI7f2hecooC7L_jx3nbEWyYibGXFewkCBi1W-x4q-CE5kCVKyI1w9NsUci97X-jg-6mE4UgW_EoVAfco.YHXYJEMa2mtObRZLq_RxWg.398abd4969793f2d7307eb3637bbc62ac18b7fc0183d141d1f7bf2f4c12afeb3 Waldstein Sonata] (op. 53) on Vimeo.

== BOCCHERINI==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=zZbcIVTuHKQ Complete Cello Concertos ]

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ4tqM7n-4A String Quartet in G major]

==BURGMULLER, Norbert==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoMo5C9QWzU Symphony No.1] in C-minor, Op.2 (1833)

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==CBU Choir==
*[https://youtu.be/3y98T2lXZm4 King of Kings], small college group done very well.

==CHERUBINI, Lewis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ByKnapicRw String Quartet 1]

==Christmas Music==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UznpnMXVQOQ Tennessee Ernie Ford]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjywAed4ywg Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat Cole, etc. album] (56 minutes, You-Tube)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjywAed4ywg Andy Williams]

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==COATES, ERIC==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f5XBD0SOow The Three Elizabeths Suite]

== PETER CORNELIUS==
1859. ''Ein Ton'' (One Tone) in [http://youtube.com/watch?v=9ALqXaervew German] and [http://youtu.be/WEtctSobrqY English ]. Sheet music (free) [http://wnload-sheet-music.php?pdf=2372# here.]
(Thanks, Professor David Hirshleifer, for telling me of this.) The English is much better--- extraordinary and moving. I can't remember ever hearing such a striking improvement on the standard rendition of a piece of classical music. And it's surprising to find the English better than the original which is, to be frank, boring and mediocre when a soprano sings it as an art song. I wonder what Germans would think?
There is [hundredyearslate.wordpress.com/?s=nelligan a webpage]at HundredYearsLate on this song.

David Nelligan did that English recording in 2013. I am very frustrated. He is a musical genius and a marketing cretin. His name is not listed at the you-tube site, though if you read quickly you can see it in small font on the video as the music plays. I couldn't find him on Google to find out about him and what other good work he may have done. He's made himself close to a "mute inglorious Milton". I hate it when people do that, often from a modesty which is admirable in some ways but really selfish because it means the rest of us don't get to benefit from their talent. The HundredYearsLate site, which has just a few entries, from around 2014, is his, but his name isn't in the About section or on the Ein Ton webpage I link to--- you have to really search the site to find him mention his name somewhere.

I'll write to him, and see if he likes my idea for another rendition. I'd like to hear it in his style--- with the piano loud and not pretty, and a drone in the background, and processed voice--- but in German. The words are good, but they are about anguish over a lost love, so having a pretty, highly controlled, soprano voice just kills the song. Nelligan gets it. You need a bit of honky tonk feel, real pain, just barely under control, for both piano and voice. The voice only has one note, but it needs lots of emotion, the impression that the singer might collapse before it's done and doesn't care if he sounds good or not.

I was just listening to Lotte Lehmann singing "Ein Ton" and found myself whistling it afterwards. 
Whistling that song is kind of stupid. 
But I could hear the piano in my mind.

==Country Songs==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV9mPfHoUak Give Me Forthy Acres and I'll Turn THis Rig Around", ] Willis Bros.

*[https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/13416902/She+Thinks+My+Tractor%27s+Sexy She Think's My Tractor's Sexy], lyrics (Kenny Chesney) ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Thinks_My_Tractor%27s_Sexy 1999])

*Brother Jukebox, Sister Wine," Mark Chestnutt.

* Nine to Five," Dolly Parton.

* Hey, Good Lookin, Whatcha Got Cookin?" Hank Williams.

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==DELIBES==
Barbier did not write the words for the Flower Duet in Delibes's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakm%C3%A9 Lakme ] . The Flower Duet is as good music as Offenbach's ''Barcarolle'', but the words are nondescript.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMO0KFL3E58 the Bell Song] from Lakhme, sung by Sabine Somthing.

==Dies Irae==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RKJur8wpfYM Dies Irae] of Mozart's requiem, and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6OsBQzoAQ Metal Version] which is good.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6cogix3cwQ Verdi]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETocdXjv1HU Britten]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs4a-p-Hewk Cherubini]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApdYpaPamMs Ligeti], which is junk not worth listening to.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z79vOYnb3DA Caldara] (1720)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGennvJpj8w "Introduction Music History - Music Through Time Dies Irae"] by Keirsten Bible, 34 minutes.

==DVORAK==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=llB7NaWLUc4 Jacqueline du Pré ] , Dvořák Cello Concerto.

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==ELGAR==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=vLNLvcBmoqo Enigma Variations. ]

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==Fandangos==
Soler's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMvgGUGn1-E Fandango in D], like [https://youtu.be/IgEaS_d6qUE Boccherini has], but for harpsichord. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itS_9f5MMsA Scarlatti has a harpsichord fandango] too. The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCwEyIBM4Q Andalusian folk dance] is interesting.

==ELLA FITZGERALD==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=T1FV5s4JHi8 Various. ]

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==FODOR, Karl==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0h1mlpJ3Zc Symphony 3]

==Franck, Richard (1858-1938) ==
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNJ_lkPhANU Piano Quartet in A major, Op. 33], but just the allegro movement is good, I think.

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==Handel, George==
*[https://vimeo.com/540431339 Messiah] oratorio, Hillsdale choir, 2 hours, on Vimeo.

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==Hasse, Johann Adolf==
*[https://youtu.be/zF5p12F5ymY Artaserse Sinfonia (1760).]

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==Haydn, Franz==
* Symphonies [https://vimeo.com/2446771 44](20+ minutes), and [https://vimeo.com/367278393 96] (22 minutes) Vimeo,a nd [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ug2Og6j4ag&list=PL9R7PKq6lPML0lCdyQD_rp9MTlrdYLJTW All Symphonies]

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be2bunwqilM Harmoniemesse] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwB_enC55EQ&list=PL-FaA4k7UdNa1-bptTm3ZoirORvBeuRdC&index=6 St. Cecilia Mass] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EPI70sRk5s Mass in Time of War]

*Quartets: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh-tMac2Y_g opus 77 and 103].

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==Hoffman, Joseph==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRbzddoDVk4 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C Op.2 N.3 (1/4) ], Joseph Hoffman playing (1929).

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ZIuRJHeE0 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28, Op. 101 (Roll - 1915) ], Joseph Hoffman playing.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFwg-o8sgxE Schubert's Erlkonig,] piano, Joseph Hoffman playing.

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==Janucek==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO2UUxO3RfE Glagolitic Mass.]

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==Lehar, Francis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djc7QQeyT9c Land of Smiles video] from 1961 and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ultt6LbI51Q 1930], with the original Fritz Tauber but a bad Mi, and [https://imslp.hk/files/imglnks/euimg/b/b6/IMSLP381718-PMLP364005-Leh%C3%A1r_Das_Land_des_L%C3%A4chelns.pdf The Land of Smiles] score, in German and [https://rasmusen.org/special/Lehar_Land_of_Smiles.pdf lyrics in English] (Jerry H. translation).

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkPsr5SPN3Y Eva] (1911).

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==Mahler, Gustav==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICDXYu1JOnY You-tbue Mahler 1st Symphony] and a very good [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LtPTo8YOXw 2nd (Resurrection) Symphony] with no ads.

== MAYER, LAUREN==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSnAgRZMumQ Time Change], a liberal com ic song after The Time Warp from Rocky Horror (2022).

==Mendelsoh, Felix==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KioVcstEF9E Trio 1], with score, Beaux Arts Trio.

==MOLTER==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=oKMC8HvjVus Complete cantatas. ] After reading about Jack's "molter vivace" joke in ''The Far Side of the World.'' Molter really is good!

==MORINI, GUIDO==
*[https://www.tafelmusik.org/breaking-baroque/get-know-italian-composer-guido-morini "Get to know Italian composer, Guido Morini"] (2019)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMupfY8InTw Passacaglia - Improvisationskonzert ] (11 minutes)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdp1VvZQbD8 Canzona alla Montemaranese - Storie di Napoli] (4 minutes)

==Mozart==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEO3MduIiV4 Early string quartets], no ads.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1m_YoGbDt4&t=6034s Mozart violin concertos,] 2 hours' worth with Oistrakh.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvRhkZLM__E Various piano concertos,] no ads.

*[https://youtu.be/H3v9unphfi0 Allegri's Miserere Mei]. See [https://richardvigilantebooks.com/what-song-did-mozart-steal-from-the-vatican/ Richardvigilantebooks.com/] : "Writing down ‘Miserere’ by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri, was punishable by excommunication, but 14 year old Mozart committed it to memory…"

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOdgE461MfY Various symphonies 25-40] (You-tube)

*[https://vimeo.com/240369823 Requiem], from Vimeo (Bergen Philharmonic) or just the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RKJur8wpfYM Dies Irae]

*The Queen of the Night's aria from The Magic Flute, by [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R5HM9xlrGKg Sabine Devieilhe], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNYws1PNCH8 Who Sang The "Queen Of The Night" Staccatos The Best?], where Miklosa and Kim get my votes, I guess.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioc9shJa_lI Just the statue scene] from ''Don Giovanni '' and the entire opera, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPYjqz7nToY "Don Giovanni."]
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==Nelson, David(Moe)==
[https://www.facebook.com/TheGrandsons/videos/441077030370746 Lundi Gras New Orleans style jazz]. Moe is the bass player.
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==OFFENBACH==
I didn't remember that [http://youtube.com/watch?v=0u0M4CMq7uI the Barcarolle in Tales of Hoffmann] was a duet. Why does it bring tears to my eyes? I can't even make out the words. I did look up [http://lyricstranslate.com/en/jacques-offenbach-barcarolle-lyrics.html the words ] just now:
<blockquote style="color: gray">
Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour Souris à nos ivresses Nuit plus douce que le jour Ô,belle nuit d’amour! Le temps fuit et sans retour Emporte nos tendresses Loin de cet heureux séjour Le temps fuit sans retour Zéphyrs embrasés Versez-nous vos caresses Zéphyrs embrasés Donnez-nous vos baisers! Vos baisers! Vos baisers! Ah! Belle nuit, ô, nuit d’amour Souris à nos ivresses Nuit plus douce que le jour, Ô, belle nuit d’amour! Ah! souris à nos ivresses! Nuit d’amour, ô, nuit d’amour!
</blockquote>

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqR6Ai5ObPw The wind-up doll song] with Sabine Delxxxx.

They really are quite good. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Barbier Jules Barbier.] Maybe it got through my subconscious, since I can understand the French in text if not in song.<html>
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Barbier%2C_Jules%2C_Nadar%2C_Gallica.jpg/330px-Barbier%2C_Jules%2C_Nadar%2C_Gallica.jpg" alt="" /></html>

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==OLIVER, Joseph "King"==
Louis Armstrong was his protege.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2wM-d-2QOI King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Canal Street Blues]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBAF1iGsGw0 King Oliver's Jazz Band (Okeh, October, 1923 Session)]

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==Paganini, Nicholas==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSBHsrPzf_s Complete guitar works] (3 hours) Audio only, ''You-Tube.''

==Paine, John==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7cOqrolsy4 Mass in D-minor], Op.10 (1866). Much like Haydn.

==PRESLEY, Elvis==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=-eHJ12Vhpyc You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog.] Audio only.

==Psy==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 Gangnam Style] and [https://www.businessinsider.com/gangnam-style-translation-2012-9 a translation]

I’m a guy
A guy who seems calm but plays when he plays
A guy who goes completely crazy when the right time comes
A guy who has bulging ideas rather than muscles
That kind of guy

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==Rameau==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NybTtlHiFbk Overture to Zais], a weird and wonderful piece of music.

==Ries, Ferdinand==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J36CNOYFJCE Cello sonatas]

==Rossini==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CgYLpt9lHA Edward and Christina overture]

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==SCARLATTI==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itS_9f5MMsA Scarlatti has a harpsichord fandango].

==SCHUBERT==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zBUXhZx4w Trio 1,] opus 100, Beaux Art Trio.

*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=J_nKAXM9CY8 Trout quintet, Wigmore Hall. ]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFwg-o8sgxE Schubert's Erlkonig, piano, Joseph Hoffman]

*[https://kennethwoods.net/blog1/2007/11/06/podcast-rcco-death-and-the-maiden/ Death and the Maiden blogpost] and [https://kennethwoods.net/blog1/product/visions-of-childhood-four-last-songs-eso-april-fredrick-nimbus/ album with a very good recording].

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDGcyKhPV0M COmplete Schubert string quartets]

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==SCHUMANN==
Symphony [https://youtube.com./watch?v=xmXWs-nPSjc 1] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAnB45ZGIts 2] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl3RAqmN3Oo 4] (Karajan, 31 minutes) and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUes-2BON2s Norrington talk on Number 4 ] (10 minutes)

==SHOSTAKOVICH==
*Piano pieces in classical style, Preludes and Fugues, Op 8, [https://youtu.be/ZyURjdnYQaU first 12] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7JgJGZeyg no. 24].

*Movie music. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_CdYmAbVs "The Return of Maxim"] (Film Score), Op. 45. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d0h4T3lcQE "Stupid Little Mouse"], Op. 56 (not so good).

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtOFwI1dkXo 8 Waltzes from Film Music Suite for Symphony Orchestra T. Sanderling] 
0:01 Waltz from "Maxim's Return" (op.45) 
3:19 Waltz from "Golden Mountains" (op.30) 
8:39 Waltz from "Michurin" (op.78) 
10:50 Waltz from "Pirogov" (op.76) 
16:07 Waltz from "The Gadfly" (op.97) 
18:32 Waltz from "The First Echelon" (op.99) (Second Waltz) 
21:45 Waltz from "Unity" (op. 95) 
25:27 Waltz from "The Human Comedy" (op.37)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qJdaHon2os "The Golden Age"] (Op. 22a, 1935).

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFg8lbHcEqs "Golden Mountains"] (op.30)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK1IgQnLTic "Hamlet, music for the film Op. 116 (1964)]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKKMXG3ulE "New Babylon"]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjExRLfU7x8 "King Lear,"] music for the film Op. 137 (1970)

==Soler, Lewis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q13W_HcLkNM Fandango in D], like [https://youtu.be/IgEaS_d6qUE Boccherini has for guitar], but for harpsichord.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQbW75y3P9g Scarlatti has one] too. The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCwEyIBM4Q Andalusian folk dance] is interesting.

==SOUSA==
[http://youtube.com./watch?v=cxleNf2mjfg&list=PLA7no0L9zTk5QnKpwAcWV4jjhkCMsLuEt Complete marches.]STRAUSS. [http://youtube.com/watch?v=KY2Mw0LMz-E Die Fliedermaus ] , German.

==Stalin songs==
*[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:The_Ballad_of_Stalin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "The Ballad of Stalin"]
One day he looked upon his map and frowned and shook his head,
"There's too much brown and not enough green," these are the words he said;
"We'll have to change the weather, boys," he said and then he smiled,
"So let's begin by planting trees along three thousand miles."

==Steffan, Joseph==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8j9XNINAKA A piece]

==Steibelt==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfUdF547kh4 One piece] and
[http://www.annapetrova.com/en/daniel-steibelt-1765-1823-piano-works-cd/ piano works.]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTQ-P-G96Lo Harp Concerto]

This cd of Steibelt's concertos and like it a lot: https://www.amazon.com/Steibelt-Classical-Piano-Concertos-Vol/dp/B016VKBJYS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=steibelt&qid=1631494850&s=music&sr=1-1

==John STRAUSS==
[https://duckduckgo.com/?q=you+tube+die+fliedermaus&pn=1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DB_bOebWQoRc Die Fleidermaus], with English subtitles.

==Richard STRAUSS==
Does [http://youtube.com/watch?v=o9qVSXUU7Hw the timpani player]in Also Sprach really look like me as a young man?

== ==

==Tausig==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yLi7gr5yqw "Josef Hofmann plays Scarlatti - Tausig, Pastorale e capriccio (1923)"]

== ==

== Vinci==
*[https://youtu.be/OCTiqj2lrTs Four-minute aria in the Artaserces] opera, and the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F8g8lVbjs4 hour-long first act.] Is it right to watch a castrato part, even if nowadays not played by a castrato? Yes, I think, though it would not if it were a real castrato, because it would be to encourage mutilation. This recording has countertenor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Jaroussky Philippe Jaroussky]
<html> <img src= "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Philippe_Jaroussky_-_Misteria_Paschalia_2011_%281%29.JPG/440px-Philippe_Jaroussky_-_Misteria_Paschalia_2011_%281%29.JPG" height= 120 align= left> </html>

==Vivaldi, Anthony==
*[https://vimeo.com/110472348 the Four Seasons] (Vimeo, 58 minutes).

== ==

==WAGNER==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI3CS0xficoFLying Dutchman ] with score....... [https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=wagner+lohengrin&&view=detail&mid=08F3457961D035EAC58208F3457961D035EAC582&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dwagner%2Blohengrin%26FORM%3DHDRSC3 Lohengrin], Kemp (3hrs 38min)......[http://youtube.com./watch?v=dfuksVNEqAA Rienzi.] Audio only......[http://youtube.com./watch?v=9d-3nqzKTKU Rheingold,] China; ..... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufTndujS5Bs Gotterdammerung, no ads?]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNTmpISEBWA "The Ring without Words"], 2 hours or so.

* [https://completerichardwagner.blogspot.com/2015/09/hitler-und-wagner.html "Hitler and Wagner,"] Peter Crawford, blog (2014). {{Quotation| In 1923, Winifred met Adolf Hitler who, as we know, greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Winifred sent him food parcels and stationery on which Hitler's autobiography 'Mein Kampf' was written. In the late 1930s, she served as Hitler's personal translator during treaty negotiations with England. Winifred's relationship with Hitler grew so close that by 1933 there were rumors of impending marriage. 'Haus Wahnfried', the Wagner home in Bayreuth, became Hitler's favorite retreat, and he had his own separate accommodation in the grounds of Wahnfried, known as the Führerbau.}}

{{Quotation| The name of the villa Wahnfried, is interesting. Wahnen means endless striving of an artist for the fulfillment of his aspirations and the triumph of his art. So Wahnfried (Wahnen free) was the name chosen and even today we can see Wagner's motto on the front: "Here where my delusions have found peace, let this place be named Wahnfried."... In a shady grove beyond the garden, surrounded with ivy, is the tomb of Richard and Cosima Wagner. The stone is unmarked, because as Wagner insisted, as long as it remained, everyone would know who was buried there. ...}}

{{Quotation| Symphonies - initially - held little interest, and chamber music none at all. There is no record of his ever having attended a chamber concert or a lieder recital. His attendance at symphony concerts was increasingly rare as time passed and, when chancellor, he seldom appeared except on ceremonial occasions.}}

==Webern==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zveKEk3A5fo Johann Sebastian Bach: Musical Offering, No. 2 Ricercar a 6] (arranged by Anton Webern), Paavo Järvi, conductor Berlin Philharmonic

==Wieniawski, Joseph ==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6hgSGqL1c Piano Concerto in G-minor,] Op.20 (1858)
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==ANONYMOUS==
The [http://youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=Va6yxMru9jE&feature=emb_title Le Boudin, ]the [http://foreignlegion.info/songs/le-boudin/ Sausage Song] of the Foreign Legion that insults the Belgians ] . They're not politically correct. A more polished version, probably sung by professionals, and with subtitles is [http://youtube.com/watch?list=RDVa6yxMru9jE&v=FKGLGFQSpXE&feature=emb_rel_end here. ]

Easter

2026-03-27T15:39:33Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* The Date of Easter */

See also [[Holidays]].

This page is for things to do on Easter. It is sufficient for use, but I will improve it.

In 2021, the three readings below worked well. People read them as dessert was served. You can print out the readings from: [[READING 1: Luke 23-24. The Easter Story]] and [[READING 2: Revelation 19. Christ the Victor over Death]] and [[READING 3: Revelation 20. The New Jerusalem]]. You can do it several ways:
*(a) Three people read Readings 1, 2, and 3. (3 people participate)

*(b) Five people read Readings 1a, 1b, 1c, 2, and 3. (5 people participate)

*(c) Four people read Readings 1a, 1b, and 1c and 2. Five people read Reading 3. (9 people participate)

*(d) Three people read Readings 1a, 1b, and 1c. Six people read Reading 2. One person reads Reading 3 (10 people participate)

*(e) Three people read Readings 1a, 1b, and 1c. Then six people read Reading 2 and five people read Reading 3. (14 people participate)

We are having our big dinner at 5pm today. For that, I will try to expand this. I will try to get some hymns printed out, with sheet music, and to get everyone to have an instrument-- grand piano, violin, viola, cello, trombone, ukulele, didgeridoo, kazoo, harmonica, pots-and-pans percussion, recorder, clarinet are possibilities. I will look for an ancient prayer or a Book of Common Prayer one for dinner. Maybe stories of past Easters. Maybe Dante's Paradiso has something good. I'd like to write up something on the theology of Easter to add to the readings. During dinner, maybe as people for names of some dead people we can hope will rise again, with no discussion of the probabilities of happy ending in particular cases. Ideally, we'd do something on the pattern of a seder, though we're a bit wiped out after last night's Christian seder at Bob's House.


 
 

==[[READING 1: Luke 23-24. The Easter Story]]==
This should be read by three people, 1a, 1b, 1c.

'''Reading 1a.''' 
And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

'''Reading 1b.''' 
And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
And they remembered his words,
And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.

'''Reading 1c.''' 
It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
 
 


==[[READING 2: Revelation 19. Christ the Victor over Death]]==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
</blockquote>

 
 

==[[READING 3: Revelation 20. The New Jerusalem]]==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
</blockquote>

 
 
==Hymns for Easter==
*[[Christ the Lord Is Risen Today]] Christ, the Lord, is risen today, Alleluia!
Sons of men and angels say, Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!
Sing, ye heavens, and earth, reply, Alleluia!

*[[And Can It Be that I Should Gain]] And can it be that I should gain  An interest in the Savior’s blood? 
Died He for me, who caused His pain— 
For me, who Him to death pursued? 
Amazing love! How can it be
That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? 
Amazing love! How can it be 
That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

*[[We Will Dance]] Sing aloud, for the time of rejoicing is near; (women echo)
The risen King, our Groom, is soon to appear. (echo)
The wedding feast to come is now near at hand; (echo)
Lift up your voice, proclaim the coming Lamb. (echo)

*[[Lead On, O King Eternal]] Lead on, O King eternal, the day of march has come;
Henceforth in fields of conquest Thy tents shall be our home:
Through days of preparation Thy grace has made us strong,
And now, O King eternal, we lift our battle song.

==Notes for Future Use==
The [https://thepocketscroll.wordpress.com/2016/03/28/easter-readings-1662-book-of-common-prayer/ Book of Common Prayer Easter morning prayers readings] are good.

MARK
<blockquote style="color: gray">
16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

16:2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

16:3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? 16:4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.

16:5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.

16:6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.

16:7 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

16:8 And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.

16:9 Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

16:10 And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

16:11 And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.

16:12 After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.

16:13 And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.

16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

16:17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 16:18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

16:19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

16:20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
</blockquote>



==Easter Vigil==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
The original twelve Old Testament readings for the Easter Vigil survive in an ancient manuscript belonging to the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem. The Armenian Easter Vigil also preserves what is believed to be the original length of the traditional gospel reading of the Easter Vigil, i.e., from the Last Supper account to the end of the Gospel according to Matthew. In the earliest Jerusalem usage the vigil began with Psalm 117 [118] sung with the response, "This is the day which the Lord has made." Then followed twelve Old Testament readings, all but the last being followed by a prayer with kneeling. 
(1) Genesis 1:1--3:24 (the story of creation); 
(2) Genesis 22:1-18 (the binding of Isaac); 
(3) Exodus 12:1-24 (the Passover charter narrative); 
(4) Jonah 1:1--4:11 (the story of Jonah); 
(5) Exodus 14:24--15:21 (crossing of the Red Sea); 
(6) Isaiah 60:1-13 (the promise to Jerusalem); 
(7) Job 38:2-28 (the Lord's answer to Job); 
(8) 2 Kings 2:1-22 (the assumption of Elijah); 
(9) Jeremiah 31:31-34 (the new covenant); 
(10) Joshua 1:1-9 (entry into the Promised Land); 
(11) Ezekiel 37:1-14 (the valley of dry bones); 
(12) Daniel 3:1-29 (the story of the three youths).
</blockquote>



==Invitation for Church==
Hello, folks.

Easter is this Sunday. If you’d like to go to a church service but
don't know where to go, I invite you to come with me, Helen, and the
kids. We'll be going to Clearnote Church on the southwest side of town,
10:30-12. I know some of you aren't believers. You're invited too, even
if you just want to come and complete your cultural education by
watching our peculiar rites.

Please pardon the group email; I don't know who might be interested.

YT,
Eric Rasmusen
erasmuse@Indiana.edu, cell: 812-345-8573


==The Name "Easter"==
Some people [say the name "Easter" is bad because it is the name of a pagan goddess, and "Resurrection Day" should be used instead. Others claim it is related to [https://www.sctimes.com/story/opinion/2022/04/16/traditions-easter-and-cultural-appropriation-eostre/7317930001/ a different goddess]. I disagree. It seems from ''Wikipedia,'' my source for everything below, that it is from the word for Dawn, or Shining, which also is connected with the word for East and for a dawn goddess. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre "Eostre"] and "Easter". The word is [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oestrus unrelated to "estrus".] It looks to me as if the original is Shining, it came to be applied to Dawn, from there it naturally became East, and eventually Dawn got to have a goddess associated with it, much like Sun and Moon acquired divinities. The word is quite appropriate theologically, because the day is for Jesus rising shining from the dead, much as the sun rises shining from the night. We even have "sunrise services". Probably that is why the name was applied to the holiday.

::*Old English Eōstre continues into modern English as Easter and derives from Proto-Germanic *austrōn, itself a descendant of the Proto-Indo-European root *aus-, meaning 'to shine' (modern English east also derives from this root).
:::Writing in the 8th century, the Anglo-Saxon monk Bede describes Ēostre as the name of an Old English goddess and behind the name "Eosturmonath", the equivalent of the month of April. Bede is the only source commenting on this goddess.
:::Since the 19th century, numerous linguists have observed that the name is linguistically cognate with the names of dawn goddesses attested among Indo-European language-speaking peoples. By way of historical linguistics, these cognates lead to the reconstruction of a Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess; the ''Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture'' (1997) details that "a Proto-Indo-European goddess of the dawn is supported both by the evidence of cognate names and the similarity of mythic representation of the dawn goddess among various [Indo-European] groups” and that “all of this evidence permits us to posit a [Proto-Indo-European] *haéusōs 'goddess of dawn' who was characterized as a "reluctant" bringer of light for which she is punished. In three of the [Indo-European] stocks, Baltic, Greek and Indo-Iranian, the existence of a [Proto-Indo-European] 'goddess of the dawn' is given additional linguistic support in that she is designated the 'daughter of heaven'."

::*Pascha, Latin. In Spanish, Easter is Pascua, in Italian and Catalan Pasqua, in Portuguese Páscoa and in Romanian Paşti. In French, the name of Easter is Pâques and also derives from the Latin word but the s following the a has been lost and the two letters have been transformed into an â with a circumflex accent by elision. In Romanian, the only Romance language of an Eastern church, the word Înviere (resurrection, cf. Greek Ἀνάστασις, [anástasis]) is also used.

::*Welsh Pasg, Cornish and Breton Pask. In Goidelic languages the word was borrowed before these languages had re-developed the /p/ sound and as a result the initial /p/ was replaced with /k/. This yielded Irish Cáisc, Gaelic Càisg and Manx Caisht. These terms are normally used with the definite article in Goidelic languages, causing lenition in all cases: An Cháisc, A' Chàisg and Yn Chaisht.

*In Dutch, Easter is known as Pasen and in the North Germanic languages Easter is known as påske (Danish and Norwegian), påsk (Swedish), páskar (Icelandic) and páskir (Faroese). The name is derived directly from Hebrew Pesach.[2

::*In Russia, Pascha (Paskha/Пасха), is a borrowing of the Greek form via Old Church Slavonic.[22]

::*In Ge'ez and most Ethiopian-Eritrean languages like but not limited to Amharic and Tigrinya, Easter is known as Fasika (ፋሲካ), etymologically descended from the Greek name Pascha (Πάσχα) with the /p/ sound evolving into an /f/ sound, and /s/ turning into /si

::*Some Slavic languages call it the Great Night, such as the Czech Velikonoce and Slovak Veľká noc. In Bulgarian, Macedonian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian it's called "Great Day", respectively Bulgarian Великден (Velikden), Macedonian Велигден (Veligden), Belarusian Вялікдзень (Vialikdzien`), and Ukrainian Великдень (Velykden`).



== The 2021 Easter Dinner==
Wellington said a battle is much like a ball. Nobody can be everywhere at once to describe it-- though he himself was amazingly good at being at every crucial point of a battle, e.g. Waterloo. Parties are like that too. We had, after dinner, the little kids upstairs in the office playing Legos and House, the teenagers outside playing badminton with the utility light to illuminate the darkness, the ladies with baby Elizabeth in the dining room, other ladies playing Mozart on the piano, and the men talking politics, strategy, and linear algebra in the kitchen and on the deck.

Quotations

2026-03-26T20:48:18Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* Hamblin, Jacob */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

*[https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089 "On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs' "], Jia Tolentino ( /23/16).

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==Anonymous==
*"Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (“Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched”) The motto of the University of Chicago.

*"You can make fish soup from fish, but you cannot make fish from fish soup." Hungarian proverb (Viktor Orban)

*"South Africa has introduced a new category to geopolitics: a de-developing nation." (@ConCaracal, X, 2026).

*"Don't take notes of what the professor says, take note."

*"What other people think of me is none of my business.”

*"Do you have 10 years of experience, or are you just living the same year at your job 10 times over?" [https://twitter.com/randomrecruiter/status/1690753402014232576 @randomrecruiter] (2023)

*I am reminded of a woman who graduated from MIT in 1987. I asked her about her social life as an undergrad. "The odds were good, but the goods were odd."

*"VOCATUS ATQUA NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT." (CALLED OR NOT CALLED, GOD IS PRESENT.)

*"The rich man smokes the same sort of cigarettes as the poor man, shaves with the same sort of razor, uses the same sort of telephone, vacuum cleaner, radio, and TV set, has the same sort of lighting and heating equipment in his house, and so on indefinitely. The differences between his automobile and the poor man’s are minor. Essentially they have similar engines, similar fittings. In the early years of the century there was a hierarchy of automobiles." (''Harper's Magazine'' [1957])

*"Conservatives view themselves as underdogs because they are, especially culturally. Liberals view themselves underdogs because although in charge of every significant human institution they have set themselves the impossible egalitarian task of waging war against nature and reality itself - so when results inevitably conflict with their egalitarian ideology - when racial gaps, poverty, sex differences, inequality etc persist - they blame reactionary forces rather than nature (reality)." ''Twitter'' (2023).

*The Hillary defense:
:I didn’t do it.
:You can’t prove it.
:Everybody does it.
:He did it.
:You're just a racist.
:It's old news.
:What difference, at this point, does it make?

*The Russian Teapot defense:
:It isn’t broken
:If it is broken, I didn’t do it
:If I did do it, it was no good anyway

*A canon of legal interpretation:"Specialia generalibus non derogant". Special things don't derogate from the general rule.

* “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original:"Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement , il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." [https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa as written by Jomini] (1827))..

*When everything works fine, they wonder why they hired you. When everything stops working, they wonder why they hired you. I.T. in a nutshell.

*“I don't drink, or cuss, or chew; and I don't go out with girls that do.”

*"The plural of outlier is out-and-out-liar".

*"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*[https://allaboutfrench.com/qui-se-ressemble-sassemble "Qui se ressemble s'assemble"]

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan," as quoted in ''A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition) by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Owning a sailboat is like turning your shower's cold water on and standing there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own." Stalin?

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Showing up is 90% of success," or "Being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them." — an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain". This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointment, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: the person secretly believe the world revolves around him, everyone is paying attention to him and his actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan. It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.
Women will always and forever rely on men.}}
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==Adams, John==
*"It is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State." [https://buff.ly/3rFhAzP "From John Adams to James Sullivan"] (26 May 1776).

==Adams, Scott==
*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1577277568310341632 Twitter, October 4, 2022]:"Elon Musk took control of the Ukraine/Russia endgame by writing the first draft in bullet form and drawing all attention to it.

:You just learned one of the most powerful persuasion techniques in the modern world: Write the first draft and keep it simple."

*I’m not worried about climate change because any species that can predict the average temperature a hundred years in advance won’t have trouble handling it.

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==The African Queen==
Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature. 
Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

See [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/characters/nm0000031 the IMDB quote page.]

==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” 
Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Allred, Austen==
*"Job descriptions should be strongly opinionated, and should both attract the people you’d want to work with while repelling those you wouldn’t."(Twitter 2023)

==Amin, Idi==
*"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."

==Anderson, Robert==
*"It would be nice if people would put (D) or (R) in their profiles so I know whether to retweet or ratio them without having to do a bunch of reading." Twitter (2024).

==Andreessen, Mark==
*"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

*Whitepill #14: Every day, two lists get longer: The things you believe but can't say, and the things you don't believe but must say. (Twitter, 2022)

==Aquinas, Thomas==
*"Nevertheless, sacred doctrine makes use of these authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the authority of the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the authority of the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable. For our faith rests upon the revelation made to the apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books, and not on the revelations (if any such there are) made to other doctors. Hence Augustine says (Epis. ad Hieron. xix, 1): 'Only those books of Scripture which are called canonical have I learned to hold in such honor as to believe their authors have not erred in any way in writing them. But other authors I so read as not to deem everything in their works to be true, merely on account of their having so thought and written, whatever may have been their holiness and learning'" (Summa Theologica,. Part 1, Q. 1, Art. 8).

==The Apocrypha==
"Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

2But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.

3With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.

4But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.

5For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen." Wisdom of SOlomon 13.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
*“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

*"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

*"The other environmental risk factors for schizophrenia are equally hard to change. Poverty? Okay, don’t be poor, thanks for the important life advice. Social defeat? “Doctor, are you saying I have to never let anyone defeat me?” “Yes, it’s my official medical recommendation that you become invincible.” " [https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-fair-to-describe-schizophrenia "It's Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic"] (Jan. 31, 2024).

==Auden==
*“The Danish Lutheran Church may have been as worldly as Kierkegaard thought it was, but if it had not existed he would never have heard of the Gospels, in which he found the standards by which he condemned it.”

==Augustine==
*“Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and that not of one man, but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices” (''City of God'', Book IV)

*"If they shall be deprived of all good, they shall no longer be. So long, therefore, as they are, they are good; therefore whatsoever is, is good. That evil, then, which I sought whence it was, is not any substance; for were it a substance, it would be good. For either it would be an incorruptible substance, and so a chief good, or a corruptible substance, which unless it were good it could not be corrupted. I perceived, therefore, and it was made clear to me, that Thou didst make all things good, nor is there any substance at all that was not made by Thee; and because all that Thou hast made are not equal, therefore all things are; because individually they are good, and altogether very good, because our God made all things very good." ''Confessions'', Book 7, chapter 12.

== ==
==Balfour, Arthur==
*“The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which, for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.”

==Bankman-Fried, Sam ==
“...this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us.” --
"[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself]: The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way," ''Vox,'' Kelsey Piper (Nov. 16, 2022).

==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
*“Eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

==The Bible==
*“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” Proverbs 15:1.

*"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits." Proverbs 16:2.

*"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs 16:4.

*"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9.

==Boghossian, Peter==
*"If a thing's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well." (''Unherd'' panel interview, 2024, ''You-Tube'').

==Booth, William (Salvation Army founder)==
*Asked about the chief dangers for the 20th century, Salvation Army founder Booth [https://rlhymersjr.com/Online_Sermons/2007/090907_OldEvangelicalismReview.html said], “Religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.”

==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

==Bloom,Allen==
*“Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason’s power.” ''The Closing of the American Mind''

==Bloom, Harold==
*[https://biblioklept.org/2013/02/19/harold-bloom-on-the-school-of-resentment/ Harold Bloom on his agon with “The School of Resentment.”] From [https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2225/the-art-of-criticism-no-1-harold-bloom his 1991 interview with The Paris Review.]:
When I was a young man back in the fifties starting out on what was to be my career, I used to proclaim that my chosen profession seemed to consist of secular clergy or clerisy. I was thinking, of course, of the highly Anglo-Catholic New Criticism under the sponsorship or demigodness of T. S. Eliot. But I realized in latish middle age that, no better or worse, I was surrounded by a pride of displaced social workers, a rabblement of lemmings, all rushing down to the sea carrying their subject down to destruction with them. The school of resentment is an extraordinary sort of mélange of latest-model feminists, Lacanians, that whole semiotic cackle, latest-model pseudo-Marxists, so-called New Historicists, who are neither new nor historicist, and third generation deconstructors, who I believe have no relationship whatever to literary values. . . .

It is tiresome to be encountering myths called “The Social Responsibility of the Critic” or “The Political Responsibility of the Critic.” I would rather walk into a bookstore and find a book called “The Aesthetic Responsibilities of the Statesman,” or “The Literary Responsibilities of the Engineer.” Criticism is not a program for social betterment, not an engine for social change. I don’t see how it possibly could be. . . .

What else is there like Invisible Man? Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God has a kind of superior intensity and firm control. It’s a very fine book indeed. It surprised and delighted me when I first read it and it has sustained several rereadings since. But that and Invisible Man are the only full scale works of fiction I have read by American blacks in this century that have survival possibilities at all. Alice Walker is an extremely inadequate writer, and I think that is giving her the best of it. A book like The Color Purple is of no aesthetic interest or value whatsoever, yet it is exalted and taught in the academies. It clearly is a time in which social and cultural guilt has taken over. . . .

I’m not terribly fond of feminist criticism. The true test is to find work, whether in the past or present, by women writers that we had undervalued, and thus bring it to our attention and teach us to study it more closely or more usefully. By that test they have failed, because they have added not one to the canon. The women writers who mattered—Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and others who have always mattered on aesthetic grounds—still matter. I do not appreciate Elizabeth Bishop or May Swenson any more or less than I would have appreciated them if we had no feminist literary criticism at all.

==Bowles, Michael==
“Construction is a matter of backing yourself into a corner and then fighting your way out.”

==Bukowski, Charles==
*“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

==Burke, Edmund==
* “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770).

*"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Misattributed. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ Quote Investigator.]

==Burnham, James==
"The nineteenth-century liberals overlooked, and the twentieth-century liberals decline to face, the fact that teaching everyone to read opens minds to propaganda and indoctrination at least as much as to truths; and on political and social matters it is propaganda and indoctrination rather than truth that universal education has most conspicuously nurtured." -James Burnham, ''Suicide of the West.''

==Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)==
. 
He that complies against his Will, 
Is of his own Opinion still. 
(from ''Hudibras'')
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== ==
==CANNON, William==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Caplan, Bryan==
*"When a normal utilitarian concludes that mass murder would maximize social utility, he checks his work! He goes over his calculations with a fine-tooth comb, hoping to discover a way to implement beneficial policy changes without horrific atrocities. The Leninist, in contrast, reasons backwards from the atrocities that emotionally inspire him to the utilitarian argument that morally justifies his atrocities." [https://betonit.substack.com/p/the_roots_of_lehtml The roots of Leninism] (2012)

==Carlin, George==
*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that."

==Carson, D.A.==
*"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."

==Carver, George Washington==
*“When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well, George, that's more nearly your size.’

==Carville, James==
*“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

==St. Charbel Makhlouf==
*[https://www.lightbook.org/53-best-saint-charbel-quotes.html "Your weakness is to be overcome, not to be used as a pilgrimage."]

==Charles III of the United Kingdom==
* 2011 as he [https://www.royal.uk/clarencehouse/speech/speech-hrh-prince-wales-king-james-bible-trust-reception addressed the King James Bible Trust:] “I’ve never really understood who it was that decided that, for people who aren’t very good at reading, the best things to read are those written by people who aren’t very good at writing!”

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*"Chesterton's Fence", 1929 book, ''The Thing,'' “The Drift from Domesticity”:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to challenge his reformist son-in-law. Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in his poem, “Mending Wall.” }}

*"A man can pretend to be wise; a man cannot pretend to be witty."

*"Those who will not even admit the Capitalist problem deserve to get the Communist solution."

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*"If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization."

*"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it"--Autobiography

*{{Quotation|We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

==Chicago, University of==
*The University of Chicago's motto is "Crescat scientia; vita excolatur," which means,"Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched."

==Chrysostom, John==
*"Should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in the midst of the forum, blaspheming God; go up to him and rebuke him; and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not to do so. Smite him on the face; strike his mouth; sanctify your hand with the blow, and if any should accuse you, and drag you to the place of justice, follow them there; and when the judge on the bench calls you to account, say boldly that the man blasphemed the King of angels! For if it be necessary to punish those who blaspheme an earthly king, much more so those who insult God" ('On the Statues', 1).

== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Coleridge, Samuel==
*"I, for one, do not call the sod under my feet my country. But language, religion, laws, government, blood — identity in these makes men of one country." ''Table Talk'', May 29, 1830.

==Comfort, Ray==
“Atheists don’t hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don’t exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Covey, Stephen==
*"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man."

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [-Twitter, 2021]}}

==Cunningham==
J.V. Cunningham, from "Meditation on Statistical Method"

<pre>
Plato, despair!
We prove by norms
How numbers bear
Empiric forms,

How random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our hearts
Hyperbole
Curves and departs
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
</pre>

My version:

<pre>
Random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our soul
Hyperbole
Makes error roll
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
So hope and doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Won't average out.
</pre>

== ==

==Dalrymple, Theodore==
*"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." a 2005 https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com/dalrymple-interviewed-by-jamie-glazov/ interview] in FrontPage.

==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in ''First Things'', 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, ''The Information'')

==Descartes==
See [[Descartes]]
*"Bene qui latuit, bene vixit."
*"He lives well who lies well hidden." I like the English version better. What is it in French? Ovid, Descartes.

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==Dio Cassius==
*"Although he was very practised as a writer of prose and verse and very skilled in all the arts, yet he always mocked the teachers of all the arts on the grounds that he was more learned than they, and despised and humiliated them. With these same professors and philosophers he often competed, taking turns to publish books or poems. Once, indeed, a word used by Favorinus was criticized by Hadrian. Favorinus yielded, which provoked some very agreeable amusement. He was wrong to concede to Hadrian, his friends charged him, over a word which reputable authors had used. ‘You don’t give me good advice, my friends,’ said Favorinus, ‘when you don’t allow me to believe the man who possesses thirty legions to be more learned than anyone else!’ " From [https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/hadrians-rome/content-section-5.1 Birley, A. (trans.) (1976) Lives of the Later Caesars, London, Penguin, pp. 57–87.]

<pre>
To the poet Florus,Footnote61 who wrote to him:

I do not want to be Caesar,
To walk about among the Britons,
To ensure the Scythian hoar-frosts,

he wrote back:

I do not want to be Florus,
To walk about among taverns,
To lurk about among cook-shops,
To put up with the round insects.
</pre>

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
*"Making a mistake is a net positive if you learn more from it than it cost you."

{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

*"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dornbusch, Rudiger==
*"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought" (on exchange rate crises)

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

== ==

==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==Einstein, Albert==
"in 1952 he wrote a letter to his friend and fellow physicist Max Born where he admits that even if the astronomical data had gone against general relativity, he would still believe in the theory:"

`Even if there were absolutely no light deflection, no perihelion motion and no redshift, the gravitational equations would still be convincing because they avoid the inertial system... It is really quite strange that humans are usually deaf towards the strongest arguments, while they are constantly inclined to overestimate the accuracy of measurement.'
([https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-einsteins-unification-by-jeroen? "John Psmith" 2024)

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

== Eschenbach, Willis==
"A bad Muslim wants to cut your head off and rape your wife. 
A good Muslim wants a bad Muslim to cut your head off and rape your wife."

==Esolen, Anthony==
*"Be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves, says the Lord.

:The converse is what we have now in our elites, in Church, State, education, etc.: People in charge who are as dopey as pigeons, and as malignant as snakes." (Twitter, 2024)

== ==

==Faulkner, William==
*“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feser, Ed==
*"If a doctor says “This is what lung cancer involves, please stop smoking,” no one accuses him of wanting the patient to suffer. But if a theologian says “This is what damnation involves, please stop sinning,” he is accused of wanting people to go to hell." ([https://twitter.com/FeserEdward/status/1665881489354162177 Twitter, 2023])

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Friedman, Milton==
"Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:

1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality) 
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality) 
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost) 
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

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==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

==Gandhi, Ashvin==
@ashdgandhi (Nov 29 2025)

"Normal people: hear math statements as regular words.

Mathematicians: hear math statements as logic.

Economists: hear regular words as math statements."

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

==Girard, Rene==
*“Nietzsche shared with many intellectuals of his time and our own a passion for irresponsible rhetoric in the attempt to get one up on opponents. But philosophers, for their misfortune, are not the only people in the world. Genuinely mad and frantic people are all around them and do them the worst turn of all: they take them at their word.” I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
*Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies" "I am the spirit who always says no." Faust part I.

*"I am the spirit that always says no. And how right I am! For surely It’s right that everything that comes to be Should cease to be. And so they do. Still better Would be nothing ever was. Hence sin And havoc and ruin—all you call evil, in sum— For me’s the element in which I swim.”

<pre>"Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen:
Verweile doch! du bist so schön!
Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen,
Dann will ich gern zugrunde gehn!
</pre>
Faust, Part I. When I to a moment say, Stay a while! You are so fair! Then you may enslave my soul, then I will submit to you. Or something like that.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==Goodstein, David==
"1.1 INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously. We will begin by considering the simplest meaningful example, the perfect gas, in order to get the central concepts sorted out." ( States of Matter (1985); see https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1651559339067310081)

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*[https://x.com/paulg/status/1874590418463330489 TWITTER:] "A friend who's a former British military officer told me that when he was training soldiers in jungle warfare they were taught that if they got lost in the jungle, the first thing they should do was to brew a cup of tea and think about what to do next."

*"Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign flipped." (2024, X).

*"If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial." [http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html "Putting Ideas into Words"] (2022).

*"A rare counterexample to the principle of specialization: your site should never seem like it was made by communications people, and the best way to achieve this is for it not to be. This is something founders should continue to micromanage forever."[https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1654765304184971264 Twitter] (2023) ]

*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)

==Grandin, Temple==
*Temple Grandin wrote in ''The Way I See It,'' a book on the experience of autism: "What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done."
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hamblin, Jacob==
*Jacob Hamblin’s "Rules for Dealing with the Indians" from ''Jacob Hamblin among the Indians'' by James Little.

1. I never talk anything but the truth to them.

2. I think it useless to speak of things they cannot comprehend.

3. I strive by all means to never let them see me in a passion.

4. Under no circumstances show fear, thereby showing to them that I have a sound heart and a straight tongue.

5. Never approach them in an austere manner nor use more words than are necessary to convey my ideas, not in a higher tone of voice than to be distinctly heard.

6. Always listen to them when they wish to tell of their grievances, and redress their wrongs, however trifling they may be if possible. If I cannot I let them know I have a desire to do so.

7. I never allow them to hear me use profane or obscene language or take any unbecoming course with them.

8. I never submit to any unjust demands or submit to coercion under any circumstances, thereby showing them that I govern and am governed by the rule of right not by might.

==Hamming, Richard==
"In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it."
- Richard Hamming in The Art of Doing Science & Engineering, 1997 /v @sfiscience

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

==Herrnstein, Robert==
:"Dick recalled the day when, as a young man, he had been awarded tenure. It was his dream fulfilled -- a place in the university he so loved, the chance to follow his research wherever it took him, economic security. For Dick, being a tenured professor at Harvard was not just the perfect job, but the perfect way to live his life. It was too good to be true; there had to be a catch. What's my part of the bargain? he had asked himself. "And I figured it out," he said, looking at me with that benign, gentle half-smile of his. "You have to tell the truth." There was no self-congratulation in his voice, just an answer to my question." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20010421204200/https://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/bell-curve/murray-hstein-obit.html "Richard J. Herrnstein, RIP,"] by Charles Murray, Vol. 46, National Review, 10-10-1994, pp 22.

==Hoffer, Eric==
*[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98215-every-great-cause-begins-as-a-movement-becomes-a-business “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”]

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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==Heath, Joseph==
"Populists have great difficulty respecting the rule of law. If one listens to the explanations that they offer for their actions, a great deal of this reflects a bias toward concreteness in their thinking. They think the purpose of the rules is to stop bad people from doing bad things, but since they themselves are good people trying to do good things, they cannot see why they should be constrained by the rules." "Populism Fast and Slow", ''Substack'' (2025).

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== Rob Henderson==
*“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” [https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/ Quillette article] (2021).

*"Men bond by insulting each other and not really meaning it; women bond by complimenting each other and not really meaning it."

*"Over the course of human evolutionary history, there may have been some independent-minded women who thought things through and decided to avoid the pain and risks of motherhood. These women are not our ancestors." [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-story-of-us-9780190883201?cc=gb&lang=en& one of his books], via Twitter.

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==Hippocrates==
"Ars longa, vita brevis" has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."

The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

==Hitchens, Christopher==
*"It will happen to all of us that at some point you'll be tapped on the shoulder and told - not just that the party is over - but slightly worse: the party's going on but you have to leave."

==Hitchens, PETER==
*'I also remember a French high-speed train, on which Mrs Hitchens and I ate a long, time-consuming, four-course picnic lunch, wine included, partly for the joy of it and partly because we were exempt from French mask rules as long as we were eating.
::'An infuriated French ticket inspector chose to lecture us explosively about our irresponsibility — whereupon I donned a large black Polish Army surplus gas mask, which in those days I carried about for satirical purposes.
::‘Take it off!’ he cried. ‘You are trying to frighten people!’ . :‘No,’ I replied, ‘it is you who are trying to frighten people.’ https://mol.im/a/12947665 via @MailOnline"

==Hooker. Richard==
*“It is dangerous for the feeble mind of man to wade too far into the doings of the Most High. Although it is life to know Him and joy to mention His name, our surest knowledge is that we do not know Him as He truly is, nor can we; our safest eloquence is our silence, confessing without confession that His glory is inexplicable and His greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we are on earth; therefore let our words be wary and few.” (''Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'', Vol. 1, book 1, chapter 2)

==Hochschild, Joshua==
*"It is an academic myth that canonical texts, literary and religious, embody ideology and perpetuate power structures. In the experience of actual readers, canonical texts are typically the means of escaping ideology and challenging power structures." Twitter (2024)

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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== Thomas Jefferson==
" If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion towards his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriæ of the other." [https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/query-xviii-an-excerpt-from-notes-on-the-state-of-virginia-by-thomas-jefferson-1784/ Query 18, Notes from Virginia.]
==Jomini ==
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original: "Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." as written by Jomini (1827). https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa

== ==

==Kac, Mark==
*"Probability theory is measure theory with a soul." Here is one source. Is there a better one, an original one? [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf]

==Karlin, George==
*"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they’re cramming for their final exam."

*"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

*"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body."

*"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts."

*"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it."

==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

*[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

==Keller, Timothy==
*"A possible way to start a conversation with someone who is not a believer:
'Tell me the God you don't believe in because chances are I don't believe in that God either.' "
*"Few people live up to their own standards, let alone an objective one. Either way we come up short on our own accord."
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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==Keynes, John==
* “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”

==Khan, Razib==
:*"The reason we need nerds is that they jump all over little lies, and drown them in the bathtub before the lies can grow up and become invincible monsters." [https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1675204182679207936 Twitter (2023).]

==Kierkegaard, Emil==
{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."
}}

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

== KIPLING, Rudyard==
. 
In August was the jackal born, 
The rains fell in September. 
"Now such a fearful flood as this," 
Says he, "I can't remember!" [http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/second-jungle-book/7/ "The Undertakers"] The 2nd Jungle Book.

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==Kosinski, Jerzy==
* "The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
:(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.” 
:(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
:(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==Rush Limbaugh==
“Men and women range themselves into three classes... the lowest by talking about persons; the next about things; the highest about ideas.”

==Lindsay, James==
*On the Christian method, which is good for redpilling wokers too: 
::1) Proclaim the truth (tell without coercion or force) 
::2) Remind them that everyone is a sinner (so everyone makes mistakes) 
::3) Invite them to repent in their own time (accept your past error as wrong and move forward productively).

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted , Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

*"The idea that any man or writer should be opaque to those who lived in the same culture, spoke the same language, shared the same habitual imagery and unconscious assumptions, and yet be transparent to those who have none of these advantages, is in my opinion preposterous. " ([https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern Seed speech])

*From "The Abolition of Man": 'When all that says "It is good" has been debunked, what says "I want" remains.'

* "The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

*“His education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

*“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”

*A man who has spent his youth and manhood in the minute study of New Testament texts and of other people’s studies of them, whose literary experience of those texts lacks any standard of comparison such as can only grow from a wide and deep and genial experience of literature in general, is, I should think, very likely to miss the obvious thing about them. If he tells me that something in a Gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavour; not how many years he has spent on that Gospel...

:I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life. I know what they are like. I know that not one of them is like this. Of this text there are only two possible views. Either this is reportage—though it may no doubt contain errors—pretty close up to the facts; nearly as close as Boswell. Or else, some unknown writer in the second century, without known predecessors or successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative
-- CS Lewis. https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern-Seed and Elephants," Originally entitled 'Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism'.

==Long, Earl (Governor of Louisiana, brother of Huey Long)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

==Long, Russell (Senator from Indiana, son of Huey Long)==
*"Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax the man behind the tree." [improved] See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/]

==Long, Rob==
"I was nonplussed — the actual definition of nonplussed, which is baffled, rather than what it sounds like and will eventually come to mean, which is unimpressed." (2024)

==Luther, Martin==
* "Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it."

:"This is a murky Luther quote that seems like something he would have said, yet finding an exact reference isn't easy. A couple of people have searched for this quote uncovering interesting clues and theories of its origin (see for instance, About That Great Luther Quote and also the discussion here). Piggybacking on their efforts, I have my own theory of how this quote became popular: it's in the form it's in because singer-song writer Derek Webb was quoting Charles Spurgeon quoting Luther... whether he knew it or not!" https://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2020/08/luther-every-week-i-preach.html

* “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan." --Book IV of The Prince}}

*"A question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may
be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person it is
much safer to be feared than loved, when only one is possible. The reason for this is that in general men
are ungrateful, inconstant, false, cowardly, and greedy. As long as you succeed, they are yours entirely -
they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, when the need is far distant. But when the
need approaches, they turn against you. A prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected
other ways of protecting himself, will be ruined. Friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by
greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot
be relied upon. Men are less worried about offending one who is loved than one who is feared. Love is
preserved by the link of gratefulness which, owing to the weak nature of men, is broken at every
opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a fear of punishment which never fails." Chapter 17, [https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Principe/Capitolo_XVIII The Prince], Machiavelli.

*"Questo una disputa, s'e' gli è meglio essere amato che temuto o e converso. Rispondesi che si vorrebbe essere l'uno e l'altro; ma perché e' gli è difficile accozzarli insieme, è molto più sicuro essere temuto che amato, quando si abbi a mancare dell'uno de' dua. Perché degli uomini si può dire questo, generalmente, che sieno ingrati, volubili, simulatori e dissimulatori, fuggitori de' pericoli, cupidi del guadagno; e mentre fai loro bene e' sono tutti tua, offeronti el sangue, la roba, la vita, e' figliuoli, come di sopra dissi, quando el bisogno è discosto: ma quando ti si appressa, si rivoltono, e quello principe che si è tutto fondato in su le parole loro, trovandosi nudo di altre preparazioni, ruina. Perché le amicizie che si acquistono col prezzo, e non con grandezza e nobilità di animo, si meritano, ma elle non si hanno, e alli tempi non si possono spendere; e li uomini hanno meno rispetto a offendere uno che si facci amare, che uno che si facci temere: perché lo amore è tenuto da uno vinculo di obligo, il quale, per essere gl'uomini tristi, da ogni occasione di propria utilità è rotto, ma il timore è tenuto da una paura di pena che non ti abbandona mai." Ch. 7. [http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/testo/bibit000214 Il Principe], Machiavelli.

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
*“The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.” (Letter to Napier, November 5, 1841, p. 103 of Trevelyan's ''The Life and Letters..., Vol. 2'')

*"The doctrine which from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words, and stripped of rhetorical disguise is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error."
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Sir James Macintosh"

*From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Mahler Gustav==
*From [https://deepstash.com/article/203717/jean-jaurs-the-true-way-to-honour-the-past Deepstash, Jean Jaures said,] "Ce n'est pas en vain que tous les foyers des générations humaines ont flambé, ont rayonné ; mais c'est nous, parce que nous marchons, parce que nous luttons pour un idéal nouveau, c'est nous qui sommes les vrais héritiers du foyer des aïeux ; nous en avons pris la flamme, vous n'en avez gardé que la cendre." From [https://latoilescoute.net/de-la-tradition-il-faut-garder-la Latoilescoute.net: ] janvier 1910, à Paris, Chambre des députés in Pages choisies, éd. Rieder, paru en 1922, p. 115.

"It is not in vain that all the homes of human generations have burned, have blazed; but it is us - because we walk forward, because we fight for a new ideal - it is us who are the true heirs of the home of the ancestors; we took the flame, you only kept the ashes."

*From [https://x.com/DurhamWASP/status/1942000048822268127 Twitter] and [https://www.wienerzeitung.at/h/irrwege-einer-metapher Irrwege einer Metapher, of Gerald Krieghofer: Gustav Mahler said, ""Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers", Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

That's different and better enough for me to award the credit to Mahler. Mr. Krieghofer might show me to be wrong, though; I don't speak German.

==David MAMET==
*“We know psychology is a scam for two reasons.
One: all the children of psychologists are insane.
And two: in a hundred years of psychoanalysis, no one has ever gotten better.”
2011 book The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

==Mao Tse-Tung==
In ''Khruschev Remembers'', Soviet leader Krushchev [https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/quotations-peoples-republic/ talks about] a 1957 meeting.

"Mao spoke about the war at this meeting . His speech content was roughly this: Do not be afraid of war. Do not be afraid of either the atomic bomb or the weapons. No matter what kind of war, we socialist countries will win. When it comes to China specifically, he claimed: 'If the imperialist impose war on us, we now have 600 million people, even if we lose 300 million, so what, this is war. Years later, we nurture new, and the population will be restored.' After he spoke, the meeting room was in a tomb-like silence."

==de Marenches, Alexandre==
Jack Jolis:"
Reminds me of something the late, (pro-American) former French spy-boss Alexandre de Marenches once said to my late dad (in my presence):

:"That man Reagan-- he may not know much, but he understands everything"
"(Cet homme Reagan – il sait peut-être peu, mais il a tout compris”).

==Marx, Karl==
:"In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. The English Established Church, e.g., will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. Now-a-days atheism is culpa levis as compared with criticism of existing property relations." --[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm Capital], volume 1, Preface.

* "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." Introduction, 1844, in Marx's own journal Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher.

==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

==Mather, Increase==
*"When the Knowledge of the Tongues and Arts Revived, Religion had a Revival with it: And though some Unlearned men have been useful to the Interests of Religion, yet no man ever decried Learning, but what was, an Enemy to Religion, whether he knew it or no."

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==Matjaž Leonardis==
If 0.1mg dose of a drug can massively alter the behaviour of a 100kg human (nine orders of magnitude ratio) then the idea small groups of individuals can change massive social systems should seem at least plausible. (2022, Twitter)
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==Mazarin, Cardinal==
« Le cardinal Mazarin ne pouvait souffrir autour de lui des gens malheureux. Quand on lui proposait quelqu’un pour entrer à son service, sa première question était celle-ci : « Est-il heureux ? » »

"(Translation: "Cardinal Mazarin could not bear unhappy people around him. When someone was proposed to enter his service, his first question was: 'Is he lucky/fortunate?'")

This anecdote is reported by Madame la Palatine (Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, mother of the future Regent Philippe d'Orléans), in her letters or memoirs from the late 17th/early 18th century. It is referenced in multiple French historical sources, including sites dedicated to historical quotations (e.g., histoire-en-citations.fr), which describe it as a "well-known saying" (mot bien connu) attributed via the Palatine.

However, no primary source (e.g., Mazarin's own letters or contemporary accounts) directly records him saying it verbatim about generals. The Palatine's version is general (about service in his entourage), not explicitly military."

==MEIJER, WILLIAM==
*"If you give submissive people power, they’ll use it to submit themselves." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

*"Humans will endure any amount of chronic pain to avoid a temporarily greater level of acute pain." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

*About Pres. Roosevelt and his 1936 opponent Gov. Landon: Landon “probably knows a great deal less than the Hon. Mr. Roosevelt, but much more of what he knows is true.” (from [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Roosevelt_Sweeps_Nation/9qq-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mencken+++++1936++Landon,++%22probably+knows+a+great+deal+less+than+the+Hon+.+Mr.+Roosevelt+,+but+much+more+of+what+he+knows+is+true%22&pg=PT399&printsec=frontcover Pietruza's book])

*"I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey."

*"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

*"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup."

*"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

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==Eric Moody==
*[https://x.com/therealmissjo/status/1935709339567726688 From X:]
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”
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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

*"When you hear the names of legislation or anything done by the government, it is worth remembering that the group that sent so many people to the guillotine during the French Revolution was called “The Committee of Public Safety”, not the “Cut Off Their Heads Committee” " Twitter (2024)

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Newman, John==
*"It is not the way to learn to swim in troubled waters, never to have gone into them.” — “Duties of the Church towards Knowledge,” in ''The Idea of a University'' (1852).

Improved: "You won't learn to swim in troubled waters by avoiding bathtubs."

==Ngo, Richard==
*"To improve the world most in the short term, make the worst country better. To improve the world most in the long term, make the best country better." Twitter, 2025.

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Orwell, George==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

"There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see." (slightly improved, seen secondhand on Twitter)

==Prince Philip==
*“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

*“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

*“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

* “It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

* “If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

*“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

*“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

*“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

*“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

*“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

*“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

* “It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

* “It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/

==Steven PINKER==
*"Historically, positions were distributed by hereditary privilege, family ties, patronage to cronies, or sale to the highest bidder. These are not far from the system we have here." ([https://www.thecrimson.com/column/council-on-academic-freedom-at-harvard/article/2024/1/29/pinker-harvard-legacy-admissions/ of Harvard student admissions, 2024])

==Pablo PICASSO==
From Grok. Original:
« L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de révéler la vérité. » (Art is a lie that permits us to reveal the truth)
(or « L’art est le mensonge qui dit la vérité. » ---Art is the lie that tells the truth.

The most widely quoted French version:« L’art est un mensonge qui nous fait comprendre la vérité. » (Art is a lie that makes us understand the truth.)

Marius de Zayas, “Picasso Speaks,” The Arts (New York), May 1923, pp. 315–326.
French version as Picasso himself later approved or rephrased it (most canonical):
« Nous savons tous que l’Art n’est pas la vérité. L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de reconnaître la vérité, du moins la vérité qu’il nous est donné de comprendre. »
(This longer version appears in French sources quoting Picasso directly, notably in Christian Zervos’s conversations with Picasso and in later interviews.)

==Plato==
*"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter" ([https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=280790.0 in Greek:] μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μου τὴν στέγην," « mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn »). Engraved above the door of Plato's Academy in Athens. [https://www.dialogues-de-platon.org/faq/faq009.htm Bernard Suzanne] says "an anonymous scholion in a manuscript of Aelius Aristides whose author, according to him, might be the fourth century orator Sopatros, which mentions the full text of the inscription, adding that ageômetrètos has been put in place of anisos kai adikos ("unfair and unjust"), sometimes used in similar inscriptions at the entrance of sacred places, and
:"Johannes Tzetzes' Chiliades, whose text is as follows:
Pro tôn prothurôn tôn hautou grapsas hupèrche Platôn
Mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn
Toutestin, adikos mèdeis paresierchestô tèide
Isotès gar kai dikaion esti geômetria.
("Plato had written at the front door of his house: "Let no one who is not geometer enter under my roof", that is, "Let non one unjust sneak in here", because geometry is equality/fairness and justice/righteousness")."

==Podgursky, Ben==
*"When your kids ask to play with you, remember that the actual ask is "I want to spend time with you". They ask to play because play is all they know. If you'd rather do a project (gardening, making an IKEA shelf), just propose doing it with them. They'll be just as excited." (Twitter, 2025)

==Poincare, Henry==
"It is through logic that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
Poincare, H. (1914). Science and Method. (F. Maitland, Preface by B. Russell, Trans.) London: Thomas Nelson and Sons.

==Pope, Alexander==
==="An Essay on Criticism"===
<pre>
*Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang’rous is th’ offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
Some few in that, but numbers err in this,
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss;

‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

In poets as true genius is but rare,
True taste as seldom is the critic’s share;
Both must alike from Heav’n derive their light,
These born to judge, as well as those to write.

Yet if we look more closely we shall find
Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind;
Nature affords at least a glimm’ring light;
The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right.
But as the slightest sketch, if justly trac’d,
Is by ill colouring but the more disgrac’d,
So by false learning is good sense defac’d;
Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.
</pre>

==Popper, Karl==
*[https://www.stephenhicks.org/2021/09/30/popper-to-aron-letter-on-adorno-and-habermas/ Letter of Popper to Aron in 1970]:
"I can only say that when I read either Adorno or Habermas, I feel as if lunatics were speaking.
I have translated some of their German sentences into simple German. It turns out to be either trivial or tautological or sheer pretentious nonsense. I completely fail to see why Habermas is reputed to have “talent”. I do not think that he was born less intelligent than other people; but he certainly did not have the good sense to resist the influence of a pretentious, lying, and intelligence destroying University education.
Sociology is in a bad way — even here in England. There seems to be an interesting law: bad and pretentious language drives out good and simple language. And once human language is destroyed, we shall return to the beasts."

==Alex Priou==
*"Interpretation of a great work is first and foremost decompression of information and not compression.

:A summary of Plato or Aristotle that did faith to the nerve of their thought would require their near equal, and it would have to be an appropriate task for the times."

==Putin, Vladimir==
“The culture of cancellation is the cancellation of culture.” From [https://nationalfile.com/putin-skewers-cancel-culture-in-latest-moscow-speech/ an October 2022 speech. ]

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==Ramsey, Dave==
*"Tell the money where to go instead of wondering where it went."

==Ramseyer, J. Mark==
"Harvard is a vastly less tolerant place than it was when I arrived in 1998. The intolerance is a function of an increasingly large fraction of our colleagues. And we – the rest of us on the Harvard faculty – let it happen. The cancelling, the punishments, the DEI bureaucracy, the DEI statements, the endless list that we could all recite – all this happened on our watch. We saw it happen, but we did nothing. We were too busy. We were scared to speak up. We – we on the faculty – let Harvard become what it is. The Harvard that we have is the result of our own collective moral failure.

'''The alumni who are furious are not trying to turn Harvard into something we do not want. They are trying to rescue Harvard from what we let it become.'''
We as a faculty failed. That is why the alumni are speaking up. That is why we formed the Council on Academic Freedom in the first place."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].
*"When someone gives you lemons, make lemonade." Synonym for "Every cloud has a silver lining."

*"A model should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." I think I used in my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/ ''Games and Information''], and attributed it to Alfred Einstein. The original saying is “Everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler,” and while it is attributed to Einstein, it’s [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ highly questionable] whether he ever said it.

*"Wiggle words weaken writing." Don't use "maybe" or "perhaps" or "to some extent" or "quite" or "often" or "sometimes" if you don't have to.

*"The humanities are just as hard at math; the difference is, in the humanities you're so lost you don't even know you got the answer wrong. "
*"The only things worse than a dumb bureaucrat handling your problem is a smart computer."

*"The hand that does the daycare ruins the world."

*"For scholars, destroying data is like cutting down giant sequoia trees; it goes against all our instincts. For administrators, destroying data is like cleaning your house before a party so nobody can see what a slob you are; it accords with all their instincts. "

*"Without perspicaciousness, what good is perspicuity?"

*"Delight expressed is delight enhanced. That's why I do not restrain my chuckles of pleasure when I hear a speaker say something witty or surprising. (Also, because I know from experience that audience feedback helps.)"

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks" or "He was so mean he didn't need bug spray to repel ticks."

*"Loving someone is less often to encourage them to do what they desire to do than to desire what they ought to do."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"One of the blessings of having a father is that you can call him when you have a minor car crash. One of the blessings of being a father is that someone thinks you're worth calling, and they're right."

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==Ratzinger (Pope Benedict)==
*“A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music, and nature can be dangerous since blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental: they necessarily are reflected in his theology.” ~Ratzinger (April 16,
1927-December 31, 2022).

==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

::[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

::Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

::English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Will Rogers==
*It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rorty, Richard==
*"The contemporary cultural Left urges that America should not be a melting pot, because we need to respect one another in our differences. This Left wants to preserve otherness rather than ignore it." (From Achieving Our... (1997))

==Routledge, Clay==
*We are living in an era of woke capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Russell, Bertrand==
* “Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat. What he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.”
--[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/08/a-life-of-disagreement/641018/ A Life of Disagreement] television programs , half-hour conversation by BERTRAND RUSSELL with Romney Wheeler, filmed in London by the National Broadcasting Company and shown over the NBC network and BBC-TV on the occasion of Earl Russell’s eightieth birthday (1952).

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

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==Sabien, Duncan==
*"If you've spent your entire life being told you were wrong and being proven right (b/c you were smarter than the people around you), then when you run into another genius who tells you that you're wrong, you have a LOT of memetic antibodies that will make it easier-than-it-should-be to write them off or dismiss them."

==Sailer, Steve==
*"Steve Sailer ... losing the war of public opinion since 1990.

But the crazier the conventional wisdom gets, the more hilarious material I have to write about.

So at least there's that.

Too bad about society, though." ([https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1644853299387199489 Twitter, 2023])

*"When it comes to human behavior, there mostly aren’t systematic differences between what your lying eyes tell you and what The Science says. There’s a continuum between anecdote, anecdata, and data....

:If there’s a strong statistical pattern in the numbers, you should be able to come up with vivid real-life examples of it. And if you can think of several examples suggesting a pattern, you might well be able to find large-scale data for it.

:My main one weird trick for coming up with enough insights to make a living as an unfashionable pundit for 22 years has been to assume that private life facts and public life facts are one and the same. Most pundits assume public controversies, such as BLM, are of a higher realm than daily life, so that what they notice about “safe neighborhoods” and “good schools” when they are making real estate decisions for themselves couldn’t possibly have any relevance to the great issues of the day they discuss in the media." ([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I am told that we shouldn’t mention the truth because either:

:—The facts have no possible policy implications, or

:—The facts have overwhelmingly horrible policy implications, such as the logical necessity of reimposing slavery or instituting genocide.

:The former strikes me as obtuse and the latter as insane and/or evil.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*There’s no need for everybody to continue to pretend ever since the 1978 Bakke decision that exalted “diversity” as the excuse for violating the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection of the laws that affirmative action makes colleges more intellectually stimulating when obviously the opposite has proven true. Quotas have helped make colleges minefields of cancel culture by bringing onto campus insecure and resentful masses of racially preferred students out to punish anyone who alludes to the race gaps that are American society’s central fact. Instead, underqualified preference beneficiaries should be told to be thankful for their privilege.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I quoted this letter at length because it seems like such a vivid example of the mindset of the current day: reality is determined by words, that honest words threaten the marginalized with violence, and asking the marginalized to improve their behavior is unthinkable." ([https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyc-health-czar-takes-strong-action-against-monkeypox-demands-who-change-the-name-of-monkeypox-to-an-incomprehensible-string-of-characters/Column on renaming monkeypox], 2022)

*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*"How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

:The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

:Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general." [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*"The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world."

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Salisbury, Lord==
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury

*"Within certain limits of intelligence, honesty and knowledge of the law, one man would make as good a judge as another and a Tory mentality is ipso facto more trustworthy than a Liberal one."

*First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.
'Democracy on its Trial', Quarterly Review, vol. 110 (July & October 1861), p. 281

*The conflict between Socialism and existing civilisation must be a death-struggle. If the combat is once commenced, one or other of the combatants must perish. It is idle to plead that the schemes of these men are their religion. There are religions so hostile to morality, so poisonous to the life-springs of society, that they are outside the pale of human tolerance.
'The Commune and the Internationale', Quarterly Review, vol. 131 (July & October 1871), p. 562

*It was a part of a budget which even three months had proved to be a mass of miscalculation; it was the pet scheme of a cosmopolitan school who love England little, and whom England loves less, whose sympathies are half-American and half-French; and it was the first application of a theory of combined taxation and reform, according to which the poor were exclusively to fix the revenue which the rich were exclusively to pay.
‘The Conservative Reaction’, Quarterly Review, vol. 108 (July & October 1860), p. 276

*"Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed...The classes that represent civilisation, the holders of accumulated capital and accumulated thought have a right to require securities to protect them from being overwhelmed by hordes who have neither knowledge to guide them nor stake in the Commonwealth to control them."
'English Politics and Parties', Bentley's Quarterly Review, vol. I (March & July 1859), pp. 28-29

* In men of genius, as a rule, the imagination or the
passions are too strongly developed to suffer them
to reach the highest standard of practical states-
, manship. They follow some poetical ideal, they
are under the spell of some fascinating chapter of
past history, they are the slaves of some talismanic
phrase which their generation has taken up, or
they have made to themselves a system to which
all men and all circumstances must be bent. Something there almost always is that beguiles
them away from the plain, prosaic, business-like
view ofthe concerns of this prosaic world. Consequently the mass of mankind, who have a dull but
surefooted instinct of their own interest, feel an
uncomfortable misgiving when they see a genius at
the head oftheir affairs. They are aware that firstrate brilliancy cannot be had without something of
distortion ; but it is no consolation to them that the
illusions which are luring him on to ruin lend in
the mean time an exquisite charm to the eloquence
by which he induces them to accompany him on
the road. On the other hand, the clever world is
very intolerant of plain, practical statesmen. It
maintains, sometimes with very good reason, that
where the imagination is stunted, it is merely
because the whole mind is stunted too ; and that
the claim to practical common sense is often only
a euphemism for a narrow intelligence straitened
by an abject regard for precedents and for routine.
As a rule, both sides are right in the suspicions
they entertain. It is rare to meet with a fervid
imagination which is drilled to reserve its flights
for efforts of oratory, and to give place entirely to
more sober faculties in council. It is still rarer to
see an absolutely unimaginative mind possessed of
the energy and of the breadth of view indispensable
in the statesman of a troubled period. Both kinds
of excellence produce great and successful rulers,
where they occur ; and both are apt to meet, in
those around them, with incredulity that such combinations of opposite qualities can exist.

'Lord Castlereagh', Quarterly Review, vol. 111 (January & April 1862), p. 204 https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QafmXADIh0jnPZqj11iTfMIuIdFT-DZWwP1q0zQiA4yBrYcBXaRXhl4wAaaOcH-1ovmPhezfBeCx0TdkJoRN9AA_GFoAY4s2keT-CwZl1Ac4Hi372YcAOvsu39xIf9x-9EnByraZe58fXqGcaJXEPxzQgDRgCT4Tmx6dycMZDk2BYr8nEVHvroFVV0BBgbmci9-5NQXLe-_TADxWoaHFbQLTkZ_S6X7gooGS2WS2hjnVU9k8TJvQcgrZPgRvcxDa635thiwS18ib2JkrJsBzJpxawXgcLHhLf7Y6EZsBbphBqpbBMgw

==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Scalia, son==
[https://twitter.com/StuffForSisters/status/1581430850159542272 At Scalia's Funeral:]
"We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us—known only by reputation to even more. A man loved by many—scorned by others. A man known for great controversy & for great compassion. That man, of course, is Jesus of Nazareth."

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shakespeare, William==
*"Ten masts deep make not the altitude from which though has perpendicularly fell." King Lear, Edgar to Gloucester.

===Insults===
From Cultural Tutor on Twitter:
1) "Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon."
~Timon of Athens

2) "You, minion, are too saucy."
~The Two Gentleman of Verona

3) "Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat."
~Henry V

4) "The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril."
~The Merry Wives of Windsor

5) "Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows."
~Troilus and Cressida

10) "I’ll beat thee, but I would infect my hands."
~Timon of Athens

11) "More of your conversation would infect my brain."
~Coriolanus

12) "There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune."
~Henry IV, Part 1

14) "Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

18) "This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

23) "Some report a sea-maid spawn’d him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice."
~Measure for Measure

25) "Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood."
~King Lear

31) "Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant."
~The Taming of the Shrew

46) "A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition."
~King Lear

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
"Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king."
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==SMITH, ADAM==
*"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” (no source)

==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
*“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
*"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

*"The best obituary a man can have is that the people who knew him loved him, even if those who didn't know him hated him," ''Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays''

*“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice'.” The Quest for Cosmic Justice

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
*“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” In english: "To understand all is to forgive all." 
[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

*“Madame,” the general informed the lady in question, “I do not want women mixed up in politics.” “You are perfectly right,” came the reply, “but in a country where their heads are cut off, it is only natural for them to want to know why.” (Exchange between Napoleon Bonaparte and Madame de Staël, J. Christopher Herold’s ''The Mind of Napoleon''.)

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==st exuery==
Drawing on French aristocrat Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, philosopher Byung Chul Han noted that, while houses are homes in space, rituals are homes in time. Rituals are an assertion of continuity — you act as your ancestors acted before you. They shift the family from the moment into ‘eternal time’. https://www.theculturist.io/p/why-did-wealth-stop-building-beautiful?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2242126&post_id=179128916&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

==Sutton, Willy==
When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is."

== ==

==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==TACITUS==
*Omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset." 
“All would have agreed that he was capable of being emperor, if only he had never been it.” 
So wrote Tacitus of Galba.

==Taft, William==
*"The opportunity freely and publicly to criticize judicial action is of vastly more iportance to the body politic than the immunity of courts and judges from unjust aspersions and attack. Nothing tends more to render judges careful in their decisions and anxiously solicitous to do exact justice than the consciousness that every act of theirs is to be subjected to the intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their fellow-men. Such criticism is beneficial in proportion as it is fair, dispassionate, discriminating, and based on a knowledge of sound legal principles. The comments made by learned text writers and by the acute editors of the various law reviews upon judicial decisions are therefore highly useful. Such critics constitute more or less impartial tribunals of professional opinion before which each judgment is made to stand or fall on its merits, and thus exert a strong influence to secure uniformity of decision. But non-professional criticism also is by no means without its uses, even if accompanied, as it often is, by a direct attack upon the judicial fairness and motives of the occupants of the bench; for if the law is but the essence of common sense, the protest of many average men may evidence a defect in a judicial conclusion, though based on the nicest legal reasoning and profoundest learning. The two important elements of moral character in a judge are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it. In so far as fear of public comment does not affect the courage of a judge, but only spurs him on to search his conscience and to reach the result which approves itself to his inmost heart such comment serves a useful purpose. There are few men, whether they are judges for life or for a shorter term, who do not prefer to earn and hold the respect of all, and who can not be reached and made to pause and deliberate by hostile public criticism. In the case of judges having a life tenure, indeed their very independence makes the right freely to comment on their decisions of greater importance, because it is the only practical and available instrument in the hands of a free people to keep such judges alive to the reasonable demands of those they serve." (1895) As [http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/state-of-the-union-1906.php cited by Pres. Roosevelt] in 1906.

==Tate, Jeremy==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted at 9:15 AM on Sun, Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

==Taylor, Charles==
*As reported [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/04/westafrica.qanda by The Guardian]: "He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him." Running successfully for President of Liberia.

==Teller, Edward==
*"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
*Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

* His election rerunning announcement speech:
Michael Tracey@mtracey·14hSorry to break it to you, but Trump was spot-on with this one: “They say the ocean will rise 1/8 of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years, but don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries with one shot. Something is wrong with their thinking.”

:This is an example of how he exaggerates in the hope that someone will correct him and make his point for him (1/8 inch corrected to 2 inches, still tiny).

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*"Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain, message to Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 1901.

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

*"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 

Often quoted in W. H. Auden's translation,‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’, but the French is so easy, an Anglophone might as well use the original phrase. See also "Le code n'est jamais fini, seulement termine." 

Valery didn't actually say this, though it is what is commonly quoted in France. Pierre Vinclair tells us about that in [https://poezibao.typepad.com/files/ashbery-9.pdf «Portrait d’une énigme dans un miroir convexe», "9. et fin. Clack"], [https://www.poesibao.fr/ ''Poezibao'']
[https://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2020/11/feuilleton-critique-portrait-dune-%C3%A9nigme-dans-un-miroir-convexe-9-et-fin-clack-par-pierre-vinclair.html archive] (2020):

"Et l’on connaît la célèbre formule de Valéry : « un poème n’est jamais fini, seulement abandonné ». Dicton apocryphe, qui trouve sans doute son origine dans cette page de «Littérature»:

::Une œuvre dont l’achèvement — le jugement qui la déclare achevée, est uniquement subordonné à la condition qu’elle nous plaise — n’est jamais achevée. […]
:: Un poème n’est jamais achevé — c’est toujours un accident qui le termine, c’est-àdire qui le donne au public.
::Ce sont la lassitude, la demande de l’éditeur, — la poussée d’un autre poème.
::Mais jamais l’état même de l’ouvrage (si l’auteur n’est pas un sot) ne montre qu’il ne pourrait être poussé, changé, considéré comme première approximation, ou origine d’une recherche nouvelle.
::Je conçois, quant à moi, que le même sujet et presque les mêmes mots pourraient être repris indéfiniment et occuper toute une vie.
::« Perfection »
::c’est travail. 

Notre premier bumper soit donc Paul Valéry, selon qui l’œuvre ne s’achève jamais
(car la perfection qu’elle cherche est asymptotique) : seul un accident extérieur peut
l’interrompre. Or, des trois causes qu’il nomme — lassitude, demande de l’éditeur,
poussée d’un autre poème — aucune ne ressemble au tarissement dont parle
Ashbery. C’est sans doute que, pour celui-ci, le poème n’est pas l’objet d’un travail
infini visant la perfection, la confection maniaque d’une œuvre aussi proche que
possible de l’idéal."

Paul Valéry, «Littérature» in Tel Quel, Gallimard, 1941, p. 154. "

==Vaughan, Sarah==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html Easy Street]

==Von Neumann, John==
*“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You get used to them.”

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== ==

==Wang, John==
@johnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Watson, Thomas==
* After talking about the Prodigal Son: “Before a man can come to Christ he must first come to himself. . . . A man must first recognize and consider what his sin is, and know the plague of his heart, before he can be duly humbled for it.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

*“Affliction is but corrective; sin is destructive” ''The Doctrine of Repentance.'' (1668).

*“Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

==Watt, Peter==
*"Judy Holliday said. "Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''. In Hunter Biden's case it seems that nothing he does will ever be printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

==Wilde, Oscar==
*"Algernon: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” 
:Jack: “Is that clever?” 
:Algernon: “It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be.” " 
::(from ''The Importance of Being Earnest'')

===[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phrases_and_Philosophies_for_the_Use_of_the_Young "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young"], ''Chameleon'' magazine, (1894)===

*Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.

*A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

*If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

*It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

*Only the shallow know themselves.

*One should always be a little improbable.

*The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

*One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

*The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

==Will, George==
"The ancients had asked, What is the highest attainment of which mankind is capable and how can we pursue this? Hobbes and subsequent moderns asked, What is the worst that can happen and how can we avoid it?" (TCS, p 19)

==Williams, Robin==
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”

==Wolfe, Humbert==
[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-british-journalist-by-humbert-wolfe-f9r6pb9hb07 The London Times]:

. 
You cannot ever bribe or twist 
The freeborn British journalist 
Seeing what, unbribed, he’ll do 
You realize there’s no reason to

==Warhol, Andrew==
*“The President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”

— Andy Warhol, 1975,

== ==
==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zeto, Salena==
*<> [https://www.thefp.com/p/my-decade-with-donald-trump-salena-zito?utm_campaign=email-post&r=fjeib&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "My Decade with Donald Trump,"] Salena Zito, ''The Free Press'' (2025), linking to her article, [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-makes-his-case-in-pittsburgh/501335/ "Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally",] ''The Atlantic'' (2016).

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

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*[https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-scourge-of-lame-news "The scourge of ‘lame news’Journalists as narrative curators."]
Ed West, Substack (2026).

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*[https://www.stevesailer.net/p/are-men-smarter-than-women?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1225250&post_id=190674009&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email "Are Men Smarter than Women?"] Steve Sailer (2026).

*[https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-state-of-canada?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=841240&post_id=189387470&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email "The State of Canada,"] JOhn Carter (2026).

*[["Here's What Conservative Institutional Capture Looks Like,"https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/capturing-institutions?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=25676&post_id=140737856&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true|"Here's What Conservative Institutional Capture Looks Like,"]] Aaron Renn (2024).

*[https://christopherrufo.com/p/viktor-orbans-culture-war?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1248321&post_id=135634069&isFreemail=false&triedRedirect=true "Orbán's War: A dispatch from the Hungarian capital,"] Christoph Rufo (2023).

Best Articles Read in 2026

2026-03-17T12:09:10Z

Eric Rasmusen:

*[https://www.razibkhan.com/p/when-slavs-rush-in-the-fall-of-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=94899&post_id=139854306&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true "When Slavs Rush in"] (2026)
:::The Illyrian city of Sirmium, one of the four capitals of the Empire in the late third century Tetrarchy and birthplace of ten Roman Emperors, is today the modest and obscure Serbian town of Sremska Mitrovica, population 74,000.

*[https://www.stevesailer.net/p/are-men-smarter-than-women?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1225250&post_id=190674009&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email "Are Men Smarter than Women?"] Steve Sailer (2026).

*[https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-state-of-canada?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=841240&post_id=189387470&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email "The State of Canada,"] JOhn Carter (2026).

*[["Here's What Conservative Institutional Capture Looks Like,"https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/capturing-institutions?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=25676&post_id=140737856&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true|"Here's What Conservative Institutional Capture Looks Like,"]] Aaron Renn (2024).

*[https://christopherrufo.com/p/viktor-orbans-culture-war?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1248321&post_id=135634069&isFreemail=false&triedRedirect=true "Orbán's War: A dispatch from the Hungarian capital,"] Christoph Rufo (2023).

Movies

2026-03-12T00:30:30Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* Movies to Watch */

==Movies Seen==
*''The Surprising World of Cold Cuts'', History Channel, very good.

*''The Imitation Game'', about Alan Turing. Quite false to history, but pretty good.

*Korean dramas Anna and Stranger. Modern dramas, not historical, but still good. Anna (2022) is about a girl who pretends to be a rich girl she meets; Stranger about prosecutors fighting corruption. Both are gripping.

*''Kung Fu Hustle'' (2005). A comedy about a slum tenement warring against the Ax Gang. Pretty good. Cartoonish, which helps with the violence a lot-- sort of Road Runner style. Could be watched twice or more.

*''The Great Gatsby'' movie with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow (1974). Faithful to the book.

*''Hum Do Hamare Do'' (''Two of Us, Two of Ours'') (2021). A sentimental, Hindi comedy with a predictable ending. An orphan software guy needs to come up with temporary parents.

*''Toy Story II'' (1999). Okay, but not up to the standard of ''Toy Story I.''

==Movies to Watch==
* La Cage AUx Folles II and III, III is The Wedding

*[https://movieweb.com/quintessential-french-comedy-films/#la-grande-vadrouille-the-great-stroll-1966 French mvoes]

*Othello, the one with Kenneth Branagh. 3.99 Aaon Rprime

*Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra.. Tubi free

*Wild, Wild, Punjab Netflix sub.

e Dîner de Cons / The Dinner Game (1998)vYout Tube subscription 
La Grande Vadrouille / The Great Stroll (1966) WW2 
a Folie des Grandeurs / Delusions of Grandeur (1971) 1600s Spain. 
Bienvenue ches les Ch'tis / Welcome to the Sticks (2008) Fandango 
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob / The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973) Roku, Tubi Flex 
Mon Oncle / My Uncle (1958)Nothing 
Le Prénom / What’s in a Name? (2012) Tubi Fandango

*Films as good as or better than the novels, ranked here according to the brilliance of the FILM: 
1''. How Green Was My Valley 
2. To Kill a Mockingbird 
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai 
4. ''Doctor Zhivago'' 
5. ''Billy Budd'' 
6. Barabbas 
7. Great Expectations 
8. A Room With a View 
9. The Good Earth 
10. The Yearling''

*''Tiger and Crane.'' "In the show, Tiangang Hall’s function is to train demon hunters, and it proudly proclaims how righteous it is. It is governed by copious rules, and a Byzantine bureaucracy, all in the further pursuit of the righteous slaying of demons. Without spoiling too much, some of the protagonists begin to suspect that one of the senior figures is, in fact, a demon in disguise. The protagonists have five days to find out the truth."

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30j0jnk549I The Kid], silent, with Charlie Chaplin.

*[https://x.com/megbasham/status/1931922706892534046 TV sows Meg Bashms followers recommends:] ''The Gentleman from Moscow, FROM. Dark, Ballykissangel; Monarch of the Glen. Patriot. Department Q. Ludwig. Vikings. A Hostile Takeover'' (church show)

*''Sweeney TOdd.''

*"There’s this fantastic scene in '''Mephisto,''' the film, about an actor who remains in aggrandized Nazi Germany, greater Germany under the Nazis. He goes on stage and the Nazis rule there, so there are swastikas on the curtains and other indications of the Nazi regime. Someone asks him — this is Klaus Maria Brandauer, the actor who plays the part, just a fantastic film — someone says, “How come you’re doing this, and how come you didn’t leave?”

*''Conspiracy''

*''A Fistful of Dollars''

*Yojimbo

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dil_Se.. Dil Se] famous song.

*The Piano Man

*The Roommate."When college freshman Sara arrives on campus for the first time, she befriends her roommate, Rebecca, unaware that the girl is becoming dangerously obsessed with her."

* In the 1996 film ''Big Night'', culinary genius Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and his ambitious and
entrepreneurial maître d’hotel brother Secondo (Stanley Tucci) are Italian immigrant brothers
who arrive in the U.S. in the 1950s and open a restaurant called Paradise on the New Jersey
shore. Despite serving brilliant and impeccably prepared dishes, the restaurant is out-competed
by its enormously successful neighbor, Pascal’s, which caters to the unsophisticated palates of
the locals by serving massive portions of mediocre food.112 Among the most amusing vignettes
in the film are the constant efforts by Secondo to induce his perfectionist brother to cater to the
unrefined culinary tastes of the boors of the local population.

*''The Blue Max'' and ''Paths of Glory'' nad the 1930 and 1979 ''All Quiet on the Wstern Front'' are recommnded wwI movies.

*''The Zone of Interest'' is what you don’t see: the Jews, the harsh labor, the gas chambers. director Jonathan Glazer parachutes us into the bucolic world adjacent to the world of Auschwitz-Birkenau: the villa inhabited by commandant Rudolf Höss; his wife, Hedwig; and their five children. They’re an upper-middle-class German family doing ordinary things—eating dinner, going to school, going to bed, having a drink—while an extraordinary evil is perpetrated next door.

*''Days of WIne and Roses''

* ''American Fiction'' the story of a hyperintellectual black writer, played by Jeffrey Wright, whose books sell poorly since he doesn’t fit the white liberal view of what a black writer should be. His books are categorized in bookstores as “black writing,” even though the topics aren’t particularly “black” at all,

*"Compared to other historical K-dramas, '''Moon Embracing the Sun''' does a stunning job at making sure that the costumes, set, and even cinematography truly reflect the time period it's in. The story also flowed flawlessly and didn't cause viewers to get bored and tired of its narrative." https://screenrant.com/best-k-dramas-historical-period-piece-ranked/#love-in-the-moonlight-2016

*"The 2015 historical K-drama and medieval TV show, '''Six Flying Dragons''' is seen as a loose prequel to the 2011 drama, Deep Rooted Tree. This is due to the storyline focused on real fictional characters and their foundations in the rise of the Joseon Dynasty. That being said, Six Flying Dragons exceeded its predecessor in terms of its critical acclaim." Ben saw this, I think.

*'''Love in the Moonlight,''' "a scholar named Hong Ra-On gives men dating advice by posing as a eunuch. Eventually, she meets the crown prince who soon gets invested in her."

*''Double Indemnity''

*''The Best Years of Our Lives'' SEE

*''Witness for the Prosecution'' SEE

*[https://movieweb.com/quintessential-french-comedy-films/#la-grande-vadrouille-the-great-stroll-1966 Quintissential French Comedy Films] list, well described.

*[https://www.takimag.com/article/are-we-what-we-watch/ Steve Sailer on the psychology article on the Big 5 Personality Traits and what movies people like], a very good article in ''Taki'''s (2020). Based on "We Are What We Watch: Movie Plots Predict the Personalities of Those who “Like” Them," Gideon Nave, Marketing Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Jason Rentfrow,Social & Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge, and Sudeep Bhatia. See Supplementary Table 1.

* ''Birth of a Nation (''1915).

*Great old 1946 movie ("''The Stranger''", Orson Welles & Edgar G Robinson)

*https://oldmovietime.com/ and the [https://oldmovietime.com/spellbound.htm better Oldmovietime.com site]

* 1947 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_(1947_film) ''New Orleans'', w]ith BIlly Holiday and Louis Armstrong.

*Leonard Bernstein's classic music TV series.

*''Kiss Me Kate''(not on Amazon Prime)

*''Bowfinger King OF Hollywood,'' Steve Martin, eddi Murphy around 9199. (not on Amazon Prime) BOUGHT

* Stnaely Tucci on Italy travel TV show.

*''Crimes of Grundelwald'' looks pretty good. (not on Amazon Prime)
* Polyanna book and the Hallmark movie, not the Disney one.(not on Amazon Prime)

*''The Dam BUsters''
*''Downfall'' (about HItler's last 10 days) and The Last Days of Hitler (Alec Guiness) and The Bunker (Anthony Hopkins) and Valkyrie (assassination plot).

*''Hacksaw Ridge''
*''All QUite on the Western Fron t''(1930)

===To Watch with the Kids===
*''Doctor Strangelove''

*''Free Burma Rangers'', Patrick Scott recommended.

*''2001: A Space Odyssey''

*Cixin Liu’s science fiction masterpiece The Three Body Problem— , the 30-episode Chinese series (available free with Amazon Prime as ''Three Body'') . SAW It's OK. We watchd part of it.
*BIll Murray ''Scrooged'' SAW Not worth rewatching.
*The Death of Stalin. SAW. OK, not as good as hyped by Ted.

*The world at War 1973 documentary Lawrence Olivier

*"Meet me in St. Louis." The 1944 Judy Garland film is a romantic musical comedy that focuses on four sisters, and it's rarely met a disapproving critic with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.

*''"A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas"''

*''Chrstimas with the Kranks.''

*''T34'' See that. With Ben. On You-TUbe, with ads.

* 1941 Bill murray JohN Belushi comedy.

* ''The Munsters.''

*''The Duellists'' (1978) follows two rival French officers through the Napoleonic Wars. A minor insult sets off a decades-long series of duels between the men, neither willing to abandoned his honor.

*''Excalibur'' (1981) condenses several Arthurian legends into a single spectacular epic. One of the most hypnotic and visionary films of all time.

*''The Lady Eve'' (1941) an extremely funny romantic comedy about a beautiful card shark trying to seduce a bumbling millionaire.

*''Russian Ark'' (2002) follows a ghost and his long-dead aristocrat companion through the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, bouncing through several hundred years of shared history and culture. Innovative and beautiful; shot in a single take

*''Брат (Brother)'' follows a recently-discharged Russian conscript as he moves to the big city in Yeltsin-era Russia to follow his hitman brother.Брат 2 (2000) picks up immediately where the first film left off, with the conscript and his brother embarking on a twisted adventure to the South Side of Chicago.

*''Hail the Conquering Hero'' (1944) is about a good-hearted dockworker unable to fight in WW2 due to hayfever, but too ashamed to go home. He is befriended by a squad of recently-returned Marines, whose scheme to return him to his family without losing face quickly snowballs.

*''Unknown Soldier'' (2017) tells the largely-ignored story of the Continuation War, a massive conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1941-1944. Probably the most realistic depiction of WW2 era infantry combat ever filmed.

*''In the Line of Fire'' (1993) is a thriller in which Clint Eastwood faces off against John Malkovich.
Eastwood plays the sole remaining agent from JFK's secret-service detail. He's tasked with stopping an ex-CIA agent from killing the President.

*''The Counselor'' (2013) was Cormac McCarthy's first ever work for the screen.
It was universally panned by critics. I liked it so much I bought the screenplay.
One must judge the movie on its own terms, rather than expecting "No Country for Old Men 2." It is profound.

*A Fistful of Dollars and Yojimbo, from which it was copied.

*''Maverick'' (1994) is a cocky western comedy starring Mel Gibson as a fast-talking and cowardly gambler trying to scrape together enough money to enter a once-in-a-lifetime poker tournament. SAW. Pretty bad. Not worth watching.
*1962 version.(not on Amazon Prime)

==Documentaries==
=== The Battle of the Somme===
Official documentary. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BlbdNq1UCE On You-Tube].

==Bollywood Movies==
===Wild, Wild, Punjab===
===Bajirao Mastani===
Great Maga King Dance, about a Marathi warrior king. (not on Amazon Prime)

==Citizen Kane==
[https://screenrant.com/citizen-kane-best-movie-all-time-why/ "Why Citizen Kane Is Called The Greatest Movie Ever Made"] (2022), a good article.

==Life is Beautiful==
A movie about a father making life better for his child in a Nazi camp. Recommended by friends.

==Our Man in Havana==
A 1959 British spy comedy film shot in CinemaScope, directed and produced by Carol Reed, and starring Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noël Coward and Ernie Kovacs.[2][3][4] The film is adapted from the 1958 novel Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. (not on Amazon Prime). On You-Tube.

==The Goodies==
(not on Amazon Prime) Available on You-Tube.

==Greyhound==
Forester's THe Good Shepherd put on film. BilL Reilly highly recommends (the tax guy). (not on Amazon Prime)

==Kampf um Rom==
"A 1964 German epic, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampf_um_Rom Kampf Um Rom,] complete with Narses as a dwarf, Justinian played by Orson Welles, stock scenes of Byzantine decadence, and Goths in black leather."(not on Amazon Prime) Not on You-tube with subtitles in English.

==Kurosawa==
{{Quotation| Several prominent directors of Samurai films and Westerns in the 1950s and 60s shared a mutual admiration and openly made their art with direct reference to one another. In Akira Kurosawa’s brilliant movie Yojimbo, for instance, a masterless samurai played by the sublime Toshiro Mifune is standing at a crossroads and throws a stick up in the air to “decide” which direction to go. The scene is a direct reference to the John Ford film Young Mr. Lincoln, in which Ford’s version of the American president does the exact same thing. The Western remake of Kurosawa’s classic The Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven. In fact, the mutual “admiration” between purveyors of the two genres became so intimate that Kurosawa was forced to sue Sergio Leone over the movie A Fistful of Dollars, which was clearly a plagiarized version of Yojimbo by Leone. }} --[https://lawliberty.org/the-embarrassing-eleven/ https://lawliberty.org/the-embarrassing-eleven/], 2020

==Created Equal (Clarence Thomas documentary)==
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10256238/ Created Equal,] the Clarence Thomas documentary by Mr. Pack, is extremely good. Very simple, low budget. The family went over to Bob's House to watch it with him.

==Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)==
#2 - Godzilla vs Destoroyah (second best Godzilla movie)
"It’s impossible to decide what’s most memorable about this final film of the Heisei era. Is it Godzilla’s stunning new “Burning Godzilla” appearance? Could it be the many clever callbacks and references to the original 1954 film? Or maybe it’s the ghastly design of Destoroyah, one of Big G’s all-time scariest opponents? Or perhaps it’s the fact that Godzilla Jr. finally emerges as a decent character? The truth is, it’s all of those things, plus so much more. But what makes this existential epic truly worthy of classic status is its profoundly emotional ending. For the first time in history, you’ll find yourself sobbing in a Godzilla movie as the final credits roll. Compassionately directed by Takao Okawara, “Godzilla vs. Destoroyah” elevates the kaiju genre to the level of Greek tragedy."https://variety.com/lists/godzilla-movies-ranked/godzilla-final-wars-2004/?cx_testId=48&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=3#cxrecs_s

==Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)==
"Here’s a valuable tip for you. Never, under any circumstances, trust a race of sunglass-wearing aliens from Planet X when they arrive on Earth asking to “borrow” Godzilla and Rodan for a little while. One of the all-time craziest sci-fi themed entries in the franchise, this sixth Godzilla movie has a lot going for it, especially the welcome presence of American actor Nick Adams, playing a cocky astronaut who shows the pleather-clad extraterrestrials who’s boss. Adams was no stranger to kaiju movies, having costarred in Toho’s giant monster pic “Frankenstein Conquers the World” shortly before appearing in “Invasion of Astro-Monster.”"

https://variety.com/lists/godzilla-movies-ranked/godzilla-final-wars-2004/?cx_testId=48&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=3#cxrecs_s\

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==Jab We Met (2006) Bollywood (not on Amazon Prime) ==
Very good.

==The Last Man==
"Let's do a film recommendation. F.W. Murnau's 1924 film Der Letzte Mann - which means The Last Man (this side of Twitter's ears perk up), but for whatever reason is called Last Laugh in English. Hitchcock called it a "perfect film."" Silent movie. Emil Janning.

==The Lives of Others==
its depiction of East German speech codes and surveillance state, is probably the most relevant movie around today. Very very good.

== Return to Mayberry==
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091846/?ref_=nmbio_mbio Return to Mayberry], TV Movie(1986).1h 35m

But see The Andy Griffith Show Reunion: Back to Mayberry on YouTube-- interivew ith 4 big people.
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==The Producers==
(not on Amazon Prime)(not on You-Tube)

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==AlphaGo: The Movie==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=WXuK6gekU1Y AlphaGo] is a You-Tube documentary about Go.

==State Funeral==
Netherlands, Lithuania, 2019
Documentary, History
155 minutes
Russian
On Stalin's funeral. (not on Amazon Prime) (not on You-Tube)

==Fauci Unmasked, ==
@michaeljknowles
documentary series Fauci Unmasked, (not on You-Tube)
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==Winifried Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975==
In 1975 Syberberg released 'Winifried Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975' - a documentary about Winifred Wagner, wife of Richard Wagner's son Siegfried. (not on You-Tube)

Movies

2026-03-12T00:26:45Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* Movies to Watch */

==Movies Seen==
*''The Surprising World of Cold Cuts'', History Channel, very good.

*''The Imitation Game'', about Alan Turing. Quite false to history, but pretty good.

*Korean dramas Anna and Stranger. Modern dramas, not historical, but still good. Anna (2022) is about a girl who pretends to be a rich girl she meets; Stranger about prosecutors fighting corruption. Both are gripping.

*''Kung Fu Hustle'' (2005). A comedy about a slum tenement warring against the Ax Gang. Pretty good. Cartoonish, which helps with the violence a lot-- sort of Road Runner style. Could be watched twice or more.

*''The Great Gatsby'' movie with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow (1974). Faithful to the book.

*''Hum Do Hamare Do'' (''Two of Us, Two of Ours'') (2021). A sentimental, Hindi comedy with a predictable ending. An orphan software guy needs to come up with temporary parents.

*''Toy Story II'' (1999). Okay, but not up to the standard of ''Toy Story I.''

==Movies to Watch==
* La Cage AUx Folles II and III, III is The Wedding

*[https://movieweb.com/quintessential-french-comedy-films/#la-grande-vadrouille-the-great-stroll-1966 French mvoes]

*Othello, the one with Kenneth Branagh. 3.99 Aaon Rprime

*Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra.. Tubi free

*Wild, Wild, Punjab Netflix sub.

e Dîner de Cons / The Dinner Game (1998)vYout Tube subscription
La Grande Vadrouille / The Great Stroll (1966) WW2
a Folie des Grandeurs / Delusions of Grandeur (1971) 1600s Spain.
Bienvenue ches les Ch'tis / Welcome to the Sticks (2008)Netflix
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob / The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973) Amazon Netflix
Mon Oncle / My Uncle (1958)Netflix
Le Prénom / What’s in a Name? (2012)Netflix

*Films as good as or better than the novels, ranked here according to the brilliance of the FILM:
1''. How Green Was My Valley
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai
4. ''Doctor Zhivago''
5. ''Billy Budd''
6. Barabbas
7. Great Expectations
8. A Room With a View
9. The Good Earth
10. The Yearling''

*''Tiger and Crane.'' "In the show, Tiangang Hall’s function is to train demon hunters, and it proudly proclaims how righteous it is. It is governed by copious rules, and a Byzantine bureaucracy, all in the further pursuit of the righteous slaying of demons. Without spoiling too much, some of the protagonists begin to suspect that one of the senior figures is, in fact, a demon in disguise. The protagonists have five days to find out the truth."

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30j0jnk549I The Kid], silent, with Charlie Chaplin.

*[https://x.com/megbasham/status/1931922706892534046 TV sows Meg Bashms followers recommends:] ''The Gentleman from Moscow, FROM. Dark, Ballykissangel; Monarch of the Glen. Patriot. Department Q. Ludwig. Vikings. A Hostile Takeover'' (church show)

*''Sweeney TOdd.''

*"There’s this fantastic scene in '''Mephisto,''' the film, about an actor who remains in aggrandized Nazi Germany, greater Germany under the Nazis. He goes on stage and the Nazis rule there, so there are swastikas on the curtains and other indications of the Nazi regime. Someone asks him — this is Klaus Maria Brandauer, the actor who plays the part, just a fantastic film — someone says, “How come you’re doing this, and how come you didn’t leave?”

*''Conspiracy''

*''A Fistful of Dollars''

*Yojimbo

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dil_Se.. Dil Se] famous song.

*The Piano Man

*The Roommate."When college freshman Sara arrives on campus for the first time, she befriends her roommate, Rebecca, unaware that the girl is becoming dangerously obsessed with her."

* In the 1996 film ''Big Night'', culinary genius Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and his ambitious and
entrepreneurial maître d’hotel brother Secondo (Stanley Tucci) are Italian immigrant brothers
who arrive in the U.S. in the 1950s and open a restaurant called Paradise on the New Jersey
shore. Despite serving brilliant and impeccably prepared dishes, the restaurant is out-competed
by its enormously successful neighbor, Pascal’s, which caters to the unsophisticated palates of
the locals by serving massive portions of mediocre food.112 Among the most amusing vignettes
in the film are the constant efforts by Secondo to induce his perfectionist brother to cater to the
unrefined culinary tastes of the boors of the local population.

*''The Blue Max'' and ''Paths of Glory'' nad the 1930 and 1979 ''All Quiet on the Wstern Front'' are recommnded wwI movies.

*''The Zone of Interest'' is what you don’t see: the Jews, the harsh labor, the gas chambers. director Jonathan Glazer parachutes us into the bucolic world adjacent to the world of Auschwitz-Birkenau: the villa inhabited by commandant Rudolf Höss; his wife, Hedwig; and their five children. They’re an upper-middle-class German family doing ordinary things—eating dinner, going to school, going to bed, having a drink—while an extraordinary evil is perpetrated next door.

*''Days of WIne and Roses''

* ''American Fiction'' the story of a hyperintellectual black writer, played by Jeffrey Wright, whose books sell poorly since he doesn’t fit the white liberal view of what a black writer should be. His books are categorized in bookstores as “black writing,” even though the topics aren’t particularly “black” at all,

*"Compared to other historical K-dramas, '''Moon Embracing the Sun''' does a stunning job at making sure that the costumes, set, and even cinematography truly reflect the time period it's in. The story also flowed flawlessly and didn't cause viewers to get bored and tired of its narrative." https://screenrant.com/best-k-dramas-historical-period-piece-ranked/#love-in-the-moonlight-2016

*"The 2015 historical K-drama and medieval TV show, '''Six Flying Dragons''' is seen as a loose prequel to the 2011 drama, Deep Rooted Tree. This is due to the storyline focused on real fictional characters and their foundations in the rise of the Joseon Dynasty. That being said, Six Flying Dragons exceeded its predecessor in terms of its critical acclaim." Ben saw this, I think.

*'''Love in the Moonlight,''' "a scholar named Hong Ra-On gives men dating advice by posing as a eunuch. Eventually, she meets the crown prince who soon gets invested in her."

*''Double Indemnity''

*''The Best Years of Our Lives'' SEE

*''Witness for the Prosecution'' SEE

*[https://movieweb.com/quintessential-french-comedy-films/#la-grande-vadrouille-the-great-stroll-1966 Quintissential French Comedy Films] list, well described.

*[https://www.takimag.com/article/are-we-what-we-watch/ Steve Sailer on the psychology article on the Big 5 Personality Traits and what movies people like], a very good article in ''Taki'''s (2020). Based on "We Are What We Watch: Movie Plots Predict the Personalities of Those who “Like” Them," Gideon Nave, Marketing Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Jason Rentfrow,Social & Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge, and Sudeep Bhatia. See Supplementary Table 1.

* ''Birth of a Nation (''1915).

*Great old 1946 movie ("''The Stranger''", Orson Welles & Edgar G Robinson)

*https://oldmovietime.com/ and the [https://oldmovietime.com/spellbound.htm better Oldmovietime.com site]

* 1947 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_(1947_film) ''New Orleans'', w]ith BIlly Holiday and Louis Armstrong.

*Leonard Bernstein's classic music TV series.

*''Kiss Me Kate''(not on Amazon Prime)

*''Bowfinger King OF Hollywood,'' Steve Martin, eddi Murphy around 9199. (not on Amazon Prime) BOUGHT

* Stnaely Tucci on Italy travel TV show.

*''Crimes of Grundelwald'' looks pretty good. (not on Amazon Prime)
* Polyanna book and the Hallmark movie, not the Disney one.(not on Amazon Prime)

*''The Dam BUsters''
*''Downfall'' (about HItler's last 10 days) and The Last Days of Hitler (Alec Guiness) and The Bunker (Anthony Hopkins) and Valkyrie (assassination plot).

*''Hacksaw Ridge''
*''All QUite on the Western Fron t''(1930)

===To Watch with the Kids===
*''Doctor Strangelove''

*''Free Burma Rangers'', Patrick Scott recommended.

*''2001: A Space Odyssey''

*Cixin Liu’s science fiction masterpiece The Three Body Problem— , the 30-episode Chinese series (available free with Amazon Prime as ''Three Body'') . SAW It's OK. We watchd part of it.
*BIll Murray ''Scrooged'' SAW Not worth rewatching.
*The Death of Stalin. SAW. OK, not as good as hyped by Ted.

*The world at War 1973 documentary Lawrence Olivier

*"Meet me in St. Louis." The 1944 Judy Garland film is a romantic musical comedy that focuses on four sisters, and it's rarely met a disapproving critic with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.

*''"A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas"''

*''Chrstimas with the Kranks.''

*''T34'' See that. With Ben. On You-TUbe, with ads.

* 1941 Bill murray JohN Belushi comedy.

* ''The Munsters.''

*''The Duellists'' (1978) follows two rival French officers through the Napoleonic Wars. A minor insult sets off a decades-long series of duels between the men, neither willing to abandoned his honor.

*''Excalibur'' (1981) condenses several Arthurian legends into a single spectacular epic. One of the most hypnotic and visionary films of all time.

*''The Lady Eve'' (1941) an extremely funny romantic comedy about a beautiful card shark trying to seduce a bumbling millionaire.

*''Russian Ark'' (2002) follows a ghost and his long-dead aristocrat companion through the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, bouncing through several hundred years of shared history and culture. Innovative and beautiful; shot in a single take

*''Брат (Brother)'' follows a recently-discharged Russian conscript as he moves to the big city in Yeltsin-era Russia to follow his hitman brother.Брат 2 (2000) picks up immediately where the first film left off, with the conscript and his brother embarking on a twisted adventure to the South Side of Chicago.

*''Hail the Conquering Hero'' (1944) is about a good-hearted dockworker unable to fight in WW2 due to hayfever, but too ashamed to go home. He is befriended by a squad of recently-returned Marines, whose scheme to return him to his family without losing face quickly snowballs.

*''Unknown Soldier'' (2017) tells the largely-ignored story of the Continuation War, a massive conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1941-1944. Probably the most realistic depiction of WW2 era infantry combat ever filmed.

*''In the Line of Fire'' (1993) is a thriller in which Clint Eastwood faces off against John Malkovich.
Eastwood plays the sole remaining agent from JFK's secret-service detail. He's tasked with stopping an ex-CIA agent from killing the President.

*''The Counselor'' (2013) was Cormac McCarthy's first ever work for the screen.
It was universally panned by critics. I liked it so much I bought the screenplay.
One must judge the movie on its own terms, rather than expecting "No Country for Old Men 2." It is profound.

*A Fistful of Dollars and Yojimbo, from which it was copied.

*''Maverick'' (1994) is a cocky western comedy starring Mel Gibson as a fast-talking and cowardly gambler trying to scrape together enough money to enter a once-in-a-lifetime poker tournament. SAW. Pretty bad. Not worth watching.
*1962 version.(not on Amazon Prime)

==Documentaries==
=== The Battle of the Somme===
Official documentary. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BlbdNq1UCE On You-Tube].

==Bollywood Movies==
===Wild, Wild, Punjab===
===Bajirao Mastani===
Great Maga King Dance, about a Marathi warrior king. (not on Amazon Prime)

==Citizen Kane==
[https://screenrant.com/citizen-kane-best-movie-all-time-why/ "Why Citizen Kane Is Called The Greatest Movie Ever Made"] (2022), a good article.

==Life is Beautiful==
A movie about a father making life better for his child in a Nazi camp. Recommended by friends.

==Our Man in Havana==
A 1959 British spy comedy film shot in CinemaScope, directed and produced by Carol Reed, and starring Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noël Coward and Ernie Kovacs.[2][3][4] The film is adapted from the 1958 novel Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. (not on Amazon Prime). On You-Tube.

==The Goodies==
(not on Amazon Prime) Available on You-Tube.

==Greyhound==
Forester's THe Good Shepherd put on film. BilL Reilly highly recommends (the tax guy). (not on Amazon Prime)

==Kampf um Rom==
"A 1964 German epic, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampf_um_Rom Kampf Um Rom,] complete with Narses as a dwarf, Justinian played by Orson Welles, stock scenes of Byzantine decadence, and Goths in black leather."(not on Amazon Prime) Not on You-tube with subtitles in English.

==Kurosawa==
{{Quotation| Several prominent directors of Samurai films and Westerns in the 1950s and 60s shared a mutual admiration and openly made their art with direct reference to one another. In Akira Kurosawa’s brilliant movie Yojimbo, for instance, a masterless samurai played by the sublime Toshiro Mifune is standing at a crossroads and throws a stick up in the air to “decide” which direction to go. The scene is a direct reference to the John Ford film Young Mr. Lincoln, in which Ford’s version of the American president does the exact same thing. The Western remake of Kurosawa’s classic The Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven. In fact, the mutual “admiration” between purveyors of the two genres became so intimate that Kurosawa was forced to sue Sergio Leone over the movie A Fistful of Dollars, which was clearly a plagiarized version of Yojimbo by Leone. }} --[https://lawliberty.org/the-embarrassing-eleven/ https://lawliberty.org/the-embarrassing-eleven/], 2020

==Created Equal (Clarence Thomas documentary)==
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10256238/ Created Equal,] the Clarence Thomas documentary by Mr. Pack, is extremely good. Very simple, low budget. The family went over to Bob's House to watch it with him.

==Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)==
#2 - Godzilla vs Destoroyah (second best Godzilla movie)
"It’s impossible to decide what’s most memorable about this final film of the Heisei era. Is it Godzilla’s stunning new “Burning Godzilla” appearance? Could it be the many clever callbacks and references to the original 1954 film? Or maybe it’s the ghastly design of Destoroyah, one of Big G’s all-time scariest opponents? Or perhaps it’s the fact that Godzilla Jr. finally emerges as a decent character? The truth is, it’s all of those things, plus so much more. But what makes this existential epic truly worthy of classic status is its profoundly emotional ending. For the first time in history, you’ll find yourself sobbing in a Godzilla movie as the final credits roll. Compassionately directed by Takao Okawara, “Godzilla vs. Destoroyah” elevates the kaiju genre to the level of Greek tragedy."https://variety.com/lists/godzilla-movies-ranked/godzilla-final-wars-2004/?cx_testId=48&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=3#cxrecs_s

==Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)==
"Here’s a valuable tip for you. Never, under any circumstances, trust a race of sunglass-wearing aliens from Planet X when they arrive on Earth asking to “borrow” Godzilla and Rodan for a little while. One of the all-time craziest sci-fi themed entries in the franchise, this sixth Godzilla movie has a lot going for it, especially the welcome presence of American actor Nick Adams, playing a cocky astronaut who shows the pleather-clad extraterrestrials who’s boss. Adams was no stranger to kaiju movies, having costarred in Toho’s giant monster pic “Frankenstein Conquers the World” shortly before appearing in “Invasion of Astro-Monster.”"

https://variety.com/lists/godzilla-movies-ranked/godzilla-final-wars-2004/?cx_testId=48&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=3#cxrecs_s\

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==Jab We Met (2006) Bollywood (not on Amazon Prime) ==
Very good.

==The Last Man==
"Let's do a film recommendation. F.W. Murnau's 1924 film Der Letzte Mann - which means The Last Man (this side of Twitter's ears perk up), but for whatever reason is called Last Laugh in English. Hitchcock called it a "perfect film."" Silent movie. Emil Janning.

==The Lives of Others==
its depiction of East German speech codes and surveillance state, is probably the most relevant movie around today. Very very good.

== Return to Mayberry==
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091846/?ref_=nmbio_mbio Return to Mayberry], TV Movie(1986).1h 35m

But see The Andy Griffith Show Reunion: Back to Mayberry on YouTube-- interivew ith 4 big people.
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==The Producers==
(not on Amazon Prime)(not on You-Tube)

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==AlphaGo: The Movie==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=WXuK6gekU1Y AlphaGo] is a You-Tube documentary about Go.

==State Funeral==
Netherlands, Lithuania, 2019
Documentary, History
155 minutes
Russian
On Stalin's funeral. (not on Amazon Prime) (not on You-Tube)

==Fauci Unmasked, ==
@michaeljknowles
documentary series Fauci Unmasked, (not on You-Tube)
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==Winifried Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975==
In 1975 Syberberg released 'Winifried Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975' - a documentary about Winifred Wagner, wife of Richard Wagner's son Siegfried. (not on You-Tube)

Best Articles Read in 2026

2026-03-09T23:27:54Z

Eric Rasmusen:

*[https://www.razibkhan.com/p/when-slavs-rush-in-the-fall-of-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=94899&post_id=139854306&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true "When Slavs Rush in"] (2026)
:::The Illyrian city of Sirmium, one of the four capitals of the Empire in the late third century Tetrarchy and birthplace of ten Roman Emperors, is today the modest and obscure Serbian town of Sremska Mitrovica, population 74,000.

*[https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-state-of-canada?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=841240&post_id=189387470&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email "The State of Canada,"] JOhn Carter (2026).

*[["Here's What Conservative Institutional Capture Looks Like,"https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/capturing-institutions?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=25676&post_id=140737856&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true|"Here's What Conservative Institutional Capture Looks Like,"]] Aaron Renn (2024).

*[https://christopherrufo.com/p/viktor-orbans-culture-war?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1248321&post_id=135634069&isFreemail=false&triedRedirect=true "Orbán's War: A dispatch from the Hungarian capital,"] Christoph Rufo (2023).

Best Articles Read in 2026

2026-03-08T21:45:27Z

Eric Rasmusen:

Quotations

2026-03-07T13:31:23Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* Burke, Edmund */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

*[https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089 "On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs' "], Jia Tolentino ( /23/16).

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==Anonymous==
*"Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (“Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched”) The motto of the University of Chicago.

*"You can make fish soup from fish, but you cannot make fish from fish soup." Hungarian proverb (Viktor Orban)

*"South Africa has introduced a new category to geopolitics: a de-developing nation." (@ConCaracal, X, 2026).

*"Don't take notes of what the professor says, take note."

*"What other people think of me is none of my business.”

*"Do you have 10 years of experience, or are you just living the same year at your job 10 times over?" [https://twitter.com/randomrecruiter/status/1690753402014232576 @randomrecruiter] (2023)

*I am reminded of a woman who graduated from MIT in 1987. I asked her about her social life as an undergrad. "The odds were good, but the goods were odd."

*"VOCATUS ATQUA NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT." (CALLED OR NOT CALLED, GOD IS PRESENT.)

*"The rich man smokes the same sort of cigarettes as the poor man, shaves with the same sort of razor, uses the same sort of telephone, vacuum cleaner, radio, and TV set, has the same sort of lighting and heating equipment in his house, and so on indefinitely. The differences between his automobile and the poor man’s are minor. Essentially they have similar engines, similar fittings. In the early years of the century there was a hierarchy of automobiles." (''Harper's Magazine'' [1957])

*"Conservatives view themselves as underdogs because they are, especially culturally. Liberals view themselves underdogs because although in charge of every significant human institution they have set themselves the impossible egalitarian task of waging war against nature and reality itself - so when results inevitably conflict with their egalitarian ideology - when racial gaps, poverty, sex differences, inequality etc persist - they blame reactionary forces rather than nature (reality)." ''Twitter'' (2023).

*The Hillary defense:
:I didn’t do it.
:You can’t prove it.
:Everybody does it.
:He did it.
:You're just a racist.
:It's old news.
:What difference, at this point, does it make?

*The Russian Teapot defense:
:It isn’t broken
:If it is broken, I didn’t do it
:If I did do it, it was no good anyway

*A canon of legal interpretation:"Specialia generalibus non derogant". Special things don't derogate from the general rule.

* “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original:"Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement , il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." [https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa as written by Jomini] (1827))..

*When everything works fine, they wonder why they hired you. When everything stops working, they wonder why they hired you. I.T. in a nutshell.

*“I don't drink, or cuss, or chew; and I don't go out with girls that do.”

*"The plural of outlier is out-and-out-liar".

*"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*[https://allaboutfrench.com/qui-se-ressemble-sassemble "Qui se ressemble s'assemble"]

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan," as quoted in ''A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition) by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Owning a sailboat is like turning your shower's cold water on and standing there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own." Stalin?

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Showing up is 90% of success," or "Being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them." — an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain". This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointment, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: the person secretly believe the world revolves around him, everyone is paying attention to him and his actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan. It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.
Women will always and forever rely on men.}}
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==Adams, John==
*"It is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State." [https://buff.ly/3rFhAzP "From John Adams to James Sullivan"] (26 May 1776).

==Adams, Scott==
*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1577277568310341632 Twitter, October 4, 2022]:"Elon Musk took control of the Ukraine/Russia endgame by writing the first draft in bullet form and drawing all attention to it.

:You just learned one of the most powerful persuasion techniques in the modern world: Write the first draft and keep it simple."

*I’m not worried about climate change because any species that can predict the average temperature a hundred years in advance won’t have trouble handling it.

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==The African Queen==
Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature. 
Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

See [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/characters/nm0000031 the IMDB quote page.]

==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” 
Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Allred, Austen==
*"Job descriptions should be strongly opinionated, and should both attract the people you’d want to work with while repelling those you wouldn’t."(Twitter 2023)

==Amin, Idi==
*"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."

==Anderson, Robert==
*"It would be nice if people would put (D) or (R) in their profiles so I know whether to retweet or ratio them without having to do a bunch of reading." Twitter (2024).

==Andreessen, Mark==
*"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

*Whitepill #14: Every day, two lists get longer: The things you believe but can't say, and the things you don't believe but must say. (Twitter, 2022)

==Aquinas, Thomas==
*"Nevertheless, sacred doctrine makes use of these authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the authority of the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the authority of the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable. For our faith rests upon the revelation made to the apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books, and not on the revelations (if any such there are) made to other doctors. Hence Augustine says (Epis. ad Hieron. xix, 1): 'Only those books of Scripture which are called canonical have I learned to hold in such honor as to believe their authors have not erred in any way in writing them. But other authors I so read as not to deem everything in their works to be true, merely on account of their having so thought and written, whatever may have been their holiness and learning'" (Summa Theologica,. Part 1, Q. 1, Art. 8).

==The Apocrypha==
"Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

2But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.

3With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.

4But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.

5For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen." Wisdom of SOlomon 13.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
*“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

*"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

*"The other environmental risk factors for schizophrenia are equally hard to change. Poverty? Okay, don’t be poor, thanks for the important life advice. Social defeat? “Doctor, are you saying I have to never let anyone defeat me?” “Yes, it’s my official medical recommendation that you become invincible.” " [https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-fair-to-describe-schizophrenia "It's Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic"] (Jan. 31, 2024).

==Auden==
*“The Danish Lutheran Church may have been as worldly as Kierkegaard thought it was, but if it had not existed he would never have heard of the Gospels, in which he found the standards by which he condemned it.”

==Augustine==
*“Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and that not of one man, but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices” (''City of God'', Book IV)

*"If they shall be deprived of all good, they shall no longer be. So long, therefore, as they are, they are good; therefore whatsoever is, is good. That evil, then, which I sought whence it was, is not any substance; for were it a substance, it would be good. For either it would be an incorruptible substance, and so a chief good, or a corruptible substance, which unless it were good it could not be corrupted. I perceived, therefore, and it was made clear to me, that Thou didst make all things good, nor is there any substance at all that was not made by Thee; and because all that Thou hast made are not equal, therefore all things are; because individually they are good, and altogether very good, because our God made all things very good." ''Confessions'', Book 7, chapter 12.

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==Balfour, Arthur==
*“The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which, for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.”

==Bankman-Fried, Sam ==
“...this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us.” --
"[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself]: The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way," ''Vox,'' Kelsey Piper (Nov. 16, 2022).

==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
*“Eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

==The Bible==
*“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” Proverbs 15:1.

*"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits." Proverbs 16:2.

*"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs 16:4.

*"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9.

==Boghossian, Peter==
*"If a thing's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well." (''Unherd'' panel interview, 2024, ''You-Tube'').

==Booth, William (Salvation Army founder)==
*Asked about the chief dangers for the 20th century, Salvation Army founder Booth [https://rlhymersjr.com/Online_Sermons/2007/090907_OldEvangelicalismReview.html said], “Religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.”

==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

==Bloom,Allen==
*“Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason’s power.” ''The Closing of the American Mind''

==Bloom, Harold==
*[https://biblioklept.org/2013/02/19/harold-bloom-on-the-school-of-resentment/ Harold Bloom on his agon with “The School of Resentment.”] From [https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2225/the-art-of-criticism-no-1-harold-bloom his 1991 interview with The Paris Review.]:
When I was a young man back in the fifties starting out on what was to be my career, I used to proclaim that my chosen profession seemed to consist of secular clergy or clerisy. I was thinking, of course, of the highly Anglo-Catholic New Criticism under the sponsorship or demigodness of T. S. Eliot. But I realized in latish middle age that, no better or worse, I was surrounded by a pride of displaced social workers, a rabblement of lemmings, all rushing down to the sea carrying their subject down to destruction with them. The school of resentment is an extraordinary sort of mélange of latest-model feminists, Lacanians, that whole semiotic cackle, latest-model pseudo-Marxists, so-called New Historicists, who are neither new nor historicist, and third generation deconstructors, who I believe have no relationship whatever to literary values. . . .

It is tiresome to be encountering myths called “The Social Responsibility of the Critic” or “The Political Responsibility of the Critic.” I would rather walk into a bookstore and find a book called “The Aesthetic Responsibilities of the Statesman,” or “The Literary Responsibilities of the Engineer.” Criticism is not a program for social betterment, not an engine for social change. I don’t see how it possibly could be. . . .

What else is there like Invisible Man? Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God has a kind of superior intensity and firm control. It’s a very fine book indeed. It surprised and delighted me when I first read it and it has sustained several rereadings since. But that and Invisible Man are the only full scale works of fiction I have read by American blacks in this century that have survival possibilities at all. Alice Walker is an extremely inadequate writer, and I think that is giving her the best of it. A book like The Color Purple is of no aesthetic interest or value whatsoever, yet it is exalted and taught in the academies. It clearly is a time in which social and cultural guilt has taken over. . . .

I’m not terribly fond of feminist criticism. The true test is to find work, whether in the past or present, by women writers that we had undervalued, and thus bring it to our attention and teach us to study it more closely or more usefully. By that test they have failed, because they have added not one to the canon. The women writers who mattered—Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and others who have always mattered on aesthetic grounds—still matter. I do not appreciate Elizabeth Bishop or May Swenson any more or less than I would have appreciated them if we had no feminist literary criticism at all.

==Bowles, Michael==
“Construction is a matter of backing yourself into a corner and then fighting your way out.”

==Bukowski, Charles==
*“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

==Burke, Edmund==
* “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770).

*"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Misattributed. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ Quote Investigator.]

==Burnham, James==
"The nineteenth-century liberals overlooked, and the twentieth-century liberals decline to face, the fact that teaching everyone to read opens minds to propaganda and indoctrination at least as much as to truths; and on political and social matters it is propaganda and indoctrination rather than truth that universal education has most conspicuously nurtured." -James Burnham, ''Suicide of the West.''

==Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)==
. 
He that complies against his Will, 
Is of his own Opinion still. 
(from ''Hudibras'')
----

== ==
==CANNON, William==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Caplan, Bryan==
*"When a normal utilitarian concludes that mass murder would maximize social utility, he checks his work! He goes over his calculations with a fine-tooth comb, hoping to discover a way to implement beneficial policy changes without horrific atrocities. The Leninist, in contrast, reasons backwards from the atrocities that emotionally inspire him to the utilitarian argument that morally justifies his atrocities." [https://betonit.substack.com/p/the_roots_of_lehtml The roots of Leninism] (2012)

==Carlin, George==
*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that."

==Carson, D.A.==
*"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."

==Carver, George Washington==
*“When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well, George, that's more nearly your size.’

==Carville, James==
*“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

==St. Charbel Makhlouf==
*[https://www.lightbook.org/53-best-saint-charbel-quotes.html "Your weakness is to be overcome, not to be used as a pilgrimage."]

==Charles III of the United Kingdom==
* 2011 as he [https://www.royal.uk/clarencehouse/speech/speech-hrh-prince-wales-king-james-bible-trust-reception addressed the King James Bible Trust:] “I’ve never really understood who it was that decided that, for people who aren’t very good at reading, the best things to read are those written by people who aren’t very good at writing!”

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*"Chesterton's Fence", 1929 book, ''The Thing,'' “The Drift from Domesticity”:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to challenge his reformist son-in-law. Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in his poem, “Mending Wall.” }}

*"A man can pretend to be wise; a man cannot pretend to be witty."

*"Those who will not even admit the Capitalist problem deserve to get the Communist solution."

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*"If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization."

*"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it"--Autobiography

*{{Quotation|We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

==Chicago, University of==
*The University of Chicago's motto is "Crescat scientia; vita excolatur," which means,"Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched."

==Chrysostom, John==
*"Should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in the midst of the forum, blaspheming God; go up to him and rebuke him; and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not to do so. Smite him on the face; strike his mouth; sanctify your hand with the blow, and if any should accuse you, and drag you to the place of justice, follow them there; and when the judge on the bench calls you to account, say boldly that the man blasphemed the King of angels! For if it be necessary to punish those who blaspheme an earthly king, much more so those who insult God" ('On the Statues', 1).

== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Coleridge, Samuel==
*"I, for one, do not call the sod under my feet my country. But language, religion, laws, government, blood — identity in these makes men of one country." ''Table Talk'', May 29, 1830.

==Comfort, Ray==
“Atheists don’t hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don’t exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Covey, Stephen==
*"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man."

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [-Twitter, 2021]}}

==Cunningham==
J.V. Cunningham, from "Meditation on Statistical Method"

<pre>
Plato, despair!
We prove by norms
How numbers bear
Empiric forms,

How random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our hearts
Hyperbole
Curves and departs
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
</pre>

My version:

<pre>
Random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our soul
Hyperbole
Makes error roll
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
So hope and doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Won't average out.
</pre>

== ==

==Dalrymple, Theodore==
*"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." a 2005 https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com/dalrymple-interviewed-by-jamie-glazov/ interview] in FrontPage.

==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in ''First Things'', 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, ''The Information'')

==Descartes==
See [[Descartes]]
*"Bene qui latuit, bene vixit."
*"He lives well who lies well hidden." I like the English version better. What is it in French? Ovid, Descartes.

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==Dio Cassius==
*"Although he was very practised as a writer of prose and verse and very skilled in all the arts, yet he always mocked the teachers of all the arts on the grounds that he was more learned than they, and despised and humiliated them. With these same professors and philosophers he often competed, taking turns to publish books or poems. Once, indeed, a word used by Favorinus was criticized by Hadrian. Favorinus yielded, which provoked some very agreeable amusement. He was wrong to concede to Hadrian, his friends charged him, over a word which reputable authors had used. ‘You don’t give me good advice, my friends,’ said Favorinus, ‘when you don’t allow me to believe the man who possesses thirty legions to be more learned than anyone else!’ " From [https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/hadrians-rome/content-section-5.1 Birley, A. (trans.) (1976) Lives of the Later Caesars, London, Penguin, pp. 57–87.]

<pre>
To the poet Florus,Footnote61 who wrote to him:

I do not want to be Caesar,
To walk about among the Britons,
To ensure the Scythian hoar-frosts,

he wrote back:

I do not want to be Florus,
To walk about among taverns,
To lurk about among cook-shops,
To put up with the round insects.
</pre>

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
*"Making a mistake is a net positive if you learn more from it than it cost you."

{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

*"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dornbusch, Rudiger==
*"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought" (on exchange rate crises)

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

== ==

==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==Einstein, Albert==
"in 1952 he wrote a letter to his friend and fellow physicist Max Born where he admits that even if the astronomical data had gone against general relativity, he would still believe in the theory:"

`Even if there were absolutely no light deflection, no perihelion motion and no redshift, the gravitational equations would still be convincing because they avoid the inertial system... It is really quite strange that humans are usually deaf towards the strongest arguments, while they are constantly inclined to overestimate the accuracy of measurement.'
([https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-einsteins-unification-by-jeroen? "John Psmith" 2024)

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

== Eschenbach, Willis==
"A bad Muslim wants to cut your head off and rape your wife. 
A good Muslim wants a bad Muslim to cut your head off and rape your wife."

==Esolen, Anthony==
*"Be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves, says the Lord.

:The converse is what we have now in our elites, in Church, State, education, etc.: People in charge who are as dopey as pigeons, and as malignant as snakes." (Twitter, 2024)

== ==

==Faulkner, William==
*“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feser, Ed==
*"If a doctor says “This is what lung cancer involves, please stop smoking,” no one accuses him of wanting the patient to suffer. But if a theologian says “This is what damnation involves, please stop sinning,” he is accused of wanting people to go to hell." ([https://twitter.com/FeserEdward/status/1665881489354162177 Twitter, 2023])

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Friedman, Milton==
"Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:

1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality) 
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality) 
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost) 
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

== ==

==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

==Gandhi, Ashvin==
@ashdgandhi (Nov 29 2025)

"Normal people: hear math statements as regular words.

Mathematicians: hear math statements as logic.

Economists: hear regular words as math statements."

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

==Girard, Rene==
*“Nietzsche shared with many intellectuals of his time and our own a passion for irresponsible rhetoric in the attempt to get one up on opponents. But philosophers, for their misfortune, are not the only people in the world. Genuinely mad and frantic people are all around them and do them the worst turn of all: they take them at their word.” I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
*Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies" "I am the spirit who always says no." Faust part I.

*"I am the spirit that always says no. And how right I am! For surely It’s right that everything that comes to be Should cease to be. And so they do. Still better Would be nothing ever was. Hence sin And havoc and ruin—all you call evil, in sum— For me’s the element in which I swim.”

<pre>"Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen:
Verweile doch! du bist so schön!
Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen,
Dann will ich gern zugrunde gehn!
</pre>
Faust, Part I. When I to a moment say, Stay a while! You are so fair! Then you may enslave my soul, then I will submit to you. Or something like that.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==Goodstein, David==
"1.1 INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously. We will begin by considering the simplest meaningful example, the perfect gas, in order to get the central concepts sorted out." ( States of Matter (1985); see https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1651559339067310081)

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*[https://x.com/paulg/status/1874590418463330489 TWITTER:] "A friend who's a former British military officer told me that when he was training soldiers in jungle warfare they were taught that if they got lost in the jungle, the first thing they should do was to brew a cup of tea and think about what to do next."

*"Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign flipped." (2024, X).

*"If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial." [http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html "Putting Ideas into Words"] (2022).

*"A rare counterexample to the principle of specialization: your site should never seem like it was made by communications people, and the best way to achieve this is for it not to be. This is something founders should continue to micromanage forever."[https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1654765304184971264 Twitter] (2023) ]

*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)

==Grandin, Temple==
*Temple Grandin wrote in ''The Way I See It,'' a book on the experience of autism: "What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done."
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hamblin, Jacob==
*Jacob Hamblin’s "Rules for Dealing with the Indians" from ''Jacob Hamblin among the Indians'' by James Little.

1. I never talk anything but the truth to them.

2. I think it useless to speak of things they cannot comprehend.

3. I strive by all means to never let them see me in a passion.

4. Under no circumstances show fear, thereby showing to them that I have a sound heart and a straight tongue.

5. Never approach them in an austere manner nor use more words than are necessary to convey my ideas, not in a higher tone of voice than to be distinctly heard.

6. Always listen to them when they wish to tell of their grievances, and redress their wrongs, however trifling they may be if possible. If I cannot I let them know I have a desire to do so.

7. I never allow them to hear me use profane or obscene language or take any unbecoming course with them.

8. I never submit to any unjust demands or submit to coercion under any circumstances, thereby showing them that I govern and am governed by the rule of right not by might.

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

==Herrnstein, Robert==
:"Dick recalled the day when, as a young man, he had been awarded tenure. It was his dream fulfilled -- a place in the university he so loved, the chance to follow his research wherever it took him, economic security. For Dick, being a tenured professor at Harvard was not just the perfect job, but the perfect way to live his life. It was too good to be true; there had to be a catch. What's my part of the bargain? he had asked himself. "And I figured it out," he said, looking at me with that benign, gentle half-smile of his. "You have to tell the truth." There was no self-congratulation in his voice, just an answer to my question." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20010421204200/https://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/bell-curve/murray-hstein-obit.html "Richard J. Herrnstein, RIP,"] by Charles Murray, Vol. 46, National Review, 10-10-1994, pp 22.

==Hoffer, Eric==
*[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98215-every-great-cause-begins-as-a-movement-becomes-a-business “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”]

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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==Heath, Joseph==
"Populists have great difficulty respecting the rule of law. If one listens to the explanations that they offer for their actions, a great deal of this reflects a bias toward concreteness in their thinking. They think the purpose of the rules is to stop bad people from doing bad things, but since they themselves are good people trying to do good things, they cannot see why they should be constrained by the rules." "Populism Fast and Slow", ''Substack'' (2025).

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== Rob Henderson==
*“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” [https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/ Quillette article] (2021).

*"Men bond by insulting each other and not really meaning it; women bond by complimenting each other and not really meaning it."

*"Over the course of human evolutionary history, there may have been some independent-minded women who thought things through and decided to avoid the pain and risks of motherhood. These women are not our ancestors." [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-story-of-us-9780190883201?cc=gb&lang=en& one of his books], via Twitter.

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==Hippocrates==
"Ars longa, vita brevis" has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."

The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

==Hitchens, Christopher==
*"It will happen to all of us that at some point you'll be tapped on the shoulder and told - not just that the party is over - but slightly worse: the party's going on but you have to leave."

==Hitchens, PETER==
*'I also remember a French high-speed train, on which Mrs Hitchens and I ate a long, time-consuming, four-course picnic lunch, wine included, partly for the joy of it and partly because we were exempt from French mask rules as long as we were eating.
::'An infuriated French ticket inspector chose to lecture us explosively about our irresponsibility — whereupon I donned a large black Polish Army surplus gas mask, which in those days I carried about for satirical purposes.
::‘Take it off!’ he cried. ‘You are trying to frighten people!’ . :‘No,’ I replied, ‘it is you who are trying to frighten people.’ https://mol.im/a/12947665 via @MailOnline"

==Hooker. Richard==
*“It is dangerous for the feeble mind of man to wade too far into the doings of the Most High. Although it is life to know Him and joy to mention His name, our surest knowledge is that we do not know Him as He truly is, nor can we; our safest eloquence is our silence, confessing without confession that His glory is inexplicable and His greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we are on earth; therefore let our words be wary and few.” (''Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'', Vol. 1, book 1, chapter 2)

==Hochschild, Joshua==
*"It is an academic myth that canonical texts, literary and religious, embody ideology and perpetuate power structures. In the experience of actual readers, canonical texts are typically the means of escaping ideology and challenging power structures." Twitter (2024)

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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== Thomas Jefferson==
" If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion towards his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriæ of the other." [https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/query-xviii-an-excerpt-from-notes-on-the-state-of-virginia-by-thomas-jefferson-1784/ Query 18, Notes from Virginia.]
==Jomini ==
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original: "Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." as written by Jomini (1827). https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa

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==Kac, Mark==
*"Probability theory is measure theory with a soul." Here is one source. Is there a better one, an original one? [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf]

==Karlin, George==
*"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they’re cramming for their final exam."

*"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

*"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body."

*"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts."

*"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it."

==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

*[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

==Keller, Timothy==
*"A possible way to start a conversation with someone who is not a believer:
'Tell me the God you don't believe in because chances are I don't believe in that God either.' "
*"Few people live up to their own standards, let alone an objective one. Either way we come up short on our own accord."
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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==Keynes, John==
* “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”

==Khan, Razib==
:*"The reason we need nerds is that they jump all over little lies, and drown them in the bathtub before the lies can grow up and become invincible monsters." [https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1675204182679207936 Twitter (2023).]

==Kierkegaard, Emil==
{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."
}}

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

== KIPLING, Rudyard==
. 
In August was the jackal born, 
The rains fell in September. 
"Now such a fearful flood as this," 
Says he, "I can't remember!" [http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/second-jungle-book/7/ "The Undertakers"] The 2nd Jungle Book.

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==Kosinski, Jerzy==
* "The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
:(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.” 
:(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
:(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==Rush Limbaugh==
“Men and women range themselves into three classes... the lowest by talking about persons; the next about things; the highest about ideas.”

==Lindsay, James==
*On the Christian method, which is good for redpilling wokers too: 
::1) Proclaim the truth (tell without coercion or force) 
::2) Remind them that everyone is a sinner (so everyone makes mistakes) 
::3) Invite them to repent in their own time (accept your past error as wrong and move forward productively).

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted , Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

*"The idea that any man or writer should be opaque to those who lived in the same culture, spoke the same language, shared the same habitual imagery and unconscious assumptions, and yet be transparent to those who have none of these advantages, is in my opinion preposterous. " ([https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern Seed speech])

*From "The Abolition of Man": 'When all that says "It is good" has been debunked, what says "I want" remains.'

* "The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

*“His education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

*“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”

*A man who has spent his youth and manhood in the minute study of New Testament texts and of other people’s studies of them, whose literary experience of those texts lacks any standard of comparison such as can only grow from a wide and deep and genial experience of literature in general, is, I should think, very likely to miss the obvious thing about them. If he tells me that something in a Gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavour; not how many years he has spent on that Gospel...

:I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life. I know what they are like. I know that not one of them is like this. Of this text there are only two possible views. Either this is reportage—though it may no doubt contain errors—pretty close up to the facts; nearly as close as Boswell. Or else, some unknown writer in the second century, without known predecessors or successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative
-- CS Lewis. https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern-Seed and Elephants," Originally entitled 'Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism'.

==Long, Earl (Governor of Louisiana, brother of Huey Long)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

==Long, Russell (Senator from Indiana, son of Huey Long)==
*"Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax the man behind the tree." [improved] See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/]

==Long, Rob==
"I was nonplussed — the actual definition of nonplussed, which is baffled, rather than what it sounds like and will eventually come to mean, which is unimpressed." (2024)

==Luther, Martin==
* "Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it."

:"This is a murky Luther quote that seems like something he would have said, yet finding an exact reference isn't easy. A couple of people have searched for this quote uncovering interesting clues and theories of its origin (see for instance, About That Great Luther Quote and also the discussion here). Piggybacking on their efforts, I have my own theory of how this quote became popular: it's in the form it's in because singer-song writer Derek Webb was quoting Charles Spurgeon quoting Luther... whether he knew it or not!" https://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2020/08/luther-every-week-i-preach.html

* “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan." --Book IV of The Prince}}

*"A question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may
be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person it is
much safer to be feared than loved, when only one is possible. The reason for this is that in general men
are ungrateful, inconstant, false, cowardly, and greedy. As long as you succeed, they are yours entirely -
they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, when the need is far distant. But when the
need approaches, they turn against you. A prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected
other ways of protecting himself, will be ruined. Friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by
greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot
be relied upon. Men are less worried about offending one who is loved than one who is feared. Love is
preserved by the link of gratefulness which, owing to the weak nature of men, is broken at every
opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a fear of punishment which never fails." Chapter 17, [https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Principe/Capitolo_XVIII The Prince], Machiavelli.

*"Questo una disputa, s'e' gli è meglio essere amato che temuto o e converso. Rispondesi che si vorrebbe essere l'uno e l'altro; ma perché e' gli è difficile accozzarli insieme, è molto più sicuro essere temuto che amato, quando si abbi a mancare dell'uno de' dua. Perché degli uomini si può dire questo, generalmente, che sieno ingrati, volubili, simulatori e dissimulatori, fuggitori de' pericoli, cupidi del guadagno; e mentre fai loro bene e' sono tutti tua, offeronti el sangue, la roba, la vita, e' figliuoli, come di sopra dissi, quando el bisogno è discosto: ma quando ti si appressa, si rivoltono, e quello principe che si è tutto fondato in su le parole loro, trovandosi nudo di altre preparazioni, ruina. Perché le amicizie che si acquistono col prezzo, e non con grandezza e nobilità di animo, si meritano, ma elle non si hanno, e alli tempi non si possono spendere; e li uomini hanno meno rispetto a offendere uno che si facci amare, che uno che si facci temere: perché lo amore è tenuto da uno vinculo di obligo, il quale, per essere gl'uomini tristi, da ogni occasione di propria utilità è rotto, ma il timore è tenuto da una paura di pena che non ti abbandona mai." Ch. 7. [http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/testo/bibit000214 Il Principe], Machiavelli.

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
*“The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.” (Letter to Napier, November 5, 1841, p. 103 of Trevelyan's ''The Life and Letters..., Vol. 2'')

*"The doctrine which from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words, and stripped of rhetorical disguise is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error."
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Sir James Macintosh"

*From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Mahler Gustav==
*From [https://deepstash.com/article/203717/jean-jaurs-the-true-way-to-honour-the-past Deepstash, Jean Jaures said,] "Ce n'est pas en vain que tous les foyers des générations humaines ont flambé, ont rayonné ; mais c'est nous, parce que nous marchons, parce que nous luttons pour un idéal nouveau, c'est nous qui sommes les vrais héritiers du foyer des aïeux ; nous en avons pris la flamme, vous n'en avez gardé que la cendre." From [https://latoilescoute.net/de-la-tradition-il-faut-garder-la Latoilescoute.net: ] janvier 1910, à Paris, Chambre des députés in Pages choisies, éd. Rieder, paru en 1922, p. 115.

"It is not in vain that all the homes of human generations have burned, have blazed; but it is us - because we walk forward, because we fight for a new ideal - it is us who are the true heirs of the home of the ancestors; we took the flame, you only kept the ashes."

*From [https://x.com/DurhamWASP/status/1942000048822268127 Twitter] and [https://www.wienerzeitung.at/h/irrwege-einer-metapher Irrwege einer Metapher, of Gerald Krieghofer: Gustav Mahler said, ""Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers", Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

That's different and better enough for me to award the credit to Mahler. Mr. Krieghofer might show me to be wrong, though; I don't speak German.

==David MAMET==
*“We know psychology is a scam for two reasons.
One: all the children of psychologists are insane.
And two: in a hundred years of psychoanalysis, no one has ever gotten better.”
2011 book The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

==Mao Tse-Tung==
In ''Khruschev Remembers'', Soviet leader Krushchev [https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/quotations-peoples-republic/ talks about] a 1957 meeting.

"Mao spoke about the war at this meeting . His speech content was roughly this: Do not be afraid of war. Do not be afraid of either the atomic bomb or the weapons. No matter what kind of war, we socialist countries will win. When it comes to China specifically, he claimed: 'If the imperialist impose war on us, we now have 600 million people, even if we lose 300 million, so what, this is war. Years later, we nurture new, and the population will be restored.' After he spoke, the meeting room was in a tomb-like silence."

==de Marenches, Alexandre==
Jack Jolis:"
Reminds me of something the late, (pro-American) former French spy-boss Alexandre de Marenches once said to my late dad (in my presence):

:"That man Reagan-- he may not know much, but he understands everything"
"(Cet homme Reagan – il sait peut-être peu, mais il a tout compris”).

==Marx, Karl==
:"In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. The English Established Church, e.g., will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. Now-a-days atheism is culpa levis as compared with criticism of existing property relations." --[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm Capital], volume 1, Preface.

* "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." Introduction, 1844, in Marx's own journal Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher.

==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

==Mather, Increase==
*"When the Knowledge of the Tongues and Arts Revived, Religion had a Revival with it: And though some Unlearned men have been useful to the Interests of Religion, yet no man ever decried Learning, but what was, an Enemy to Religion, whether he knew it or no."

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==Matjaž Leonardis==
If 0.1mg dose of a drug can massively alter the behaviour of a 100kg human (nine orders of magnitude ratio) then the idea small groups of individuals can change massive social systems should seem at least plausible. (2022, Twitter)
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==Mazarin, Cardinal==
« Le cardinal Mazarin ne pouvait souffrir autour de lui des gens malheureux. Quand on lui proposait quelqu’un pour entrer à son service, sa première question était celle-ci : « Est-il heureux ? » »

"(Translation: "Cardinal Mazarin could not bear unhappy people around him. When someone was proposed to enter his service, his first question was: 'Is he lucky/fortunate?'")

This anecdote is reported by Madame la Palatine (Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, mother of the future Regent Philippe d'Orléans), in her letters or memoirs from the late 17th/early 18th century. It is referenced in multiple French historical sources, including sites dedicated to historical quotations (e.g., histoire-en-citations.fr), which describe it as a "well-known saying" (mot bien connu) attributed via the Palatine.

However, no primary source (e.g., Mazarin's own letters or contemporary accounts) directly records him saying it verbatim about generals. The Palatine's version is general (about service in his entourage), not explicitly military."

==MEIJER, WILLIAM==
*"If you give submissive people power, they’ll use it to submit themselves." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

*"Humans will endure any amount of chronic pain to avoid a temporarily greater level of acute pain." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

*About Pres. Roosevelt and his 1936 opponent Gov. Landon: Landon “probably knows a great deal less than the Hon. Mr. Roosevelt, but much more of what he knows is true.” (from [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Roosevelt_Sweeps_Nation/9qq-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mencken+++++1936++Landon,++%22probably+knows+a+great+deal+less+than+the+Hon+.+Mr.+Roosevelt+,+but+much+more+of+what+he+knows+is+true%22&pg=PT399&printsec=frontcover Pietruza's book])

*"I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey."

*"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

*"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup."

*"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

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==Eric Moody==
*[https://x.com/therealmissjo/status/1935709339567726688 From X:]
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”
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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

*"When you hear the names of legislation or anything done by the government, it is worth remembering that the group that sent so many people to the guillotine during the French Revolution was called “The Committee of Public Safety”, not the “Cut Off Their Heads Committee” " Twitter (2024)

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Newman, John==
*"It is not the way to learn to swim in troubled waters, never to have gone into them.” — “Duties of the Church towards Knowledge,” in ''The Idea of a University'' (1852).

Improved: "You won't learn to swim in troubled waters by avoiding bathtubs."

==Ngo, Richard==
*"To improve the world most in the short term, make the worst country better. To improve the world most in the long term, make the best country better." Twitter, 2025.

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Orwell, George==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

"There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see." (slightly improved, seen secondhand on Twitter)

==Prince Philip==
*“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

*“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

*“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

* “It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

* “If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

*“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

*“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

*“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

*“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

*“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

*“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

* “It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

* “It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/

==Steven PINKER==
*"Historically, positions were distributed by hereditary privilege, family ties, patronage to cronies, or sale to the highest bidder. These are not far from the system we have here." ([https://www.thecrimson.com/column/council-on-academic-freedom-at-harvard/article/2024/1/29/pinker-harvard-legacy-admissions/ of Harvard student admissions, 2024])

==Pablo PICASSO==
From Grok. Original:
« L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de révéler la vérité. » (Art is a lie that permits us to reveal the truth)
(or « L’art est le mensonge qui dit la vérité. » ---Art is the lie that tells the truth.

The most widely quoted French version:« L’art est un mensonge qui nous fait comprendre la vérité. » (Art is a lie that makes us understand the truth.)

Marius de Zayas, “Picasso Speaks,” The Arts (New York), May 1923, pp. 315–326.
French version as Picasso himself later approved or rephrased it (most canonical):
« Nous savons tous que l’Art n’est pas la vérité. L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de reconnaître la vérité, du moins la vérité qu’il nous est donné de comprendre. »
(This longer version appears in French sources quoting Picasso directly, notably in Christian Zervos’s conversations with Picasso and in later interviews.)

==Plato==
*"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter" ([https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=280790.0 in Greek:] μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μου τὴν στέγην," « mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn »). Engraved above the door of Plato's Academy in Athens. [https://www.dialogues-de-platon.org/faq/faq009.htm Bernard Suzanne] says "an anonymous scholion in a manuscript of Aelius Aristides whose author, according to him, might be the fourth century orator Sopatros, which mentions the full text of the inscription, adding that ageômetrètos has been put in place of anisos kai adikos ("unfair and unjust"), sometimes used in similar inscriptions at the entrance of sacred places, and
:"Johannes Tzetzes' Chiliades, whose text is as follows:
Pro tôn prothurôn tôn hautou grapsas hupèrche Platôn
Mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn
Toutestin, adikos mèdeis paresierchestô tèide
Isotès gar kai dikaion esti geômetria.
("Plato had written at the front door of his house: "Let no one who is not geometer enter under my roof", that is, "Let non one unjust sneak in here", because geometry is equality/fairness and justice/righteousness")."

==Podgursky, Ben==
*"When your kids ask to play with you, remember that the actual ask is "I want to spend time with you". They ask to play because play is all they know. If you'd rather do a project (gardening, making an IKEA shelf), just propose doing it with them. They'll be just as excited." (Twitter, 2025)

==Poincare, Henry==
"It is through logic that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
Poincare, H. (1914). Science and Method. (F. Maitland, Preface by B. Russell, Trans.) London: Thomas Nelson and Sons.

==Pope, Alexander==
==="An Essay on Criticism"===
<pre>
*Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang’rous is th’ offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
Some few in that, but numbers err in this,
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss;

‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

In poets as true genius is but rare,
True taste as seldom is the critic’s share;
Both must alike from Heav’n derive their light,
These born to judge, as well as those to write.

Yet if we look more closely we shall find
Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind;
Nature affords at least a glimm’ring light;
The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right.
But as the slightest sketch, if justly trac’d,
Is by ill colouring but the more disgrac’d,
So by false learning is good sense defac’d;
Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.
</pre>

==Popper, Karl==
*[https://www.stephenhicks.org/2021/09/30/popper-to-aron-letter-on-adorno-and-habermas/ Letter of Popper to Aron in 1970]:
"I can only say that when I read either Adorno or Habermas, I feel as if lunatics were speaking.
I have translated some of their German sentences into simple German. It turns out to be either trivial or tautological or sheer pretentious nonsense. I completely fail to see why Habermas is reputed to have “talent”. I do not think that he was born less intelligent than other people; but he certainly did not have the good sense to resist the influence of a pretentious, lying, and intelligence destroying University education.
Sociology is in a bad way — even here in England. There seems to be an interesting law: bad and pretentious language drives out good and simple language. And once human language is destroyed, we shall return to the beasts."

==Alex Priou==
*"Interpretation of a great work is first and foremost decompression of information and not compression.

:A summary of Plato or Aristotle that did faith to the nerve of their thought would require their near equal, and it would have to be an appropriate task for the times."

==Putin, Vladimir==
“The culture of cancellation is the cancellation of culture.” From [https://nationalfile.com/putin-skewers-cancel-culture-in-latest-moscow-speech/ an October 2022 speech. ]

== ==

==Ramsey, Dave==
*"Tell the money where to go instead of wondering where it went."

==Ramseyer, J. Mark==
"Harvard is a vastly less tolerant place than it was when I arrived in 1998. The intolerance is a function of an increasingly large fraction of our colleagues. And we – the rest of us on the Harvard faculty – let it happen. The cancelling, the punishments, the DEI bureaucracy, the DEI statements, the endless list that we could all recite – all this happened on our watch. We saw it happen, but we did nothing. We were too busy. We were scared to speak up. We – we on the faculty – let Harvard become what it is. The Harvard that we have is the result of our own collective moral failure.

'''The alumni who are furious are not trying to turn Harvard into something we do not want. They are trying to rescue Harvard from what we let it become.'''
We as a faculty failed. That is why the alumni are speaking up. That is why we formed the Council on Academic Freedom in the first place."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].
*"When someone gives you lemons, make lemonade." Synonym for "Every cloud has a silver lining."

*"A model should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." I think I used in my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/ ''Games and Information''], and attributed it to Alfred Einstein. The original saying is “Everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler,” and while it is attributed to Einstein, it’s [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ highly questionable] whether he ever said it.

*"Wiggle words weaken writing." Don't use "maybe" or "perhaps" or "to some extent" or "quite" or "often" or "sometimes" if you don't have to.

*"The humanities are just as hard at math; the difference is, in the humanities you're so lost you don't even know you got the answer wrong. "
*"The only things worse than a dumb bureaucrat handling your problem is a smart computer."

*"The hand that does the daycare ruins the world."

*"For scholars, destroying data is like cutting down giant sequoia trees; it goes against all our instincts. For administrators, destroying data is like cleaning your house before a party so nobody can see what a slob you are; it accords with all their instincts. "

*"Without perspicaciousness, what good is perspicuity?"

*"Delight expressed is delight enhanced. That's why I do not restrain my chuckles of pleasure when I hear a speaker say something witty or surprising. (Also, because I know from experience that audience feedback helps.)"

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks" or "He was so mean he didn't need bug spray to repel ticks."

*"Loving someone is less often to encourage them to do what they desire to do than to desire what they ought to do."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"One of the blessings of having a father is that you can call him when you have a minor car crash. One of the blessings of being a father is that someone thinks you're worth calling, and they're right."

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==Ratzinger (Pope Benedict)==
*“A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music, and nature can be dangerous since blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental: they necessarily are reflected in his theology.” ~Ratzinger (April 16,
1927-December 31, 2022).

==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

::[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

::Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

::English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Will Rogers==
*It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rorty, Richard==
*"The contemporary cultural Left urges that America should not be a melting pot, because we need to respect one another in our differences. This Left wants to preserve otherness rather than ignore it." (From Achieving Our... (1997))

==Routledge, Clay==
*We are living in an era of woke capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Russell, Bertrand==
* “Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat. What he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.”
--[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/08/a-life-of-disagreement/641018/ A Life of Disagreement] television programs , half-hour conversation by BERTRAND RUSSELL with Romney Wheeler, filmed in London by the National Broadcasting Company and shown over the NBC network and BBC-TV on the occasion of Earl Russell’s eightieth birthday (1952).

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

== ==

==Sabien, Duncan==
*"If you've spent your entire life being told you were wrong and being proven right (b/c you were smarter than the people around you), then when you run into another genius who tells you that you're wrong, you have a LOT of memetic antibodies that will make it easier-than-it-should-be to write them off or dismiss them."

==Sailer, Steve==
*"Steve Sailer ... losing the war of public opinion since 1990.

But the crazier the conventional wisdom gets, the more hilarious material I have to write about.

So at least there's that.

Too bad about society, though." ([https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1644853299387199489 Twitter, 2023])

*"When it comes to human behavior, there mostly aren’t systematic differences between what your lying eyes tell you and what The Science says. There’s a continuum between anecdote, anecdata, and data....

:If there’s a strong statistical pattern in the numbers, you should be able to come up with vivid real-life examples of it. And if you can think of several examples suggesting a pattern, you might well be able to find large-scale data for it.

:My main one weird trick for coming up with enough insights to make a living as an unfashionable pundit for 22 years has been to assume that private life facts and public life facts are one and the same. Most pundits assume public controversies, such as BLM, are of a higher realm than daily life, so that what they notice about “safe neighborhoods” and “good schools” when they are making real estate decisions for themselves couldn’t possibly have any relevance to the great issues of the day they discuss in the media." ([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I am told that we shouldn’t mention the truth because either:

:—The facts have no possible policy implications, or

:—The facts have overwhelmingly horrible policy implications, such as the logical necessity of reimposing slavery or instituting genocide.

:The former strikes me as obtuse and the latter as insane and/or evil.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*There’s no need for everybody to continue to pretend ever since the 1978 Bakke decision that exalted “diversity” as the excuse for violating the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection of the laws that affirmative action makes colleges more intellectually stimulating when obviously the opposite has proven true. Quotas have helped make colleges minefields of cancel culture by bringing onto campus insecure and resentful masses of racially preferred students out to punish anyone who alludes to the race gaps that are American society’s central fact. Instead, underqualified preference beneficiaries should be told to be thankful for their privilege.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I quoted this letter at length because it seems like such a vivid example of the mindset of the current day: reality is determined by words, that honest words threaten the marginalized with violence, and asking the marginalized to improve their behavior is unthinkable." ([https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyc-health-czar-takes-strong-action-against-monkeypox-demands-who-change-the-name-of-monkeypox-to-an-incomprehensible-string-of-characters/Column on renaming monkeypox], 2022)

*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*"How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

:The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

:Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general." [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*"The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world."

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Salisbury, Lord==
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury

*"Within certain limits of intelligence, honesty and knowledge of the law, one man would make as good a judge as another and a Tory mentality is ipso facto more trustworthy than a Liberal one."

*First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.
'Democracy on its Trial', Quarterly Review, vol. 110 (July & October 1861), p. 281

*The conflict between Socialism and existing civilisation must be a death-struggle. If the combat is once commenced, one or other of the combatants must perish. It is idle to plead that the schemes of these men are their religion. There are religions so hostile to morality, so poisonous to the life-springs of society, that they are outside the pale of human tolerance.
'The Commune and the Internationale', Quarterly Review, vol. 131 (July & October 1871), p. 562

*It was a part of a budget which even three months had proved to be a mass of miscalculation; it was the pet scheme of a cosmopolitan school who love England little, and whom England loves less, whose sympathies are half-American and half-French; and it was the first application of a theory of combined taxation and reform, according to which the poor were exclusively to fix the revenue which the rich were exclusively to pay.
‘The Conservative Reaction’, Quarterly Review, vol. 108 (July & October 1860), p. 276

*"Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed...The classes that represent civilisation, the holders of accumulated capital and accumulated thought have a right to require securities to protect them from being overwhelmed by hordes who have neither knowledge to guide them nor stake in the Commonwealth to control them."
'English Politics and Parties', Bentley's Quarterly Review, vol. I (March & July 1859), pp. 28-29

* In men of genius, as a rule, the imagination or the
passions are too strongly developed to suffer them
to reach the highest standard of practical states-
, manship. They follow some poetical ideal, they
are under the spell of some fascinating chapter of
past history, they are the slaves of some talismanic
phrase which their generation has taken up, or
they have made to themselves a system to which
all men and all circumstances must be bent. Something there almost always is that beguiles
them away from the plain, prosaic, business-like
view ofthe concerns of this prosaic world. Consequently the mass of mankind, who have a dull but
surefooted instinct of their own interest, feel an
uncomfortable misgiving when they see a genius at
the head oftheir affairs. They are aware that firstrate brilliancy cannot be had without something of
distortion ; but it is no consolation to them that the
illusions which are luring him on to ruin lend in
the mean time an exquisite charm to the eloquence
by which he induces them to accompany him on
the road. On the other hand, the clever world is
very intolerant of plain, practical statesmen. It
maintains, sometimes with very good reason, that
where the imagination is stunted, it is merely
because the whole mind is stunted too ; and that
the claim to practical common sense is often only
a euphemism for a narrow intelligence straitened
by an abject regard for precedents and for routine.
As a rule, both sides are right in the suspicions
they entertain. It is rare to meet with a fervid
imagination which is drilled to reserve its flights
for efforts of oratory, and to give place entirely to
more sober faculties in council. It is still rarer to
see an absolutely unimaginative mind possessed of
the energy and of the breadth of view indispensable
in the statesman of a troubled period. Both kinds
of excellence produce great and successful rulers,
where they occur ; and both are apt to meet, in
those around them, with incredulity that such combinations of opposite qualities can exist.

'Lord Castlereagh', Quarterly Review, vol. 111 (January & April 1862), p. 204 https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QafmXADIh0jnPZqj11iTfMIuIdFT-DZWwP1q0zQiA4yBrYcBXaRXhl4wAaaOcH-1ovmPhezfBeCx0TdkJoRN9AA_GFoAY4s2keT-CwZl1Ac4Hi372YcAOvsu39xIf9x-9EnByraZe58fXqGcaJXEPxzQgDRgCT4Tmx6dycMZDk2BYr8nEVHvroFVV0BBgbmci9-5NQXLe-_TADxWoaHFbQLTkZ_S6X7gooGS2WS2hjnVU9k8TJvQcgrZPgRvcxDa635thiwS18ib2JkrJsBzJpxawXgcLHhLf7Y6EZsBbphBqpbBMgw

==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Scalia, son==
[https://twitter.com/StuffForSisters/status/1581430850159542272 At Scalia's Funeral:]
"We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us—known only by reputation to even more. A man loved by many—scorned by others. A man known for great controversy & for great compassion. That man, of course, is Jesus of Nazareth."

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shakespeare, William==
*"Ten masts deep make not the altitude from which though has perpendicularly fell." King Lear, Edgar to Gloucester.

===Insults===
From Cultural Tutor on Twitter:
1) "Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon."
~Timon of Athens

2) "You, minion, are too saucy."
~The Two Gentleman of Verona

3) "Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat."
~Henry V

4) "The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril."
~The Merry Wives of Windsor

5) "Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows."
~Troilus and Cressida

10) "I’ll beat thee, but I would infect my hands."
~Timon of Athens

11) "More of your conversation would infect my brain."
~Coriolanus

12) "There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune."
~Henry IV, Part 1

14) "Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

18) "This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

23) "Some report a sea-maid spawn’d him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice."
~Measure for Measure

25) "Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood."
~King Lear

31) "Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant."
~The Taming of the Shrew

46) "A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition."
~King Lear

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
"Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king."
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==SMITH, ADAM==
*"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” (no source)

==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
*“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
*"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

*"The best obituary a man can have is that the people who knew him loved him, even if those who didn't know him hated him," ''Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays''

*“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice'.” The Quest for Cosmic Justice

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
*“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” In english: "To understand all is to forgive all." 
[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

*“Madame,” the general informed the lady in question, “I do not want women mixed up in politics.” “You are perfectly right,” came the reply, “but in a country where their heads are cut off, it is only natural for them to want to know why.” (Exchange between Napoleon Bonaparte and Madame de Staël, J. Christopher Herold’s ''The Mind of Napoleon''.)

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==st exuery==
Drawing on French aristocrat Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, philosopher Byung Chul Han noted that, while houses are homes in space, rituals are homes in time. Rituals are an assertion of continuity — you act as your ancestors acted before you. They shift the family from the moment into ‘eternal time’. https://www.theculturist.io/p/why-did-wealth-stop-building-beautiful?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2242126&post_id=179128916&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

==Sutton, Willy==
When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is."

== ==

==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==TACITUS==
*Omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset." 
“All would have agreed that he was capable of being emperor, if only he had never been it.” 
So wrote Tacitus of Galba.

==Taft, William==
*"The opportunity freely and publicly to criticize judicial action is of vastly more iportance to the body politic than the immunity of courts and judges from unjust aspersions and attack. Nothing tends more to render judges careful in their decisions and anxiously solicitous to do exact justice than the consciousness that every act of theirs is to be subjected to the intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their fellow-men. Such criticism is beneficial in proportion as it is fair, dispassionate, discriminating, and based on a knowledge of sound legal principles. The comments made by learned text writers and by the acute editors of the various law reviews upon judicial decisions are therefore highly useful. Such critics constitute more or less impartial tribunals of professional opinion before which each judgment is made to stand or fall on its merits, and thus exert a strong influence to secure uniformity of decision. But non-professional criticism also is by no means without its uses, even if accompanied, as it often is, by a direct attack upon the judicial fairness and motives of the occupants of the bench; for if the law is but the essence of common sense, the protest of many average men may evidence a defect in a judicial conclusion, though based on the nicest legal reasoning and profoundest learning. The two important elements of moral character in a judge are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it. In so far as fear of public comment does not affect the courage of a judge, but only spurs him on to search his conscience and to reach the result which approves itself to his inmost heart such comment serves a useful purpose. There are few men, whether they are judges for life or for a shorter term, who do not prefer to earn and hold the respect of all, and who can not be reached and made to pause and deliberate by hostile public criticism. In the case of judges having a life tenure, indeed their very independence makes the right freely to comment on their decisions of greater importance, because it is the only practical and available instrument in the hands of a free people to keep such judges alive to the reasonable demands of those they serve." (1895) As [http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/state-of-the-union-1906.php cited by Pres. Roosevelt] in 1906.

==Tate, Jeremy==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted at 9:15 AM on Sun, Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

==Taylor, Charles==
*As reported [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/04/westafrica.qanda by The Guardian]: "He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him." Running successfully for President of Liberia.

==Teller, Edward==
*"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
*Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

* His election rerunning announcement speech:
Michael Tracey@mtracey·14hSorry to break it to you, but Trump was spot-on with this one: “They say the ocean will rise 1/8 of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years, but don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries with one shot. Something is wrong with their thinking.”

:This is an example of how he exaggerates in the hope that someone will correct him and make his point for him (1/8 inch corrected to 2 inches, still tiny).

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*"Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain, message to Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 1901.

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

*"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

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== ==
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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 

Often quoted in W. H. Auden's translation,‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’, but the French is so easy, an Anglophone might as well use the original phrase. See also "Le code n'est jamais fini, seulement termine." 

Valery didn't actually say this, though it is what is commonly quoted in France. Pierre Vinclair tells us about that in [https://poezibao.typepad.com/files/ashbery-9.pdf «Portrait d’une énigme dans un miroir convexe», "9. et fin. Clack"], [https://www.poesibao.fr/ ''Poezibao'']
[https://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2020/11/feuilleton-critique-portrait-dune-%C3%A9nigme-dans-un-miroir-convexe-9-et-fin-clack-par-pierre-vinclair.html archive] (2020):

"Et l’on connaît la célèbre formule de Valéry : « un poème n’est jamais fini, seulement abandonné ». Dicton apocryphe, qui trouve sans doute son origine dans cette page de «Littérature»:

::Une œuvre dont l’achèvement — le jugement qui la déclare achevée, est uniquement subordonné à la condition qu’elle nous plaise — n’est jamais achevée. […]
:: Un poème n’est jamais achevé — c’est toujours un accident qui le termine, c’est-àdire qui le donne au public.
::Ce sont la lassitude, la demande de l’éditeur, — la poussée d’un autre poème.
::Mais jamais l’état même de l’ouvrage (si l’auteur n’est pas un sot) ne montre qu’il ne pourrait être poussé, changé, considéré comme première approximation, ou origine d’une recherche nouvelle.
::Je conçois, quant à moi, que le même sujet et presque les mêmes mots pourraient être repris indéfiniment et occuper toute une vie.
::« Perfection »
::c’est travail. 

Notre premier bumper soit donc Paul Valéry, selon qui l’œuvre ne s’achève jamais
(car la perfection qu’elle cherche est asymptotique) : seul un accident extérieur peut
l’interrompre. Or, des trois causes qu’il nomme — lassitude, demande de l’éditeur,
poussée d’un autre poème — aucune ne ressemble au tarissement dont parle
Ashbery. C’est sans doute que, pour celui-ci, le poème n’est pas l’objet d’un travail
infini visant la perfection, la confection maniaque d’une œuvre aussi proche que
possible de l’idéal."

Paul Valéry, «Littérature» in Tel Quel, Gallimard, 1941, p. 154. "

==Vaughan, Sarah==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html Easy Street]

==Von Neumann, John==
*“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You get used to them.”

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== ==

==Wang, John==
@johnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Watson, Thomas==
* After talking about the Prodigal Son: “Before a man can come to Christ he must first come to himself. . . . A man must first recognize and consider what his sin is, and know the plague of his heart, before he can be duly humbled for it.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

*“Affliction is but corrective; sin is destructive” ''The Doctrine of Repentance.'' (1668).

*“Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

==Watt, Peter==
*"Judy Holliday said. "Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''. In Hunter Biden's case it seems that nothing he does will ever be printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

==Wilde, Oscar==
*"Algernon: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” 
:Jack: “Is that clever?” 
:Algernon: “It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be.” " 
::(from ''The Importance of Being Earnest'')

===[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phrases_and_Philosophies_for_the_Use_of_the_Young "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young"], ''Chameleon'' magazine, (1894)===

*Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.

*A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

*If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

*It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

*Only the shallow know themselves.

*One should always be a little improbable.

*The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

*One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

*The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

==Will, George==
"The ancients had asked, What is the highest attainment of which mankind is capable and how can we pursue this? Hobbes and subsequent moderns asked, What is the worst that can happen and how can we avoid it?" (TCS, p 19)

==Williams, Robin==
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”

==Wolfe, Humbert==
[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-british-journalist-by-humbert-wolfe-f9r6pb9hb07 The London Times]:

. 
You cannot ever bribe or twist 
The freeborn British journalist 
Seeing what, unbribed, he’ll do 
You realize there’s no reason to

==Warhol, Andrew==
*“The President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”

— Andy Warhol, 1975,

== ==
==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zeto, Salena==
*<> [https://www.thefp.com/p/my-decade-with-donald-trump-salena-zito?utm_campaign=email-post&r=fjeib&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "My Decade with Donald Trump,"] Salena Zito, ''The Free Press'' (2025), linking to her article, [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-makes-his-case-in-pittsburgh/501335/ "Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally",] ''The Atlantic'' (2016).

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

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Best Things of 2026

2026-03-01T21:10:11Z

Eric Rasmusen:

*Eugene ONeill--- New play

*Booker T Washington, ''Up from Slavery''

*TV great paintings on wall

*Auchincloss lawyers book. Dark Lady of the Sonnets.

Best Things of 2026

2026-03-01T20:58:13Z

Eric Rasmusen:

*Eugene ONeill--- New play

*Booker T Washington, ''Up from Slavery''

*TV great paintings on wall

Best Things of 2026

2026-02-28T19:32:36Z

Eric Rasmusen: Created page with "*Eugene ONeill *Booker T Washington, Up from Slavery"

*Eugene ONeill

*Booker T Washington, Up from Slavery

Quotations

2026-02-28T19:26:52Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* Esolen, Anthony */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

*[https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089 "On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs' "], Jia Tolentino ( /23/16).

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==Anonymous==
*"Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (“Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched”) The motto of the University of Chicago.

*"You can make fish soup from fish, but you cannot make fish from fish soup." Hungarian proverb (Viktor Orban)

*"South Africa has introduced a new category to geopolitics: a de-developing nation." (@ConCaracal, X, 2026).

*"Don't take notes of what the professor says, take note."

*"What other people think of me is none of my business.”

*"Do you have 10 years of experience, or are you just living the same year at your job 10 times over?" [https://twitter.com/randomrecruiter/status/1690753402014232576 @randomrecruiter] (2023)

*I am reminded of a woman who graduated from MIT in 1987. I asked her about her social life as an undergrad. "The odds were good, but the goods were odd."

*"VOCATUS ATQUA NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT." (CALLED OR NOT CALLED, GOD IS PRESENT.)

*"The rich man smokes the same sort of cigarettes as the poor man, shaves with the same sort of razor, uses the same sort of telephone, vacuum cleaner, radio, and TV set, has the same sort of lighting and heating equipment in his house, and so on indefinitely. The differences between his automobile and the poor man’s are minor. Essentially they have similar engines, similar fittings. In the early years of the century there was a hierarchy of automobiles." (''Harper's Magazine'' [1957])

*"Conservatives view themselves as underdogs because they are, especially culturally. Liberals view themselves underdogs because although in charge of every significant human institution they have set themselves the impossible egalitarian task of waging war against nature and reality itself - so when results inevitably conflict with their egalitarian ideology - when racial gaps, poverty, sex differences, inequality etc persist - they blame reactionary forces rather than nature (reality)." ''Twitter'' (2023).

*The Hillary defense:
:I didn’t do it.
:You can’t prove it.
:Everybody does it.
:He did it.
:You're just a racist.
:It's old news.
:What difference, at this point, does it make?

*The Russian Teapot defense:
:It isn’t broken
:If it is broken, I didn’t do it
:If I did do it, it was no good anyway

*A canon of legal interpretation:"Specialia generalibus non derogant". Special things don't derogate from the general rule.

* “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original:"Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement , il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." [https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa as written by Jomini] (1827))..

*When everything works fine, they wonder why they hired you. When everything stops working, they wonder why they hired you. I.T. in a nutshell.

*“I don't drink, or cuss, or chew; and I don't go out with girls that do.”

*"The plural of outlier is out-and-out-liar".

*"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*[https://allaboutfrench.com/qui-se-ressemble-sassemble "Qui se ressemble s'assemble"]

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan," as quoted in ''A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition) by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Owning a sailboat is like turning your shower's cold water on and standing there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own." Stalin?

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Showing up is 90% of success," or "Being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them." — an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain". This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointment, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: the person secretly believe the world revolves around him, everyone is paying attention to him and his actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan. It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.
Women will always and forever rely on men.}}
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==Adams, John==
*"It is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State." [https://buff.ly/3rFhAzP "From John Adams to James Sullivan"] (26 May 1776).

==Adams, Scott==
*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1577277568310341632 Twitter, October 4, 2022]:"Elon Musk took control of the Ukraine/Russia endgame by writing the first draft in bullet form and drawing all attention to it.

:You just learned one of the most powerful persuasion techniques in the modern world: Write the first draft and keep it simple."

*I’m not worried about climate change because any species that can predict the average temperature a hundred years in advance won’t have trouble handling it.

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==The African Queen==
Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature. 
Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

See [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/characters/nm0000031 the IMDB quote page.]

==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” 
Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Allred, Austen==
*"Job descriptions should be strongly opinionated, and should both attract the people you’d want to work with while repelling those you wouldn’t."(Twitter 2023)

==Amin, Idi==
*"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."

==Anderson, Robert==
*"It would be nice if people would put (D) or (R) in their profiles so I know whether to retweet or ratio them without having to do a bunch of reading." Twitter (2024).

==Andreessen, Mark==
*"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

*Whitepill #14: Every day, two lists get longer: The things you believe but can't say, and the things you don't believe but must say. (Twitter, 2022)

==Aquinas, Thomas==
*"Nevertheless, sacred doctrine makes use of these authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the authority of the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the authority of the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable. For our faith rests upon the revelation made to the apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books, and not on the revelations (if any such there are) made to other doctors. Hence Augustine says (Epis. ad Hieron. xix, 1): 'Only those books of Scripture which are called canonical have I learned to hold in such honor as to believe their authors have not erred in any way in writing them. But other authors I so read as not to deem everything in their works to be true, merely on account of their having so thought and written, whatever may have been their holiness and learning'" (Summa Theologica,. Part 1, Q. 1, Art. 8).

==The Apocrypha==
"Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

2But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.

3With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.

4But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.

5For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen." Wisdom of SOlomon 13.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
*“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

*"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

*"The other environmental risk factors for schizophrenia are equally hard to change. Poverty? Okay, don’t be poor, thanks for the important life advice. Social defeat? “Doctor, are you saying I have to never let anyone defeat me?” “Yes, it’s my official medical recommendation that you become invincible.” " [https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-fair-to-describe-schizophrenia "It's Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic"] (Jan. 31, 2024).

==Auden==
*“The Danish Lutheran Church may have been as worldly as Kierkegaard thought it was, but if it had not existed he would never have heard of the Gospels, in which he found the standards by which he condemned it.”

==Augustine==
*“Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and that not of one man, but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices” (''City of God'', Book IV)

*"If they shall be deprived of all good, they shall no longer be. So long, therefore, as they are, they are good; therefore whatsoever is, is good. That evil, then, which I sought whence it was, is not any substance; for were it a substance, it would be good. For either it would be an incorruptible substance, and so a chief good, or a corruptible substance, which unless it were good it could not be corrupted. I perceived, therefore, and it was made clear to me, that Thou didst make all things good, nor is there any substance at all that was not made by Thee; and because all that Thou hast made are not equal, therefore all things are; because individually they are good, and altogether very good, because our God made all things very good." ''Confessions'', Book 7, chapter 12.

== ==
==Balfour, Arthur==
*“The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which, for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.”

==Bankman-Fried, Sam ==
“...this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us.” --
"[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself]: The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way," ''Vox,'' Kelsey Piper (Nov. 16, 2022).

==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
*“Eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

==The Bible==
*“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” Proverbs 15:1.

*"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits." Proverbs 16:2.

*"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs 16:4.

*"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9.

==Boghossian, Peter==
*"If a thing's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well." (''Unherd'' panel interview, 2024, ''You-Tube'').

==Booth, William (Salvation Army founder)==
*Asked about the chief dangers for the 20th century, Salvation Army founder Booth [https://rlhymersjr.com/Online_Sermons/2007/090907_OldEvangelicalismReview.html said], “Religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.”

==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

==Bloom,Allen==
*“Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason’s power.” ''The Closing of the American Mind''

==Bloom, Harold==
*[https://biblioklept.org/2013/02/19/harold-bloom-on-the-school-of-resentment/ Harold Bloom on his agon with “The School of Resentment.”] From [https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2225/the-art-of-criticism-no-1-harold-bloom his 1991 interview with The Paris Review.]:
When I was a young man back in the fifties starting out on what was to be my career, I used to proclaim that my chosen profession seemed to consist of secular clergy or clerisy. I was thinking, of course, of the highly Anglo-Catholic New Criticism under the sponsorship or demigodness of T. S. Eliot. But I realized in latish middle age that, no better or worse, I was surrounded by a pride of displaced social workers, a rabblement of lemmings, all rushing down to the sea carrying their subject down to destruction with them. The school of resentment is an extraordinary sort of mélange of latest-model feminists, Lacanians, that whole semiotic cackle, latest-model pseudo-Marxists, so-called New Historicists, who are neither new nor historicist, and third generation deconstructors, who I believe have no relationship whatever to literary values. . . .

It is tiresome to be encountering myths called “The Social Responsibility of the Critic” or “The Political Responsibility of the Critic.” I would rather walk into a bookstore and find a book called “The Aesthetic Responsibilities of the Statesman,” or “The Literary Responsibilities of the Engineer.” Criticism is not a program for social betterment, not an engine for social change. I don’t see how it possibly could be. . . .

What else is there like Invisible Man? Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God has a kind of superior intensity and firm control. It’s a very fine book indeed. It surprised and delighted me when I first read it and it has sustained several rereadings since. But that and Invisible Man are the only full scale works of fiction I have read by American blacks in this century that have survival possibilities at all. Alice Walker is an extremely inadequate writer, and I think that is giving her the best of it. A book like The Color Purple is of no aesthetic interest or value whatsoever, yet it is exalted and taught in the academies. It clearly is a time in which social and cultural guilt has taken over. . . .

I’m not terribly fond of feminist criticism. The true test is to find work, whether in the past or present, by women writers that we had undervalued, and thus bring it to our attention and teach us to study it more closely or more usefully. By that test they have failed, because they have added not one to the canon. The women writers who mattered—Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and others who have always mattered on aesthetic grounds—still matter. I do not appreciate Elizabeth Bishop or May Swenson any more or less than I would have appreciated them if we had no feminist literary criticism at all.

==Bowles, Michael==
“Construction is a matter of backing yourself into a corner and then fighting your way out.”

==Bukowski, Charles==
*“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

==Burke, Edmund==
* “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770).

*"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Misattributed. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ Quote Investigator.]

==Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)==
. 
He that complies against his Will, 
Is of his own Opinion still. 
(from ''Hudibras'')
----

== ==
==CANNON, William==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Caplan, Bryan==
*"When a normal utilitarian concludes that mass murder would maximize social utility, he checks his work! He goes over his calculations with a fine-tooth comb, hoping to discover a way to implement beneficial policy changes without horrific atrocities. The Leninist, in contrast, reasons backwards from the atrocities that emotionally inspire him to the utilitarian argument that morally justifies his atrocities." [https://betonit.substack.com/p/the_roots_of_lehtml The roots of Leninism] (2012)

==Carlin, George==
*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that."

==Carson, D.A.==
*"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."

==Carver, George Washington==
*“When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well, George, that's more nearly your size.’

==Carville, James==
*“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

==St. Charbel Makhlouf==
*[https://www.lightbook.org/53-best-saint-charbel-quotes.html "Your weakness is to be overcome, not to be used as a pilgrimage."]

==Charles III of the United Kingdom==
* 2011 as he [https://www.royal.uk/clarencehouse/speech/speech-hrh-prince-wales-king-james-bible-trust-reception addressed the King James Bible Trust:] “I’ve never really understood who it was that decided that, for people who aren’t very good at reading, the best things to read are those written by people who aren’t very good at writing!”

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*"Chesterton's Fence", 1929 book, ''The Thing,'' “The Drift from Domesticity”:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to challenge his reformist son-in-law. Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in his poem, “Mending Wall.” }}

*"A man can pretend to be wise; a man cannot pretend to be witty."

*"Those who will not even admit the Capitalist problem deserve to get the Communist solution."

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*"If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization."

*"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it"--Autobiography

*{{Quotation|We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

==Chicago, University of==
*The University of Chicago's motto is "Crescat scientia; vita excolatur," which means,"Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched."

==Chrysostom, John==
*"Should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in the midst of the forum, blaspheming God; go up to him and rebuke him; and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not to do so. Smite him on the face; strike his mouth; sanctify your hand with the blow, and if any should accuse you, and drag you to the place of justice, follow them there; and when the judge on the bench calls you to account, say boldly that the man blasphemed the King of angels! For if it be necessary to punish those who blaspheme an earthly king, much more so those who insult God" ('On the Statues', 1).

== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Coleridge, Samuel==
*"I, for one, do not call the sod under my feet my country. But language, religion, laws, government, blood — identity in these makes men of one country." ''Table Talk'', May 29, 1830.

==Comfort, Ray==
“Atheists don’t hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don’t exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Covey, Stephen==
*"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man."

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [-Twitter, 2021]}}

==Cunningham==
J.V. Cunningham, from "Meditation on Statistical Method"

<pre>
Plato, despair!
We prove by norms
How numbers bear
Empiric forms,

How random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our hearts
Hyperbole
Curves and departs
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
</pre>

My version:

<pre>
Random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our soul
Hyperbole
Makes error roll
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
So hope and doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Won't average out.
</pre>

== ==

==Dalrymple, Theodore==
*"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." a 2005 https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com/dalrymple-interviewed-by-jamie-glazov/ interview] in FrontPage.

==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in ''First Things'', 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, ''The Information'')

==Descartes==
See [[Descartes]]
*"Bene qui latuit, bene vixit."
*"He lives well who lies well hidden." I like the English version better. What is it in French? Ovid, Descartes.

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==Dio Cassius==
*"Although he was very practised as a writer of prose and verse and very skilled in all the arts, yet he always mocked the teachers of all the arts on the grounds that he was more learned than they, and despised and humiliated them. With these same professors and philosophers he often competed, taking turns to publish books or poems. Once, indeed, a word used by Favorinus was criticized by Hadrian. Favorinus yielded, which provoked some very agreeable amusement. He was wrong to concede to Hadrian, his friends charged him, over a word which reputable authors had used. ‘You don’t give me good advice, my friends,’ said Favorinus, ‘when you don’t allow me to believe the man who possesses thirty legions to be more learned than anyone else!’ " From [https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/hadrians-rome/content-section-5.1 Birley, A. (trans.) (1976) Lives of the Later Caesars, London, Penguin, pp. 57–87.]

<pre>
To the poet Florus,Footnote61 who wrote to him:

I do not want to be Caesar,
To walk about among the Britons,
To ensure the Scythian hoar-frosts,

he wrote back:

I do not want to be Florus,
To walk about among taverns,
To lurk about among cook-shops,
To put up with the round insects.
</pre>

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
*"Making a mistake is a net positive if you learn more from it than it cost you."

{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

*"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dornbusch, Rudiger==
*"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought" (on exchange rate crises)

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

== ==

==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==Einstein, Albert==
"in 1952 he wrote a letter to his friend and fellow physicist Max Born where he admits that even if the astronomical data had gone against general relativity, he would still believe in the theory:"

`Even if there were absolutely no light deflection, no perihelion motion and no redshift, the gravitational equations would still be convincing because they avoid the inertial system... It is really quite strange that humans are usually deaf towards the strongest arguments, while they are constantly inclined to overestimate the accuracy of measurement.'
([https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-einsteins-unification-by-jeroen? "John Psmith" 2024)

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

== Eschenbach, Willis==
"A bad Muslim wants to cut your head off and rape your wife. 
A good Muslim wants a bad Muslim to cut your head off and rape your wife."

==Esolen, Anthony==
*"Be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves, says the Lord.

:The converse is what we have now in our elites, in Church, State, education, etc.: People in charge who are as dopey as pigeons, and as malignant as snakes." (Twitter, 2024)

== ==

==Faulkner, William==
*“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feser, Ed==
*"If a doctor says “This is what lung cancer involves, please stop smoking,” no one accuses him of wanting the patient to suffer. But if a theologian says “This is what damnation involves, please stop sinning,” he is accused of wanting people to go to hell." ([https://twitter.com/FeserEdward/status/1665881489354162177 Twitter, 2023])

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Friedman, Milton==
"Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:

1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality) 
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality) 
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost) 
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

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==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

==Gandhi, Ashvin==
@ashdgandhi (Nov 29 2025)

"Normal people: hear math statements as regular words.

Mathematicians: hear math statements as logic.

Economists: hear regular words as math statements."

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

==Girard, Rene==
*“Nietzsche shared with many intellectuals of his time and our own a passion for irresponsible rhetoric in the attempt to get one up on opponents. But philosophers, for their misfortune, are not the only people in the world. Genuinely mad and frantic people are all around them and do them the worst turn of all: they take them at their word.” I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
*Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies" "I am the spirit who always says no." Faust part I.

*"I am the spirit that always says no. And how right I am! For surely It’s right that everything that comes to be Should cease to be. And so they do. Still better Would be nothing ever was. Hence sin And havoc and ruin—all you call evil, in sum— For me’s the element in which I swim.”

<pre>"Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen:
Verweile doch! du bist so schön!
Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen,
Dann will ich gern zugrunde gehn!
</pre>
Faust, Part I. When I to a moment say, Stay a while! You are so fair! Then you may enslave my soul, then I will submit to you. Or something like that.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==Goodstein, David==
"1.1 INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously. We will begin by considering the simplest meaningful example, the perfect gas, in order to get the central concepts sorted out." ( States of Matter (1985); see https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1651559339067310081)

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*[https://x.com/paulg/status/1874590418463330489 TWITTER:] "A friend who's a former British military officer told me that when he was training soldiers in jungle warfare they were taught that if they got lost in the jungle, the first thing they should do was to brew a cup of tea and think about what to do next."

*"Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign flipped." (2024, X).

*"If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial." [http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html "Putting Ideas into Words"] (2022).

*"A rare counterexample to the principle of specialization: your site should never seem like it was made by communications people, and the best way to achieve this is for it not to be. This is something founders should continue to micromanage forever."[https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1654765304184971264 Twitter] (2023) ]

*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)

==Grandin, Temple==
*Temple Grandin wrote in ''The Way I See It,'' a book on the experience of autism: "What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done."
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hamblin, Jacob==
*Jacob Hamblin’s "Rules for Dealing with the Indians" from ''Jacob Hamblin among the Indians'' by James Little.

1. I never talk anything but the truth to them.

2. I think it useless to speak of things they cannot comprehend.

3. I strive by all means to never let them see me in a passion.

4. Under no circumstances show fear, thereby showing to them that I have a sound heart and a straight tongue.

5. Never approach them in an austere manner nor use more words than are necessary to convey my ideas, not in a higher tone of voice than to be distinctly heard.

6. Always listen to them when they wish to tell of their grievances, and redress their wrongs, however trifling they may be if possible. If I cannot I let them know I have a desire to do so.

7. I never allow them to hear me use profane or obscene language or take any unbecoming course with them.

8. I never submit to any unjust demands or submit to coercion under any circumstances, thereby showing them that I govern and am governed by the rule of right not by might.

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

==Herrnstein, Robert==
:"Dick recalled the day when, as a young man, he had been awarded tenure. It was his dream fulfilled -- a place in the university he so loved, the chance to follow his research wherever it took him, economic security. For Dick, being a tenured professor at Harvard was not just the perfect job, but the perfect way to live his life. It was too good to be true; there had to be a catch. What's my part of the bargain? he had asked himself. "And I figured it out," he said, looking at me with that benign, gentle half-smile of his. "You have to tell the truth." There was no self-congratulation in his voice, just an answer to my question." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20010421204200/https://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/bell-curve/murray-hstein-obit.html "Richard J. Herrnstein, RIP,"] by Charles Murray, Vol. 46, National Review, 10-10-1994, pp 22.

==Hoffer, Eric==
*[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98215-every-great-cause-begins-as-a-movement-becomes-a-business “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”]

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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==Heath, Joseph==
"Populists have great difficulty respecting the rule of law. If one listens to the explanations that they offer for their actions, a great deal of this reflects a bias toward concreteness in their thinking. They think the purpose of the rules is to stop bad people from doing bad things, but since they themselves are good people trying to do good things, they cannot see why they should be constrained by the rules." "Populism Fast and Slow", ''Substack'' (2025).

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== Rob Henderson==
*“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” [https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/ Quillette article] (2021).

*"Men bond by insulting each other and not really meaning it; women bond by complimenting each other and not really meaning it."

*"Over the course of human evolutionary history, there may have been some independent-minded women who thought things through and decided to avoid the pain and risks of motherhood. These women are not our ancestors." [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-story-of-us-9780190883201?cc=gb&lang=en& one of his books], via Twitter.

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==Hippocrates==
"Ars longa, vita brevis" has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."

The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

==Hitchens, Christopher==
*"It will happen to all of us that at some point you'll be tapped on the shoulder and told - not just that the party is over - but slightly worse: the party's going on but you have to leave."

==Hitchens, PETER==
*'I also remember a French high-speed train, on which Mrs Hitchens and I ate a long, time-consuming, four-course picnic lunch, wine included, partly for the joy of it and partly because we were exempt from French mask rules as long as we were eating.
::'An infuriated French ticket inspector chose to lecture us explosively about our irresponsibility — whereupon I donned a large black Polish Army surplus gas mask, which in those days I carried about for satirical purposes.
::‘Take it off!’ he cried. ‘You are trying to frighten people!’ . :‘No,’ I replied, ‘it is you who are trying to frighten people.’ https://mol.im/a/12947665 via @MailOnline"

==Hooker. Richard==
*“It is dangerous for the feeble mind of man to wade too far into the doings of the Most High. Although it is life to know Him and joy to mention His name, our surest knowledge is that we do not know Him as He truly is, nor can we; our safest eloquence is our silence, confessing without confession that His glory is inexplicable and His greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we are on earth; therefore let our words be wary and few.” (''Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'', Vol. 1, book 1, chapter 2)

==Hochschild, Joshua==
*"It is an academic myth that canonical texts, literary and religious, embody ideology and perpetuate power structures. In the experience of actual readers, canonical texts are typically the means of escaping ideology and challenging power structures." Twitter (2024)

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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== Thomas Jefferson==
" If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion towards his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriæ of the other." [https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/query-xviii-an-excerpt-from-notes-on-the-state-of-virginia-by-thomas-jefferson-1784/ Query 18, Notes from Virginia.]
==Jomini ==
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original: "Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." as written by Jomini (1827). https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa

== ==

==Kac, Mark==
*"Probability theory is measure theory with a soul." Here is one source. Is there a better one, an original one? [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf]

==Karlin, George==
*"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they’re cramming for their final exam."

*"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

*"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body."

*"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts."

*"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it."

==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

*[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

==Keller, Timothy==
*"A possible way to start a conversation with someone who is not a believer:
'Tell me the God you don't believe in because chances are I don't believe in that God either.' "
*"Few people live up to their own standards, let alone an objective one. Either way we come up short on our own accord."
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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==Keynes, John==
* “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”

==Khan, Razib==
:*"The reason we need nerds is that they jump all over little lies, and drown them in the bathtub before the lies can grow up and become invincible monsters." [https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1675204182679207936 Twitter (2023).]

==Kierkegaard, Emil==
{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."
}}

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

== KIPLING, Rudyard==
. 
In August was the jackal born, 
The rains fell in September. 
"Now such a fearful flood as this," 
Says he, "I can't remember!" [http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/second-jungle-book/7/ "The Undertakers"] The 2nd Jungle Book.

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==Kosinski, Jerzy==
* "The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
:(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.” 
:(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
:(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==Rush Limbaugh==
“Men and women range themselves into three classes... the lowest by talking about persons; the next about things; the highest about ideas.”

==Lindsay, James==
*On the Christian method, which is good for redpilling wokers too: 
::1) Proclaim the truth (tell without coercion or force) 
::2) Remind them that everyone is a sinner (so everyone makes mistakes) 
::3) Invite them to repent in their own time (accept your past error as wrong and move forward productively).

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted , Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

*"The idea that any man or writer should be opaque to those who lived in the same culture, spoke the same language, shared the same habitual imagery and unconscious assumptions, and yet be transparent to those who have none of these advantages, is in my opinion preposterous. " ([https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern Seed speech])

*From "The Abolition of Man": 'When all that says "It is good" has been debunked, what says "I want" remains.'

* "The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

*“His education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

*“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”

*A man who has spent his youth and manhood in the minute study of New Testament texts and of other people’s studies of them, whose literary experience of those texts lacks any standard of comparison such as can only grow from a wide and deep and genial experience of literature in general, is, I should think, very likely to miss the obvious thing about them. If he tells me that something in a Gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavour; not how many years he has spent on that Gospel...

:I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life. I know what they are like. I know that not one of them is like this. Of this text there are only two possible views. Either this is reportage—though it may no doubt contain errors—pretty close up to the facts; nearly as close as Boswell. Or else, some unknown writer in the second century, without known predecessors or successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative
-- CS Lewis. https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern-Seed and Elephants," Originally entitled 'Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism'.

==Long, Earl (Governor of Louisiana, brother of Huey Long)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

==Long, Russell (Senator from Indiana, son of Huey Long)==
*"Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax the man behind the tree." [improved] See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/]

==Long, Rob==
"I was nonplussed — the actual definition of nonplussed, which is baffled, rather than what it sounds like and will eventually come to mean, which is unimpressed." (2024)

==Luther, Martin==
* "Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it."

:"This is a murky Luther quote that seems like something he would have said, yet finding an exact reference isn't easy. A couple of people have searched for this quote uncovering interesting clues and theories of its origin (see for instance, About That Great Luther Quote and also the discussion here). Piggybacking on their efforts, I have my own theory of how this quote became popular: it's in the form it's in because singer-song writer Derek Webb was quoting Charles Spurgeon quoting Luther... whether he knew it or not!" https://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2020/08/luther-every-week-i-preach.html

* “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan." --Book IV of The Prince}}

*"A question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may
be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person it is
much safer to be feared than loved, when only one is possible. The reason for this is that in general men
are ungrateful, inconstant, false, cowardly, and greedy. As long as you succeed, they are yours entirely -
they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, when the need is far distant. But when the
need approaches, they turn against you. A prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected
other ways of protecting himself, will be ruined. Friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by
greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot
be relied upon. Men are less worried about offending one who is loved than one who is feared. Love is
preserved by the link of gratefulness which, owing to the weak nature of men, is broken at every
opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a fear of punishment which never fails." Chapter 17, [https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Principe/Capitolo_XVIII The Prince], Machiavelli.

*"Questo una disputa, s'e' gli è meglio essere amato che temuto o e converso. Rispondesi che si vorrebbe essere l'uno e l'altro; ma perché e' gli è difficile accozzarli insieme, è molto più sicuro essere temuto che amato, quando si abbi a mancare dell'uno de' dua. Perché degli uomini si può dire questo, generalmente, che sieno ingrati, volubili, simulatori e dissimulatori, fuggitori de' pericoli, cupidi del guadagno; e mentre fai loro bene e' sono tutti tua, offeronti el sangue, la roba, la vita, e' figliuoli, come di sopra dissi, quando el bisogno è discosto: ma quando ti si appressa, si rivoltono, e quello principe che si è tutto fondato in su le parole loro, trovandosi nudo di altre preparazioni, ruina. Perché le amicizie che si acquistono col prezzo, e non con grandezza e nobilità di animo, si meritano, ma elle non si hanno, e alli tempi non si possono spendere; e li uomini hanno meno rispetto a offendere uno che si facci amare, che uno che si facci temere: perché lo amore è tenuto da uno vinculo di obligo, il quale, per essere gl'uomini tristi, da ogni occasione di propria utilità è rotto, ma il timore è tenuto da una paura di pena che non ti abbandona mai." Ch. 7. [http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/testo/bibit000214 Il Principe], Machiavelli.

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
*“The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.” (Letter to Napier, November 5, 1841, p. 103 of Trevelyan's ''The Life and Letters..., Vol. 2'')

*"The doctrine which from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words, and stripped of rhetorical disguise is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error."
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Sir James Macintosh"

*From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Mahler Gustav==
*From [https://deepstash.com/article/203717/jean-jaurs-the-true-way-to-honour-the-past Deepstash, Jean Jaures said,] "Ce n'est pas en vain que tous les foyers des générations humaines ont flambé, ont rayonné ; mais c'est nous, parce que nous marchons, parce que nous luttons pour un idéal nouveau, c'est nous qui sommes les vrais héritiers du foyer des aïeux ; nous en avons pris la flamme, vous n'en avez gardé que la cendre." From [https://latoilescoute.net/de-la-tradition-il-faut-garder-la Latoilescoute.net: ] janvier 1910, à Paris, Chambre des députés in Pages choisies, éd. Rieder, paru en 1922, p. 115.

"It is not in vain that all the homes of human generations have burned, have blazed; but it is us - because we walk forward, because we fight for a new ideal - it is us who are the true heirs of the home of the ancestors; we took the flame, you only kept the ashes."

*From [https://x.com/DurhamWASP/status/1942000048822268127 Twitter] and [https://www.wienerzeitung.at/h/irrwege-einer-metapher Irrwege einer Metapher, of Gerald Krieghofer: Gustav Mahler said, ""Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers", Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

That's different and better enough for me to award the credit to Mahler. Mr. Krieghofer might show me to be wrong, though; I don't speak German.

==David MAMET==
*“We know psychology is a scam for two reasons.
One: all the children of psychologists are insane.
And two: in a hundred years of psychoanalysis, no one has ever gotten better.”
2011 book The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

==Mao Tse-Tung==
In ''Khruschev Remembers'', Soviet leader Krushchev [https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/quotations-peoples-republic/ talks about] a 1957 meeting.

"Mao spoke about the war at this meeting . His speech content was roughly this: Do not be afraid of war. Do not be afraid of either the atomic bomb or the weapons. No matter what kind of war, we socialist countries will win. When it comes to China specifically, he claimed: 'If the imperialist impose war on us, we now have 600 million people, even if we lose 300 million, so what, this is war. Years later, we nurture new, and the population will be restored.' After he spoke, the meeting room was in a tomb-like silence."

==de Marenches, Alexandre==
Jack Jolis:"
Reminds me of something the late, (pro-American) former French spy-boss Alexandre de Marenches once said to my late dad (in my presence):

:"That man Reagan-- he may not know much, but he understands everything"
"(Cet homme Reagan – il sait peut-être peu, mais il a tout compris”).

==Marx, Karl==
:"In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. The English Established Church, e.g., will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. Now-a-days atheism is culpa levis as compared with criticism of existing property relations." --[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm Capital], volume 1, Preface.

* "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." Introduction, 1844, in Marx's own journal Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher.

==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

==Mather, Increase==
*"When the Knowledge of the Tongues and Arts Revived, Religion had a Revival with it: And though some Unlearned men have been useful to the Interests of Religion, yet no man ever decried Learning, but what was, an Enemy to Religion, whether he knew it or no."

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==Matjaž Leonardis==
If 0.1mg dose of a drug can massively alter the behaviour of a 100kg human (nine orders of magnitude ratio) then the idea small groups of individuals can change massive social systems should seem at least plausible. (2022, Twitter)
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==Mazarin, Cardinal==
« Le cardinal Mazarin ne pouvait souffrir autour de lui des gens malheureux. Quand on lui proposait quelqu’un pour entrer à son service, sa première question était celle-ci : « Est-il heureux ? » »

"(Translation: "Cardinal Mazarin could not bear unhappy people around him. When someone was proposed to enter his service, his first question was: 'Is he lucky/fortunate?'")

This anecdote is reported by Madame la Palatine (Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, mother of the future Regent Philippe d'Orléans), in her letters or memoirs from the late 17th/early 18th century. It is referenced in multiple French historical sources, including sites dedicated to historical quotations (e.g., histoire-en-citations.fr), which describe it as a "well-known saying" (mot bien connu) attributed via the Palatine.

However, no primary source (e.g., Mazarin's own letters or contemporary accounts) directly records him saying it verbatim about generals. The Palatine's version is general (about service in his entourage), not explicitly military."

==MEIJER, WILLIAM==
*"If you give submissive people power, they’ll use it to submit themselves." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

*"Humans will endure any amount of chronic pain to avoid a temporarily greater level of acute pain." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

*About Pres. Roosevelt and his 1936 opponent Gov. Landon: Landon “probably knows a great deal less than the Hon. Mr. Roosevelt, but much more of what he knows is true.” (from [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Roosevelt_Sweeps_Nation/9qq-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mencken+++++1936++Landon,++%22probably+knows+a+great+deal+less+than+the+Hon+.+Mr.+Roosevelt+,+but+much+more+of+what+he+knows+is+true%22&pg=PT399&printsec=frontcover Pietruza's book])

*"I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey."

*"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

*"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup."

*"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

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==Eric Moody==
*[https://x.com/therealmissjo/status/1935709339567726688 From X:]
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”
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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

*"When you hear the names of legislation or anything done by the government, it is worth remembering that the group that sent so many people to the guillotine during the French Revolution was called “The Committee of Public Safety”, not the “Cut Off Their Heads Committee” " Twitter (2024)

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Newman, John==
*"It is not the way to learn to swim in troubled waters, never to have gone into them.” — “Duties of the Church towards Knowledge,” in ''The Idea of a University'' (1852).

Improved: "You won't learn to swim in troubled waters by avoiding bathtubs."

==Ngo, Richard==
*"To improve the world most in the short term, make the worst country better. To improve the world most in the long term, make the best country better." Twitter, 2025.

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Orwell, George==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

"There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see." (slightly improved, seen secondhand on Twitter)

==Prince Philip==
*“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

*“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

*“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

* “It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

* “If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

*“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

*“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

*“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

*“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

*“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

*“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

* “It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

* “It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/

==Steven PINKER==
*"Historically, positions were distributed by hereditary privilege, family ties, patronage to cronies, or sale to the highest bidder. These are not far from the system we have here." ([https://www.thecrimson.com/column/council-on-academic-freedom-at-harvard/article/2024/1/29/pinker-harvard-legacy-admissions/ of Harvard student admissions, 2024])

==Pablo PICASSO==
From Grok. Original:
« L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de révéler la vérité. » (Art is a lie that permits us to reveal the truth)
(or « L’art est le mensonge qui dit la vérité. » ---Art is the lie that tells the truth.

The most widely quoted French version:« L’art est un mensonge qui nous fait comprendre la vérité. » (Art is a lie that makes us understand the truth.)

Marius de Zayas, “Picasso Speaks,” The Arts (New York), May 1923, pp. 315–326.
French version as Picasso himself later approved or rephrased it (most canonical):
« Nous savons tous que l’Art n’est pas la vérité. L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de reconnaître la vérité, du moins la vérité qu’il nous est donné de comprendre. »
(This longer version appears in French sources quoting Picasso directly, notably in Christian Zervos’s conversations with Picasso and in later interviews.)

==Plato==
*"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter" ([https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=280790.0 in Greek:] μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μου τὴν στέγην," « mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn »). Engraved above the door of Plato's Academy in Athens. [https://www.dialogues-de-platon.org/faq/faq009.htm Bernard Suzanne] says "an anonymous scholion in a manuscript of Aelius Aristides whose author, according to him, might be the fourth century orator Sopatros, which mentions the full text of the inscription, adding that ageômetrètos has been put in place of anisos kai adikos ("unfair and unjust"), sometimes used in similar inscriptions at the entrance of sacred places, and
:"Johannes Tzetzes' Chiliades, whose text is as follows:
Pro tôn prothurôn tôn hautou grapsas hupèrche Platôn
Mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn
Toutestin, adikos mèdeis paresierchestô tèide
Isotès gar kai dikaion esti geômetria.
("Plato had written at the front door of his house: "Let no one who is not geometer enter under my roof", that is, "Let non one unjust sneak in here", because geometry is equality/fairness and justice/righteousness")."

==Podgursky, Ben==
*"When your kids ask to play with you, remember that the actual ask is "I want to spend time with you". They ask to play because play is all they know. If you'd rather do a project (gardening, making an IKEA shelf), just propose doing it with them. They'll be just as excited." (Twitter, 2025)

==Poincare, Henry==
"It is through logic that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
Poincare, H. (1914). Science and Method. (F. Maitland, Preface by B. Russell, Trans.) London: Thomas Nelson and Sons.

==Pope, Alexander==
==="An Essay on Criticism"===
<pre>
*Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang’rous is th’ offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
Some few in that, but numbers err in this,
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss;

‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

In poets as true genius is but rare,
True taste as seldom is the critic’s share;
Both must alike from Heav’n derive their light,
These born to judge, as well as those to write.

Yet if we look more closely we shall find
Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind;
Nature affords at least a glimm’ring light;
The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right.
But as the slightest sketch, if justly trac’d,
Is by ill colouring but the more disgrac’d,
So by false learning is good sense defac’d;
Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.
</pre>

==Popper, Karl==
*[https://www.stephenhicks.org/2021/09/30/popper-to-aron-letter-on-adorno-and-habermas/ Letter of Popper to Aron in 1970]:
"I can only say that when I read either Adorno or Habermas, I feel as if lunatics were speaking.
I have translated some of their German sentences into simple German. It turns out to be either trivial or tautological or sheer pretentious nonsense. I completely fail to see why Habermas is reputed to have “talent”. I do not think that he was born less intelligent than other people; but he certainly did not have the good sense to resist the influence of a pretentious, lying, and intelligence destroying University education.
Sociology is in a bad way — even here in England. There seems to be an interesting law: bad and pretentious language drives out good and simple language. And once human language is destroyed, we shall return to the beasts."

==Alex Priou==
*"Interpretation of a great work is first and foremost decompression of information and not compression.

:A summary of Plato or Aristotle that did faith to the nerve of their thought would require their near equal, and it would have to be an appropriate task for the times."

==Putin, Vladimir==
“The culture of cancellation is the cancellation of culture.” From [https://nationalfile.com/putin-skewers-cancel-culture-in-latest-moscow-speech/ an October 2022 speech. ]

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==Ramsey, Dave==
*"Tell the money where to go instead of wondering where it went."

==Ramseyer, J. Mark==
"Harvard is a vastly less tolerant place than it was when I arrived in 1998. The intolerance is a function of an increasingly large fraction of our colleagues. And we – the rest of us on the Harvard faculty – let it happen. The cancelling, the punishments, the DEI bureaucracy, the DEI statements, the endless list that we could all recite – all this happened on our watch. We saw it happen, but we did nothing. We were too busy. We were scared to speak up. We – we on the faculty – let Harvard become what it is. The Harvard that we have is the result of our own collective moral failure.

'''The alumni who are furious are not trying to turn Harvard into something we do not want. They are trying to rescue Harvard from what we let it become.'''
We as a faculty failed. That is why the alumni are speaking up. That is why we formed the Council on Academic Freedom in the first place."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].
*"When someone gives you lemons, make lemonade." Synonym for "Every cloud has a silver lining."

*"A model should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." I think I used in my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/ ''Games and Information''], and attributed it to Alfred Einstein. The original saying is “Everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler,” and while it is attributed to Einstein, it’s [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ highly questionable] whether he ever said it.

*"Wiggle words weaken writing." Don't use "maybe" or "perhaps" or "to some extent" or "quite" or "often" or "sometimes" if you don't have to.

*"The humanities are just as hard at math; the difference is, in the humanities you're so lost you don't even know you got the answer wrong. "
*"The only things worse than a dumb bureaucrat handling your problem is a smart computer."

*"The hand that does the daycare ruins the world."

*"For scholars, destroying data is like cutting down giant sequoia trees; it goes against all our instincts. For administrators, destroying data is like cleaning your house before a party so nobody can see what a slob you are; it accords with all their instincts. "

*"Without perspicaciousness, what good is perspicuity?"

*"Delight expressed is delight enhanced. That's why I do not restrain my chuckles of pleasure when I hear a speaker say something witty or surprising. (Also, because I know from experience that audience feedback helps.)"

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks" or "He was so mean he didn't need bug spray to repel ticks."

*"Loving someone is less often to encourage them to do what they desire to do than to desire what they ought to do."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"One of the blessings of having a father is that you can call him when you have a minor car crash. One of the blessings of being a father is that someone thinks you're worth calling, and they're right."

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==Ratzinger (Pope Benedict)==
*“A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music, and nature can be dangerous since blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental: they necessarily are reflected in his theology.” ~Ratzinger (April 16,
1927-December 31, 2022).

==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

::[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

::Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

::English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Will Rogers==
*It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rorty, Richard==
*"The contemporary cultural Left urges that America should not be a melting pot, because we need to respect one another in our differences. This Left wants to preserve otherness rather than ignore it." (From Achieving Our... (1997))

==Routledge, Clay==
*We are living in an era of woke capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Russell, Bertrand==
* “Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat. What he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.”
--[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/08/a-life-of-disagreement/641018/ A Life of Disagreement] television programs , half-hour conversation by BERTRAND RUSSELL with Romney Wheeler, filmed in London by the National Broadcasting Company and shown over the NBC network and BBC-TV on the occasion of Earl Russell’s eightieth birthday (1952).

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

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==Sabien, Duncan==
*"If you've spent your entire life being told you were wrong and being proven right (b/c you were smarter than the people around you), then when you run into another genius who tells you that you're wrong, you have a LOT of memetic antibodies that will make it easier-than-it-should-be to write them off or dismiss them."

==Sailer, Steve==
*"Steve Sailer ... losing the war of public opinion since 1990.

But the crazier the conventional wisdom gets, the more hilarious material I have to write about.

So at least there's that.

Too bad about society, though." ([https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1644853299387199489 Twitter, 2023])

*"When it comes to human behavior, there mostly aren’t systematic differences between what your lying eyes tell you and what The Science says. There’s a continuum between anecdote, anecdata, and data....

:If there’s a strong statistical pattern in the numbers, you should be able to come up with vivid real-life examples of it. And if you can think of several examples suggesting a pattern, you might well be able to find large-scale data for it.

:My main one weird trick for coming up with enough insights to make a living as an unfashionable pundit for 22 years has been to assume that private life facts and public life facts are one and the same. Most pundits assume public controversies, such as BLM, are of a higher realm than daily life, so that what they notice about “safe neighborhoods” and “good schools” when they are making real estate decisions for themselves couldn’t possibly have any relevance to the great issues of the day they discuss in the media." ([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I am told that we shouldn’t mention the truth because either:

:—The facts have no possible policy implications, or

:—The facts have overwhelmingly horrible policy implications, such as the logical necessity of reimposing slavery or instituting genocide.

:The former strikes me as obtuse and the latter as insane and/or evil.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*There’s no need for everybody to continue to pretend ever since the 1978 Bakke decision that exalted “diversity” as the excuse for violating the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection of the laws that affirmative action makes colleges more intellectually stimulating when obviously the opposite has proven true. Quotas have helped make colleges minefields of cancel culture by bringing onto campus insecure and resentful masses of racially preferred students out to punish anyone who alludes to the race gaps that are American society’s central fact. Instead, underqualified preference beneficiaries should be told to be thankful for their privilege.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I quoted this letter at length because it seems like such a vivid example of the mindset of the current day: reality is determined by words, that honest words threaten the marginalized with violence, and asking the marginalized to improve their behavior is unthinkable." ([https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyc-health-czar-takes-strong-action-against-monkeypox-demands-who-change-the-name-of-monkeypox-to-an-incomprehensible-string-of-characters/Column on renaming monkeypox], 2022)

*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*"How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

:The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

:Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general." [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*"The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world."

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Salisbury, Lord==
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury

*"Within certain limits of intelligence, honesty and knowledge of the law, one man would make as good a judge as another and a Tory mentality is ipso facto more trustworthy than a Liberal one."

*First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.
'Democracy on its Trial', Quarterly Review, vol. 110 (July & October 1861), p. 281

*The conflict between Socialism and existing civilisation must be a death-struggle. If the combat is once commenced, one or other of the combatants must perish. It is idle to plead that the schemes of these men are their religion. There are religions so hostile to morality, so poisonous to the life-springs of society, that they are outside the pale of human tolerance.
'The Commune and the Internationale', Quarterly Review, vol. 131 (July & October 1871), p. 562

*It was a part of a budget which even three months had proved to be a mass of miscalculation; it was the pet scheme of a cosmopolitan school who love England little, and whom England loves less, whose sympathies are half-American and half-French; and it was the first application of a theory of combined taxation and reform, according to which the poor were exclusively to fix the revenue which the rich were exclusively to pay.
‘The Conservative Reaction’, Quarterly Review, vol. 108 (July & October 1860), p. 276

*"Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed...The classes that represent civilisation, the holders of accumulated capital and accumulated thought have a right to require securities to protect them from being overwhelmed by hordes who have neither knowledge to guide them nor stake in the Commonwealth to control them."
'English Politics and Parties', Bentley's Quarterly Review, vol. I (March & July 1859), pp. 28-29

* In men of genius, as a rule, the imagination or the
passions are too strongly developed to suffer them
to reach the highest standard of practical states-
, manship. They follow some poetical ideal, they
are under the spell of some fascinating chapter of
past history, they are the slaves of some talismanic
phrase which their generation has taken up, or
they have made to themselves a system to which
all men and all circumstances must be bent. Something there almost always is that beguiles
them away from the plain, prosaic, business-like
view ofthe concerns of this prosaic world. Consequently the mass of mankind, who have a dull but
surefooted instinct of their own interest, feel an
uncomfortable misgiving when they see a genius at
the head oftheir affairs. They are aware that firstrate brilliancy cannot be had without something of
distortion ; but it is no consolation to them that the
illusions which are luring him on to ruin lend in
the mean time an exquisite charm to the eloquence
by which he induces them to accompany him on
the road. On the other hand, the clever world is
very intolerant of plain, practical statesmen. It
maintains, sometimes with very good reason, that
where the imagination is stunted, it is merely
because the whole mind is stunted too ; and that
the claim to practical common sense is often only
a euphemism for a narrow intelligence straitened
by an abject regard for precedents and for routine.
As a rule, both sides are right in the suspicions
they entertain. It is rare to meet with a fervid
imagination which is drilled to reserve its flights
for efforts of oratory, and to give place entirely to
more sober faculties in council. It is still rarer to
see an absolutely unimaginative mind possessed of
the energy and of the breadth of view indispensable
in the statesman of a troubled period. Both kinds
of excellence produce great and successful rulers,
where they occur ; and both are apt to meet, in
those around them, with incredulity that such combinations of opposite qualities can exist.

'Lord Castlereagh', Quarterly Review, vol. 111 (January & April 1862), p. 204 https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QafmXADIh0jnPZqj11iTfMIuIdFT-DZWwP1q0zQiA4yBrYcBXaRXhl4wAaaOcH-1ovmPhezfBeCx0TdkJoRN9AA_GFoAY4s2keT-CwZl1Ac4Hi372YcAOvsu39xIf9x-9EnByraZe58fXqGcaJXEPxzQgDRgCT4Tmx6dycMZDk2BYr8nEVHvroFVV0BBgbmci9-5NQXLe-_TADxWoaHFbQLTkZ_S6X7gooGS2WS2hjnVU9k8TJvQcgrZPgRvcxDa635thiwS18ib2JkrJsBzJpxawXgcLHhLf7Y6EZsBbphBqpbBMgw

==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Scalia, son==
[https://twitter.com/StuffForSisters/status/1581430850159542272 At Scalia's Funeral:]
"We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us—known only by reputation to even more. A man loved by many—scorned by others. A man known for great controversy & for great compassion. That man, of course, is Jesus of Nazareth."

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shakespeare, William==
*"Ten masts deep make not the altitude from which though has perpendicularly fell." King Lear, Edgar to Gloucester.

===Insults===
From Cultural Tutor on Twitter:
1) "Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon."
~Timon of Athens

2) "You, minion, are too saucy."
~The Two Gentleman of Verona

3) "Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat."
~Henry V

4) "The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril."
~The Merry Wives of Windsor

5) "Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows."
~Troilus and Cressida

10) "I’ll beat thee, but I would infect my hands."
~Timon of Athens

11) "More of your conversation would infect my brain."
~Coriolanus

12) "There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune."
~Henry IV, Part 1

14) "Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

18) "This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

23) "Some report a sea-maid spawn’d him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice."
~Measure for Measure

25) "Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood."
~King Lear

31) "Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant."
~The Taming of the Shrew

46) "A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition."
~King Lear

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
"Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king."
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==SMITH, ADAM==
*"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” (no source)

==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
*“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
*"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

*"The best obituary a man can have is that the people who knew him loved him, even if those who didn't know him hated him," ''Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays''

*“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice'.” The Quest for Cosmic Justice

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
*“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” In english: "To understand all is to forgive all." 
[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

*“Madame,” the general informed the lady in question, “I do not want women mixed up in politics.” “You are perfectly right,” came the reply, “but in a country where their heads are cut off, it is only natural for them to want to know why.” (Exchange between Napoleon Bonaparte and Madame de Staël, J. Christopher Herold’s ''The Mind of Napoleon''.)

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==st exuery==
Drawing on French aristocrat Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, philosopher Byung Chul Han noted that, while houses are homes in space, rituals are homes in time. Rituals are an assertion of continuity — you act as your ancestors acted before you. They shift the family from the moment into ‘eternal time’. https://www.theculturist.io/p/why-did-wealth-stop-building-beautiful?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2242126&post_id=179128916&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

==Sutton, Willy==
When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is."

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==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==TACITUS==
*Omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset." 
“All would have agreed that he was capable of being emperor, if only he had never been it.” 
So wrote Tacitus of Galba.

==Taft, William==
*"The opportunity freely and publicly to criticize judicial action is of vastly more iportance to the body politic than the immunity of courts and judges from unjust aspersions and attack. Nothing tends more to render judges careful in their decisions and anxiously solicitous to do exact justice than the consciousness that every act of theirs is to be subjected to the intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their fellow-men. Such criticism is beneficial in proportion as it is fair, dispassionate, discriminating, and based on a knowledge of sound legal principles. The comments made by learned text writers and by the acute editors of the various law reviews upon judicial decisions are therefore highly useful. Such critics constitute more or less impartial tribunals of professional opinion before which each judgment is made to stand or fall on its merits, and thus exert a strong influence to secure uniformity of decision. But non-professional criticism also is by no means without its uses, even if accompanied, as it often is, by a direct attack upon the judicial fairness and motives of the occupants of the bench; for if the law is but the essence of common sense, the protest of many average men may evidence a defect in a judicial conclusion, though based on the nicest legal reasoning and profoundest learning. The two important elements of moral character in a judge are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it. In so far as fear of public comment does not affect the courage of a judge, but only spurs him on to search his conscience and to reach the result which approves itself to his inmost heart such comment serves a useful purpose. There are few men, whether they are judges for life or for a shorter term, who do not prefer to earn and hold the respect of all, and who can not be reached and made to pause and deliberate by hostile public criticism. In the case of judges having a life tenure, indeed their very independence makes the right freely to comment on their decisions of greater importance, because it is the only practical and available instrument in the hands of a free people to keep such judges alive to the reasonable demands of those they serve." (1895) As [http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/state-of-the-union-1906.php cited by Pres. Roosevelt] in 1906.

==Tate, Jeremy==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted at 9:15 AM on Sun, Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

==Taylor, Charles==
*As reported [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/04/westafrica.qanda by The Guardian]: "He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him." Running successfully for President of Liberia.

==Teller, Edward==
*"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
*Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

* His election rerunning announcement speech:
Michael Tracey@mtracey·14hSorry to break it to you, but Trump was spot-on with this one: “They say the ocean will rise 1/8 of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years, but don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries with one shot. Something is wrong with their thinking.”

:This is an example of how he exaggerates in the hope that someone will correct him and make his point for him (1/8 inch corrected to 2 inches, still tiny).

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*"Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain, message to Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 1901.

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

*"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 

Often quoted in W. H. Auden's translation,‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’, but the French is so easy, an Anglophone might as well use the original phrase. See also "Le code n'est jamais fini, seulement termine." 

Valery didn't actually say this, though it is what is commonly quoted in France. Pierre Vinclair tells us about that in [https://poezibao.typepad.com/files/ashbery-9.pdf «Portrait d’une énigme dans un miroir convexe», "9. et fin. Clack"], [https://www.poesibao.fr/ ''Poezibao'']
[https://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2020/11/feuilleton-critique-portrait-dune-%C3%A9nigme-dans-un-miroir-convexe-9-et-fin-clack-par-pierre-vinclair.html archive] (2020):

"Et l’on connaît la célèbre formule de Valéry : « un poème n’est jamais fini, seulement abandonné ». Dicton apocryphe, qui trouve sans doute son origine dans cette page de «Littérature»:

::Une œuvre dont l’achèvement — le jugement qui la déclare achevée, est uniquement subordonné à la condition qu’elle nous plaise — n’est jamais achevée. […]
:: Un poème n’est jamais achevé — c’est toujours un accident qui le termine, c’est-àdire qui le donne au public.
::Ce sont la lassitude, la demande de l’éditeur, — la poussée d’un autre poème.
::Mais jamais l’état même de l’ouvrage (si l’auteur n’est pas un sot) ne montre qu’il ne pourrait être poussé, changé, considéré comme première approximation, ou origine d’une recherche nouvelle.
::Je conçois, quant à moi, que le même sujet et presque les mêmes mots pourraient être repris indéfiniment et occuper toute une vie.
::« Perfection »
::c’est travail. 

Notre premier bumper soit donc Paul Valéry, selon qui l’œuvre ne s’achève jamais
(car la perfection qu’elle cherche est asymptotique) : seul un accident extérieur peut
l’interrompre. Or, des trois causes qu’il nomme — lassitude, demande de l’éditeur,
poussée d’un autre poème — aucune ne ressemble au tarissement dont parle
Ashbery. C’est sans doute que, pour celui-ci, le poème n’est pas l’objet d’un travail
infini visant la perfection, la confection maniaque d’une œuvre aussi proche que
possible de l’idéal."

Paul Valéry, «Littérature» in Tel Quel, Gallimard, 1941, p. 154. "

==Vaughan, Sarah==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html Easy Street]

==Von Neumann, John==
*“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You get used to them.”

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== ==

==Wang, John==
@johnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Watson, Thomas==
* After talking about the Prodigal Son: “Before a man can come to Christ he must first come to himself. . . . A man must first recognize and consider what his sin is, and know the plague of his heart, before he can be duly humbled for it.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

*“Affliction is but corrective; sin is destructive” ''The Doctrine of Repentance.'' (1668).

*“Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

==Watt, Peter==
*"Judy Holliday said. "Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''. In Hunter Biden's case it seems that nothing he does will ever be printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

==Wilde, Oscar==
*"Algernon: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” 
:Jack: “Is that clever?” 
:Algernon: “It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be.” " 
::(from ''The Importance of Being Earnest'')

===[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phrases_and_Philosophies_for_the_Use_of_the_Young "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young"], ''Chameleon'' magazine, (1894)===

*Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.

*A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

*If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

*It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

*Only the shallow know themselves.

*One should always be a little improbable.

*The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

*One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

*The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

==Will, George==
"The ancients had asked, What is the highest attainment of which mankind is capable and how can we pursue this? Hobbes and subsequent moderns asked, What is the worst that can happen and how can we avoid it?" (TCS, p 19)

==Williams, Robin==
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”

==Wolfe, Humbert==
[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-british-journalist-by-humbert-wolfe-f9r6pb9hb07 The London Times]:

. 
You cannot ever bribe or twist 
The freeborn British journalist 
Seeing what, unbribed, he’ll do 
You realize there’s no reason to

==Warhol, Andrew==
*“The President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”

— Andy Warhol, 1975,

== ==
==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zeto, Salena==
*<> [https://www.thefp.com/p/my-decade-with-donald-trump-salena-zito?utm_campaign=email-post&r=fjeib&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "My Decade with Donald Trump,"] Salena Zito, ''The Free Press'' (2025), linking to her article, [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-makes-his-case-in-pittsburgh/501335/ "Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally",] ''The Atlantic'' (2016).

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

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Quotations

2026-02-28T19:26:37Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* ENNIS, John */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

*[https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089 "On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs' "], Jia Tolentino ( /23/16).

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==Anonymous==
*"Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (“Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched”) The motto of the University of Chicago.

*"You can make fish soup from fish, but you cannot make fish from fish soup." Hungarian proverb (Viktor Orban)

*"South Africa has introduced a new category to geopolitics: a de-developing nation." (@ConCaracal, X, 2026).

*"Don't take notes of what the professor says, take note."

*"What other people think of me is none of my business.”

*"Do you have 10 years of experience, or are you just living the same year at your job 10 times over?" [https://twitter.com/randomrecruiter/status/1690753402014232576 @randomrecruiter] (2023)

*I am reminded of a woman who graduated from MIT in 1987. I asked her about her social life as an undergrad. "The odds were good, but the goods were odd."

*"VOCATUS ATQUA NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT." (CALLED OR NOT CALLED, GOD IS PRESENT.)

*"The rich man smokes the same sort of cigarettes as the poor man, shaves with the same sort of razor, uses the same sort of telephone, vacuum cleaner, radio, and TV set, has the same sort of lighting and heating equipment in his house, and so on indefinitely. The differences between his automobile and the poor man’s are minor. Essentially they have similar engines, similar fittings. In the early years of the century there was a hierarchy of automobiles." (''Harper's Magazine'' [1957])

*"Conservatives view themselves as underdogs because they are, especially culturally. Liberals view themselves underdogs because although in charge of every significant human institution they have set themselves the impossible egalitarian task of waging war against nature and reality itself - so when results inevitably conflict with their egalitarian ideology - when racial gaps, poverty, sex differences, inequality etc persist - they blame reactionary forces rather than nature (reality)." ''Twitter'' (2023).

*The Hillary defense:
:I didn’t do it.
:You can’t prove it.
:Everybody does it.
:He did it.
:You're just a racist.
:It's old news.
:What difference, at this point, does it make?

*The Russian Teapot defense:
:It isn’t broken
:If it is broken, I didn’t do it
:If I did do it, it was no good anyway

*A canon of legal interpretation:"Specialia generalibus non derogant". Special things don't derogate from the general rule.

* “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original:"Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement , il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." [https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa as written by Jomini] (1827))..

*When everything works fine, they wonder why they hired you. When everything stops working, they wonder why they hired you. I.T. in a nutshell.

*“I don't drink, or cuss, or chew; and I don't go out with girls that do.”

*"The plural of outlier is out-and-out-liar".

*"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*[https://allaboutfrench.com/qui-se-ressemble-sassemble "Qui se ressemble s'assemble"]

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan," as quoted in ''A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition) by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Owning a sailboat is like turning your shower's cold water on and standing there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own." Stalin?

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Showing up is 90% of success," or "Being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them." — an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain". This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointment, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: the person secretly believe the world revolves around him, everyone is paying attention to him and his actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan. It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.
Women will always and forever rely on men.}}
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==Adams, John==
*"It is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State." [https://buff.ly/3rFhAzP "From John Adams to James Sullivan"] (26 May 1776).

==Adams, Scott==
*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1577277568310341632 Twitter, October 4, 2022]:"Elon Musk took control of the Ukraine/Russia endgame by writing the first draft in bullet form and drawing all attention to it.

:You just learned one of the most powerful persuasion techniques in the modern world: Write the first draft and keep it simple."

*I’m not worried about climate change because any species that can predict the average temperature a hundred years in advance won’t have trouble handling it.

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==The African Queen==
Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature. 
Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

See [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/characters/nm0000031 the IMDB quote page.]

==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” 
Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Allred, Austen==
*"Job descriptions should be strongly opinionated, and should both attract the people you’d want to work with while repelling those you wouldn’t."(Twitter 2023)

==Amin, Idi==
*"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."

==Anderson, Robert==
*"It would be nice if people would put (D) or (R) in their profiles so I know whether to retweet or ratio them without having to do a bunch of reading." Twitter (2024).

==Andreessen, Mark==
*"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

*Whitepill #14: Every day, two lists get longer: The things you believe but can't say, and the things you don't believe but must say. (Twitter, 2022)

==Aquinas, Thomas==
*"Nevertheless, sacred doctrine makes use of these authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the authority of the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the authority of the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable. For our faith rests upon the revelation made to the apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books, and not on the revelations (if any such there are) made to other doctors. Hence Augustine says (Epis. ad Hieron. xix, 1): 'Only those books of Scripture which are called canonical have I learned to hold in such honor as to believe their authors have not erred in any way in writing them. But other authors I so read as not to deem everything in their works to be true, merely on account of their having so thought and written, whatever may have been their holiness and learning'" (Summa Theologica,. Part 1, Q. 1, Art. 8).

==The Apocrypha==
"Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

2But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.

3With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.

4But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.

5For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen." Wisdom of SOlomon 13.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
*“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

*"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

*"The other environmental risk factors for schizophrenia are equally hard to change. Poverty? Okay, don’t be poor, thanks for the important life advice. Social defeat? “Doctor, are you saying I have to never let anyone defeat me?” “Yes, it’s my official medical recommendation that you become invincible.” " [https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-fair-to-describe-schizophrenia "It's Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic"] (Jan. 31, 2024).

==Auden==
*“The Danish Lutheran Church may have been as worldly as Kierkegaard thought it was, but if it had not existed he would never have heard of the Gospels, in which he found the standards by which he condemned it.”

==Augustine==
*“Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and that not of one man, but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices” (''City of God'', Book IV)

*"If they shall be deprived of all good, they shall no longer be. So long, therefore, as they are, they are good; therefore whatsoever is, is good. That evil, then, which I sought whence it was, is not any substance; for were it a substance, it would be good. For either it would be an incorruptible substance, and so a chief good, or a corruptible substance, which unless it were good it could not be corrupted. I perceived, therefore, and it was made clear to me, that Thou didst make all things good, nor is there any substance at all that was not made by Thee; and because all that Thou hast made are not equal, therefore all things are; because individually they are good, and altogether very good, because our God made all things very good." ''Confessions'', Book 7, chapter 12.

== ==
==Balfour, Arthur==
*“The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which, for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.”

==Bankman-Fried, Sam ==
“...this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us.” --
"[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself]: The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way," ''Vox,'' Kelsey Piper (Nov. 16, 2022).

==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
*“Eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

==The Bible==
*“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” Proverbs 15:1.

*"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits." Proverbs 16:2.

*"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs 16:4.

*"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9.

==Boghossian, Peter==
*"If a thing's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well." (''Unherd'' panel interview, 2024, ''You-Tube'').

==Booth, William (Salvation Army founder)==
*Asked about the chief dangers for the 20th century, Salvation Army founder Booth [https://rlhymersjr.com/Online_Sermons/2007/090907_OldEvangelicalismReview.html said], “Religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.”

==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

==Bloom,Allen==
*“Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason’s power.” ''The Closing of the American Mind''

==Bloom, Harold==
*[https://biblioklept.org/2013/02/19/harold-bloom-on-the-school-of-resentment/ Harold Bloom on his agon with “The School of Resentment.”] From [https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2225/the-art-of-criticism-no-1-harold-bloom his 1991 interview with The Paris Review.]:
When I was a young man back in the fifties starting out on what was to be my career, I used to proclaim that my chosen profession seemed to consist of secular clergy or clerisy. I was thinking, of course, of the highly Anglo-Catholic New Criticism under the sponsorship or demigodness of T. S. Eliot. But I realized in latish middle age that, no better or worse, I was surrounded by a pride of displaced social workers, a rabblement of lemmings, all rushing down to the sea carrying their subject down to destruction with them. The school of resentment is an extraordinary sort of mélange of latest-model feminists, Lacanians, that whole semiotic cackle, latest-model pseudo-Marxists, so-called New Historicists, who are neither new nor historicist, and third generation deconstructors, who I believe have no relationship whatever to literary values. . . .

It is tiresome to be encountering myths called “The Social Responsibility of the Critic” or “The Political Responsibility of the Critic.” I would rather walk into a bookstore and find a book called “The Aesthetic Responsibilities of the Statesman,” or “The Literary Responsibilities of the Engineer.” Criticism is not a program for social betterment, not an engine for social change. I don’t see how it possibly could be. . . .

What else is there like Invisible Man? Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God has a kind of superior intensity and firm control. It’s a very fine book indeed. It surprised and delighted me when I first read it and it has sustained several rereadings since. But that and Invisible Man are the only full scale works of fiction I have read by American blacks in this century that have survival possibilities at all. Alice Walker is an extremely inadequate writer, and I think that is giving her the best of it. A book like The Color Purple is of no aesthetic interest or value whatsoever, yet it is exalted and taught in the academies. It clearly is a time in which social and cultural guilt has taken over. . . .

I’m not terribly fond of feminist criticism. The true test is to find work, whether in the past or present, by women writers that we had undervalued, and thus bring it to our attention and teach us to study it more closely or more usefully. By that test they have failed, because they have added not one to the canon. The women writers who mattered—Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and others who have always mattered on aesthetic grounds—still matter. I do not appreciate Elizabeth Bishop or May Swenson any more or less than I would have appreciated them if we had no feminist literary criticism at all.

==Bowles, Michael==
“Construction is a matter of backing yourself into a corner and then fighting your way out.”

==Bukowski, Charles==
*“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

==Burke, Edmund==
* “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770).

*"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Misattributed. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ Quote Investigator.]

==Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)==
. 
He that complies against his Will, 
Is of his own Opinion still. 
(from ''Hudibras'')
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== ==
==CANNON, William==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Caplan, Bryan==
*"When a normal utilitarian concludes that mass murder would maximize social utility, he checks his work! He goes over his calculations with a fine-tooth comb, hoping to discover a way to implement beneficial policy changes without horrific atrocities. The Leninist, in contrast, reasons backwards from the atrocities that emotionally inspire him to the utilitarian argument that morally justifies his atrocities." [https://betonit.substack.com/p/the_roots_of_lehtml The roots of Leninism] (2012)

==Carlin, George==
*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that."

==Carson, D.A.==
*"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."

==Carver, George Washington==
*“When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well, George, that's more nearly your size.’

==Carville, James==
*“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

==St. Charbel Makhlouf==
*[https://www.lightbook.org/53-best-saint-charbel-quotes.html "Your weakness is to be overcome, not to be used as a pilgrimage."]

==Charles III of the United Kingdom==
* 2011 as he [https://www.royal.uk/clarencehouse/speech/speech-hrh-prince-wales-king-james-bible-trust-reception addressed the King James Bible Trust:] “I’ve never really understood who it was that decided that, for people who aren’t very good at reading, the best things to read are those written by people who aren’t very good at writing!”

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*"Chesterton's Fence", 1929 book, ''The Thing,'' “The Drift from Domesticity”:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to challenge his reformist son-in-law. Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in his poem, “Mending Wall.” }}

*"A man can pretend to be wise; a man cannot pretend to be witty."

*"Those who will not even admit the Capitalist problem deserve to get the Communist solution."

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*"If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization."

*"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it"--Autobiography

*{{Quotation|We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

==Chicago, University of==
*The University of Chicago's motto is "Crescat scientia; vita excolatur," which means,"Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched."

==Chrysostom, John==
*"Should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in the midst of the forum, blaspheming God; go up to him and rebuke him; and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not to do so. Smite him on the face; strike his mouth; sanctify your hand with the blow, and if any should accuse you, and drag you to the place of justice, follow them there; and when the judge on the bench calls you to account, say boldly that the man blasphemed the King of angels! For if it be necessary to punish those who blaspheme an earthly king, much more so those who insult God" ('On the Statues', 1).

== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Coleridge, Samuel==
*"I, for one, do not call the sod under my feet my country. But language, religion, laws, government, blood — identity in these makes men of one country." ''Table Talk'', May 29, 1830.

==Comfort, Ray==
“Atheists don’t hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don’t exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Covey, Stephen==
*"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man."

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [-Twitter, 2021]}}

==Cunningham==
J.V. Cunningham, from "Meditation on Statistical Method"

<pre>
Plato, despair!
We prove by norms
How numbers bear
Empiric forms,

How random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our hearts
Hyperbole
Curves and departs
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
</pre>

My version:

<pre>
Random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our soul
Hyperbole
Makes error roll
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
So hope and doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Won't average out.
</pre>

== ==

==Dalrymple, Theodore==
*"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." a 2005 https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com/dalrymple-interviewed-by-jamie-glazov/ interview] in FrontPage.

==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in ''First Things'', 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, ''The Information'')

==Descartes==
See [[Descartes]]
*"Bene qui latuit, bene vixit."
*"He lives well who lies well hidden." I like the English version better. What is it in French? Ovid, Descartes.

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==Dio Cassius==
*"Although he was very practised as a writer of prose and verse and very skilled in all the arts, yet he always mocked the teachers of all the arts on the grounds that he was more learned than they, and despised and humiliated them. With these same professors and philosophers he often competed, taking turns to publish books or poems. Once, indeed, a word used by Favorinus was criticized by Hadrian. Favorinus yielded, which provoked some very agreeable amusement. He was wrong to concede to Hadrian, his friends charged him, over a word which reputable authors had used. ‘You don’t give me good advice, my friends,’ said Favorinus, ‘when you don’t allow me to believe the man who possesses thirty legions to be more learned than anyone else!’ " From [https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/hadrians-rome/content-section-5.1 Birley, A. (trans.) (1976) Lives of the Later Caesars, London, Penguin, pp. 57–87.]

<pre>
To the poet Florus,Footnote61 who wrote to him:

I do not want to be Caesar,
To walk about among the Britons,
To ensure the Scythian hoar-frosts,

he wrote back:

I do not want to be Florus,
To walk about among taverns,
To lurk about among cook-shops,
To put up with the round insects.
</pre>

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
*"Making a mistake is a net positive if you learn more from it than it cost you."

{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

*"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dornbusch, Rudiger==
*"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought" (on exchange rate crises)

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

== ==

==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==Einstein, Albert==
"in 1952 he wrote a letter to his friend and fellow physicist Max Born where he admits that even if the astronomical data had gone against general relativity, he would still believe in the theory:"

`Even if there were absolutely no light deflection, no perihelion motion and no redshift, the gravitational equations would still be convincing because they avoid the inertial system... It is really quite strange that humans are usually deaf towards the strongest arguments, while they are constantly inclined to overestimate the accuracy of measurement.'
([https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-einsteins-unification-by-jeroen? "John Psmith" 2024)

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

== Eschenbach, Willis==
"A bad Muslim wants to cut your head off and rape your wife. 
A good Muslim wants a bad Muslim to cut your head off and rape your wife."

==Esolen, Anthony==
*"Bee as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves, says the Lord.

:The converse is what we have now in our elites, in Church, State, education, etc.: People in charge who are as dopey as pigeons, and as malignant as snakes." (Twitter, 2024)

== ==

==Faulkner, William==
*“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feser, Ed==
*"If a doctor says “This is what lung cancer involves, please stop smoking,” no one accuses him of wanting the patient to suffer. But if a theologian says “This is what damnation involves, please stop sinning,” he is accused of wanting people to go to hell." ([https://twitter.com/FeserEdward/status/1665881489354162177 Twitter, 2023])

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Friedman, Milton==
"Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:

1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality) 
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality) 
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost) 
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

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==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

==Gandhi, Ashvin==
@ashdgandhi (Nov 29 2025)

"Normal people: hear math statements as regular words.

Mathematicians: hear math statements as logic.

Economists: hear regular words as math statements."

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

==Girard, Rene==
*“Nietzsche shared with many intellectuals of his time and our own a passion for irresponsible rhetoric in the attempt to get one up on opponents. But philosophers, for their misfortune, are not the only people in the world. Genuinely mad and frantic people are all around them and do them the worst turn of all: they take them at their word.” I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
*Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies" "I am the spirit who always says no." Faust part I.

*"I am the spirit that always says no. And how right I am! For surely It’s right that everything that comes to be Should cease to be. And so they do. Still better Would be nothing ever was. Hence sin And havoc and ruin—all you call evil, in sum— For me’s the element in which I swim.”

<pre>"Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen:
Verweile doch! du bist so schön!
Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen,
Dann will ich gern zugrunde gehn!
</pre>
Faust, Part I. When I to a moment say, Stay a while! You are so fair! Then you may enslave my soul, then I will submit to you. Or something like that.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==Goodstein, David==
"1.1 INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously. We will begin by considering the simplest meaningful example, the perfect gas, in order to get the central concepts sorted out." ( States of Matter (1985); see https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1651559339067310081)

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*[https://x.com/paulg/status/1874590418463330489 TWITTER:] "A friend who's a former British military officer told me that when he was training soldiers in jungle warfare they were taught that if they got lost in the jungle, the first thing they should do was to brew a cup of tea and think about what to do next."

*"Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign flipped." (2024, X).

*"If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial." [http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html "Putting Ideas into Words"] (2022).

*"A rare counterexample to the principle of specialization: your site should never seem like it was made by communications people, and the best way to achieve this is for it not to be. This is something founders should continue to micromanage forever."[https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1654765304184971264 Twitter] (2023) ]

*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)

==Grandin, Temple==
*Temple Grandin wrote in ''The Way I See It,'' a book on the experience of autism: "What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done."
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hamblin, Jacob==
*Jacob Hamblin’s "Rules for Dealing with the Indians" from ''Jacob Hamblin among the Indians'' by James Little.

1. I never talk anything but the truth to them.

2. I think it useless to speak of things they cannot comprehend.

3. I strive by all means to never let them see me in a passion.

4. Under no circumstances show fear, thereby showing to them that I have a sound heart and a straight tongue.

5. Never approach them in an austere manner nor use more words than are necessary to convey my ideas, not in a higher tone of voice than to be distinctly heard.

6. Always listen to them when they wish to tell of their grievances, and redress their wrongs, however trifling they may be if possible. If I cannot I let them know I have a desire to do so.

7. I never allow them to hear me use profane or obscene language or take any unbecoming course with them.

8. I never submit to any unjust demands or submit to coercion under any circumstances, thereby showing them that I govern and am governed by the rule of right not by might.

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

==Herrnstein, Robert==
:"Dick recalled the day when, as a young man, he had been awarded tenure. It was his dream fulfilled -- a place in the university he so loved, the chance to follow his research wherever it took him, economic security. For Dick, being a tenured professor at Harvard was not just the perfect job, but the perfect way to live his life. It was too good to be true; there had to be a catch. What's my part of the bargain? he had asked himself. "And I figured it out," he said, looking at me with that benign, gentle half-smile of his. "You have to tell the truth." There was no self-congratulation in his voice, just an answer to my question." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20010421204200/https://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/bell-curve/murray-hstein-obit.html "Richard J. Herrnstein, RIP,"] by Charles Murray, Vol. 46, National Review, 10-10-1994, pp 22.

==Hoffer, Eric==
*[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98215-every-great-cause-begins-as-a-movement-becomes-a-business “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”]

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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==Heath, Joseph==
"Populists have great difficulty respecting the rule of law. If one listens to the explanations that they offer for their actions, a great deal of this reflects a bias toward concreteness in their thinking. They think the purpose of the rules is to stop bad people from doing bad things, but since they themselves are good people trying to do good things, they cannot see why they should be constrained by the rules." "Populism Fast and Slow", ''Substack'' (2025).

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== Rob Henderson==
*“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” [https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/ Quillette article] (2021).

*"Men bond by insulting each other and not really meaning it; women bond by complimenting each other and not really meaning it."

*"Over the course of human evolutionary history, there may have been some independent-minded women who thought things through and decided to avoid the pain and risks of motherhood. These women are not our ancestors." [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-story-of-us-9780190883201?cc=gb&lang=en& one of his books], via Twitter.

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==Hippocrates==
"Ars longa, vita brevis" has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."

The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

==Hitchens, Christopher==
*"It will happen to all of us that at some point you'll be tapped on the shoulder and told - not just that the party is over - but slightly worse: the party's going on but you have to leave."

==Hitchens, PETER==
*'I also remember a French high-speed train, on which Mrs Hitchens and I ate a long, time-consuming, four-course picnic lunch, wine included, partly for the joy of it and partly because we were exempt from French mask rules as long as we were eating.
::'An infuriated French ticket inspector chose to lecture us explosively about our irresponsibility — whereupon I donned a large black Polish Army surplus gas mask, which in those days I carried about for satirical purposes.
::‘Take it off!’ he cried. ‘You are trying to frighten people!’ . :‘No,’ I replied, ‘it is you who are trying to frighten people.’ https://mol.im/a/12947665 via @MailOnline"

==Hooker. Richard==
*“It is dangerous for the feeble mind of man to wade too far into the doings of the Most High. Although it is life to know Him and joy to mention His name, our surest knowledge is that we do not know Him as He truly is, nor can we; our safest eloquence is our silence, confessing without confession that His glory is inexplicable and His greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we are on earth; therefore let our words be wary and few.” (''Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'', Vol. 1, book 1, chapter 2)

==Hochschild, Joshua==
*"It is an academic myth that canonical texts, literary and religious, embody ideology and perpetuate power structures. In the experience of actual readers, canonical texts are typically the means of escaping ideology and challenging power structures." Twitter (2024)

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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== Thomas Jefferson==
" If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion towards his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriæ of the other." [https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/query-xviii-an-excerpt-from-notes-on-the-state-of-virginia-by-thomas-jefferson-1784/ Query 18, Notes from Virginia.]
==Jomini ==
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original: "Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." as written by Jomini (1827). https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa

== ==

==Kac, Mark==
*"Probability theory is measure theory with a soul." Here is one source. Is there a better one, an original one? [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf]

==Karlin, George==
*"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they’re cramming for their final exam."

*"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

*"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body."

*"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts."

*"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it."

==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

*[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

==Keller, Timothy==
*"A possible way to start a conversation with someone who is not a believer:
'Tell me the God you don't believe in because chances are I don't believe in that God either.' "
*"Few people live up to their own standards, let alone an objective one. Either way we come up short on our own accord."
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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==Keynes, John==
* “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”

==Khan, Razib==
:*"The reason we need nerds is that they jump all over little lies, and drown them in the bathtub before the lies can grow up and become invincible monsters." [https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1675204182679207936 Twitter (2023).]

==Kierkegaard, Emil==
{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."
}}

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

== KIPLING, Rudyard==
. 
In August was the jackal born, 
The rains fell in September. 
"Now such a fearful flood as this," 
Says he, "I can't remember!" [http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/second-jungle-book/7/ "The Undertakers"] The 2nd Jungle Book.

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==Kosinski, Jerzy==
* "The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
:(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.” 
:(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
:(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==Rush Limbaugh==
“Men and women range themselves into three classes... the lowest by talking about persons; the next about things; the highest about ideas.”

==Lindsay, James==
*On the Christian method, which is good for redpilling wokers too: 
::1) Proclaim the truth (tell without coercion or force) 
::2) Remind them that everyone is a sinner (so everyone makes mistakes) 
::3) Invite them to repent in their own time (accept your past error as wrong and move forward productively).

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted , Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

*"The idea that any man or writer should be opaque to those who lived in the same culture, spoke the same language, shared the same habitual imagery and unconscious assumptions, and yet be transparent to those who have none of these advantages, is in my opinion preposterous. " ([https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern Seed speech])

*From "The Abolition of Man": 'When all that says "It is good" has been debunked, what says "I want" remains.'

* "The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

*“His education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

*“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”

*A man who has spent his youth and manhood in the minute study of New Testament texts and of other people’s studies of them, whose literary experience of those texts lacks any standard of comparison such as can only grow from a wide and deep and genial experience of literature in general, is, I should think, very likely to miss the obvious thing about them. If he tells me that something in a Gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavour; not how many years he has spent on that Gospel...

:I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life. I know what they are like. I know that not one of them is like this. Of this text there are only two possible views. Either this is reportage—though it may no doubt contain errors—pretty close up to the facts; nearly as close as Boswell. Or else, some unknown writer in the second century, without known predecessors or successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative
-- CS Lewis. https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern-Seed and Elephants," Originally entitled 'Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism'.

==Long, Earl (Governor of Louisiana, brother of Huey Long)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

==Long, Russell (Senator from Indiana, son of Huey Long)==
*"Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax the man behind the tree." [improved] See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/]

==Long, Rob==
"I was nonplussed — the actual definition of nonplussed, which is baffled, rather than what it sounds like and will eventually come to mean, which is unimpressed." (2024)

==Luther, Martin==
* "Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it."

:"This is a murky Luther quote that seems like something he would have said, yet finding an exact reference isn't easy. A couple of people have searched for this quote uncovering interesting clues and theories of its origin (see for instance, About That Great Luther Quote and also the discussion here). Piggybacking on their efforts, I have my own theory of how this quote became popular: it's in the form it's in because singer-song writer Derek Webb was quoting Charles Spurgeon quoting Luther... whether he knew it or not!" https://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2020/08/luther-every-week-i-preach.html

* “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan." --Book IV of The Prince}}

*"A question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may
be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person it is
much safer to be feared than loved, when only one is possible. The reason for this is that in general men
are ungrateful, inconstant, false, cowardly, and greedy. As long as you succeed, they are yours entirely -
they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, when the need is far distant. But when the
need approaches, they turn against you. A prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected
other ways of protecting himself, will be ruined. Friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by
greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot
be relied upon. Men are less worried about offending one who is loved than one who is feared. Love is
preserved by the link of gratefulness which, owing to the weak nature of men, is broken at every
opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a fear of punishment which never fails." Chapter 17, [https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Principe/Capitolo_XVIII The Prince], Machiavelli.

*"Questo una disputa, s'e' gli è meglio essere amato che temuto o e converso. Rispondesi che si vorrebbe essere l'uno e l'altro; ma perché e' gli è difficile accozzarli insieme, è molto più sicuro essere temuto che amato, quando si abbi a mancare dell'uno de' dua. Perché degli uomini si può dire questo, generalmente, che sieno ingrati, volubili, simulatori e dissimulatori, fuggitori de' pericoli, cupidi del guadagno; e mentre fai loro bene e' sono tutti tua, offeronti el sangue, la roba, la vita, e' figliuoli, come di sopra dissi, quando el bisogno è discosto: ma quando ti si appressa, si rivoltono, e quello principe che si è tutto fondato in su le parole loro, trovandosi nudo di altre preparazioni, ruina. Perché le amicizie che si acquistono col prezzo, e non con grandezza e nobilità di animo, si meritano, ma elle non si hanno, e alli tempi non si possono spendere; e li uomini hanno meno rispetto a offendere uno che si facci amare, che uno che si facci temere: perché lo amore è tenuto da uno vinculo di obligo, il quale, per essere gl'uomini tristi, da ogni occasione di propria utilità è rotto, ma il timore è tenuto da una paura di pena che non ti abbandona mai." Ch. 7. [http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/testo/bibit000214 Il Principe], Machiavelli.

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
*“The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.” (Letter to Napier, November 5, 1841, p. 103 of Trevelyan's ''The Life and Letters..., Vol. 2'')

*"The doctrine which from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words, and stripped of rhetorical disguise is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error."
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Sir James Macintosh"

*From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Mahler Gustav==
*From [https://deepstash.com/article/203717/jean-jaurs-the-true-way-to-honour-the-past Deepstash, Jean Jaures said,] "Ce n'est pas en vain que tous les foyers des générations humaines ont flambé, ont rayonné ; mais c'est nous, parce que nous marchons, parce que nous luttons pour un idéal nouveau, c'est nous qui sommes les vrais héritiers du foyer des aïeux ; nous en avons pris la flamme, vous n'en avez gardé que la cendre." From [https://latoilescoute.net/de-la-tradition-il-faut-garder-la Latoilescoute.net: ] janvier 1910, à Paris, Chambre des députés in Pages choisies, éd. Rieder, paru en 1922, p. 115.

"It is not in vain that all the homes of human generations have burned, have blazed; but it is us - because we walk forward, because we fight for a new ideal - it is us who are the true heirs of the home of the ancestors; we took the flame, you only kept the ashes."

*From [https://x.com/DurhamWASP/status/1942000048822268127 Twitter] and [https://www.wienerzeitung.at/h/irrwege-einer-metapher Irrwege einer Metapher, of Gerald Krieghofer: Gustav Mahler said, ""Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers", Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

That's different and better enough for me to award the credit to Mahler. Mr. Krieghofer might show me to be wrong, though; I don't speak German.

==David MAMET==
*“We know psychology is a scam for two reasons.
One: all the children of psychologists are insane.
And two: in a hundred years of psychoanalysis, no one has ever gotten better.”
2011 book The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

==Mao Tse-Tung==
In ''Khruschev Remembers'', Soviet leader Krushchev [https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/quotations-peoples-republic/ talks about] a 1957 meeting.

"Mao spoke about the war at this meeting . His speech content was roughly this: Do not be afraid of war. Do not be afraid of either the atomic bomb or the weapons. No matter what kind of war, we socialist countries will win. When it comes to China specifically, he claimed: 'If the imperialist impose war on us, we now have 600 million people, even if we lose 300 million, so what, this is war. Years later, we nurture new, and the population will be restored.' After he spoke, the meeting room was in a tomb-like silence."

==de Marenches, Alexandre==
Jack Jolis:"
Reminds me of something the late, (pro-American) former French spy-boss Alexandre de Marenches once said to my late dad (in my presence):

:"That man Reagan-- he may not know much, but he understands everything"
"(Cet homme Reagan – il sait peut-être peu, mais il a tout compris”).

==Marx, Karl==
:"In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. The English Established Church, e.g., will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. Now-a-days atheism is culpa levis as compared with criticism of existing property relations." --[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm Capital], volume 1, Preface.

* "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." Introduction, 1844, in Marx's own journal Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher.

==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

==Mather, Increase==
*"When the Knowledge of the Tongues and Arts Revived, Religion had a Revival with it: And though some Unlearned men have been useful to the Interests of Religion, yet no man ever decried Learning, but what was, an Enemy to Religion, whether he knew it or no."

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==Matjaž Leonardis==
If 0.1mg dose of a drug can massively alter the behaviour of a 100kg human (nine orders of magnitude ratio) then the idea small groups of individuals can change massive social systems should seem at least plausible. (2022, Twitter)
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==Mazarin, Cardinal==
« Le cardinal Mazarin ne pouvait souffrir autour de lui des gens malheureux. Quand on lui proposait quelqu’un pour entrer à son service, sa première question était celle-ci : « Est-il heureux ? » »

"(Translation: "Cardinal Mazarin could not bear unhappy people around him. When someone was proposed to enter his service, his first question was: 'Is he lucky/fortunate?'")

This anecdote is reported by Madame la Palatine (Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, mother of the future Regent Philippe d'Orléans), in her letters or memoirs from the late 17th/early 18th century. It is referenced in multiple French historical sources, including sites dedicated to historical quotations (e.g., histoire-en-citations.fr), which describe it as a "well-known saying" (mot bien connu) attributed via the Palatine.

However, no primary source (e.g., Mazarin's own letters or contemporary accounts) directly records him saying it verbatim about generals. The Palatine's version is general (about service in his entourage), not explicitly military."

==MEIJER, WILLIAM==
*"If you give submissive people power, they’ll use it to submit themselves." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

*"Humans will endure any amount of chronic pain to avoid a temporarily greater level of acute pain." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

*About Pres. Roosevelt and his 1936 opponent Gov. Landon: Landon “probably knows a great deal less than the Hon. Mr. Roosevelt, but much more of what he knows is true.” (from [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Roosevelt_Sweeps_Nation/9qq-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mencken+++++1936++Landon,++%22probably+knows+a+great+deal+less+than+the+Hon+.+Mr.+Roosevelt+,+but+much+more+of+what+he+knows+is+true%22&pg=PT399&printsec=frontcover Pietruza's book])

*"I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey."

*"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

*"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup."

*"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

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==Eric Moody==
*[https://x.com/therealmissjo/status/1935709339567726688 From X:]
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”
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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

*"When you hear the names of legislation or anything done by the government, it is worth remembering that the group that sent so many people to the guillotine during the French Revolution was called “The Committee of Public Safety”, not the “Cut Off Their Heads Committee” " Twitter (2024)

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Newman, John==
*"It is not the way to learn to swim in troubled waters, never to have gone into them.” — “Duties of the Church towards Knowledge,” in ''The Idea of a University'' (1852).

Improved: "You won't learn to swim in troubled waters by avoiding bathtubs."

==Ngo, Richard==
*"To improve the world most in the short term, make the worst country better. To improve the world most in the long term, make the best country better." Twitter, 2025.

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Orwell, George==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

"There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see." (slightly improved, seen secondhand on Twitter)

==Prince Philip==
*“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

*“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

*“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

* “It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

* “If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

*“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

*“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

*“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

*“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

*“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

*“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

* “It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

* “It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/

==Steven PINKER==
*"Historically, positions were distributed by hereditary privilege, family ties, patronage to cronies, or sale to the highest bidder. These are not far from the system we have here." ([https://www.thecrimson.com/column/council-on-academic-freedom-at-harvard/article/2024/1/29/pinker-harvard-legacy-admissions/ of Harvard student admissions, 2024])

==Pablo PICASSO==
From Grok. Original:
« L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de révéler la vérité. » (Art is a lie that permits us to reveal the truth)
(or « L’art est le mensonge qui dit la vérité. » ---Art is the lie that tells the truth.

The most widely quoted French version:« L’art est un mensonge qui nous fait comprendre la vérité. » (Art is a lie that makes us understand the truth.)

Marius de Zayas, “Picasso Speaks,” The Arts (New York), May 1923, pp. 315–326.
French version as Picasso himself later approved or rephrased it (most canonical):
« Nous savons tous que l’Art n’est pas la vérité. L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de reconnaître la vérité, du moins la vérité qu’il nous est donné de comprendre. »
(This longer version appears in French sources quoting Picasso directly, notably in Christian Zervos’s conversations with Picasso and in later interviews.)

==Plato==
*"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter" ([https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=280790.0 in Greek:] μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μου τὴν στέγην," « mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn »). Engraved above the door of Plato's Academy in Athens. [https://www.dialogues-de-platon.org/faq/faq009.htm Bernard Suzanne] says "an anonymous scholion in a manuscript of Aelius Aristides whose author, according to him, might be the fourth century orator Sopatros, which mentions the full text of the inscription, adding that ageômetrètos has been put in place of anisos kai adikos ("unfair and unjust"), sometimes used in similar inscriptions at the entrance of sacred places, and
:"Johannes Tzetzes' Chiliades, whose text is as follows:
Pro tôn prothurôn tôn hautou grapsas hupèrche Platôn
Mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn
Toutestin, adikos mèdeis paresierchestô tèide
Isotès gar kai dikaion esti geômetria.
("Plato had written at the front door of his house: "Let no one who is not geometer enter under my roof", that is, "Let non one unjust sneak in here", because geometry is equality/fairness and justice/righteousness")."

==Podgursky, Ben==
*"When your kids ask to play with you, remember that the actual ask is "I want to spend time with you". They ask to play because play is all they know. If you'd rather do a project (gardening, making an IKEA shelf), just propose doing it with them. They'll be just as excited." (Twitter, 2025)

==Poincare, Henry==
"It is through logic that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
Poincare, H. (1914). Science and Method. (F. Maitland, Preface by B. Russell, Trans.) London: Thomas Nelson and Sons.

==Pope, Alexander==
==="An Essay on Criticism"===
<pre>
*Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang’rous is th’ offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
Some few in that, but numbers err in this,
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss;

‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

In poets as true genius is but rare,
True taste as seldom is the critic’s share;
Both must alike from Heav’n derive their light,
These born to judge, as well as those to write.

Yet if we look more closely we shall find
Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind;
Nature affords at least a glimm’ring light;
The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right.
But as the slightest sketch, if justly trac’d,
Is by ill colouring but the more disgrac’d,
So by false learning is good sense defac’d;
Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.
</pre>

==Popper, Karl==
*[https://www.stephenhicks.org/2021/09/30/popper-to-aron-letter-on-adorno-and-habermas/ Letter of Popper to Aron in 1970]:
"I can only say that when I read either Adorno or Habermas, I feel as if lunatics were speaking.
I have translated some of their German sentences into simple German. It turns out to be either trivial or tautological or sheer pretentious nonsense. I completely fail to see why Habermas is reputed to have “talent”. I do not think that he was born less intelligent than other people; but he certainly did not have the good sense to resist the influence of a pretentious, lying, and intelligence destroying University education.
Sociology is in a bad way — even here in England. There seems to be an interesting law: bad and pretentious language drives out good and simple language. And once human language is destroyed, we shall return to the beasts."

==Alex Priou==
*"Interpretation of a great work is first and foremost decompression of information and not compression.

:A summary of Plato or Aristotle that did faith to the nerve of their thought would require their near equal, and it would have to be an appropriate task for the times."

==Putin, Vladimir==
“The culture of cancellation is the cancellation of culture.” From [https://nationalfile.com/putin-skewers-cancel-culture-in-latest-moscow-speech/ an October 2022 speech. ]

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==Ramsey, Dave==
*"Tell the money where to go instead of wondering where it went."

==Ramseyer, J. Mark==
"Harvard is a vastly less tolerant place than it was when I arrived in 1998. The intolerance is a function of an increasingly large fraction of our colleagues. And we – the rest of us on the Harvard faculty – let it happen. The cancelling, the punishments, the DEI bureaucracy, the DEI statements, the endless list that we could all recite – all this happened on our watch. We saw it happen, but we did nothing. We were too busy. We were scared to speak up. We – we on the faculty – let Harvard become what it is. The Harvard that we have is the result of our own collective moral failure.

'''The alumni who are furious are not trying to turn Harvard into something we do not want. They are trying to rescue Harvard from what we let it become.'''
We as a faculty failed. That is why the alumni are speaking up. That is why we formed the Council on Academic Freedom in the first place."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].
*"When someone gives you lemons, make lemonade." Synonym for "Every cloud has a silver lining."

*"A model should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." I think I used in my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/ ''Games and Information''], and attributed it to Alfred Einstein. The original saying is “Everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler,” and while it is attributed to Einstein, it’s [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ highly questionable] whether he ever said it.

*"Wiggle words weaken writing." Don't use "maybe" or "perhaps" or "to some extent" or "quite" or "often" or "sometimes" if you don't have to.

*"The humanities are just as hard at math; the difference is, in the humanities you're so lost you don't even know you got the answer wrong. "
*"The only things worse than a dumb bureaucrat handling your problem is a smart computer."

*"The hand that does the daycare ruins the world."

*"For scholars, destroying data is like cutting down giant sequoia trees; it goes against all our instincts. For administrators, destroying data is like cleaning your house before a party so nobody can see what a slob you are; it accords with all their instincts. "

*"Without perspicaciousness, what good is perspicuity?"

*"Delight expressed is delight enhanced. That's why I do not restrain my chuckles of pleasure when I hear a speaker say something witty or surprising. (Also, because I know from experience that audience feedback helps.)"

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks" or "He was so mean he didn't need bug spray to repel ticks."

*"Loving someone is less often to encourage them to do what they desire to do than to desire what they ought to do."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"One of the blessings of having a father is that you can call him when you have a minor car crash. One of the blessings of being a father is that someone thinks you're worth calling, and they're right."

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==Ratzinger (Pope Benedict)==
*“A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music, and nature can be dangerous since blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental: they necessarily are reflected in his theology.” ~Ratzinger (April 16,
1927-December 31, 2022).

==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

::[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

::Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

::English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Will Rogers==
*It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rorty, Richard==
*"The contemporary cultural Left urges that America should not be a melting pot, because we need to respect one another in our differences. This Left wants to preserve otherness rather than ignore it." (From Achieving Our... (1997))

==Routledge, Clay==
*We are living in an era of woke capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Russell, Bertrand==
* “Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat. What he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.”
--[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/08/a-life-of-disagreement/641018/ A Life of Disagreement] television programs , half-hour conversation by BERTRAND RUSSELL with Romney Wheeler, filmed in London by the National Broadcasting Company and shown over the NBC network and BBC-TV on the occasion of Earl Russell’s eightieth birthday (1952).

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

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==Sabien, Duncan==
*"If you've spent your entire life being told you were wrong and being proven right (b/c you were smarter than the people around you), then when you run into another genius who tells you that you're wrong, you have a LOT of memetic antibodies that will make it easier-than-it-should-be to write them off or dismiss them."

==Sailer, Steve==
*"Steve Sailer ... losing the war of public opinion since 1990.

But the crazier the conventional wisdom gets, the more hilarious material I have to write about.

So at least there's that.

Too bad about society, though." ([https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1644853299387199489 Twitter, 2023])

*"When it comes to human behavior, there mostly aren’t systematic differences between what your lying eyes tell you and what The Science says. There’s a continuum between anecdote, anecdata, and data....

:If there’s a strong statistical pattern in the numbers, you should be able to come up with vivid real-life examples of it. And if you can think of several examples suggesting a pattern, you might well be able to find large-scale data for it.

:My main one weird trick for coming up with enough insights to make a living as an unfashionable pundit for 22 years has been to assume that private life facts and public life facts are one and the same. Most pundits assume public controversies, such as BLM, are of a higher realm than daily life, so that what they notice about “safe neighborhoods” and “good schools” when they are making real estate decisions for themselves couldn’t possibly have any relevance to the great issues of the day they discuss in the media." ([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I am told that we shouldn’t mention the truth because either:

:—The facts have no possible policy implications, or

:—The facts have overwhelmingly horrible policy implications, such as the logical necessity of reimposing slavery or instituting genocide.

:The former strikes me as obtuse and the latter as insane and/or evil.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*There’s no need for everybody to continue to pretend ever since the 1978 Bakke decision that exalted “diversity” as the excuse for violating the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection of the laws that affirmative action makes colleges more intellectually stimulating when obviously the opposite has proven true. Quotas have helped make colleges minefields of cancel culture by bringing onto campus insecure and resentful masses of racially preferred students out to punish anyone who alludes to the race gaps that are American society’s central fact. Instead, underqualified preference beneficiaries should be told to be thankful for their privilege.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I quoted this letter at length because it seems like such a vivid example of the mindset of the current day: reality is determined by words, that honest words threaten the marginalized with violence, and asking the marginalized to improve their behavior is unthinkable." ([https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyc-health-czar-takes-strong-action-against-monkeypox-demands-who-change-the-name-of-monkeypox-to-an-incomprehensible-string-of-characters/Column on renaming monkeypox], 2022)

*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*"How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

:The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

:Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general." [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*"The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world."

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Salisbury, Lord==
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury

*"Within certain limits of intelligence, honesty and knowledge of the law, one man would make as good a judge as another and a Tory mentality is ipso facto more trustworthy than a Liberal one."

*First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.
'Democracy on its Trial', Quarterly Review, vol. 110 (July & October 1861), p. 281

*The conflict between Socialism and existing civilisation must be a death-struggle. If the combat is once commenced, one or other of the combatants must perish. It is idle to plead that the schemes of these men are their religion. There are religions so hostile to morality, so poisonous to the life-springs of society, that they are outside the pale of human tolerance.
'The Commune and the Internationale', Quarterly Review, vol. 131 (July & October 1871), p. 562

*It was a part of a budget which even three months had proved to be a mass of miscalculation; it was the pet scheme of a cosmopolitan school who love England little, and whom England loves less, whose sympathies are half-American and half-French; and it was the first application of a theory of combined taxation and reform, according to which the poor were exclusively to fix the revenue which the rich were exclusively to pay.
‘The Conservative Reaction’, Quarterly Review, vol. 108 (July & October 1860), p. 276

*"Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed...The classes that represent civilisation, the holders of accumulated capital and accumulated thought have a right to require securities to protect them from being overwhelmed by hordes who have neither knowledge to guide them nor stake in the Commonwealth to control them."
'English Politics and Parties', Bentley's Quarterly Review, vol. I (March & July 1859), pp. 28-29

* In men of genius, as a rule, the imagination or the
passions are too strongly developed to suffer them
to reach the highest standard of practical states-
, manship. They follow some poetical ideal, they
are under the spell of some fascinating chapter of
past history, they are the slaves of some talismanic
phrase which their generation has taken up, or
they have made to themselves a system to which
all men and all circumstances must be bent. Something there almost always is that beguiles
them away from the plain, prosaic, business-like
view ofthe concerns of this prosaic world. Consequently the mass of mankind, who have a dull but
surefooted instinct of their own interest, feel an
uncomfortable misgiving when they see a genius at
the head oftheir affairs. They are aware that firstrate brilliancy cannot be had without something of
distortion ; but it is no consolation to them that the
illusions which are luring him on to ruin lend in
the mean time an exquisite charm to the eloquence
by which he induces them to accompany him on
the road. On the other hand, the clever world is
very intolerant of plain, practical statesmen. It
maintains, sometimes with very good reason, that
where the imagination is stunted, it is merely
because the whole mind is stunted too ; and that
the claim to practical common sense is often only
a euphemism for a narrow intelligence straitened
by an abject regard for precedents and for routine.
As a rule, both sides are right in the suspicions
they entertain. It is rare to meet with a fervid
imagination which is drilled to reserve its flights
for efforts of oratory, and to give place entirely to
more sober faculties in council. It is still rarer to
see an absolutely unimaginative mind possessed of
the energy and of the breadth of view indispensable
in the statesman of a troubled period. Both kinds
of excellence produce great and successful rulers,
where they occur ; and both are apt to meet, in
those around them, with incredulity that such combinations of opposite qualities can exist.

'Lord Castlereagh', Quarterly Review, vol. 111 (January & April 1862), p. 204 https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QafmXADIh0jnPZqj11iTfMIuIdFT-DZWwP1q0zQiA4yBrYcBXaRXhl4wAaaOcH-1ovmPhezfBeCx0TdkJoRN9AA_GFoAY4s2keT-CwZl1Ac4Hi372YcAOvsu39xIf9x-9EnByraZe58fXqGcaJXEPxzQgDRgCT4Tmx6dycMZDk2BYr8nEVHvroFVV0BBgbmci9-5NQXLe-_TADxWoaHFbQLTkZ_S6X7gooGS2WS2hjnVU9k8TJvQcgrZPgRvcxDa635thiwS18ib2JkrJsBzJpxawXgcLHhLf7Y6EZsBbphBqpbBMgw

==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Scalia, son==
[https://twitter.com/StuffForSisters/status/1581430850159542272 At Scalia's Funeral:]
"We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us—known only by reputation to even more. A man loved by many—scorned by others. A man known for great controversy & for great compassion. That man, of course, is Jesus of Nazareth."

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shakespeare, William==
*"Ten masts deep make not the altitude from which though has perpendicularly fell." King Lear, Edgar to Gloucester.

===Insults===
From Cultural Tutor on Twitter:
1) "Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon."
~Timon of Athens

2) "You, minion, are too saucy."
~The Two Gentleman of Verona

3) "Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat."
~Henry V

4) "The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril."
~The Merry Wives of Windsor

5) "Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows."
~Troilus and Cressida

10) "I’ll beat thee, but I would infect my hands."
~Timon of Athens

11) "More of your conversation would infect my brain."
~Coriolanus

12) "There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune."
~Henry IV, Part 1

14) "Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

18) "This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

23) "Some report a sea-maid spawn’d him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice."
~Measure for Measure

25) "Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood."
~King Lear

31) "Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant."
~The Taming of the Shrew

46) "A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition."
~King Lear

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
"Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king."
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==SMITH, ADAM==
*"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” (no source)

==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
*“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
*"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

*"The best obituary a man can have is that the people who knew him loved him, even if those who didn't know him hated him," ''Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays''

*“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice'.” The Quest for Cosmic Justice

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
*“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” In english: "To understand all is to forgive all." 
[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

*“Madame,” the general informed the lady in question, “I do not want women mixed up in politics.” “You are perfectly right,” came the reply, “but in a country where their heads are cut off, it is only natural for them to want to know why.” (Exchange between Napoleon Bonaparte and Madame de Staël, J. Christopher Herold’s ''The Mind of Napoleon''.)

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==st exuery==
Drawing on French aristocrat Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, philosopher Byung Chul Han noted that, while houses are homes in space, rituals are homes in time. Rituals are an assertion of continuity — you act as your ancestors acted before you. They shift the family from the moment into ‘eternal time’. https://www.theculturist.io/p/why-did-wealth-stop-building-beautiful?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2242126&post_id=179128916&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

==Sutton, Willy==
When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is."

== ==

==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==TACITUS==
*Omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset." 
“All would have agreed that he was capable of being emperor, if only he had never been it.” 
So wrote Tacitus of Galba.

==Taft, William==
*"The opportunity freely and publicly to criticize judicial action is of vastly more iportance to the body politic than the immunity of courts and judges from unjust aspersions and attack. Nothing tends more to render judges careful in their decisions and anxiously solicitous to do exact justice than the consciousness that every act of theirs is to be subjected to the intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their fellow-men. Such criticism is beneficial in proportion as it is fair, dispassionate, discriminating, and based on a knowledge of sound legal principles. The comments made by learned text writers and by the acute editors of the various law reviews upon judicial decisions are therefore highly useful. Such critics constitute more or less impartial tribunals of professional opinion before which each judgment is made to stand or fall on its merits, and thus exert a strong influence to secure uniformity of decision. But non-professional criticism also is by no means without its uses, even if accompanied, as it often is, by a direct attack upon the judicial fairness and motives of the occupants of the bench; for if the law is but the essence of common sense, the protest of many average men may evidence a defect in a judicial conclusion, though based on the nicest legal reasoning and profoundest learning. The two important elements of moral character in a judge are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it. In so far as fear of public comment does not affect the courage of a judge, but only spurs him on to search his conscience and to reach the result which approves itself to his inmost heart such comment serves a useful purpose. There are few men, whether they are judges for life or for a shorter term, who do not prefer to earn and hold the respect of all, and who can not be reached and made to pause and deliberate by hostile public criticism. In the case of judges having a life tenure, indeed their very independence makes the right freely to comment on their decisions of greater importance, because it is the only practical and available instrument in the hands of a free people to keep such judges alive to the reasonable demands of those they serve." (1895) As [http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/state-of-the-union-1906.php cited by Pres. Roosevelt] in 1906.

==Tate, Jeremy==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted at 9:15 AM on Sun, Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

==Taylor, Charles==
*As reported [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/04/westafrica.qanda by The Guardian]: "He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him." Running successfully for President of Liberia.

==Teller, Edward==
*"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
*Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

* His election rerunning announcement speech:
Michael Tracey@mtracey·14hSorry to break it to you, but Trump was spot-on with this one: “They say the ocean will rise 1/8 of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years, but don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries with one shot. Something is wrong with their thinking.”

:This is an example of how he exaggerates in the hope that someone will correct him and make his point for him (1/8 inch corrected to 2 inches, still tiny).

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*"Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain, message to Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 1901.

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

*"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 

Often quoted in W. H. Auden's translation,‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’, but the French is so easy, an Anglophone might as well use the original phrase. See also "Le code n'est jamais fini, seulement termine." 

Valery didn't actually say this, though it is what is commonly quoted in France. Pierre Vinclair tells us about that in [https://poezibao.typepad.com/files/ashbery-9.pdf «Portrait d’une énigme dans un miroir convexe», "9. et fin. Clack"], [https://www.poesibao.fr/ ''Poezibao'']
[https://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2020/11/feuilleton-critique-portrait-dune-%C3%A9nigme-dans-un-miroir-convexe-9-et-fin-clack-par-pierre-vinclair.html archive] (2020):

"Et l’on connaît la célèbre formule de Valéry : « un poème n’est jamais fini, seulement abandonné ». Dicton apocryphe, qui trouve sans doute son origine dans cette page de «Littérature»:

::Une œuvre dont l’achèvement — le jugement qui la déclare achevée, est uniquement subordonné à la condition qu’elle nous plaise — n’est jamais achevée. […]
:: Un poème n’est jamais achevé — c’est toujours un accident qui le termine, c’est-àdire qui le donne au public.
::Ce sont la lassitude, la demande de l’éditeur, — la poussée d’un autre poème.
::Mais jamais l’état même de l’ouvrage (si l’auteur n’est pas un sot) ne montre qu’il ne pourrait être poussé, changé, considéré comme première approximation, ou origine d’une recherche nouvelle.
::Je conçois, quant à moi, que le même sujet et presque les mêmes mots pourraient être repris indéfiniment et occuper toute une vie.
::« Perfection »
::c’est travail. 

Notre premier bumper soit donc Paul Valéry, selon qui l’œuvre ne s’achève jamais
(car la perfection qu’elle cherche est asymptotique) : seul un accident extérieur peut
l’interrompre. Or, des trois causes qu’il nomme — lassitude, demande de l’éditeur,
poussée d’un autre poème — aucune ne ressemble au tarissement dont parle
Ashbery. C’est sans doute que, pour celui-ci, le poème n’est pas l’objet d’un travail
infini visant la perfection, la confection maniaque d’une œuvre aussi proche que
possible de l’idéal."

Paul Valéry, «Littérature» in Tel Quel, Gallimard, 1941, p. 154. "

==Vaughan, Sarah==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html Easy Street]

==Von Neumann, John==
*“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You get used to them.”

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== ==

==Wang, John==
@johnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Watson, Thomas==
* After talking about the Prodigal Son: “Before a man can come to Christ he must first come to himself. . . . A man must first recognize and consider what his sin is, and know the plague of his heart, before he can be duly humbled for it.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

*“Affliction is but corrective; sin is destructive” ''The Doctrine of Repentance.'' (1668).

*“Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

==Watt, Peter==
*"Judy Holliday said. "Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''. In Hunter Biden's case it seems that nothing he does will ever be printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

==Wilde, Oscar==
*"Algernon: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” 
:Jack: “Is that clever?” 
:Algernon: “It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be.” " 
::(from ''The Importance of Being Earnest'')

===[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phrases_and_Philosophies_for_the_Use_of_the_Young "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young"], ''Chameleon'' magazine, (1894)===

*Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.

*A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

*If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

*It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

*Only the shallow know themselves.

*One should always be a little improbable.

*The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

*One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

*The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

==Will, George==
"The ancients had asked, What is the highest attainment of which mankind is capable and how can we pursue this? Hobbes and subsequent moderns asked, What is the worst that can happen and how can we avoid it?" (TCS, p 19)

==Williams, Robin==
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”

==Wolfe, Humbert==
[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-british-journalist-by-humbert-wolfe-f9r6pb9hb07 The London Times]:

. 
You cannot ever bribe or twist 
The freeborn British journalist 
Seeing what, unbribed, he’ll do 
You realize there’s no reason to

==Warhol, Andrew==
*“The President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”

— Andy Warhol, 1975,

== ==
==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zeto, Salena==
*<> [https://www.thefp.com/p/my-decade-with-donald-trump-salena-zito?utm_campaign=email-post&r=fjeib&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "My Decade with Donald Trump,"] Salena Zito, ''The Free Press'' (2025), linking to her article, [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-makes-his-case-in-pittsburgh/501335/ "Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally",] ''The Atlantic'' (2016).

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

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DRAFT

*[https://www.razibkhan.com/p/when-slavs-rush-in-the-fall-of-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=94899&post_id=139854306&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true "When Slavs Rush in"] (2026)
:::The Illyrian city of Sirmium, one of the four capitals of the Empire in the late third century Tetrarchy and birthplace of ten Roman Emperors, is today the modest and obscure Serbian town of Sremska Mitrovica, population 74,000.

*[https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-state-of-canada?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=841240&post_id=189387470&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email "The State of Canada,"] JOhn Carter (2026).

Quotations

2026-02-27T13:41:12Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* KRONECKER, Leopold */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

*[https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089 "On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs' "], Jia Tolentino ( /23/16).

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==Anonymous==
*"Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (“Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched”) The motto of the University of Chicago.

*"You can make fish soup from fish, but you cannot make fish from fish soup." Hungarian proverb (Viktor Orban)

*"South Africa has introduced a new category to geopolitics: a de-developing nation." (@ConCaracal, X, 2026).

*"Don't take notes of what the professor says, take note."

*"What other people think of me is none of my business.”

*"Do you have 10 years of experience, or are you just living the same year at your job 10 times over?" [https://twitter.com/randomrecruiter/status/1690753402014232576 @randomrecruiter] (2023)

*I am reminded of a woman who graduated from MIT in 1987. I asked her about her social life as an undergrad. "The odds were good, but the goods were odd."

*"VOCATUS ATQUA NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT." (CALLED OR NOT CALLED, GOD IS PRESENT.)

*"The rich man smokes the same sort of cigarettes as the poor man, shaves with the same sort of razor, uses the same sort of telephone, vacuum cleaner, radio, and TV set, has the same sort of lighting and heating equipment in his house, and so on indefinitely. The differences between his automobile and the poor man’s are minor. Essentially they have similar engines, similar fittings. In the early years of the century there was a hierarchy of automobiles." (''Harper's Magazine'' [1957])

*"Conservatives view themselves as underdogs because they are, especially culturally. Liberals view themselves underdogs because although in charge of every significant human institution they have set themselves the impossible egalitarian task of waging war against nature and reality itself - so when results inevitably conflict with their egalitarian ideology - when racial gaps, poverty, sex differences, inequality etc persist - they blame reactionary forces rather than nature (reality)." ''Twitter'' (2023).

*The Hillary defense:
:I didn’t do it.
:You can’t prove it.
:Everybody does it.
:He did it.
:You're just a racist.
:It's old news.
:What difference, at this point, does it make?

*The Russian Teapot defense:
:It isn’t broken
:If it is broken, I didn’t do it
:If I did do it, it was no good anyway

*A canon of legal interpretation:"Specialia generalibus non derogant". Special things don't derogate from the general rule.

* “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original:"Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement , il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." [https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa as written by Jomini] (1827))..

*When everything works fine, they wonder why they hired you. When everything stops working, they wonder why they hired you. I.T. in a nutshell.

*“I don't drink, or cuss, or chew; and I don't go out with girls that do.”

*"The plural of outlier is out-and-out-liar".

*"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*[https://allaboutfrench.com/qui-se-ressemble-sassemble "Qui se ressemble s'assemble"]

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan," as quoted in ''A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition) by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Owning a sailboat is like turning your shower's cold water on and standing there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own." Stalin?

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Showing up is 90% of success," or "Being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them." — an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain". This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointment, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: the person secretly believe the world revolves around him, everyone is paying attention to him and his actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan. It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.
Women will always and forever rely on men.}}
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==Adams, John==
*"It is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State." [https://buff.ly/3rFhAzP "From John Adams to James Sullivan"] (26 May 1776).

==Adams, Scott==
*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1577277568310341632 Twitter, October 4, 2022]:"Elon Musk took control of the Ukraine/Russia endgame by writing the first draft in bullet form and drawing all attention to it.

:You just learned one of the most powerful persuasion techniques in the modern world: Write the first draft and keep it simple."

*I’m not worried about climate change because any species that can predict the average temperature a hundred years in advance won’t have trouble handling it.

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==The African Queen==
Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature. 
Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

See [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/characters/nm0000031 the IMDB quote page.]

==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” 
Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Allred, Austen==
*"Job descriptions should be strongly opinionated, and should both attract the people you’d want to work with while repelling those you wouldn’t."(Twitter 2023)

==Amin, Idi==
*"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."

==Anderson, Robert==
*"It would be nice if people would put (D) or (R) in their profiles so I know whether to retweet or ratio them without having to do a bunch of reading." Twitter (2024).

==Andreessen, Mark==
*"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

*Whitepill #14: Every day, two lists get longer: The things you believe but can't say, and the things you don't believe but must say. (Twitter, 2022)

==Aquinas, Thomas==
*"Nevertheless, sacred doctrine makes use of these authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the authority of the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the authority of the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable. For our faith rests upon the revelation made to the apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books, and not on the revelations (if any such there are) made to other doctors. Hence Augustine says (Epis. ad Hieron. xix, 1): 'Only those books of Scripture which are called canonical have I learned to hold in such honor as to believe their authors have not erred in any way in writing them. But other authors I so read as not to deem everything in their works to be true, merely on account of their having so thought and written, whatever may have been their holiness and learning'" (Summa Theologica,. Part 1, Q. 1, Art. 8).

==The Apocrypha==
"Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

2But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.

3With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.

4But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.

5For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen." Wisdom of SOlomon 13.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
*“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

*"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

*"The other environmental risk factors for schizophrenia are equally hard to change. Poverty? Okay, don’t be poor, thanks for the important life advice. Social defeat? “Doctor, are you saying I have to never let anyone defeat me?” “Yes, it’s my official medical recommendation that you become invincible.” " [https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-fair-to-describe-schizophrenia "It's Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic"] (Jan. 31, 2024).

==Auden==
*“The Danish Lutheran Church may have been as worldly as Kierkegaard thought it was, but if it had not existed he would never have heard of the Gospels, in which he found the standards by which he condemned it.”

==Augustine==
*“Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and that not of one man, but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices” (''City of God'', Book IV)

*"If they shall be deprived of all good, they shall no longer be. So long, therefore, as they are, they are good; therefore whatsoever is, is good. That evil, then, which I sought whence it was, is not any substance; for were it a substance, it would be good. For either it would be an incorruptible substance, and so a chief good, or a corruptible substance, which unless it were good it could not be corrupted. I perceived, therefore, and it was made clear to me, that Thou didst make all things good, nor is there any substance at all that was not made by Thee; and because all that Thou hast made are not equal, therefore all things are; because individually they are good, and altogether very good, because our God made all things very good." ''Confessions'', Book 7, chapter 12.

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==Balfour, Arthur==
*“The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which, for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.”

==Bankman-Fried, Sam ==
“...this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us.” --
"[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself]: The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way," ''Vox,'' Kelsey Piper (Nov. 16, 2022).

==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
*“Eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

==The Bible==
*“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” Proverbs 15:1.

*"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits." Proverbs 16:2.

*"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs 16:4.

*"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9.

==Boghossian, Peter==
*"If a thing's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well." (''Unherd'' panel interview, 2024, ''You-Tube'').

==Booth, William (Salvation Army founder)==
*Asked about the chief dangers for the 20th century, Salvation Army founder Booth [https://rlhymersjr.com/Online_Sermons/2007/090907_OldEvangelicalismReview.html said], “Religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.”

==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

==Bloom,Allen==
*“Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason’s power.” ''The Closing of the American Mind''

==Bloom, Harold==
*[https://biblioklept.org/2013/02/19/harold-bloom-on-the-school-of-resentment/ Harold Bloom on his agon with “The School of Resentment.”] From [https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2225/the-art-of-criticism-no-1-harold-bloom his 1991 interview with The Paris Review.]:
When I was a young man back in the fifties starting out on what was to be my career, I used to proclaim that my chosen profession seemed to consist of secular clergy or clerisy. I was thinking, of course, of the highly Anglo-Catholic New Criticism under the sponsorship or demigodness of T. S. Eliot. But I realized in latish middle age that, no better or worse, I was surrounded by a pride of displaced social workers, a rabblement of lemmings, all rushing down to the sea carrying their subject down to destruction with them. The school of resentment is an extraordinary sort of mélange of latest-model feminists, Lacanians, that whole semiotic cackle, latest-model pseudo-Marxists, so-called New Historicists, who are neither new nor historicist, and third generation deconstructors, who I believe have no relationship whatever to literary values. . . .

It is tiresome to be encountering myths called “The Social Responsibility of the Critic” or “The Political Responsibility of the Critic.” I would rather walk into a bookstore and find a book called “The Aesthetic Responsibilities of the Statesman,” or “The Literary Responsibilities of the Engineer.” Criticism is not a program for social betterment, not an engine for social change. I don’t see how it possibly could be. . . .

What else is there like Invisible Man? Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God has a kind of superior intensity and firm control. It’s a very fine book indeed. It surprised and delighted me when I first read it and it has sustained several rereadings since. But that and Invisible Man are the only full scale works of fiction I have read by American blacks in this century that have survival possibilities at all. Alice Walker is an extremely inadequate writer, and I think that is giving her the best of it. A book like The Color Purple is of no aesthetic interest or value whatsoever, yet it is exalted and taught in the academies. It clearly is a time in which social and cultural guilt has taken over. . . .

I’m not terribly fond of feminist criticism. The true test is to find work, whether in the past or present, by women writers that we had undervalued, and thus bring it to our attention and teach us to study it more closely or more usefully. By that test they have failed, because they have added not one to the canon. The women writers who mattered—Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and others who have always mattered on aesthetic grounds—still matter. I do not appreciate Elizabeth Bishop or May Swenson any more or less than I would have appreciated them if we had no feminist literary criticism at all.

==Bowles, Michael==
“Construction is a matter of backing yourself into a corner and then fighting your way out.”

==Bukowski, Charles==
*“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

==Burke, Edmund==
* “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770).

*"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Misattributed. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ Quote Investigator.]

==Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)==
. 
He that complies against his Will, 
Is of his own Opinion still. 
(from ''Hudibras'')
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==CANNON, William==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Caplan, Bryan==
*"When a normal utilitarian concludes that mass murder would maximize social utility, he checks his work! He goes over his calculations with a fine-tooth comb, hoping to discover a way to implement beneficial policy changes without horrific atrocities. The Leninist, in contrast, reasons backwards from the atrocities that emotionally inspire him to the utilitarian argument that morally justifies his atrocities." [https://betonit.substack.com/p/the_roots_of_lehtml The roots of Leninism] (2012)

==Carlin, George==
*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that."

==Carson, D.A.==
*"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."

==Carver, George Washington==
*“When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well, George, that's more nearly your size.’

==Carville, James==
*“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

==St. Charbel Makhlouf==
*[https://www.lightbook.org/53-best-saint-charbel-quotes.html "Your weakness is to be overcome, not to be used as a pilgrimage."]

==Charles III of the United Kingdom==
* 2011 as he [https://www.royal.uk/clarencehouse/speech/speech-hrh-prince-wales-king-james-bible-trust-reception addressed the King James Bible Trust:] “I’ve never really understood who it was that decided that, for people who aren’t very good at reading, the best things to read are those written by people who aren’t very good at writing!”

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*"Chesterton's Fence", 1929 book, ''The Thing,'' “The Drift from Domesticity”:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to challenge his reformist son-in-law. Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in his poem, “Mending Wall.” }}

*"A man can pretend to be wise; a man cannot pretend to be witty."

*"Those who will not even admit the Capitalist problem deserve to get the Communist solution."

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*"If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization."

*"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it"--Autobiography

*{{Quotation|We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

==Chicago, University of==
*The University of Chicago's motto is "Crescat scientia; vita excolatur," which means,"Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched."

==Chrysostom, John==
*"Should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in the midst of the forum, blaspheming God; go up to him and rebuke him; and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not to do so. Smite him on the face; strike his mouth; sanctify your hand with the blow, and if any should accuse you, and drag you to the place of justice, follow them there; and when the judge on the bench calls you to account, say boldly that the man blasphemed the King of angels! For if it be necessary to punish those who blaspheme an earthly king, much more so those who insult God" ('On the Statues', 1).

== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Coleridge, Samuel==
*"I, for one, do not call the sod under my feet my country. But language, religion, laws, government, blood — identity in these makes men of one country." ''Table Talk'', May 29, 1830.

==Comfort, Ray==
“Atheists don’t hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don’t exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Covey, Stephen==
*"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man."

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [-Twitter, 2021]}}

==Cunningham==
J.V. Cunningham, from "Meditation on Statistical Method"

<pre>
Plato, despair!
We prove by norms
How numbers bear
Empiric forms,

How random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our hearts
Hyperbole
Curves and departs
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
</pre>

My version:

<pre>
Random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our soul
Hyperbole
Makes error roll
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
So hope and doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Won't average out.
</pre>

== ==

==Dalrymple, Theodore==
*"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." a 2005 https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com/dalrymple-interviewed-by-jamie-glazov/ interview] in FrontPage.

==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in ''First Things'', 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, ''The Information'')

==Descartes==
See [[Descartes]]
*"Bene qui latuit, bene vixit."
*"He lives well who lies well hidden." I like the English version better. What is it in French? Ovid, Descartes.

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==Dio Cassius==
*"Although he was very practised as a writer of prose and verse and very skilled in all the arts, yet he always mocked the teachers of all the arts on the grounds that he was more learned than they, and despised and humiliated them. With these same professors and philosophers he often competed, taking turns to publish books or poems. Once, indeed, a word used by Favorinus was criticized by Hadrian. Favorinus yielded, which provoked some very agreeable amusement. He was wrong to concede to Hadrian, his friends charged him, over a word which reputable authors had used. ‘You don’t give me good advice, my friends,’ said Favorinus, ‘when you don’t allow me to believe the man who possesses thirty legions to be more learned than anyone else!’ " From [https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/hadrians-rome/content-section-5.1 Birley, A. (trans.) (1976) Lives of the Later Caesars, London, Penguin, pp. 57–87.]

<pre>
To the poet Florus,Footnote61 who wrote to him:

I do not want to be Caesar,
To walk about among the Britons,
To ensure the Scythian hoar-frosts,

he wrote back:

I do not want to be Florus,
To walk about among taverns,
To lurk about among cook-shops,
To put up with the round insects.
</pre>

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
*"Making a mistake is a net positive if you learn more from it than it cost you."

{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

*"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dornbusch, Rudiger==
*"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought" (on exchange rate crises)

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

== ==

==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==Einstein, Albert==
"in 1952 he wrote a letter to his friend and fellow physicist Max Born where he admits that even if the astronomical data had gone against general relativity, he would still believe in the theory:"

`Even if there were absolutely no light deflection, no perihelion motion and no redshift, the gravitational equations would still be convincing because they avoid the inertial system... It is really quite strange that humans are usually deaf towards the strongest arguments, while they are constantly inclined to overestimate the accuracy of measurement.'
([https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-einsteins-unification-by-jeroen? "John Psmith" 2024)

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

==Esolen, Anthony==
*"Bee as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves, says the Lord.

:The converse is what we have now in our elites, in Church, State, education, etc.: People in charge who are as dopey as pigeons, and as malignant as snakes." (Twitter, 2024)

== ==

==Faulkner, William==
*“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feser, Ed==
*"If a doctor says “This is what lung cancer involves, please stop smoking,” no one accuses him of wanting the patient to suffer. But if a theologian says “This is what damnation involves, please stop sinning,” he is accused of wanting people to go to hell." ([https://twitter.com/FeserEdward/status/1665881489354162177 Twitter, 2023])

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Friedman, Milton==
"Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:

1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality) 
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality) 
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost) 
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

== ==

==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

==Gandhi, Ashvin==
@ashdgandhi (Nov 29 2025)

"Normal people: hear math statements as regular words.

Mathematicians: hear math statements as logic.

Economists: hear regular words as math statements."

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

==Girard, Rene==
*“Nietzsche shared with many intellectuals of his time and our own a passion for irresponsible rhetoric in the attempt to get one up on opponents. But philosophers, for their misfortune, are not the only people in the world. Genuinely mad and frantic people are all around them and do them the worst turn of all: they take them at their word.” I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
*Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies" "I am the spirit who always says no." Faust part I.

*"I am the spirit that always says no. And how right I am! For surely It’s right that everything that comes to be Should cease to be. And so they do. Still better Would be nothing ever was. Hence sin And havoc and ruin—all you call evil, in sum— For me’s the element in which I swim.”

<pre>"Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen:
Verweile doch! du bist so schön!
Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen,
Dann will ich gern zugrunde gehn!
</pre>
Faust, Part I. When I to a moment say, Stay a while! You are so fair! Then you may enslave my soul, then I will submit to you. Or something like that.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==Goodstein, David==
"1.1 INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously. We will begin by considering the simplest meaningful example, the perfect gas, in order to get the central concepts sorted out." ( States of Matter (1985); see https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1651559339067310081)

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*[https://x.com/paulg/status/1874590418463330489 TWITTER:] "A friend who's a former British military officer told me that when he was training soldiers in jungle warfare they were taught that if they got lost in the jungle, the first thing they should do was to brew a cup of tea and think about what to do next."

*"Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign flipped." (2024, X).

*"If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial." [http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html "Putting Ideas into Words"] (2022).

*"A rare counterexample to the principle of specialization: your site should never seem like it was made by communications people, and the best way to achieve this is for it not to be. This is something founders should continue to micromanage forever."[https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1654765304184971264 Twitter] (2023) ]

*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)

==Grandin, Temple==
*Temple Grandin wrote in ''The Way I See It,'' a book on the experience of autism: "What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done."
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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== ==
==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hamblin, Jacob==
*Jacob Hamblin’s "Rules for Dealing with the Indians" from ''Jacob Hamblin among the Indians'' by James Little.

1. I never talk anything but the truth to them.

2. I think it useless to speak of things they cannot comprehend.

3. I strive by all means to never let them see me in a passion.

4. Under no circumstances show fear, thereby showing to them that I have a sound heart and a straight tongue.

5. Never approach them in an austere manner nor use more words than are necessary to convey my ideas, not in a higher tone of voice than to be distinctly heard.

6. Always listen to them when they wish to tell of their grievances, and redress their wrongs, however trifling they may be if possible. If I cannot I let them know I have a desire to do so.

7. I never allow them to hear me use profane or obscene language or take any unbecoming course with them.

8. I never submit to any unjust demands or submit to coercion under any circumstances, thereby showing them that I govern and am governed by the rule of right not by might.

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

==Herrnstein, Robert==
:"Dick recalled the day when, as a young man, he had been awarded tenure. It was his dream fulfilled -- a place in the university he so loved, the chance to follow his research wherever it took him, economic security. For Dick, being a tenured professor at Harvard was not just the perfect job, but the perfect way to live his life. It was too good to be true; there had to be a catch. What's my part of the bargain? he had asked himself. "And I figured it out," he said, looking at me with that benign, gentle half-smile of his. "You have to tell the truth." There was no self-congratulation in his voice, just an answer to my question." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20010421204200/https://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/bell-curve/murray-hstein-obit.html "Richard J. Herrnstein, RIP,"] by Charles Murray, Vol. 46, National Review, 10-10-1994, pp 22.

==Hoffer, Eric==
*[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98215-every-great-cause-begins-as-a-movement-becomes-a-business “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”]

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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==Heath, Joseph==
"Populists have great difficulty respecting the rule of law. If one listens to the explanations that they offer for their actions, a great deal of this reflects a bias toward concreteness in their thinking. They think the purpose of the rules is to stop bad people from doing bad things, but since they themselves are good people trying to do good things, they cannot see why they should be constrained by the rules." "Populism Fast and Slow", ''Substack'' (2025).

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== Rob Henderson==
*“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” [https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/ Quillette article] (2021).

*"Men bond by insulting each other and not really meaning it; women bond by complimenting each other and not really meaning it."

*"Over the course of human evolutionary history, there may have been some independent-minded women who thought things through and decided to avoid the pain and risks of motherhood. These women are not our ancestors." [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-story-of-us-9780190883201?cc=gb&lang=en& one of his books], via Twitter.

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==Hippocrates==
"Ars longa, vita brevis" has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."

The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

==Hitchens, Christopher==
*"It will happen to all of us that at some point you'll be tapped on the shoulder and told - not just that the party is over - but slightly worse: the party's going on but you have to leave."

==Hitchens, PETER==
*'I also remember a French high-speed train, on which Mrs Hitchens and I ate a long, time-consuming, four-course picnic lunch, wine included, partly for the joy of it and partly because we were exempt from French mask rules as long as we were eating.
::'An infuriated French ticket inspector chose to lecture us explosively about our irresponsibility — whereupon I donned a large black Polish Army surplus gas mask, which in those days I carried about for satirical purposes.
::‘Take it off!’ he cried. ‘You are trying to frighten people!’ . :‘No,’ I replied, ‘it is you who are trying to frighten people.’ https://mol.im/a/12947665 via @MailOnline"

==Hooker. Richard==
*“It is dangerous for the feeble mind of man to wade too far into the doings of the Most High. Although it is life to know Him and joy to mention His name, our surest knowledge is that we do not know Him as He truly is, nor can we; our safest eloquence is our silence, confessing without confession that His glory is inexplicable and His greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we are on earth; therefore let our words be wary and few.” (''Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'', Vol. 1, book 1, chapter 2)

==Hochschild, Joshua==
*"It is an academic myth that canonical texts, literary and religious, embody ideology and perpetuate power structures. In the experience of actual readers, canonical texts are typically the means of escaping ideology and challenging power structures." Twitter (2024)

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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== Thomas Jefferson==
" If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion towards his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriæ of the other." [https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/query-xviii-an-excerpt-from-notes-on-the-state-of-virginia-by-thomas-jefferson-1784/ Query 18, Notes from Virginia.]
==Jomini ==
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original: "Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." as written by Jomini (1827). https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa

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==Kac, Mark==
*"Probability theory is measure theory with a soul." Here is one source. Is there a better one, an original one? [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf]

==Karlin, George==
*"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they’re cramming for their final exam."

*"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

*"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body."

*"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts."

*"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it."

==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

*[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

==Keller, Timothy==
*"A possible way to start a conversation with someone who is not a believer:
'Tell me the God you don't believe in because chances are I don't believe in that God either.' "
*"Few people live up to their own standards, let alone an objective one. Either way we come up short on our own accord."
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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==Keynes, John==
* “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”

==Khan, Razib==
:*"The reason we need nerds is that they jump all over little lies, and drown them in the bathtub before the lies can grow up and become invincible monsters." [https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1675204182679207936 Twitter (2023).]

==Kierkegaard, Emil==
{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."
}}

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

== KIPLING, Rudyard==
. 
In August was the jackal born, 
The rains fell in September. 
"Now such a fearful flood as this," 
Says he, "I can't remember!" [http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/second-jungle-book/7/ "The Undertakers"] The 2nd Jungle Book.

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==Kosinski, Jerzy==
* "The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
:(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.” 
:(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
:(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==Rush Limbaugh==
“Men and women range themselves into three classes... the lowest by talking about persons; the next about things; the highest about ideas.”

==Lindsay, James==
*On the Christian method, which is good for redpilling wokers too: 
::1) Proclaim the truth (tell without coercion or force) 
::2) Remind them that everyone is a sinner (so everyone makes mistakes) 
::3) Invite them to repent in their own time (accept your past error as wrong and move forward productively).

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted , Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

*"The idea that any man or writer should be opaque to those who lived in the same culture, spoke the same language, shared the same habitual imagery and unconscious assumptions, and yet be transparent to those who have none of these advantages, is in my opinion preposterous. " ([https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern Seed speech])

*From "The Abolition of Man": 'When all that says "It is good" has been debunked, what says "I want" remains.'

* "The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

*“His education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

*“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”

*A man who has spent his youth and manhood in the minute study of New Testament texts and of other people’s studies of them, whose literary experience of those texts lacks any standard of comparison such as can only grow from a wide and deep and genial experience of literature in general, is, I should think, very likely to miss the obvious thing about them. If he tells me that something in a Gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavour; not how many years he has spent on that Gospel...

:I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life. I know what they are like. I know that not one of them is like this. Of this text there are only two possible views. Either this is reportage—though it may no doubt contain errors—pretty close up to the facts; nearly as close as Boswell. Or else, some unknown writer in the second century, without known predecessors or successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative
-- CS Lewis. https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern-Seed and Elephants," Originally entitled 'Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism'.

==Long, Earl (Governor of Louisiana, brother of Huey Long)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

==Long, Russell (Senator from Indiana, son of Huey Long)==
*"Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax the man behind the tree." [improved] See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/]

==Long, Rob==
"I was nonplussed — the actual definition of nonplussed, which is baffled, rather than what it sounds like and will eventually come to mean, which is unimpressed." (2024)

==Luther, Martin==
* "Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it."

:"This is a murky Luther quote that seems like something he would have said, yet finding an exact reference isn't easy. A couple of people have searched for this quote uncovering interesting clues and theories of its origin (see for instance, About That Great Luther Quote and also the discussion here). Piggybacking on their efforts, I have my own theory of how this quote became popular: it's in the form it's in because singer-song writer Derek Webb was quoting Charles Spurgeon quoting Luther... whether he knew it or not!" https://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2020/08/luther-every-week-i-preach.html

* “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan." --Book IV of The Prince}}

*"A question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may
be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person it is
much safer to be feared than loved, when only one is possible. The reason for this is that in general men
are ungrateful, inconstant, false, cowardly, and greedy. As long as you succeed, they are yours entirely -
they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, when the need is far distant. But when the
need approaches, they turn against you. A prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected
other ways of protecting himself, will be ruined. Friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by
greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot
be relied upon. Men are less worried about offending one who is loved than one who is feared. Love is
preserved by the link of gratefulness which, owing to the weak nature of men, is broken at every
opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a fear of punishment which never fails." Chapter 17, [https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Principe/Capitolo_XVIII The Prince], Machiavelli.

*"Questo una disputa, s'e' gli è meglio essere amato che temuto o e converso. Rispondesi che si vorrebbe essere l'uno e l'altro; ma perché e' gli è difficile accozzarli insieme, è molto più sicuro essere temuto che amato, quando si abbi a mancare dell'uno de' dua. Perché degli uomini si può dire questo, generalmente, che sieno ingrati, volubili, simulatori e dissimulatori, fuggitori de' pericoli, cupidi del guadagno; e mentre fai loro bene e' sono tutti tua, offeronti el sangue, la roba, la vita, e' figliuoli, come di sopra dissi, quando el bisogno è discosto: ma quando ti si appressa, si rivoltono, e quello principe che si è tutto fondato in su le parole loro, trovandosi nudo di altre preparazioni, ruina. Perché le amicizie che si acquistono col prezzo, e non con grandezza e nobilità di animo, si meritano, ma elle non si hanno, e alli tempi non si possono spendere; e li uomini hanno meno rispetto a offendere uno che si facci amare, che uno che si facci temere: perché lo amore è tenuto da uno vinculo di obligo, il quale, per essere gl'uomini tristi, da ogni occasione di propria utilità è rotto, ma il timore è tenuto da una paura di pena che non ti abbandona mai." Ch. 7. [http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/testo/bibit000214 Il Principe], Machiavelli.

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
*“The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.” (Letter to Napier, November 5, 1841, p. 103 of Trevelyan's ''The Life and Letters..., Vol. 2'')

*"The doctrine which from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words, and stripped of rhetorical disguise is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error."
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Sir James Macintosh"

*From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Mahler Gustav==
*From [https://deepstash.com/article/203717/jean-jaurs-the-true-way-to-honour-the-past Deepstash, Jean Jaures said,] "Ce n'est pas en vain que tous les foyers des générations humaines ont flambé, ont rayonné ; mais c'est nous, parce que nous marchons, parce que nous luttons pour un idéal nouveau, c'est nous qui sommes les vrais héritiers du foyer des aïeux ; nous en avons pris la flamme, vous n'en avez gardé que la cendre." From [https://latoilescoute.net/de-la-tradition-il-faut-garder-la Latoilescoute.net: ] janvier 1910, à Paris, Chambre des députés in Pages choisies, éd. Rieder, paru en 1922, p. 115.

"It is not in vain that all the homes of human generations have burned, have blazed; but it is us - because we walk forward, because we fight for a new ideal - it is us who are the true heirs of the home of the ancestors; we took the flame, you only kept the ashes."

*From [https://x.com/DurhamWASP/status/1942000048822268127 Twitter] and [https://www.wienerzeitung.at/h/irrwege-einer-metapher Irrwege einer Metapher, of Gerald Krieghofer: Gustav Mahler said, ""Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers", Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

That's different and better enough for me to award the credit to Mahler. Mr. Krieghofer might show me to be wrong, though; I don't speak German.

==David MAMET==
*“We know psychology is a scam for two reasons.
One: all the children of psychologists are insane.
And two: in a hundred years of psychoanalysis, no one has ever gotten better.”
2011 book The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

==Mao Tse-Tung==
In ''Khruschev Remembers'', Soviet leader Krushchev [https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/quotations-peoples-republic/ talks about] a 1957 meeting.

"Mao spoke about the war at this meeting . His speech content was roughly this: Do not be afraid of war. Do not be afraid of either the atomic bomb or the weapons. No matter what kind of war, we socialist countries will win. When it comes to China specifically, he claimed: 'If the imperialist impose war on us, we now have 600 million people, even if we lose 300 million, so what, this is war. Years later, we nurture new, and the population will be restored.' After he spoke, the meeting room was in a tomb-like silence."

==de Marenches, Alexandre==
Jack Jolis:"
Reminds me of something the late, (pro-American) former French spy-boss Alexandre de Marenches once said to my late dad (in my presence):

:"That man Reagan-- he may not know much, but he understands everything"
"(Cet homme Reagan – il sait peut-être peu, mais il a tout compris”).

==Marx, Karl==
:"In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. The English Established Church, e.g., will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. Now-a-days atheism is culpa levis as compared with criticism of existing property relations." --[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm Capital], volume 1, Preface.

* "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." Introduction, 1844, in Marx's own journal Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher.

==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

==Mather, Increase==
*"When the Knowledge of the Tongues and Arts Revived, Religion had a Revival with it: And though some Unlearned men have been useful to the Interests of Religion, yet no man ever decried Learning, but what was, an Enemy to Religion, whether he knew it or no."

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==Matjaž Leonardis==
If 0.1mg dose of a drug can massively alter the behaviour of a 100kg human (nine orders of magnitude ratio) then the idea small groups of individuals can change massive social systems should seem at least plausible. (2022, Twitter)
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==Mazarin, Cardinal==
« Le cardinal Mazarin ne pouvait souffrir autour de lui des gens malheureux. Quand on lui proposait quelqu’un pour entrer à son service, sa première question était celle-ci : « Est-il heureux ? » »

"(Translation: "Cardinal Mazarin could not bear unhappy people around him. When someone was proposed to enter his service, his first question was: 'Is he lucky/fortunate?'")

This anecdote is reported by Madame la Palatine (Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, mother of the future Regent Philippe d'Orléans), in her letters or memoirs from the late 17th/early 18th century. It is referenced in multiple French historical sources, including sites dedicated to historical quotations (e.g., histoire-en-citations.fr), which describe it as a "well-known saying" (mot bien connu) attributed via the Palatine.

However, no primary source (e.g., Mazarin's own letters or contemporary accounts) directly records him saying it verbatim about generals. The Palatine's version is general (about service in his entourage), not explicitly military."

==MEIJER, WILLIAM==
*"If you give submissive people power, they’ll use it to submit themselves." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

*"Humans will endure any amount of chronic pain to avoid a temporarily greater level of acute pain." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

*About Pres. Roosevelt and his 1936 opponent Gov. Landon: Landon “probably knows a great deal less than the Hon. Mr. Roosevelt, but much more of what he knows is true.” (from [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Roosevelt_Sweeps_Nation/9qq-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mencken+++++1936++Landon,++%22probably+knows+a+great+deal+less+than+the+Hon+.+Mr.+Roosevelt+,+but+much+more+of+what+he+knows+is+true%22&pg=PT399&printsec=frontcover Pietruza's book])

*"I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey."

*"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

*"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup."

*"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

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==Eric Moody==
*[https://x.com/therealmissjo/status/1935709339567726688 From X:]
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”
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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

*"When you hear the names of legislation or anything done by the government, it is worth remembering that the group that sent so many people to the guillotine during the French Revolution was called “The Committee of Public Safety”, not the “Cut Off Their Heads Committee” " Twitter (2024)

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Newman, John==
*"It is not the way to learn to swim in troubled waters, never to have gone into them.” — “Duties of the Church towards Knowledge,” in ''The Idea of a University'' (1852).

Improved: "You won't learn to swim in troubled waters by avoiding bathtubs."

==Ngo, Richard==
*"To improve the world most in the short term, make the worst country better. To improve the world most in the long term, make the best country better." Twitter, 2025.

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Orwell, George==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

"There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see." (slightly improved, seen secondhand on Twitter)

==Prince Philip==
*“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

*“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

*“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

* “It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

* “If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

*“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

*“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

*“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

*“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

*“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

*“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

* “It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

* “It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/

==Steven PINKER==
*"Historically, positions were distributed by hereditary privilege, family ties, patronage to cronies, or sale to the highest bidder. These are not far from the system we have here." ([https://www.thecrimson.com/column/council-on-academic-freedom-at-harvard/article/2024/1/29/pinker-harvard-legacy-admissions/ of Harvard student admissions, 2024])

==Pablo PICASSO==
From Grok. Original:
« L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de révéler la vérité. » (Art is a lie that permits us to reveal the truth)
(or « L’art est le mensonge qui dit la vérité. » ---Art is the lie that tells the truth.

The most widely quoted French version:« L’art est un mensonge qui nous fait comprendre la vérité. » (Art is a lie that makes us understand the truth.)

Marius de Zayas, “Picasso Speaks,” The Arts (New York), May 1923, pp. 315–326.
French version as Picasso himself later approved or rephrased it (most canonical):
« Nous savons tous que l’Art n’est pas la vérité. L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de reconnaître la vérité, du moins la vérité qu’il nous est donné de comprendre. »
(This longer version appears in French sources quoting Picasso directly, notably in Christian Zervos’s conversations with Picasso and in later interviews.)

==Plato==
*"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter" ([https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=280790.0 in Greek:] μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μου τὴν στέγην," « mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn »). Engraved above the door of Plato's Academy in Athens. [https://www.dialogues-de-platon.org/faq/faq009.htm Bernard Suzanne] says "an anonymous scholion in a manuscript of Aelius Aristides whose author, according to him, might be the fourth century orator Sopatros, which mentions the full text of the inscription, adding that ageômetrètos has been put in place of anisos kai adikos ("unfair and unjust"), sometimes used in similar inscriptions at the entrance of sacred places, and
:"Johannes Tzetzes' Chiliades, whose text is as follows:
Pro tôn prothurôn tôn hautou grapsas hupèrche Platôn
Mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn
Toutestin, adikos mèdeis paresierchestô tèide
Isotès gar kai dikaion esti geômetria.
("Plato had written at the front door of his house: "Let no one who is not geometer enter under my roof", that is, "Let non one unjust sneak in here", because geometry is equality/fairness and justice/righteousness")."

==Podgursky, Ben==
*"When your kids ask to play with you, remember that the actual ask is "I want to spend time with you". They ask to play because play is all they know. If you'd rather do a project (gardening, making an IKEA shelf), just propose doing it with them. They'll be just as excited." (Twitter, 2025)

==Poincare, Henry==
"It is through logic that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
Poincare, H. (1914). Science and Method. (F. Maitland, Preface by B. Russell, Trans.) London: Thomas Nelson and Sons.

==Pope, Alexander==
==="An Essay on Criticism"===
<pre>
*Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang’rous is th’ offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
Some few in that, but numbers err in this,
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss;

‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

In poets as true genius is but rare,
True taste as seldom is the critic’s share;
Both must alike from Heav’n derive their light,
These born to judge, as well as those to write.

Yet if we look more closely we shall find
Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind;
Nature affords at least a glimm’ring light;
The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right.
But as the slightest sketch, if justly trac’d,
Is by ill colouring but the more disgrac’d,
So by false learning is good sense defac’d;
Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.
</pre>

==Popper, Karl==
*[https://www.stephenhicks.org/2021/09/30/popper-to-aron-letter-on-adorno-and-habermas/ Letter of Popper to Aron in 1970]:
"I can only say that when I read either Adorno or Habermas, I feel as if lunatics were speaking.
I have translated some of their German sentences into simple German. It turns out to be either trivial or tautological or sheer pretentious nonsense. I completely fail to see why Habermas is reputed to have “talent”. I do not think that he was born less intelligent than other people; but he certainly did not have the good sense to resist the influence of a pretentious, lying, and intelligence destroying University education.
Sociology is in a bad way — even here in England. There seems to be an interesting law: bad and pretentious language drives out good and simple language. And once human language is destroyed, we shall return to the beasts."

==Alex Priou==
*"Interpretation of a great work is first and foremost decompression of information and not compression.

:A summary of Plato or Aristotle that did faith to the nerve of their thought would require their near equal, and it would have to be an appropriate task for the times."

==Putin, Vladimir==
“The culture of cancellation is the cancellation of culture.” From [https://nationalfile.com/putin-skewers-cancel-culture-in-latest-moscow-speech/ an October 2022 speech. ]

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==Ramsey, Dave==
*"Tell the money where to go instead of wondering where it went."

==Ramseyer, J. Mark==
"Harvard is a vastly less tolerant place than it was when I arrived in 1998. The intolerance is a function of an increasingly large fraction of our colleagues. And we – the rest of us on the Harvard faculty – let it happen. The cancelling, the punishments, the DEI bureaucracy, the DEI statements, the endless list that we could all recite – all this happened on our watch. We saw it happen, but we did nothing. We were too busy. We were scared to speak up. We – we on the faculty – let Harvard become what it is. The Harvard that we have is the result of our own collective moral failure.

'''The alumni who are furious are not trying to turn Harvard into something we do not want. They are trying to rescue Harvard from what we let it become.'''
We as a faculty failed. That is why the alumni are speaking up. That is why we formed the Council on Academic Freedom in the first place."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].
*"When someone gives you lemons, make lemonade." Synonym for "Every cloud has a silver lining."

*"A model should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." I think I used in my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/ ''Games and Information''], and attributed it to Alfred Einstein. The original saying is “Everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler,” and while it is attributed to Einstein, it’s [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ highly questionable] whether he ever said it.

*"Wiggle words weaken writing." Don't use "maybe" or "perhaps" or "to some extent" or "quite" or "often" or "sometimes" if you don't have to.

*"The humanities are just as hard at math; the difference is, in the humanities you're so lost you don't even know you got the answer wrong. "
*"The only things worse than a dumb bureaucrat handling your problem is a smart computer."

*"The hand that does the daycare ruins the world."

*"For scholars, destroying data is like cutting down giant sequoia trees; it goes against all our instincts. For administrators, destroying data is like cleaning your house before a party so nobody can see what a slob you are; it accords with all their instincts. "

*"Without perspicaciousness, what good is perspicuity?"

*"Delight expressed is delight enhanced. That's why I do not restrain my chuckles of pleasure when I hear a speaker say something witty or surprising. (Also, because I know from experience that audience feedback helps.)"

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks" or "He was so mean he didn't need bug spray to repel ticks."

*"Loving someone is less often to encourage them to do what they desire to do than to desire what they ought to do."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"One of the blessings of having a father is that you can call him when you have a minor car crash. One of the blessings of being a father is that someone thinks you're worth calling, and they're right."

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==Ratzinger (Pope Benedict)==
*“A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music, and nature can be dangerous since blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental: they necessarily are reflected in his theology.” ~Ratzinger (April 16,
1927-December 31, 2022).

==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

::[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

::Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

::English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Will Rogers==
*It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rorty, Richard==
*"The contemporary cultural Left urges that America should not be a melting pot, because we need to respect one another in our differences. This Left wants to preserve otherness rather than ignore it." (From Achieving Our... (1997))

==Routledge, Clay==
*We are living in an era of woke capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Russell, Bertrand==
* “Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat. What he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.”
--[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/08/a-life-of-disagreement/641018/ A Life of Disagreement] television programs , half-hour conversation by BERTRAND RUSSELL with Romney Wheeler, filmed in London by the National Broadcasting Company and shown over the NBC network and BBC-TV on the occasion of Earl Russell’s eightieth birthday (1952).

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

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==Sabien, Duncan==
*"If you've spent your entire life being told you were wrong and being proven right (b/c you were smarter than the people around you), then when you run into another genius who tells you that you're wrong, you have a LOT of memetic antibodies that will make it easier-than-it-should-be to write them off or dismiss them."

==Sailer, Steve==
*"Steve Sailer ... losing the war of public opinion since 1990.

But the crazier the conventional wisdom gets, the more hilarious material I have to write about.

So at least there's that.

Too bad about society, though." ([https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1644853299387199489 Twitter, 2023])

*"When it comes to human behavior, there mostly aren’t systematic differences between what your lying eyes tell you and what The Science says. There’s a continuum between anecdote, anecdata, and data....

:If there’s a strong statistical pattern in the numbers, you should be able to come up with vivid real-life examples of it. And if you can think of several examples suggesting a pattern, you might well be able to find large-scale data for it.

:My main one weird trick for coming up with enough insights to make a living as an unfashionable pundit for 22 years has been to assume that private life facts and public life facts are one and the same. Most pundits assume public controversies, such as BLM, are of a higher realm than daily life, so that what they notice about “safe neighborhoods” and “good schools” when they are making real estate decisions for themselves couldn’t possibly have any relevance to the great issues of the day they discuss in the media." ([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I am told that we shouldn’t mention the truth because either:

:—The facts have no possible policy implications, or

:—The facts have overwhelmingly horrible policy implications, such as the logical necessity of reimposing slavery or instituting genocide.

:The former strikes me as obtuse and the latter as insane and/or evil.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*There’s no need for everybody to continue to pretend ever since the 1978 Bakke decision that exalted “diversity” as the excuse for violating the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection of the laws that affirmative action makes colleges more intellectually stimulating when obviously the opposite has proven true. Quotas have helped make colleges minefields of cancel culture by bringing onto campus insecure and resentful masses of racially preferred students out to punish anyone who alludes to the race gaps that are American society’s central fact. Instead, underqualified preference beneficiaries should be told to be thankful for their privilege.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I quoted this letter at length because it seems like such a vivid example of the mindset of the current day: reality is determined by words, that honest words threaten the marginalized with violence, and asking the marginalized to improve their behavior is unthinkable." ([https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyc-health-czar-takes-strong-action-against-monkeypox-demands-who-change-the-name-of-monkeypox-to-an-incomprehensible-string-of-characters/Column on renaming monkeypox], 2022)

*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*"How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

:The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

:Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general." [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*"The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world."

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Salisbury, Lord==
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury

*"Within certain limits of intelligence, honesty and knowledge of the law, one man would make as good a judge as another and a Tory mentality is ipso facto more trustworthy than a Liberal one."

*First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.
'Democracy on its Trial', Quarterly Review, vol. 110 (July & October 1861), p. 281

*The conflict between Socialism and existing civilisation must be a death-struggle. If the combat is once commenced, one or other of the combatants must perish. It is idle to plead that the schemes of these men are their religion. There are religions so hostile to morality, so poisonous to the life-springs of society, that they are outside the pale of human tolerance.
'The Commune and the Internationale', Quarterly Review, vol. 131 (July & October 1871), p. 562

*It was a part of a budget which even three months had proved to be a mass of miscalculation; it was the pet scheme of a cosmopolitan school who love England little, and whom England loves less, whose sympathies are half-American and half-French; and it was the first application of a theory of combined taxation and reform, according to which the poor were exclusively to fix the revenue which the rich were exclusively to pay.
‘The Conservative Reaction’, Quarterly Review, vol. 108 (July & October 1860), p. 276

*"Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed...The classes that represent civilisation, the holders of accumulated capital and accumulated thought have a right to require securities to protect them from being overwhelmed by hordes who have neither knowledge to guide them nor stake in the Commonwealth to control them."
'English Politics and Parties', Bentley's Quarterly Review, vol. I (March & July 1859), pp. 28-29

* In men of genius, as a rule, the imagination or the
passions are too strongly developed to suffer them
to reach the highest standard of practical states-
, manship. They follow some poetical ideal, they
are under the spell of some fascinating chapter of
past history, they are the slaves of some talismanic
phrase which their generation has taken up, or
they have made to themselves a system to which
all men and all circumstances must be bent. Something there almost always is that beguiles
them away from the plain, prosaic, business-like
view ofthe concerns of this prosaic world. Consequently the mass of mankind, who have a dull but
surefooted instinct of their own interest, feel an
uncomfortable misgiving when they see a genius at
the head oftheir affairs. They are aware that firstrate brilliancy cannot be had without something of
distortion ; but it is no consolation to them that the
illusions which are luring him on to ruin lend in
the mean time an exquisite charm to the eloquence
by which he induces them to accompany him on
the road. On the other hand, the clever world is
very intolerant of plain, practical statesmen. It
maintains, sometimes with very good reason, that
where the imagination is stunted, it is merely
because the whole mind is stunted too ; and that
the claim to practical common sense is often only
a euphemism for a narrow intelligence straitened
by an abject regard for precedents and for routine.
As a rule, both sides are right in the suspicions
they entertain. It is rare to meet with a fervid
imagination which is drilled to reserve its flights
for efforts of oratory, and to give place entirely to
more sober faculties in council. It is still rarer to
see an absolutely unimaginative mind possessed of
the energy and of the breadth of view indispensable
in the statesman of a troubled period. Both kinds
of excellence produce great and successful rulers,
where they occur ; and both are apt to meet, in
those around them, with incredulity that such combinations of opposite qualities can exist.

'Lord Castlereagh', Quarterly Review, vol. 111 (January & April 1862), p. 204 https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QafmXADIh0jnPZqj11iTfMIuIdFT-DZWwP1q0zQiA4yBrYcBXaRXhl4wAaaOcH-1ovmPhezfBeCx0TdkJoRN9AA_GFoAY4s2keT-CwZl1Ac4Hi372YcAOvsu39xIf9x-9EnByraZe58fXqGcaJXEPxzQgDRgCT4Tmx6dycMZDk2BYr8nEVHvroFVV0BBgbmci9-5NQXLe-_TADxWoaHFbQLTkZ_S6X7gooGS2WS2hjnVU9k8TJvQcgrZPgRvcxDa635thiwS18ib2JkrJsBzJpxawXgcLHhLf7Y6EZsBbphBqpbBMgw

==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Scalia, son==
[https://twitter.com/StuffForSisters/status/1581430850159542272 At Scalia's Funeral:]
"We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us—known only by reputation to even more. A man loved by many—scorned by others. A man known for great controversy & for great compassion. That man, of course, is Jesus of Nazareth."

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shakespeare, William==
*"Ten masts deep make not the altitude from which though has perpendicularly fell." King Lear, Edgar to Gloucester.

===Insults===
From Cultural Tutor on Twitter:
1) "Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon."
~Timon of Athens

2) "You, minion, are too saucy."
~The Two Gentleman of Verona

3) "Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat."
~Henry V

4) "The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril."
~The Merry Wives of Windsor

5) "Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows."
~Troilus and Cressida

10) "I’ll beat thee, but I would infect my hands."
~Timon of Athens

11) "More of your conversation would infect my brain."
~Coriolanus

12) "There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune."
~Henry IV, Part 1

14) "Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

18) "This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

23) "Some report a sea-maid spawn’d him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice."
~Measure for Measure

25) "Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood."
~King Lear

31) "Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant."
~The Taming of the Shrew

46) "A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition."
~King Lear

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
"Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king."
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==SMITH, ADAM==
*"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” (no source)

==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
*“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
*"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

*"The best obituary a man can have is that the people who knew him loved him, even if those who didn't know him hated him," ''Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays''

*“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice'.” The Quest for Cosmic Justice

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
*“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” In english: "To understand all is to forgive all." 
[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

*“Madame,” the general informed the lady in question, “I do not want women mixed up in politics.” “You are perfectly right,” came the reply, “but in a country where their heads are cut off, it is only natural for them to want to know why.” (Exchange between Napoleon Bonaparte and Madame de Staël, J. Christopher Herold’s ''The Mind of Napoleon''.)

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==st exuery==
Drawing on French aristocrat Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, philosopher Byung Chul Han noted that, while houses are homes in space, rituals are homes in time. Rituals are an assertion of continuity — you act as your ancestors acted before you. They shift the family from the moment into ‘eternal time’. https://www.theculturist.io/p/why-did-wealth-stop-building-beautiful?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2242126&post_id=179128916&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

==Sutton, Willy==
When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is."

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==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==TACITUS==
*Omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset." 
“All would have agreed that he was capable of being emperor, if only he had never been it.” 
So wrote Tacitus of Galba.

==Taft, William==
*"The opportunity freely and publicly to criticize judicial action is of vastly more iportance to the body politic than the immunity of courts and judges from unjust aspersions and attack. Nothing tends more to render judges careful in their decisions and anxiously solicitous to do exact justice than the consciousness that every act of theirs is to be subjected to the intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their fellow-men. Such criticism is beneficial in proportion as it is fair, dispassionate, discriminating, and based on a knowledge of sound legal principles. The comments made by learned text writers and by the acute editors of the various law reviews upon judicial decisions are therefore highly useful. Such critics constitute more or less impartial tribunals of professional opinion before which each judgment is made to stand or fall on its merits, and thus exert a strong influence to secure uniformity of decision. But non-professional criticism also is by no means without its uses, even if accompanied, as it often is, by a direct attack upon the judicial fairness and motives of the occupants of the bench; for if the law is but the essence of common sense, the protest of many average men may evidence a defect in a judicial conclusion, though based on the nicest legal reasoning and profoundest learning. The two important elements of moral character in a judge are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it. In so far as fear of public comment does not affect the courage of a judge, but only spurs him on to search his conscience and to reach the result which approves itself to his inmost heart such comment serves a useful purpose. There are few men, whether they are judges for life or for a shorter term, who do not prefer to earn and hold the respect of all, and who can not be reached and made to pause and deliberate by hostile public criticism. In the case of judges having a life tenure, indeed their very independence makes the right freely to comment on their decisions of greater importance, because it is the only practical and available instrument in the hands of a free people to keep such judges alive to the reasonable demands of those they serve." (1895) As [http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/state-of-the-union-1906.php cited by Pres. Roosevelt] in 1906.

==Tate, Jeremy==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted at 9:15 AM on Sun, Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

==Taylor, Charles==
*As reported [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/04/westafrica.qanda by The Guardian]: "He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him." Running successfully for President of Liberia.

==Teller, Edward==
*"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
*Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

* His election rerunning announcement speech:
Michael Tracey@mtracey·14hSorry to break it to you, but Trump was spot-on with this one: “They say the ocean will rise 1/8 of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years, but don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries with one shot. Something is wrong with their thinking.”

:This is an example of how he exaggerates in the hope that someone will correct him and make his point for him (1/8 inch corrected to 2 inches, still tiny).

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*"Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain, message to Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 1901.

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

*"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 

Often quoted in W. H. Auden's translation,‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’, but the French is so easy, an Anglophone might as well use the original phrase. See also "Le code n'est jamais fini, seulement termine." 

Valery didn't actually say this, though it is what is commonly quoted in France. Pierre Vinclair tells us about that in [https://poezibao.typepad.com/files/ashbery-9.pdf «Portrait d’une énigme dans un miroir convexe», "9. et fin. Clack"], [https://www.poesibao.fr/ ''Poezibao'']
[https://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2020/11/feuilleton-critique-portrait-dune-%C3%A9nigme-dans-un-miroir-convexe-9-et-fin-clack-par-pierre-vinclair.html archive] (2020):

"Et l’on connaît la célèbre formule de Valéry : « un poème n’est jamais fini, seulement abandonné ». Dicton apocryphe, qui trouve sans doute son origine dans cette page de «Littérature»:

::Une œuvre dont l’achèvement — le jugement qui la déclare achevée, est uniquement subordonné à la condition qu’elle nous plaise — n’est jamais achevée. […]
:: Un poème n’est jamais achevé — c’est toujours un accident qui le termine, c’est-àdire qui le donne au public.
::Ce sont la lassitude, la demande de l’éditeur, — la poussée d’un autre poème.
::Mais jamais l’état même de l’ouvrage (si l’auteur n’est pas un sot) ne montre qu’il ne pourrait être poussé, changé, considéré comme première approximation, ou origine d’une recherche nouvelle.
::Je conçois, quant à moi, que le même sujet et presque les mêmes mots pourraient être repris indéfiniment et occuper toute une vie.
::« Perfection »
::c’est travail. 

Notre premier bumper soit donc Paul Valéry, selon qui l’œuvre ne s’achève jamais
(car la perfection qu’elle cherche est asymptotique) : seul un accident extérieur peut
l’interrompre. Or, des trois causes qu’il nomme — lassitude, demande de l’éditeur,
poussée d’un autre poème — aucune ne ressemble au tarissement dont parle
Ashbery. C’est sans doute que, pour celui-ci, le poème n’est pas l’objet d’un travail
infini visant la perfection, la confection maniaque d’une œuvre aussi proche que
possible de l’idéal."

Paul Valéry, «Littérature» in Tel Quel, Gallimard, 1941, p. 154. "

==Vaughan, Sarah==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html Easy Street]

==Von Neumann, John==
*“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You get used to them.”

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==Wang, John==
@johnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Watson, Thomas==
* After talking about the Prodigal Son: “Before a man can come to Christ he must first come to himself. . . . A man must first recognize and consider what his sin is, and know the plague of his heart, before he can be duly humbled for it.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

*“Affliction is but corrective; sin is destructive” ''The Doctrine of Repentance.'' (1668).

*“Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

==Watt, Peter==
*"Judy Holliday said. "Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''. In Hunter Biden's case it seems that nothing he does will ever be printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

==Wilde, Oscar==
*"Algernon: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” 
:Jack: “Is that clever?” 
:Algernon: “It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be.” " 
::(from ''The Importance of Being Earnest'')

===[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phrases_and_Philosophies_for_the_Use_of_the_Young "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young"], ''Chameleon'' magazine, (1894)===

*Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.

*A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

*If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

*It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

*Only the shallow know themselves.

*One should always be a little improbable.

*The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

*One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

*The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

==Will, George==
"The ancients had asked, What is the highest attainment of which mankind is capable and how can we pursue this? Hobbes and subsequent moderns asked, What is the worst that can happen and how can we avoid it?" (TCS, p 19)

==Williams, Robin==
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”

==Wolfe, Humbert==
[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-british-journalist-by-humbert-wolfe-f9r6pb9hb07 The London Times]:

. 
You cannot ever bribe or twist 
The freeborn British journalist 
Seeing what, unbribed, he’ll do 
You realize there’s no reason to

==Warhol, Andrew==
*“The President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”

— Andy Warhol, 1975,

== ==
==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zeto, Salena==
*<> [https://www.thefp.com/p/my-decade-with-donald-trump-salena-zito?utm_campaign=email-post&r=fjeib&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "My Decade with Donald Trump,"] Salena Zito, ''The Free Press'' (2025), linking to her article, [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-makes-his-case-in-pittsburgh/501335/ "Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally",] ''The Atlantic'' (2016).

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

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Quotations

2026-02-27T13:40:54Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* KRONECKER, Leopold */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

*[https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089 "On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs' "], Jia Tolentino ( /23/16).

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==Anonymous==
*"Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (“Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched”) The motto of the University of Chicago.

*"You can make fish soup from fish, but you cannot make fish from fish soup." Hungarian proverb (Viktor Orban)

*"South Africa has introduced a new category to geopolitics: a de-developing nation." (@ConCaracal, X, 2026).

*"Don't take notes of what the professor says, take note."

*"What other people think of me is none of my business.”

*"Do you have 10 years of experience, or are you just living the same year at your job 10 times over?" [https://twitter.com/randomrecruiter/status/1690753402014232576 @randomrecruiter] (2023)

*I am reminded of a woman who graduated from MIT in 1987. I asked her about her social life as an undergrad. "The odds were good, but the goods were odd."

*"VOCATUS ATQUA NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT." (CALLED OR NOT CALLED, GOD IS PRESENT.)

*"The rich man smokes the same sort of cigarettes as the poor man, shaves with the same sort of razor, uses the same sort of telephone, vacuum cleaner, radio, and TV set, has the same sort of lighting and heating equipment in his house, and so on indefinitely. The differences between his automobile and the poor man’s are minor. Essentially they have similar engines, similar fittings. In the early years of the century there was a hierarchy of automobiles." (''Harper's Magazine'' [1957])

*"Conservatives view themselves as underdogs because they are, especially culturally. Liberals view themselves underdogs because although in charge of every significant human institution they have set themselves the impossible egalitarian task of waging war against nature and reality itself - so when results inevitably conflict with their egalitarian ideology - when racial gaps, poverty, sex differences, inequality etc persist - they blame reactionary forces rather than nature (reality)." ''Twitter'' (2023).

*The Hillary defense:
:I didn’t do it.
:You can’t prove it.
:Everybody does it.
:He did it.
:You're just a racist.
:It's old news.
:What difference, at this point, does it make?

*The Russian Teapot defense:
:It isn’t broken
:If it is broken, I didn’t do it
:If I did do it, it was no good anyway

*A canon of legal interpretation:"Specialia generalibus non derogant". Special things don't derogate from the general rule.

* “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original:"Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement , il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." [https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa as written by Jomini] (1827))..

*When everything works fine, they wonder why they hired you. When everything stops working, they wonder why they hired you. I.T. in a nutshell.

*“I don't drink, or cuss, or chew; and I don't go out with girls that do.”

*"The plural of outlier is out-and-out-liar".

*"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*[https://allaboutfrench.com/qui-se-ressemble-sassemble "Qui se ressemble s'assemble"]

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan," as quoted in ''A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition) by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Owning a sailboat is like turning your shower's cold water on and standing there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own." Stalin?

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Showing up is 90% of success," or "Being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them." — an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain". This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointment, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: the person secretly believe the world revolves around him, everyone is paying attention to him and his actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan. It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.
Women will always and forever rely on men.}}
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==Adams, John==
*"It is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State." [https://buff.ly/3rFhAzP "From John Adams to James Sullivan"] (26 May 1776).

==Adams, Scott==
*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1577277568310341632 Twitter, October 4, 2022]:"Elon Musk took control of the Ukraine/Russia endgame by writing the first draft in bullet form and drawing all attention to it.

:You just learned one of the most powerful persuasion techniques in the modern world: Write the first draft and keep it simple."

*I’m not worried about climate change because any species that can predict the average temperature a hundred years in advance won’t have trouble handling it.

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==The African Queen==
Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature. 
Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

See [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/characters/nm0000031 the IMDB quote page.]

==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” 
Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Allred, Austen==
*"Job descriptions should be strongly opinionated, and should both attract the people you’d want to work with while repelling those you wouldn’t."(Twitter 2023)

==Amin, Idi==
*"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."

==Anderson, Robert==
*"It would be nice if people would put (D) or (R) in their profiles so I know whether to retweet or ratio them without having to do a bunch of reading." Twitter (2024).

==Andreessen, Mark==
*"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

*Whitepill #14: Every day, two lists get longer: The things you believe but can't say, and the things you don't believe but must say. (Twitter, 2022)

==Aquinas, Thomas==
*"Nevertheless, sacred doctrine makes use of these authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the authority of the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the authority of the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable. For our faith rests upon the revelation made to the apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books, and not on the revelations (if any such there are) made to other doctors. Hence Augustine says (Epis. ad Hieron. xix, 1): 'Only those books of Scripture which are called canonical have I learned to hold in such honor as to believe their authors have not erred in any way in writing them. But other authors I so read as not to deem everything in their works to be true, merely on account of their having so thought and written, whatever may have been their holiness and learning'" (Summa Theologica,. Part 1, Q. 1, Art. 8).

==The Apocrypha==
"Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

2But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.

3With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.

4But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.

5For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen." Wisdom of SOlomon 13.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
*“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

*"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

*"The other environmental risk factors for schizophrenia are equally hard to change. Poverty? Okay, don’t be poor, thanks for the important life advice. Social defeat? “Doctor, are you saying I have to never let anyone defeat me?” “Yes, it’s my official medical recommendation that you become invincible.” " [https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-fair-to-describe-schizophrenia "It's Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic"] (Jan. 31, 2024).

==Auden==
*“The Danish Lutheran Church may have been as worldly as Kierkegaard thought it was, but if it had not existed he would never have heard of the Gospels, in which he found the standards by which he condemned it.”

==Augustine==
*“Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and that not of one man, but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices” (''City of God'', Book IV)

*"If they shall be deprived of all good, they shall no longer be. So long, therefore, as they are, they are good; therefore whatsoever is, is good. That evil, then, which I sought whence it was, is not any substance; for were it a substance, it would be good. For either it would be an incorruptible substance, and so a chief good, or a corruptible substance, which unless it were good it could not be corrupted. I perceived, therefore, and it was made clear to me, that Thou didst make all things good, nor is there any substance at all that was not made by Thee; and because all that Thou hast made are not equal, therefore all things are; because individually they are good, and altogether very good, because our God made all things very good." ''Confessions'', Book 7, chapter 12.

== ==
==Balfour, Arthur==
*“The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which, for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.”

==Bankman-Fried, Sam ==
“...this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us.” --
"[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself]: The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way," ''Vox,'' Kelsey Piper (Nov. 16, 2022).

==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
*“Eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

==The Bible==
*“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” Proverbs 15:1.

*"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits." Proverbs 16:2.

*"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs 16:4.

*"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9.

==Boghossian, Peter==
*"If a thing's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well." (''Unherd'' panel interview, 2024, ''You-Tube'').

==Booth, William (Salvation Army founder)==
*Asked about the chief dangers for the 20th century, Salvation Army founder Booth [https://rlhymersjr.com/Online_Sermons/2007/090907_OldEvangelicalismReview.html said], “Religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.”

==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

==Bloom,Allen==
*“Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason’s power.” ''The Closing of the American Mind''

==Bloom, Harold==
*[https://biblioklept.org/2013/02/19/harold-bloom-on-the-school-of-resentment/ Harold Bloom on his agon with “The School of Resentment.”] From [https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2225/the-art-of-criticism-no-1-harold-bloom his 1991 interview with The Paris Review.]:
When I was a young man back in the fifties starting out on what was to be my career, I used to proclaim that my chosen profession seemed to consist of secular clergy or clerisy. I was thinking, of course, of the highly Anglo-Catholic New Criticism under the sponsorship or demigodness of T. S. Eliot. But I realized in latish middle age that, no better or worse, I was surrounded by a pride of displaced social workers, a rabblement of lemmings, all rushing down to the sea carrying their subject down to destruction with them. The school of resentment is an extraordinary sort of mélange of latest-model feminists, Lacanians, that whole semiotic cackle, latest-model pseudo-Marxists, so-called New Historicists, who are neither new nor historicist, and third generation deconstructors, who I believe have no relationship whatever to literary values. . . .

It is tiresome to be encountering myths called “The Social Responsibility of the Critic” or “The Political Responsibility of the Critic.” I would rather walk into a bookstore and find a book called “The Aesthetic Responsibilities of the Statesman,” or “The Literary Responsibilities of the Engineer.” Criticism is not a program for social betterment, not an engine for social change. I don’t see how it possibly could be. . . .

What else is there like Invisible Man? Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God has a kind of superior intensity and firm control. It’s a very fine book indeed. It surprised and delighted me when I first read it and it has sustained several rereadings since. But that and Invisible Man are the only full scale works of fiction I have read by American blacks in this century that have survival possibilities at all. Alice Walker is an extremely inadequate writer, and I think that is giving her the best of it. A book like The Color Purple is of no aesthetic interest or value whatsoever, yet it is exalted and taught in the academies. It clearly is a time in which social and cultural guilt has taken over. . . .

I’m not terribly fond of feminist criticism. The true test is to find work, whether in the past or present, by women writers that we had undervalued, and thus bring it to our attention and teach us to study it more closely or more usefully. By that test they have failed, because they have added not one to the canon. The women writers who mattered—Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and others who have always mattered on aesthetic grounds—still matter. I do not appreciate Elizabeth Bishop or May Swenson any more or less than I would have appreciated them if we had no feminist literary criticism at all.

==Bowles, Michael==
“Construction is a matter of backing yourself into a corner and then fighting your way out.”

==Bukowski, Charles==
*“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

==Burke, Edmund==
* “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770).

*"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Misattributed. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ Quote Investigator.]

==Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)==
. 
He that complies against his Will, 
Is of his own Opinion still. 
(from ''Hudibras'')
----

== ==
==CANNON, William==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Caplan, Bryan==
*"When a normal utilitarian concludes that mass murder would maximize social utility, he checks his work! He goes over his calculations with a fine-tooth comb, hoping to discover a way to implement beneficial policy changes without horrific atrocities. The Leninist, in contrast, reasons backwards from the atrocities that emotionally inspire him to the utilitarian argument that morally justifies his atrocities." [https://betonit.substack.com/p/the_roots_of_lehtml The roots of Leninism] (2012)

==Carlin, George==
*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that."

==Carson, D.A.==
*"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."

==Carver, George Washington==
*“When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well, George, that's more nearly your size.’

==Carville, James==
*“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

==St. Charbel Makhlouf==
*[https://www.lightbook.org/53-best-saint-charbel-quotes.html "Your weakness is to be overcome, not to be used as a pilgrimage."]

==Charles III of the United Kingdom==
* 2011 as he [https://www.royal.uk/clarencehouse/speech/speech-hrh-prince-wales-king-james-bible-trust-reception addressed the King James Bible Trust:] “I’ve never really understood who it was that decided that, for people who aren’t very good at reading, the best things to read are those written by people who aren’t very good at writing!”

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*"Chesterton's Fence", 1929 book, ''The Thing,'' “The Drift from Domesticity”:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to challenge his reformist son-in-law. Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in his poem, “Mending Wall.” }}

*"A man can pretend to be wise; a man cannot pretend to be witty."

*"Those who will not even admit the Capitalist problem deserve to get the Communist solution."

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*"If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization."

*"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it"--Autobiography

*{{Quotation|We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

==Chicago, University of==
*The University of Chicago's motto is "Crescat scientia; vita excolatur," which means,"Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched."

==Chrysostom, John==
*"Should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in the midst of the forum, blaspheming God; go up to him and rebuke him; and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not to do so. Smite him on the face; strike his mouth; sanctify your hand with the blow, and if any should accuse you, and drag you to the place of justice, follow them there; and when the judge on the bench calls you to account, say boldly that the man blasphemed the King of angels! For if it be necessary to punish those who blaspheme an earthly king, much more so those who insult God" ('On the Statues', 1).

== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Coleridge, Samuel==
*"I, for one, do not call the sod under my feet my country. But language, religion, laws, government, blood — identity in these makes men of one country." ''Table Talk'', May 29, 1830.

==Comfort, Ray==
“Atheists don’t hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don’t exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Covey, Stephen==
*"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man."

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [-Twitter, 2021]}}

==Cunningham==
J.V. Cunningham, from "Meditation on Statistical Method"

<pre>
Plato, despair!
We prove by norms
How numbers bear
Empiric forms,

How random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our hearts
Hyperbole
Curves and departs
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
</pre>

My version:

<pre>
Random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our soul
Hyperbole
Makes error roll
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
So hope and doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Won't average out.
</pre>

== ==

==Dalrymple, Theodore==
*"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." a 2005 https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com/dalrymple-interviewed-by-jamie-glazov/ interview] in FrontPage.

==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in ''First Things'', 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, ''The Information'')

==Descartes==
See [[Descartes]]
*"Bene qui latuit, bene vixit."
*"He lives well who lies well hidden." I like the English version better. What is it in French? Ovid, Descartes.

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==Dio Cassius==
*"Although he was very practised as a writer of prose and verse and very skilled in all the arts, yet he always mocked the teachers of all the arts on the grounds that he was more learned than they, and despised and humiliated them. With these same professors and philosophers he often competed, taking turns to publish books or poems. Once, indeed, a word used by Favorinus was criticized by Hadrian. Favorinus yielded, which provoked some very agreeable amusement. He was wrong to concede to Hadrian, his friends charged him, over a word which reputable authors had used. ‘You don’t give me good advice, my friends,’ said Favorinus, ‘when you don’t allow me to believe the man who possesses thirty legions to be more learned than anyone else!’ " From [https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/hadrians-rome/content-section-5.1 Birley, A. (trans.) (1976) Lives of the Later Caesars, London, Penguin, pp. 57–87.]

<pre>
To the poet Florus,Footnote61 who wrote to him:

I do not want to be Caesar,
To walk about among the Britons,
To ensure the Scythian hoar-frosts,

he wrote back:

I do not want to be Florus,
To walk about among taverns,
To lurk about among cook-shops,
To put up with the round insects.
</pre>

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
*"Making a mistake is a net positive if you learn more from it than it cost you."

{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

*"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dornbusch, Rudiger==
*"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought" (on exchange rate crises)

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

== ==

==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==Einstein, Albert==
"in 1952 he wrote a letter to his friend and fellow physicist Max Born where he admits that even if the astronomical data had gone against general relativity, he would still believe in the theory:"

`Even if there were absolutely no light deflection, no perihelion motion and no redshift, the gravitational equations would still be convincing because they avoid the inertial system... It is really quite strange that humans are usually deaf towards the strongest arguments, while they are constantly inclined to overestimate the accuracy of measurement.'
([https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-einsteins-unification-by-jeroen? "John Psmith" 2024)

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

==Esolen, Anthony==
*"Bee as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves, says the Lord.

:The converse is what we have now in our elites, in Church, State, education, etc.: People in charge who are as dopey as pigeons, and as malignant as snakes." (Twitter, 2024)

== ==

==Faulkner, William==
*“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feser, Ed==
*"If a doctor says “This is what lung cancer involves, please stop smoking,” no one accuses him of wanting the patient to suffer. But if a theologian says “This is what damnation involves, please stop sinning,” he is accused of wanting people to go to hell." ([https://twitter.com/FeserEdward/status/1665881489354162177 Twitter, 2023])

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Friedman, Milton==
"Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:

1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality) 
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality) 
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost) 
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

== ==

==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

==Gandhi, Ashvin==
@ashdgandhi (Nov 29 2025)

"Normal people: hear math statements as regular words.

Mathematicians: hear math statements as logic.

Economists: hear regular words as math statements."

----

==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

==Girard, Rene==
*“Nietzsche shared with many intellectuals of his time and our own a passion for irresponsible rhetoric in the attempt to get one up on opponents. But philosophers, for their misfortune, are not the only people in the world. Genuinely mad and frantic people are all around them and do them the worst turn of all: they take them at their word.” I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
----

==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
*Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies" "I am the spirit who always says no." Faust part I.

*"I am the spirit that always says no. And how right I am! For surely It’s right that everything that comes to be Should cease to be. And so they do. Still better Would be nothing ever was. Hence sin And havoc and ruin—all you call evil, in sum— For me’s the element in which I swim.”

<pre>"Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen:
Verweile doch! du bist so schön!
Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen,
Dann will ich gern zugrunde gehn!
</pre>
Faust, Part I. When I to a moment say, Stay a while! You are so fair! Then you may enslave my soul, then I will submit to you. Or something like that.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==Goodstein, David==
"1.1 INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously. We will begin by considering the simplest meaningful example, the perfect gas, in order to get the central concepts sorted out." ( States of Matter (1985); see https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1651559339067310081)

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*[https://x.com/paulg/status/1874590418463330489 TWITTER:] "A friend who's a former British military officer told me that when he was training soldiers in jungle warfare they were taught that if they got lost in the jungle, the first thing they should do was to brew a cup of tea and think about what to do next."

*"Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign flipped." (2024, X).

*"If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial." [http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html "Putting Ideas into Words"] (2022).

*"A rare counterexample to the principle of specialization: your site should never seem like it was made by communications people, and the best way to achieve this is for it not to be. This is something founders should continue to micromanage forever."[https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1654765304184971264 Twitter] (2023) ]

*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)

==Grandin, Temple==
*Temple Grandin wrote in ''The Way I See It,'' a book on the experience of autism: "What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done."
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hamblin, Jacob==
*Jacob Hamblin’s "Rules for Dealing with the Indians" from ''Jacob Hamblin among the Indians'' by James Little.

1. I never talk anything but the truth to them.

2. I think it useless to speak of things they cannot comprehend.

3. I strive by all means to never let them see me in a passion.

4. Under no circumstances show fear, thereby showing to them that I have a sound heart and a straight tongue.

5. Never approach them in an austere manner nor use more words than are necessary to convey my ideas, not in a higher tone of voice than to be distinctly heard.

6. Always listen to them when they wish to tell of their grievances, and redress their wrongs, however trifling they may be if possible. If I cannot I let them know I have a desire to do so.

7. I never allow them to hear me use profane or obscene language or take any unbecoming course with them.

8. I never submit to any unjust demands or submit to coercion under any circumstances, thereby showing them that I govern and am governed by the rule of right not by might.

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

==Herrnstein, Robert==
:"Dick recalled the day when, as a young man, he had been awarded tenure. It was his dream fulfilled -- a place in the university he so loved, the chance to follow his research wherever it took him, economic security. For Dick, being a tenured professor at Harvard was not just the perfect job, but the perfect way to live his life. It was too good to be true; there had to be a catch. What's my part of the bargain? he had asked himself. "And I figured it out," he said, looking at me with that benign, gentle half-smile of his. "You have to tell the truth." There was no self-congratulation in his voice, just an answer to my question." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20010421204200/https://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/bell-curve/murray-hstein-obit.html "Richard J. Herrnstein, RIP,"] by Charles Murray, Vol. 46, National Review, 10-10-1994, pp 22.

==Hoffer, Eric==
*[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98215-every-great-cause-begins-as-a-movement-becomes-a-business “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”]

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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==Heath, Joseph==
"Populists have great difficulty respecting the rule of law. If one listens to the explanations that they offer for their actions, a great deal of this reflects a bias toward concreteness in their thinking. They think the purpose of the rules is to stop bad people from doing bad things, but since they themselves are good people trying to do good things, they cannot see why they should be constrained by the rules." "Populism Fast and Slow", ''Substack'' (2025).

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== Rob Henderson==
*“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” [https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/ Quillette article] (2021).

*"Men bond by insulting each other and not really meaning it; women bond by complimenting each other and not really meaning it."

*"Over the course of human evolutionary history, there may have been some independent-minded women who thought things through and decided to avoid the pain and risks of motherhood. These women are not our ancestors." [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-story-of-us-9780190883201?cc=gb&lang=en& one of his books], via Twitter.

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==Hippocrates==
"Ars longa, vita brevis" has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."

The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

==Hitchens, Christopher==
*"It will happen to all of us that at some point you'll be tapped on the shoulder and told - not just that the party is over - but slightly worse: the party's going on but you have to leave."

==Hitchens, PETER==
*'I also remember a French high-speed train, on which Mrs Hitchens and I ate a long, time-consuming, four-course picnic lunch, wine included, partly for the joy of it and partly because we were exempt from French mask rules as long as we were eating.
::'An infuriated French ticket inspector chose to lecture us explosively about our irresponsibility — whereupon I donned a large black Polish Army surplus gas mask, which in those days I carried about for satirical purposes.
::‘Take it off!’ he cried. ‘You are trying to frighten people!’ . :‘No,’ I replied, ‘it is you who are trying to frighten people.’ https://mol.im/a/12947665 via @MailOnline"

==Hooker. Richard==
*“It is dangerous for the feeble mind of man to wade too far into the doings of the Most High. Although it is life to know Him and joy to mention His name, our surest knowledge is that we do not know Him as He truly is, nor can we; our safest eloquence is our silence, confessing without confession that His glory is inexplicable and His greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we are on earth; therefore let our words be wary and few.” (''Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'', Vol. 1, book 1, chapter 2)

==Hochschild, Joshua==
*"It is an academic myth that canonical texts, literary and religious, embody ideology and perpetuate power structures. In the experience of actual readers, canonical texts are typically the means of escaping ideology and challenging power structures." Twitter (2024)

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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== Thomas Jefferson==
" If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion towards his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriæ of the other." [https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/query-xviii-an-excerpt-from-notes-on-the-state-of-virginia-by-thomas-jefferson-1784/ Query 18, Notes from Virginia.]
==Jomini ==
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original: "Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." as written by Jomini (1827). https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa

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==Kac, Mark==
*"Probability theory is measure theory with a soul." Here is one source. Is there a better one, an original one? [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf]

==Karlin, George==
*"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they’re cramming for their final exam."

*"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

*"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body."

*"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts."

*"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it."

==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

*[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

==Keller, Timothy==
*"A possible way to start a conversation with someone who is not a believer:
'Tell me the God you don't believe in because chances are I don't believe in that God either.' "
*"Few people live up to their own standards, let alone an objective one. Either way we come up short on our own accord."
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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==Keynes, John==
* “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”

==Khan, Razib==
:*"The reason we need nerds is that they jump all over little lies, and drown them in the bathtub before the lies can grow up and become invincible monsters." [https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1675204182679207936 Twitter (2023).]

==Kierkegaard, Emil==
{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."
}}

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

== KIPLING, Rudyard==
. 
In August was the jackal born, 
The rains fell in September. 
"Now such a fearful flood as this," 
Says he, "I can't remember!" [http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/second-jungle-book/7/ "The Undertakers"] The 2nd Jungle Book.

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==Kosinski, Jerzy==
* "The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
:(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.” 
:(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
:(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
:in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==Rush Limbaugh==
“Men and women range themselves into three classes... the lowest by talking about persons; the next about things; the highest about ideas.”

==Lindsay, James==
*On the Christian method, which is good for redpilling wokers too: 
::1) Proclaim the truth (tell without coercion or force) 
::2) Remind them that everyone is a sinner (so everyone makes mistakes) 
::3) Invite them to repent in their own time (accept your past error as wrong and move forward productively).

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted , Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

*"The idea that any man or writer should be opaque to those who lived in the same culture, spoke the same language, shared the same habitual imagery and unconscious assumptions, and yet be transparent to those who have none of these advantages, is in my opinion preposterous. " ([https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern Seed speech])

*From "The Abolition of Man": 'When all that says "It is good" has been debunked, what says "I want" remains.'

* "The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

*“His education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

*“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”

*A man who has spent his youth and manhood in the minute study of New Testament texts and of other people’s studies of them, whose literary experience of those texts lacks any standard of comparison such as can only grow from a wide and deep and genial experience of literature in general, is, I should think, very likely to miss the obvious thing about them. If he tells me that something in a Gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavour; not how many years he has spent on that Gospel...

:I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life. I know what they are like. I know that not one of them is like this. Of this text there are only two possible views. Either this is reportage—though it may no doubt contain errors—pretty close up to the facts; nearly as close as Boswell. Or else, some unknown writer in the second century, without known predecessors or successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative
-- CS Lewis. https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern-Seed and Elephants," Originally entitled 'Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism'.

==Long, Earl (Governor of Louisiana, brother of Huey Long)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

==Long, Russell (Senator from Indiana, son of Huey Long)==
*"Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax the man behind the tree." [improved] See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/]

==Long, Rob==
"I was nonplussed — the actual definition of nonplussed, which is baffled, rather than what it sounds like and will eventually come to mean, which is unimpressed." (2024)

==Luther, Martin==
* "Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it."

:"This is a murky Luther quote that seems like something he would have said, yet finding an exact reference isn't easy. A couple of people have searched for this quote uncovering interesting clues and theories of its origin (see for instance, About That Great Luther Quote and also the discussion here). Piggybacking on their efforts, I have my own theory of how this quote became popular: it's in the form it's in because singer-song writer Derek Webb was quoting Charles Spurgeon quoting Luther... whether he knew it or not!" https://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2020/08/luther-every-week-i-preach.html

* “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan." --Book IV of The Prince}}

*"A question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may
be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person it is
much safer to be feared than loved, when only one is possible. The reason for this is that in general men
are ungrateful, inconstant, false, cowardly, and greedy. As long as you succeed, they are yours entirely -
they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, when the need is far distant. But when the
need approaches, they turn against you. A prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected
other ways of protecting himself, will be ruined. Friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by
greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot
be relied upon. Men are less worried about offending one who is loved than one who is feared. Love is
preserved by the link of gratefulness which, owing to the weak nature of men, is broken at every
opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a fear of punishment which never fails." Chapter 17, [https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Principe/Capitolo_XVIII The Prince], Machiavelli.

*"Questo una disputa, s'e' gli è meglio essere amato che temuto o e converso. Rispondesi che si vorrebbe essere l'uno e l'altro; ma perché e' gli è difficile accozzarli insieme, è molto più sicuro essere temuto che amato, quando si abbi a mancare dell'uno de' dua. Perché degli uomini si può dire questo, generalmente, che sieno ingrati, volubili, simulatori e dissimulatori, fuggitori de' pericoli, cupidi del guadagno; e mentre fai loro bene e' sono tutti tua, offeronti el sangue, la roba, la vita, e' figliuoli, come di sopra dissi, quando el bisogno è discosto: ma quando ti si appressa, si rivoltono, e quello principe che si è tutto fondato in su le parole loro, trovandosi nudo di altre preparazioni, ruina. Perché le amicizie che si acquistono col prezzo, e non con grandezza e nobilità di animo, si meritano, ma elle non si hanno, e alli tempi non si possono spendere; e li uomini hanno meno rispetto a offendere uno che si facci amare, che uno che si facci temere: perché lo amore è tenuto da uno vinculo di obligo, il quale, per essere gl'uomini tristi, da ogni occasione di propria utilità è rotto, ma il timore è tenuto da una paura di pena che non ti abbandona mai." Ch. 7. [http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/testo/bibit000214 Il Principe], Machiavelli.

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
*“The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.” (Letter to Napier, November 5, 1841, p. 103 of Trevelyan's ''The Life and Letters..., Vol. 2'')

*"The doctrine which from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words, and stripped of rhetorical disguise is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error."
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Sir James Macintosh"

*From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Mahler Gustav==
*From [https://deepstash.com/article/203717/jean-jaurs-the-true-way-to-honour-the-past Deepstash, Jean Jaures said,] "Ce n'est pas en vain que tous les foyers des générations humaines ont flambé, ont rayonné ; mais c'est nous, parce que nous marchons, parce que nous luttons pour un idéal nouveau, c'est nous qui sommes les vrais héritiers du foyer des aïeux ; nous en avons pris la flamme, vous n'en avez gardé que la cendre." From [https://latoilescoute.net/de-la-tradition-il-faut-garder-la Latoilescoute.net: ] janvier 1910, à Paris, Chambre des députés in Pages choisies, éd. Rieder, paru en 1922, p. 115.

"It is not in vain that all the homes of human generations have burned, have blazed; but it is us - because we walk forward, because we fight for a new ideal - it is us who are the true heirs of the home of the ancestors; we took the flame, you only kept the ashes."

*From [https://x.com/DurhamWASP/status/1942000048822268127 Twitter] and [https://www.wienerzeitung.at/h/irrwege-einer-metapher Irrwege einer Metapher, of Gerald Krieghofer: Gustav Mahler said, ""Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers", Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

That's different and better enough for me to award the credit to Mahler. Mr. Krieghofer might show me to be wrong, though; I don't speak German.

==David MAMET==
*“We know psychology is a scam for two reasons.
One: all the children of psychologists are insane.
And two: in a hundred years of psychoanalysis, no one has ever gotten better.”
2011 book The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

==Mao Tse-Tung==
In ''Khruschev Remembers'', Soviet leader Krushchev [https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/quotations-peoples-republic/ talks about] a 1957 meeting.

"Mao spoke about the war at this meeting . His speech content was roughly this: Do not be afraid of war. Do not be afraid of either the atomic bomb or the weapons. No matter what kind of war, we socialist countries will win. When it comes to China specifically, he claimed: 'If the imperialist impose war on us, we now have 600 million people, even if we lose 300 million, so what, this is war. Years later, we nurture new, and the population will be restored.' After he spoke, the meeting room was in a tomb-like silence."

==de Marenches, Alexandre==
Jack Jolis:"
Reminds me of something the late, (pro-American) former French spy-boss Alexandre de Marenches once said to my late dad (in my presence):

:"That man Reagan-- he may not know much, but he understands everything"
"(Cet homme Reagan – il sait peut-être peu, mais il a tout compris”).

==Marx, Karl==
:"In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. The English Established Church, e.g., will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. Now-a-days atheism is culpa levis as compared with criticism of existing property relations." --[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm Capital], volume 1, Preface.

* "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." Introduction, 1844, in Marx's own journal Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher.

==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

==Mather, Increase==
*"When the Knowledge of the Tongues and Arts Revived, Religion had a Revival with it: And though some Unlearned men have been useful to the Interests of Religion, yet no man ever decried Learning, but what was, an Enemy to Religion, whether he knew it or no."

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==Matjaž Leonardis==
If 0.1mg dose of a drug can massively alter the behaviour of a 100kg human (nine orders of magnitude ratio) then the idea small groups of individuals can change massive social systems should seem at least plausible. (2022, Twitter)
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==Mazarin, Cardinal==
« Le cardinal Mazarin ne pouvait souffrir autour de lui des gens malheureux. Quand on lui proposait quelqu’un pour entrer à son service, sa première question était celle-ci : « Est-il heureux ? » »

"(Translation: "Cardinal Mazarin could not bear unhappy people around him. When someone was proposed to enter his service, his first question was: 'Is he lucky/fortunate?'")

This anecdote is reported by Madame la Palatine (Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, mother of the future Regent Philippe d'Orléans), in her letters or memoirs from the late 17th/early 18th century. It is referenced in multiple French historical sources, including sites dedicated to historical quotations (e.g., histoire-en-citations.fr), which describe it as a "well-known saying" (mot bien connu) attributed via the Palatine.

However, no primary source (e.g., Mazarin's own letters or contemporary accounts) directly records him saying it verbatim about generals. The Palatine's version is general (about service in his entourage), not explicitly military."

==MEIJER, WILLIAM==
*"If you give submissive people power, they’ll use it to submit themselves." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

*"Humans will endure any amount of chronic pain to avoid a temporarily greater level of acute pain." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

*About Pres. Roosevelt and his 1936 opponent Gov. Landon: Landon “probably knows a great deal less than the Hon. Mr. Roosevelt, but much more of what he knows is true.” (from [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Roosevelt_Sweeps_Nation/9qq-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mencken+++++1936++Landon,++%22probably+knows+a+great+deal+less+than+the+Hon+.+Mr.+Roosevelt+,+but+much+more+of+what+he+knows+is+true%22&pg=PT399&printsec=frontcover Pietruza's book])

*"I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey."

*"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

*"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup."

*"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

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==Eric Moody==
*[https://x.com/therealmissjo/status/1935709339567726688 From X:]
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”
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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

*"When you hear the names of legislation or anything done by the government, it is worth remembering that the group that sent so many people to the guillotine during the French Revolution was called “The Committee of Public Safety”, not the “Cut Off Their Heads Committee” " Twitter (2024)

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Newman, John==
*"It is not the way to learn to swim in troubled waters, never to have gone into them.” — “Duties of the Church towards Knowledge,” in ''The Idea of a University'' (1852).

Improved: "You won't learn to swim in troubled waters by avoiding bathtubs."

==Ngo, Richard==
*"To improve the world most in the short term, make the worst country better. To improve the world most in the long term, make the best country better." Twitter, 2025.

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Orwell, George==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

"There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see." (slightly improved, seen secondhand on Twitter)

==Prince Philip==
*“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

*“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

*“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

* “It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

* “If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

*“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

*“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

*“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

*“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

*“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

*“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

* “It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

* “It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/

==Steven PINKER==
*"Historically, positions were distributed by hereditary privilege, family ties, patronage to cronies, or sale to the highest bidder. These are not far from the system we have here." ([https://www.thecrimson.com/column/council-on-academic-freedom-at-harvard/article/2024/1/29/pinker-harvard-legacy-admissions/ of Harvard student admissions, 2024])

==Pablo PICASSO==
From Grok. Original:
« L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de révéler la vérité. » (Art is a lie that permits us to reveal the truth)
(or « L’art est le mensonge qui dit la vérité. » ---Art is the lie that tells the truth.

The most widely quoted French version:« L’art est un mensonge qui nous fait comprendre la vérité. » (Art is a lie that makes us understand the truth.)

Marius de Zayas, “Picasso Speaks,” The Arts (New York), May 1923, pp. 315–326.
French version as Picasso himself later approved or rephrased it (most canonical):
« Nous savons tous que l’Art n’est pas la vérité. L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de reconnaître la vérité, du moins la vérité qu’il nous est donné de comprendre. »
(This longer version appears in French sources quoting Picasso directly, notably in Christian Zervos’s conversations with Picasso and in later interviews.)

==Plato==
*"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter" ([https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=280790.0 in Greek:] μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μου τὴν στέγην," « mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn »). Engraved above the door of Plato's Academy in Athens. [https://www.dialogues-de-platon.org/faq/faq009.htm Bernard Suzanne] says "an anonymous scholion in a manuscript of Aelius Aristides whose author, according to him, might be the fourth century orator Sopatros, which mentions the full text of the inscription, adding that ageômetrètos has been put in place of anisos kai adikos ("unfair and unjust"), sometimes used in similar inscriptions at the entrance of sacred places, and
:"Johannes Tzetzes' Chiliades, whose text is as follows:
Pro tôn prothurôn tôn hautou grapsas hupèrche Platôn
Mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn
Toutestin, adikos mèdeis paresierchestô tèide
Isotès gar kai dikaion esti geômetria.
("Plato had written at the front door of his house: "Let no one who is not geometer enter under my roof", that is, "Let non one unjust sneak in here", because geometry is equality/fairness and justice/righteousness")."

==Podgursky, Ben==
*"When your kids ask to play with you, remember that the actual ask is "I want to spend time with you". They ask to play because play is all they know. If you'd rather do a project (gardening, making an IKEA shelf), just propose doing it with them. They'll be just as excited." (Twitter, 2025)

==Poincare, Henry==
"It is through logic that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
Poincare, H. (1914). Science and Method. (F. Maitland, Preface by B. Russell, Trans.) London: Thomas Nelson and Sons.

==Pope, Alexander==
==="An Essay on Criticism"===
<pre>
*Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang’rous is th’ offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
Some few in that, but numbers err in this,
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss;

‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

In poets as true genius is but rare,
True taste as seldom is the critic’s share;
Both must alike from Heav’n derive their light,
These born to judge, as well as those to write.

Yet if we look more closely we shall find
Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind;
Nature affords at least a glimm’ring light;
The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right.
But as the slightest sketch, if justly trac’d,
Is by ill colouring but the more disgrac’d,
So by false learning is good sense defac’d;
Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.
</pre>

==Popper, Karl==
*[https://www.stephenhicks.org/2021/09/30/popper-to-aron-letter-on-adorno-and-habermas/ Letter of Popper to Aron in 1970]:
"I can only say that when I read either Adorno or Habermas, I feel as if lunatics were speaking.
I have translated some of their German sentences into simple German. It turns out to be either trivial or tautological or sheer pretentious nonsense. I completely fail to see why Habermas is reputed to have “talent”. I do not think that he was born less intelligent than other people; but he certainly did not have the good sense to resist the influence of a pretentious, lying, and intelligence destroying University education.
Sociology is in a bad way — even here in England. There seems to be an interesting law: bad and pretentious language drives out good and simple language. And once human language is destroyed, we shall return to the beasts."

==Alex Priou==
*"Interpretation of a great work is first and foremost decompression of information and not compression.

:A summary of Plato or Aristotle that did faith to the nerve of their thought would require their near equal, and it would have to be an appropriate task for the times."

==Putin, Vladimir==
“The culture of cancellation is the cancellation of culture.” From [https://nationalfile.com/putin-skewers-cancel-culture-in-latest-moscow-speech/ an October 2022 speech. ]

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==Ramsey, Dave==
*"Tell the money where to go instead of wondering where it went."

==Ramseyer, J. Mark==
"Harvard is a vastly less tolerant place than it was when I arrived in 1998. The intolerance is a function of an increasingly large fraction of our colleagues. And we – the rest of us on the Harvard faculty – let it happen. The cancelling, the punishments, the DEI bureaucracy, the DEI statements, the endless list that we could all recite – all this happened on our watch. We saw it happen, but we did nothing. We were too busy. We were scared to speak up. We – we on the faculty – let Harvard become what it is. The Harvard that we have is the result of our own collective moral failure.

'''The alumni who are furious are not trying to turn Harvard into something we do not want. They are trying to rescue Harvard from what we let it become.'''
We as a faculty failed. That is why the alumni are speaking up. That is why we formed the Council on Academic Freedom in the first place."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].
*"When someone gives you lemons, make lemonade." Synonym for "Every cloud has a silver lining."

*"A model should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." I think I used in my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/ ''Games and Information''], and attributed it to Alfred Einstein. The original saying is “Everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler,” and while it is attributed to Einstein, it’s [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ highly questionable] whether he ever said it.

*"Wiggle words weaken writing." Don't use "maybe" or "perhaps" or "to some extent" or "quite" or "often" or "sometimes" if you don't have to.

*"The humanities are just as hard at math; the difference is, in the humanities you're so lost you don't even know you got the answer wrong. "
*"The only things worse than a dumb bureaucrat handling your problem is a smart computer."

*"The hand that does the daycare ruins the world."

*"For scholars, destroying data is like cutting down giant sequoia trees; it goes against all our instincts. For administrators, destroying data is like cleaning your house before a party so nobody can see what a slob you are; it accords with all their instincts. "

*"Without perspicaciousness, what good is perspicuity?"

*"Delight expressed is delight enhanced. That's why I do not restrain my chuckles of pleasure when I hear a speaker say something witty or surprising. (Also, because I know from experience that audience feedback helps.)"

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks" or "He was so mean he didn't need bug spray to repel ticks."

*"Loving someone is less often to encourage them to do what they desire to do than to desire what they ought to do."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"One of the blessings of having a father is that you can call him when you have a minor car crash. One of the blessings of being a father is that someone thinks you're worth calling, and they're right."

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==Ratzinger (Pope Benedict)==
*“A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music, and nature can be dangerous since blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental: they necessarily are reflected in his theology.” ~Ratzinger (April 16,
1927-December 31, 2022).

==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

::[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

::Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

::English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Will Rogers==
*It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rorty, Richard==
*"The contemporary cultural Left urges that America should not be a melting pot, because we need to respect one another in our differences. This Left wants to preserve otherness rather than ignore it." (From Achieving Our... (1997))

==Routledge, Clay==
*We are living in an era of woke capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Russell, Bertrand==
* “Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat. What he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.”
--[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/08/a-life-of-disagreement/641018/ A Life of Disagreement] television programs , half-hour conversation by BERTRAND RUSSELL with Romney Wheeler, filmed in London by the National Broadcasting Company and shown over the NBC network and BBC-TV on the occasion of Earl Russell’s eightieth birthday (1952).

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

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==Sabien, Duncan==
*"If you've spent your entire life being told you were wrong and being proven right (b/c you were smarter than the people around you), then when you run into another genius who tells you that you're wrong, you have a LOT of memetic antibodies that will make it easier-than-it-should-be to write them off or dismiss them."

==Sailer, Steve==
*"Steve Sailer ... losing the war of public opinion since 1990.

But the crazier the conventional wisdom gets, the more hilarious material I have to write about.

So at least there's that.

Too bad about society, though." ([https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1644853299387199489 Twitter, 2023])

*"When it comes to human behavior, there mostly aren’t systematic differences between what your lying eyes tell you and what The Science says. There’s a continuum between anecdote, anecdata, and data....

:If there’s a strong statistical pattern in the numbers, you should be able to come up with vivid real-life examples of it. And if you can think of several examples suggesting a pattern, you might well be able to find large-scale data for it.

:My main one weird trick for coming up with enough insights to make a living as an unfashionable pundit for 22 years has been to assume that private life facts and public life facts are one and the same. Most pundits assume public controversies, such as BLM, are of a higher realm than daily life, so that what they notice about “safe neighborhoods” and “good schools” when they are making real estate decisions for themselves couldn’t possibly have any relevance to the great issues of the day they discuss in the media." ([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I am told that we shouldn’t mention the truth because either:

:—The facts have no possible policy implications, or

:—The facts have overwhelmingly horrible policy implications, such as the logical necessity of reimposing slavery or instituting genocide.

:The former strikes me as obtuse and the latter as insane and/or evil.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*There’s no need for everybody to continue to pretend ever since the 1978 Bakke decision that exalted “diversity” as the excuse for violating the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection of the laws that affirmative action makes colleges more intellectually stimulating when obviously the opposite has proven true. Quotas have helped make colleges minefields of cancel culture by bringing onto campus insecure and resentful masses of racially preferred students out to punish anyone who alludes to the race gaps that are American society’s central fact. Instead, underqualified preference beneficiaries should be told to be thankful for their privilege.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I quoted this letter at length because it seems like such a vivid example of the mindset of the current day: reality is determined by words, that honest words threaten the marginalized with violence, and asking the marginalized to improve their behavior is unthinkable." ([https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyc-health-czar-takes-strong-action-against-monkeypox-demands-who-change-the-name-of-monkeypox-to-an-incomprehensible-string-of-characters/Column on renaming monkeypox], 2022)

*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*"How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

:The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

:Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general." [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*"The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world."

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Salisbury, Lord==
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury

*"Within certain limits of intelligence, honesty and knowledge of the law, one man would make as good a judge as another and a Tory mentality is ipso facto more trustworthy than a Liberal one."

*First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.
'Democracy on its Trial', Quarterly Review, vol. 110 (July & October 1861), p. 281

*The conflict between Socialism and existing civilisation must be a death-struggle. If the combat is once commenced, one or other of the combatants must perish. It is idle to plead that the schemes of these men are their religion. There are religions so hostile to morality, so poisonous to the life-springs of society, that they are outside the pale of human tolerance.
'The Commune and the Internationale', Quarterly Review, vol. 131 (July & October 1871), p. 562

*It was a part of a budget which even three months had proved to be a mass of miscalculation; it was the pet scheme of a cosmopolitan school who love England little, and whom England loves less, whose sympathies are half-American and half-French; and it was the first application of a theory of combined taxation and reform, according to which the poor were exclusively to fix the revenue which the rich were exclusively to pay.
‘The Conservative Reaction’, Quarterly Review, vol. 108 (July & October 1860), p. 276

*"Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed...The classes that represent civilisation, the holders of accumulated capital and accumulated thought have a right to require securities to protect them from being overwhelmed by hordes who have neither knowledge to guide them nor stake in the Commonwealth to control them."
'English Politics and Parties', Bentley's Quarterly Review, vol. I (March & July 1859), pp. 28-29

* In men of genius, as a rule, the imagination or the
passions are too strongly developed to suffer them
to reach the highest standard of practical states-
, manship. They follow some poetical ideal, they
are under the spell of some fascinating chapter of
past history, they are the slaves of some talismanic
phrase which their generation has taken up, or
they have made to themselves a system to which
all men and all circumstances must be bent. Something there almost always is that beguiles
them away from the plain, prosaic, business-like
view ofthe concerns of this prosaic world. Consequently the mass of mankind, who have a dull but
surefooted instinct of their own interest, feel an
uncomfortable misgiving when they see a genius at
the head oftheir affairs. They are aware that firstrate brilliancy cannot be had without something of
distortion ; but it is no consolation to them that the
illusions which are luring him on to ruin lend in
the mean time an exquisite charm to the eloquence
by which he induces them to accompany him on
the road. On the other hand, the clever world is
very intolerant of plain, practical statesmen. It
maintains, sometimes with very good reason, that
where the imagination is stunted, it is merely
because the whole mind is stunted too ; and that
the claim to practical common sense is often only
a euphemism for a narrow intelligence straitened
by an abject regard for precedents and for routine.
As a rule, both sides are right in the suspicions
they entertain. It is rare to meet with a fervid
imagination which is drilled to reserve its flights
for efforts of oratory, and to give place entirely to
more sober faculties in council. It is still rarer to
see an absolutely unimaginative mind possessed of
the energy and of the breadth of view indispensable
in the statesman of a troubled period. Both kinds
of excellence produce great and successful rulers,
where they occur ; and both are apt to meet, in
those around them, with incredulity that such combinations of opposite qualities can exist.

'Lord Castlereagh', Quarterly Review, vol. 111 (January & April 1862), p. 204 https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QafmXADIh0jnPZqj11iTfMIuIdFT-DZWwP1q0zQiA4yBrYcBXaRXhl4wAaaOcH-1ovmPhezfBeCx0TdkJoRN9AA_GFoAY4s2keT-CwZl1Ac4Hi372YcAOvsu39xIf9x-9EnByraZe58fXqGcaJXEPxzQgDRgCT4Tmx6dycMZDk2BYr8nEVHvroFVV0BBgbmci9-5NQXLe-_TADxWoaHFbQLTkZ_S6X7gooGS2WS2hjnVU9k8TJvQcgrZPgRvcxDa635thiwS18ib2JkrJsBzJpxawXgcLHhLf7Y6EZsBbphBqpbBMgw

==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Scalia, son==
[https://twitter.com/StuffForSisters/status/1581430850159542272 At Scalia's Funeral:]
"We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us—known only by reputation to even more. A man loved by many—scorned by others. A man known for great controversy & for great compassion. That man, of course, is Jesus of Nazareth."

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shakespeare, William==
*"Ten masts deep make not the altitude from which though has perpendicularly fell." King Lear, Edgar to Gloucester.

===Insults===
From Cultural Tutor on Twitter:
1) "Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon."
~Timon of Athens

2) "You, minion, are too saucy."
~The Two Gentleman of Verona

3) "Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat."
~Henry V

4) "The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril."
~The Merry Wives of Windsor

5) "Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows."
~Troilus and Cressida

10) "I’ll beat thee, but I would infect my hands."
~Timon of Athens

11) "More of your conversation would infect my brain."
~Coriolanus

12) "There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune."
~Henry IV, Part 1

14) "Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

18) "This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

23) "Some report a sea-maid spawn’d him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice."
~Measure for Measure

25) "Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood."
~King Lear

31) "Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant."
~The Taming of the Shrew

46) "A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition."
~King Lear

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
"Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king."
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==SMITH, ADAM==
*"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” (no source)

==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
*“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
*"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

*"The best obituary a man can have is that the people who knew him loved him, even if those who didn't know him hated him," ''Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays''

*“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice'.” The Quest for Cosmic Justice

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
*“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” In english: "To understand all is to forgive all." 
[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

*“Madame,” the general informed the lady in question, “I do not want women mixed up in politics.” “You are perfectly right,” came the reply, “but in a country where their heads are cut off, it is only natural for them to want to know why.” (Exchange between Napoleon Bonaparte and Madame de Staël, J. Christopher Herold’s ''The Mind of Napoleon''.)

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==st exuery==
Drawing on French aristocrat Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, philosopher Byung Chul Han noted that, while houses are homes in space, rituals are homes in time. Rituals are an assertion of continuity — you act as your ancestors acted before you. They shift the family from the moment into ‘eternal time’. https://www.theculturist.io/p/why-did-wealth-stop-building-beautiful?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2242126&post_id=179128916&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

==Sutton, Willy==
When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is."

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==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==TACITUS==
*Omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset." 
“All would have agreed that he was capable of being emperor, if only he had never been it.” 
So wrote Tacitus of Galba.

==Taft, William==
*"The opportunity freely and publicly to criticize judicial action is of vastly more iportance to the body politic than the immunity of courts and judges from unjust aspersions and attack. Nothing tends more to render judges careful in their decisions and anxiously solicitous to do exact justice than the consciousness that every act of theirs is to be subjected to the intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their fellow-men. Such criticism is beneficial in proportion as it is fair, dispassionate, discriminating, and based on a knowledge of sound legal principles. The comments made by learned text writers and by the acute editors of the various law reviews upon judicial decisions are therefore highly useful. Such critics constitute more or less impartial tribunals of professional opinion before which each judgment is made to stand or fall on its merits, and thus exert a strong influence to secure uniformity of decision. But non-professional criticism also is by no means without its uses, even if accompanied, as it often is, by a direct attack upon the judicial fairness and motives of the occupants of the bench; for if the law is but the essence of common sense, the protest of many average men may evidence a defect in a judicial conclusion, though based on the nicest legal reasoning and profoundest learning. The two important elements of moral character in a judge are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it. In so far as fear of public comment does not affect the courage of a judge, but only spurs him on to search his conscience and to reach the result which approves itself to his inmost heart such comment serves a useful purpose. There are few men, whether they are judges for life or for a shorter term, who do not prefer to earn and hold the respect of all, and who can not be reached and made to pause and deliberate by hostile public criticism. In the case of judges having a life tenure, indeed their very independence makes the right freely to comment on their decisions of greater importance, because it is the only practical and available instrument in the hands of a free people to keep such judges alive to the reasonable demands of those they serve." (1895) As [http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/state-of-the-union-1906.php cited by Pres. Roosevelt] in 1906.

==Tate, Jeremy==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted at 9:15 AM on Sun, Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

==Taylor, Charles==
*As reported [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/04/westafrica.qanda by The Guardian]: "He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him." Running successfully for President of Liberia.

==Teller, Edward==
*"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
*Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

* His election rerunning announcement speech:
Michael Tracey@mtracey·14hSorry to break it to you, but Trump was spot-on with this one: “They say the ocean will rise 1/8 of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years, but don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries with one shot. Something is wrong with their thinking.”

:This is an example of how he exaggerates in the hope that someone will correct him and make his point for him (1/8 inch corrected to 2 inches, still tiny).

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*"Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain, message to Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 1901.

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

*"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 

Often quoted in W. H. Auden's translation,‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’, but the French is so easy, an Anglophone might as well use the original phrase. See also "Le code n'est jamais fini, seulement termine." 

Valery didn't actually say this, though it is what is commonly quoted in France. Pierre Vinclair tells us about that in [https://poezibao.typepad.com/files/ashbery-9.pdf «Portrait d’une énigme dans un miroir convexe», "9. et fin. Clack"], [https://www.poesibao.fr/ ''Poezibao'']
[https://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2020/11/feuilleton-critique-portrait-dune-%C3%A9nigme-dans-un-miroir-convexe-9-et-fin-clack-par-pierre-vinclair.html archive] (2020):

"Et l’on connaît la célèbre formule de Valéry : « un poème n’est jamais fini, seulement abandonné ». Dicton apocryphe, qui trouve sans doute son origine dans cette page de «Littérature»:

::Une œuvre dont l’achèvement — le jugement qui la déclare achevée, est uniquement subordonné à la condition qu’elle nous plaise — n’est jamais achevée. […]
:: Un poème n’est jamais achevé — c’est toujours un accident qui le termine, c’est-àdire qui le donne au public.
::Ce sont la lassitude, la demande de l’éditeur, — la poussée d’un autre poème.
::Mais jamais l’état même de l’ouvrage (si l’auteur n’est pas un sot) ne montre qu’il ne pourrait être poussé, changé, considéré comme première approximation, ou origine d’une recherche nouvelle.
::Je conçois, quant à moi, que le même sujet et presque les mêmes mots pourraient être repris indéfiniment et occuper toute une vie.
::« Perfection »
::c’est travail. 

Notre premier bumper soit donc Paul Valéry, selon qui l’œuvre ne s’achève jamais
(car la perfection qu’elle cherche est asymptotique) : seul un accident extérieur peut
l’interrompre. Or, des trois causes qu’il nomme — lassitude, demande de l’éditeur,
poussée d’un autre poème — aucune ne ressemble au tarissement dont parle
Ashbery. C’est sans doute que, pour celui-ci, le poème n’est pas l’objet d’un travail
infini visant la perfection, la confection maniaque d’une œuvre aussi proche que
possible de l’idéal."

Paul Valéry, «Littérature» in Tel Quel, Gallimard, 1941, p. 154. "

==Vaughan, Sarah==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html Easy Street]

==Von Neumann, John==
*“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You get used to them.”

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== ==

==Wang, John==
@johnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Watson, Thomas==
* After talking about the Prodigal Son: “Before a man can come to Christ he must first come to himself. . . . A man must first recognize and consider what his sin is, and know the plague of his heart, before he can be duly humbled for it.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

*“Affliction is but corrective; sin is destructive” ''The Doctrine of Repentance.'' (1668).

*“Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

==Watt, Peter==
*"Judy Holliday said. "Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''. In Hunter Biden's case it seems that nothing he does will ever be printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

==Wilde, Oscar==
*"Algernon: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” 
:Jack: “Is that clever?” 
:Algernon: “It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be.” " 
::(from ''The Importance of Being Earnest'')

===[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phrases_and_Philosophies_for_the_Use_of_the_Young "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young"], ''Chameleon'' magazine, (1894)===

*Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.

*A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

*If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

*It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

*Only the shallow know themselves.

*One should always be a little improbable.

*The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

*One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

*The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

==Will, George==
"The ancients had asked, What is the highest attainment of which mankind is capable and how can we pursue this? Hobbes and subsequent moderns asked, What is the worst that can happen and how can we avoid it?" (TCS, p 19)

==Williams, Robin==
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”

==Wolfe, Humbert==
[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-british-journalist-by-humbert-wolfe-f9r6pb9hb07 The London Times]:

. 
You cannot ever bribe or twist 
The freeborn British journalist 
Seeing what, unbribed, he’ll do 
You realize there’s no reason to

==Warhol, Andrew==
*“The President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”

— Andy Warhol, 1975,

== ==
==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zeto, Salena==
*<> [https://www.thefp.com/p/my-decade-with-donald-trump-salena-zito?utm_campaign=email-post&r=fjeib&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "My Decade with Donald Trump,"] Salena Zito, ''The Free Press'' (2025), linking to her article, [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-makes-his-case-in-pittsburgh/501335/ "Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally",] ''The Atlantic'' (2016).

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

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Quotations

2026-02-25T22:39:45Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* Anonymous */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

*[https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089 "On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs' "], Jia Tolentino ( /23/16).

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==Anonymous==
*"Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (“Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched”) The motto of the University of Chicago.

*"You can make fish soup from fish, but you cannot make fish from fish soup." Hungarian proverb (Viktor Orban)

*"South Africa has introduced a new category to geopolitics: a de-developing nation." (@ConCaracal, X, 2026).

*"Don't take notes of what the professor says, take note."

*"What other people think of me is none of my business.”

*"Do you have 10 years of experience, or are you just living the same year at your job 10 times over?" [https://twitter.com/randomrecruiter/status/1690753402014232576 @randomrecruiter] (2023)

*I am reminded of a woman who graduated from MIT in 1987. I asked her about her social life as an undergrad. "The odds were good, but the goods were odd."

*"VOCATUS ATQUA NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT." (CALLED OR NOT CALLED, GOD IS PRESENT.)

*"The rich man smokes the same sort of cigarettes as the poor man, shaves with the same sort of razor, uses the same sort of telephone, vacuum cleaner, radio, and TV set, has the same sort of lighting and heating equipment in his house, and so on indefinitely. The differences between his automobile and the poor man’s are minor. Essentially they have similar engines, similar fittings. In the early years of the century there was a hierarchy of automobiles." (''Harper's Magazine'' [1957])

*"Conservatives view themselves as underdogs because they are, especially culturally. Liberals view themselves underdogs because although in charge of every significant human institution they have set themselves the impossible egalitarian task of waging war against nature and reality itself - so when results inevitably conflict with their egalitarian ideology - when racial gaps, poverty, sex differences, inequality etc persist - they blame reactionary forces rather than nature (reality)." ''Twitter'' (2023).

*The Hillary defense:
:I didn’t do it.
:You can’t prove it.
:Everybody does it.
:He did it.
:You're just a racist.
:It's old news.
:What difference, at this point, does it make?

*The Russian Teapot defense:
:It isn’t broken
:If it is broken, I didn’t do it
:If I did do it, it was no good anyway

*A canon of legal interpretation:"Specialia generalibus non derogant". Special things don't derogate from the general rule.

* “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original:"Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement , il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." [https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa as written by Jomini] (1827))..

*When everything works fine, they wonder why they hired you. When everything stops working, they wonder why they hired you. I.T. in a nutshell.

*“I don't drink, or cuss, or chew; and I don't go out with girls that do.”

*"The plural of outlier is out-and-out-liar".

*"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*[https://allaboutfrench.com/qui-se-ressemble-sassemble "Qui se ressemble s'assemble"]

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan," as quoted in ''A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition) by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Owning a sailboat is like turning your shower's cold water on and standing there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own." Stalin?

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Showing up is 90% of success," or "Being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them." — an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain". This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointment, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: the person secretly believe the world revolves around him, everyone is paying attention to him and his actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan. It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.
Women will always and forever rely on men.}}
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==Adams, John==
*"It is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State." [https://buff.ly/3rFhAzP "From John Adams to James Sullivan"] (26 May 1776).

==Adams, Scott==
*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1577277568310341632 Twitter, October 4, 2022]:"Elon Musk took control of the Ukraine/Russia endgame by writing the first draft in bullet form and drawing all attention to it.

:You just learned one of the most powerful persuasion techniques in the modern world: Write the first draft and keep it simple."

*I’m not worried about climate change because any species that can predict the average temperature a hundred years in advance won’t have trouble handling it.

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==The African Queen==
Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature. 
Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

See [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/characters/nm0000031 the IMDB quote page.]

==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” 
Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Allred, Austen==
*"Job descriptions should be strongly opinionated, and should both attract the people you’d want to work with while repelling those you wouldn’t."(Twitter 2023)

==Amin, Idi==
*"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."

==Anderson, Robert==
*"It would be nice if people would put (D) or (R) in their profiles so I know whether to retweet or ratio them without having to do a bunch of reading." Twitter (2024).

==Andreessen, Mark==
*"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

*Whitepill #14: Every day, two lists get longer: The things you believe but can't say, and the things you don't believe but must say. (Twitter, 2022)

==Aquinas, Thomas==
*"Nevertheless, sacred doctrine makes use of these authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the authority of the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the authority of the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable. For our faith rests upon the revelation made to the apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books, and not on the revelations (if any such there are) made to other doctors. Hence Augustine says (Epis. ad Hieron. xix, 1): 'Only those books of Scripture which are called canonical have I learned to hold in such honor as to believe their authors have not erred in any way in writing them. But other authors I so read as not to deem everything in their works to be true, merely on account of their having so thought and written, whatever may have been their holiness and learning'" (Summa Theologica,. Part 1, Q. 1, Art. 8).

==The Apocrypha==
"Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

2But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.

3With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.

4But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.

5For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen." Wisdom of SOlomon 13.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
*“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

*"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

*"The other environmental risk factors for schizophrenia are equally hard to change. Poverty? Okay, don’t be poor, thanks for the important life advice. Social defeat? “Doctor, are you saying I have to never let anyone defeat me?” “Yes, it’s my official medical recommendation that you become invincible.” " [https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-fair-to-describe-schizophrenia "It's Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic"] (Jan. 31, 2024).

==Auden==
*“The Danish Lutheran Church may have been as worldly as Kierkegaard thought it was, but if it had not existed he would never have heard of the Gospels, in which he found the standards by which he condemned it.”

==Augustine==
*“Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and that not of one man, but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices” (''City of God'', Book IV)

*"If they shall be deprived of all good, they shall no longer be. So long, therefore, as they are, they are good; therefore whatsoever is, is good. That evil, then, which I sought whence it was, is not any substance; for were it a substance, it would be good. For either it would be an incorruptible substance, and so a chief good, or a corruptible substance, which unless it were good it could not be corrupted. I perceived, therefore, and it was made clear to me, that Thou didst make all things good, nor is there any substance at all that was not made by Thee; and because all that Thou hast made are not equal, therefore all things are; because individually they are good, and altogether very good, because our God made all things very good." ''Confessions'', Book 7, chapter 12.

== ==
==Balfour, Arthur==
*“The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which, for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.”

==Bankman-Fried, Sam ==
“...this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us.” --
"[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself]: The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way," ''Vox,'' Kelsey Piper (Nov. 16, 2022).

==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
*“Eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

==The Bible==
*“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” Proverbs 15:1.

*"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits." Proverbs 16:2.

*"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs 16:4.

*"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9.

==Boghossian, Peter==
*"If a thing's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well." (''Unherd'' panel interview, 2024, ''You-Tube'').

==Booth, William (Salvation Army founder)==
*Asked about the chief dangers for the 20th century, Salvation Army founder Booth [https://rlhymersjr.com/Online_Sermons/2007/090907_OldEvangelicalismReview.html said], “Religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.”

==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

==Bloom,Allen==
*“Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason’s power.” ''The Closing of the American Mind''

==Bloom, Harold==
*[https://biblioklept.org/2013/02/19/harold-bloom-on-the-school-of-resentment/ Harold Bloom on his agon with “The School of Resentment.”] From [https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2225/the-art-of-criticism-no-1-harold-bloom his 1991 interview with The Paris Review.]:
When I was a young man back in the fifties starting out on what was to be my career, I used to proclaim that my chosen profession seemed to consist of secular clergy or clerisy. I was thinking, of course, of the highly Anglo-Catholic New Criticism under the sponsorship or demigodness of T. S. Eliot. But I realized in latish middle age that, no better or worse, I was surrounded by a pride of displaced social workers, a rabblement of lemmings, all rushing down to the sea carrying their subject down to destruction with them. The school of resentment is an extraordinary sort of mélange of latest-model feminists, Lacanians, that whole semiotic cackle, latest-model pseudo-Marxists, so-called New Historicists, who are neither new nor historicist, and third generation deconstructors, who I believe have no relationship whatever to literary values. . . .

It is tiresome to be encountering myths called “The Social Responsibility of the Critic” or “The Political Responsibility of the Critic.” I would rather walk into a bookstore and find a book called “The Aesthetic Responsibilities of the Statesman,” or “The Literary Responsibilities of the Engineer.” Criticism is not a program for social betterment, not an engine for social change. I don’t see how it possibly could be. . . .

What else is there like Invisible Man? Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God has a kind of superior intensity and firm control. It’s a very fine book indeed. It surprised and delighted me when I first read it and it has sustained several rereadings since. But that and Invisible Man are the only full scale works of fiction I have read by American blacks in this century that have survival possibilities at all. Alice Walker is an extremely inadequate writer, and I think that is giving her the best of it. A book like The Color Purple is of no aesthetic interest or value whatsoever, yet it is exalted and taught in the academies. It clearly is a time in which social and cultural guilt has taken over. . . .

I’m not terribly fond of feminist criticism. The true test is to find work, whether in the past or present, by women writers that we had undervalued, and thus bring it to our attention and teach us to study it more closely or more usefully. By that test they have failed, because they have added not one to the canon. The women writers who mattered—Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and others who have always mattered on aesthetic grounds—still matter. I do not appreciate Elizabeth Bishop or May Swenson any more or less than I would have appreciated them if we had no feminist literary criticism at all.

==Bowles, Michael==
“Construction is a matter of backing yourself into a corner and then fighting your way out.”

==Bukowski, Charles==
*“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

==Burke, Edmund==
* “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770).

*"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Misattributed. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ Quote Investigator.]

==Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)==
. 
He that complies against his Will, 
Is of his own Opinion still. 
(from ''Hudibras'')
----

== ==
==CANNON, William==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Caplan, Bryan==
*"When a normal utilitarian concludes that mass murder would maximize social utility, he checks his work! He goes over his calculations with a fine-tooth comb, hoping to discover a way to implement beneficial policy changes without horrific atrocities. The Leninist, in contrast, reasons backwards from the atrocities that emotionally inspire him to the utilitarian argument that morally justifies his atrocities." [https://betonit.substack.com/p/the_roots_of_lehtml The roots of Leninism] (2012)

==Carlin, George==
*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that."

==Carson, D.A.==
*"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."

==Carver, George Washington==
*“When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well, George, that's more nearly your size.’

==Carville, James==
*“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

==St. Charbel Makhlouf==
*[https://www.lightbook.org/53-best-saint-charbel-quotes.html "Your weakness is to be overcome, not to be used as a pilgrimage."]

==Charles III of the United Kingdom==
* 2011 as he [https://www.royal.uk/clarencehouse/speech/speech-hrh-prince-wales-king-james-bible-trust-reception addressed the King James Bible Trust:] “I’ve never really understood who it was that decided that, for people who aren’t very good at reading, the best things to read are those written by people who aren’t very good at writing!”

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*"Chesterton's Fence", 1929 book, ''The Thing,'' “The Drift from Domesticity”:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to challenge his reformist son-in-law. Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in his poem, “Mending Wall.” }}

*"A man can pretend to be wise; a man cannot pretend to be witty."

*"Those who will not even admit the Capitalist problem deserve to get the Communist solution."

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*"If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization."

*"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it"--Autobiography

*{{Quotation|We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

==Chicago, University of==
*The University of Chicago's motto is "Crescat scientia; vita excolatur," which means,"Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched."

==Chrysostom, John==
*"Should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in the midst of the forum, blaspheming God; go up to him and rebuke him; and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not to do so. Smite him on the face; strike his mouth; sanctify your hand with the blow, and if any should accuse you, and drag you to the place of justice, follow them there; and when the judge on the bench calls you to account, say boldly that the man blasphemed the King of angels! For if it be necessary to punish those who blaspheme an earthly king, much more so those who insult God" ('On the Statues', 1).

== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Coleridge, Samuel==
*"I, for one, do not call the sod under my feet my country. But language, religion, laws, government, blood — identity in these makes men of one country." ''Table Talk'', May 29, 1830.

==Comfort, Ray==
“Atheists don’t hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don’t exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Covey, Stephen==
*"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man."

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [-Twitter, 2021]}}

==Cunningham==
J.V. Cunningham, from "Meditation on Statistical Method"

<pre>
Plato, despair!
We prove by norms
How numbers bear
Empiric forms,

How random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our hearts
Hyperbole
Curves and departs
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
</pre>

My version:

<pre>
Random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our soul
Hyperbole
Makes error roll
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
So hope and doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Won't average out.
</pre>

== ==

==Dalrymple, Theodore==
*"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." a 2005 https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com/dalrymple-interviewed-by-jamie-glazov/ interview] in FrontPage.

==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in ''First Things'', 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, ''The Information'')

==Descartes==
See [[Descartes]]
*"Bene qui latuit, bene vixit."
*"He lives well who lies well hidden." I like the English version better. What is it in French? Ovid, Descartes.

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==Dio Cassius==
*"Although he was very practised as a writer of prose and verse and very skilled in all the arts, yet he always mocked the teachers of all the arts on the grounds that he was more learned than they, and despised and humiliated them. With these same professors and philosophers he often competed, taking turns to publish books or poems. Once, indeed, a word used by Favorinus was criticized by Hadrian. Favorinus yielded, which provoked some very agreeable amusement. He was wrong to concede to Hadrian, his friends charged him, over a word which reputable authors had used. ‘You don’t give me good advice, my friends,’ said Favorinus, ‘when you don’t allow me to believe the man who possesses thirty legions to be more learned than anyone else!’ " From [https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/hadrians-rome/content-section-5.1 Birley, A. (trans.) (1976) Lives of the Later Caesars, London, Penguin, pp. 57–87.]

<pre>
To the poet Florus,Footnote61 who wrote to him:

I do not want to be Caesar,
To walk about among the Britons,
To ensure the Scythian hoar-frosts,

he wrote back:

I do not want to be Florus,
To walk about among taverns,
To lurk about among cook-shops,
To put up with the round insects.
</pre>

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
*"Making a mistake is a net positive if you learn more from it than it cost you."

{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

*"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dornbusch, Rudiger==
*"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought" (on exchange rate crises)

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

== ==

==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==Einstein, Albert==
"in 1952 he wrote a letter to his friend and fellow physicist Max Born where he admits that even if the astronomical data had gone against general relativity, he would still believe in the theory:"

`Even if there were absolutely no light deflection, no perihelion motion and no redshift, the gravitational equations would still be convincing because they avoid the inertial system... It is really quite strange that humans are usually deaf towards the strongest arguments, while they are constantly inclined to overestimate the accuracy of measurement.'
([https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-einsteins-unification-by-jeroen? "John Psmith" 2024)

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

==Esolen, Anthony==
*"Bee as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves, says the Lord.

:The converse is what we have now in our elites, in Church, State, education, etc.: People in charge who are as dopey as pigeons, and as malignant as snakes." (Twitter, 2024)

== ==

==Faulkner, William==
*“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feser, Ed==
*"If a doctor says “This is what lung cancer involves, please stop smoking,” no one accuses him of wanting the patient to suffer. But if a theologian says “This is what damnation involves, please stop sinning,” he is accused of wanting people to go to hell." ([https://twitter.com/FeserEdward/status/1665881489354162177 Twitter, 2023])

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Friedman, Milton==
"Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:

1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality) 
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality) 
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost) 
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

== ==

==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

==Gandhi, Ashvin==
@ashdgandhi (Nov 29 2025)

"Normal people: hear math statements as regular words.

Mathematicians: hear math statements as logic.

Economists: hear regular words as math statements."

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

==Girard, Rene==
*“Nietzsche shared with many intellectuals of his time and our own a passion for irresponsible rhetoric in the attempt to get one up on opponents. But philosophers, for their misfortune, are not the only people in the world. Genuinely mad and frantic people are all around them and do them the worst turn of all: they take them at their word.” I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
*Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies" "I am the spirit who always says no." Faust part I.

*"I am the spirit that always says no. And how right I am! For surely It’s right that everything that comes to be Should cease to be. And so they do. Still better Would be nothing ever was. Hence sin And havoc and ruin—all you call evil, in sum— For me’s the element in which I swim.”

<pre>"Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen:
Verweile doch! du bist so schön!
Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen,
Dann will ich gern zugrunde gehn!
</pre>
Faust, Part I. When I to a moment say, Stay a while! You are so fair! Then you may enslave my soul, then I will submit to you. Or something like that.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==Goodstein, David==
"1.1 INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously. We will begin by considering the simplest meaningful example, the perfect gas, in order to get the central concepts sorted out." ( States of Matter (1985); see https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1651559339067310081)

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*[https://x.com/paulg/status/1874590418463330489 TWITTER:] "A friend who's a former British military officer told me that when he was training soldiers in jungle warfare they were taught that if they got lost in the jungle, the first thing they should do was to brew a cup of tea and think about what to do next."

*"Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign flipped." (2024, X).

*"If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial." [http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html "Putting Ideas into Words"] (2022).

*"A rare counterexample to the principle of specialization: your site should never seem like it was made by communications people, and the best way to achieve this is for it not to be. This is something founders should continue to micromanage forever."[https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1654765304184971264 Twitter] (2023) ]

*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)

==Grandin, Temple==
*Temple Grandin wrote in ''The Way I See It,'' a book on the experience of autism: "What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done."
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hamblin, Jacob==
*Jacob Hamblin’s "Rules for Dealing with the Indians" from ''Jacob Hamblin among the Indians'' by James Little.

1. I never talk anything but the truth to them.

2. I think it useless to speak of things they cannot comprehend.

3. I strive by all means to never let them see me in a passion.

4. Under no circumstances show fear, thereby showing to them that I have a sound heart and a straight tongue.

5. Never approach them in an austere manner nor use more words than are necessary to convey my ideas, not in a higher tone of voice than to be distinctly heard.

6. Always listen to them when they wish to tell of their grievances, and redress their wrongs, however trifling they may be if possible. If I cannot I let them know I have a desire to do so.

7. I never allow them to hear me use profane or obscene language or take any unbecoming course with them.

8. I never submit to any unjust demands or submit to coercion under any circumstances, thereby showing them that I govern and am governed by the rule of right not by might.

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

==Herrnstein, Robert==
:"Dick recalled the day when, as a young man, he had been awarded tenure. It was his dream fulfilled -- a place in the university he so loved, the chance to follow his research wherever it took him, economic security. For Dick, being a tenured professor at Harvard was not just the perfect job, but the perfect way to live his life. It was too good to be true; there had to be a catch. What's my part of the bargain? he had asked himself. "And I figured it out," he said, looking at me with that benign, gentle half-smile of his. "You have to tell the truth." There was no self-congratulation in his voice, just an answer to my question." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20010421204200/https://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/bell-curve/murray-hstein-obit.html "Richard J. Herrnstein, RIP,"] by Charles Murray, Vol. 46, National Review, 10-10-1994, pp 22.

==Hoffer, Eric==
*[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98215-every-great-cause-begins-as-a-movement-becomes-a-business “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”]

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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==Heath, Joseph==
"Populists have great difficulty respecting the rule of law. If one listens to the explanations that they offer for their actions, a great deal of this reflects a bias toward concreteness in their thinking. They think the purpose of the rules is to stop bad people from doing bad things, but since they themselves are good people trying to do good things, they cannot see why they should be constrained by the rules." "Populism Fast and Slow", ''Substack'' (2025).

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== Rob Henderson==
*“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” [https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/ Quillette article] (2021).

*"Men bond by insulting each other and not really meaning it; women bond by complimenting each other and not really meaning it."

*"Over the course of human evolutionary history, there may have been some independent-minded women who thought things through and decided to avoid the pain and risks of motherhood. These women are not our ancestors." [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-story-of-us-9780190883201?cc=gb&lang=en& one of his books], via Twitter.

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==Hippocrates==
"Ars longa, vita brevis" has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."

The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

==Hitchens, Christopher==
*"It will happen to all of us that at some point you'll be tapped on the shoulder and told - not just that the party is over - but slightly worse: the party's going on but you have to leave."

==Hitchens, PETER==
*'I also remember a French high-speed train, on which Mrs Hitchens and I ate a long, time-consuming, four-course picnic lunch, wine included, partly for the joy of it and partly because we were exempt from French mask rules as long as we were eating.
::'An infuriated French ticket inspector chose to lecture us explosively about our irresponsibility — whereupon I donned a large black Polish Army surplus gas mask, which in those days I carried about for satirical purposes.
::‘Take it off!’ he cried. ‘You are trying to frighten people!’ . :‘No,’ I replied, ‘it is you who are trying to frighten people.’ https://mol.im/a/12947665 via @MailOnline"

==Hooker. Richard==
*“It is dangerous for the feeble mind of man to wade too far into the doings of the Most High. Although it is life to know Him and joy to mention His name, our surest knowledge is that we do not know Him as He truly is, nor can we; our safest eloquence is our silence, confessing without confession that His glory is inexplicable and His greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we are on earth; therefore let our words be wary and few.” (''Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'', Vol. 1, book 1, chapter 2)

==Hochschild, Joshua==
*"It is an academic myth that canonical texts, literary and religious, embody ideology and perpetuate power structures. In the experience of actual readers, canonical texts are typically the means of escaping ideology and challenging power structures." Twitter (2024)

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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== Thomas Jefferson==
" If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion towards his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriæ of the other." [https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/query-xviii-an-excerpt-from-notes-on-the-state-of-virginia-by-thomas-jefferson-1784/ Query 18, Notes from Virginia.]
==Jomini ==
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original: "Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." as written by Jomini (1827). https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa

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==Kac, Mark==
*"Probability theory is measure theory with a soul." Here is one source. Is there a better one, an original one? [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf]

==Karlin, George==
*"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they’re cramming for their final exam."

*"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

*"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body."

*"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts."

*"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it."

==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

*[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

==Keller, Timothy==
*"A possible way to start a conversation with someone who is not a believer:
'Tell me the God you don't believe in because chances are I don't believe in that God either.' "
*"Few people live up to their own standards, let alone an objective one. Either way we come up short on our own accord."
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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==Keynes, John==
* “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”

==Khan, Razib==
:*"The reason we need nerds is that they jump all over little lies, and drown them in the bathtub before the lies can grow up and become invincible monsters." [https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1675204182679207936 Twitter (2023).]

==Kierkegaard, Emil==
{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."
}}

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

== KIPLING, Rudyard==
. 
In August was the jackal born, 
The rains fell in September. 
"Now such a fearful flood as this," 
Says he, "I can't remember!" [http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/second-jungle-book/7/ "The Undertakers"] The 2nd Jungle Book.

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==Kosinski, Jerzy==
* "The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
{{Quotation|
(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk” 
(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
}}
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==Rush Limbaugh==
“Men and women range themselves into three classes... the lowest by talking about persons; the next about things; the highest about ideas.”

==Lindsay, James==
*On the Christian method, which is good for redpilling wokers too: 
::1) Proclaim the truth (tell without coercion or force) 
::2) Remind them that everyone is a sinner (so everyone makes mistakes) 
::3) Invite them to repent in their own time (accept your past error as wrong and move forward productively).

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted , Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

*"The idea that any man or writer should be opaque to those who lived in the same culture, spoke the same language, shared the same habitual imagery and unconscious assumptions, and yet be transparent to those who have none of these advantages, is in my opinion preposterous. " ([https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern Seed speech])

*From "The Abolition of Man": 'When all that says "It is good" has been debunked, what says "I want" remains.'

* "The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

*“His education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

*“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”

*A man who has spent his youth and manhood in the minute study of New Testament texts and of other people’s studies of them, whose literary experience of those texts lacks any standard of comparison such as can only grow from a wide and deep and genial experience of literature in general, is, I should think, very likely to miss the obvious thing about them. If he tells me that something in a Gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavour; not how many years he has spent on that Gospel...

:I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life. I know what they are like. I know that not one of them is like this. Of this text there are only two possible views. Either this is reportage—though it may no doubt contain errors—pretty close up to the facts; nearly as close as Boswell. Or else, some unknown writer in the second century, without known predecessors or successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative
-- CS Lewis. https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern-Seed and Elephants," Originally entitled 'Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism'.

==Long, Earl (Governor of Louisiana, brother of Huey Long)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

==Long, Russell (Senator from Indiana, son of Huey Long)==
*"Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax the man behind the tree." [improved] See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/]

==Long, Rob==
"I was nonplussed — the actual definition of nonplussed, which is baffled, rather than what it sounds like and will eventually come to mean, which is unimpressed." (2024)

==Luther, Martin==
* "Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it."

:"This is a murky Luther quote that seems like something he would have said, yet finding an exact reference isn't easy. A couple of people have searched for this quote uncovering interesting clues and theories of its origin (see for instance, About That Great Luther Quote and also the discussion here). Piggybacking on their efforts, I have my own theory of how this quote became popular: it's in the form it's in because singer-song writer Derek Webb was quoting Charles Spurgeon quoting Luther... whether he knew it or not!" https://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2020/08/luther-every-week-i-preach.html

* “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan." --Book IV of The Prince}}

*"A question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may
be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person it is
much safer to be feared than loved, when only one is possible. The reason for this is that in general men
are ungrateful, inconstant, false, cowardly, and greedy. As long as you succeed, they are yours entirely -
they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, when the need is far distant. But when the
need approaches, they turn against you. A prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected
other ways of protecting himself, will be ruined. Friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by
greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot
be relied upon. Men are less worried about offending one who is loved than one who is feared. Love is
preserved by the link of gratefulness which, owing to the weak nature of men, is broken at every
opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a fear of punishment which never fails." Chapter 17, [https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Principe/Capitolo_XVIII The Prince], Machiavelli.

*"Questo una disputa, s'e' gli è meglio essere amato che temuto o e converso. Rispondesi che si vorrebbe essere l'uno e l'altro; ma perché e' gli è difficile accozzarli insieme, è molto più sicuro essere temuto che amato, quando si abbi a mancare dell'uno de' dua. Perché degli uomini si può dire questo, generalmente, che sieno ingrati, volubili, simulatori e dissimulatori, fuggitori de' pericoli, cupidi del guadagno; e mentre fai loro bene e' sono tutti tua, offeronti el sangue, la roba, la vita, e' figliuoli, come di sopra dissi, quando el bisogno è discosto: ma quando ti si appressa, si rivoltono, e quello principe che si è tutto fondato in su le parole loro, trovandosi nudo di altre preparazioni, ruina. Perché le amicizie che si acquistono col prezzo, e non con grandezza e nobilità di animo, si meritano, ma elle non si hanno, e alli tempi non si possono spendere; e li uomini hanno meno rispetto a offendere uno che si facci amare, che uno che si facci temere: perché lo amore è tenuto da uno vinculo di obligo, il quale, per essere gl'uomini tristi, da ogni occasione di propria utilità è rotto, ma il timore è tenuto da una paura di pena che non ti abbandona mai." Ch. 7. [http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/testo/bibit000214 Il Principe], Machiavelli.

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
*“The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.” (Letter to Napier, November 5, 1841, p. 103 of Trevelyan's ''The Life and Letters..., Vol. 2'')

*"The doctrine which from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words, and stripped of rhetorical disguise is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error."
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Sir James Macintosh"

*From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Mahler Gustav==
*From [https://deepstash.com/article/203717/jean-jaurs-the-true-way-to-honour-the-past Deepstash, Jean Jaures said,] "Ce n'est pas en vain que tous les foyers des générations humaines ont flambé, ont rayonné ; mais c'est nous, parce que nous marchons, parce que nous luttons pour un idéal nouveau, c'est nous qui sommes les vrais héritiers du foyer des aïeux ; nous en avons pris la flamme, vous n'en avez gardé que la cendre." From [https://latoilescoute.net/de-la-tradition-il-faut-garder-la Latoilescoute.net: ] janvier 1910, à Paris, Chambre des députés in Pages choisies, éd. Rieder, paru en 1922, p. 115.

"It is not in vain that all the homes of human generations have burned, have blazed; but it is us - because we walk forward, because we fight for a new ideal - it is us who are the true heirs of the home of the ancestors; we took the flame, you only kept the ashes."

*From [https://x.com/DurhamWASP/status/1942000048822268127 Twitter] and [https://www.wienerzeitung.at/h/irrwege-einer-metapher Irrwege einer Metapher, of Gerald Krieghofer: Gustav Mahler said, ""Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers", Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

That's different and better enough for me to award the credit to Mahler. Mr. Krieghofer might show me to be wrong, though; I don't speak German.

==David MAMET==
*“We know psychology is a scam for two reasons.
One: all the children of psychologists are insane.
And two: in a hundred years of psychoanalysis, no one has ever gotten better.”
2011 book The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

==Mao Tse-Tung==
In ''Khruschev Remembers'', Soviet leader Krushchev [https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/quotations-peoples-republic/ talks about] a 1957 meeting.

"Mao spoke about the war at this meeting . His speech content was roughly this: Do not be afraid of war. Do not be afraid of either the atomic bomb or the weapons. No matter what kind of war, we socialist countries will win. When it comes to China specifically, he claimed: 'If the imperialist impose war on us, we now have 600 million people, even if we lose 300 million, so what, this is war. Years later, we nurture new, and the population will be restored.' After he spoke, the meeting room was in a tomb-like silence."

==de Marenches, Alexandre==
Jack Jolis:"
Reminds me of something the late, (pro-American) former French spy-boss Alexandre de Marenches once said to my late dad (in my presence):

:"That man Reagan-- he may not know much, but he understands everything"
"(Cet homme Reagan – il sait peut-être peu, mais il a tout compris”).

==Marx, Karl==
:"In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. The English Established Church, e.g., will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. Now-a-days atheism is culpa levis as compared with criticism of existing property relations." --[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm Capital], volume 1, Preface.

* "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." Introduction, 1844, in Marx's own journal Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher.

==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

==Mather, Increase==
*"When the Knowledge of the Tongues and Arts Revived, Religion had a Revival with it: And though some Unlearned men have been useful to the Interests of Religion, yet no man ever decried Learning, but what was, an Enemy to Religion, whether he knew it or no."

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==Matjaž Leonardis==
If 0.1mg dose of a drug can massively alter the behaviour of a 100kg human (nine orders of magnitude ratio) then the idea small groups of individuals can change massive social systems should seem at least plausible. (2022, Twitter)
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==Mazarin, Cardinal==
« Le cardinal Mazarin ne pouvait souffrir autour de lui des gens malheureux. Quand on lui proposait quelqu’un pour entrer à son service, sa première question était celle-ci : « Est-il heureux ? » »

"(Translation: "Cardinal Mazarin could not bear unhappy people around him. When someone was proposed to enter his service, his first question was: 'Is he lucky/fortunate?'")

This anecdote is reported by Madame la Palatine (Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, mother of the future Regent Philippe d'Orléans), in her letters or memoirs from the late 17th/early 18th century. It is referenced in multiple French historical sources, including sites dedicated to historical quotations (e.g., histoire-en-citations.fr), which describe it as a "well-known saying" (mot bien connu) attributed via the Palatine.

However, no primary source (e.g., Mazarin's own letters or contemporary accounts) directly records him saying it verbatim about generals. The Palatine's version is general (about service in his entourage), not explicitly military."

==MEIJER, WILLIAM==
*"If you give submissive people power, they’ll use it to submit themselves." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

*"Humans will endure any amount of chronic pain to avoid a temporarily greater level of acute pain." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

*About Pres. Roosevelt and his 1936 opponent Gov. Landon: Landon “probably knows a great deal less than the Hon. Mr. Roosevelt, but much more of what he knows is true.” (from [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Roosevelt_Sweeps_Nation/9qq-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mencken+++++1936++Landon,++%22probably+knows+a+great+deal+less+than+the+Hon+.+Mr.+Roosevelt+,+but+much+more+of+what+he+knows+is+true%22&pg=PT399&printsec=frontcover Pietruza's book])

*"I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey."

*"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

*"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup."

*"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

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==Eric Moody==
*[https://x.com/therealmissjo/status/1935709339567726688 From X:]
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”
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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

*"When you hear the names of legislation or anything done by the government, it is worth remembering that the group that sent so many people to the guillotine during the French Revolution was called “The Committee of Public Safety”, not the “Cut Off Their Heads Committee” " Twitter (2024)

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Newman, John==
*"It is not the way to learn to swim in troubled waters, never to have gone into them.” — “Duties of the Church towards Knowledge,” in ''The Idea of a University'' (1852).

Improved: "You won't learn to swim in troubled waters by avoiding bathtubs."

==Ngo, Richard==
*"To improve the world most in the short term, make the worst country better. To improve the world most in the long term, make the best country better." Twitter, 2025.

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Orwell, George==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

"There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see." (slightly improved, seen secondhand on Twitter)

==Prince Philip==
*“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

*“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

*“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

* “It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

* “If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

*“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

*“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

*“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

*“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

*“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

*“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

* “It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

* “It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/

==Steven PINKER==
*"Historically, positions were distributed by hereditary privilege, family ties, patronage to cronies, or sale to the highest bidder. These are not far from the system we have here." ([https://www.thecrimson.com/column/council-on-academic-freedom-at-harvard/article/2024/1/29/pinker-harvard-legacy-admissions/ of Harvard student admissions, 2024])

==Pablo PICASSO==
From Grok. Original:
« L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de révéler la vérité. » (Art is a lie that permits us to reveal the truth)
(or « L’art est le mensonge qui dit la vérité. » ---Art is the lie that tells the truth.

The most widely quoted French version:« L’art est un mensonge qui nous fait comprendre la vérité. » (Art is a lie that makes us understand the truth.)

Marius de Zayas, “Picasso Speaks,” The Arts (New York), May 1923, pp. 315–326.
French version as Picasso himself later approved or rephrased it (most canonical):
« Nous savons tous que l’Art n’est pas la vérité. L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de reconnaître la vérité, du moins la vérité qu’il nous est donné de comprendre. »
(This longer version appears in French sources quoting Picasso directly, notably in Christian Zervos’s conversations with Picasso and in later interviews.)

==Plato==
*"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter" ([https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=280790.0 in Greek:] μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μου τὴν στέγην," « mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn »). Engraved above the door of Plato's Academy in Athens. [https://www.dialogues-de-platon.org/faq/faq009.htm Bernard Suzanne] says "an anonymous scholion in a manuscript of Aelius Aristides whose author, according to him, might be the fourth century orator Sopatros, which mentions the full text of the inscription, adding that ageômetrètos has been put in place of anisos kai adikos ("unfair and unjust"), sometimes used in similar inscriptions at the entrance of sacred places, and
:"Johannes Tzetzes' Chiliades, whose text is as follows:
Pro tôn prothurôn tôn hautou grapsas hupèrche Platôn
Mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn
Toutestin, adikos mèdeis paresierchestô tèide
Isotès gar kai dikaion esti geômetria.
("Plato had written at the front door of his house: "Let no one who is not geometer enter under my roof", that is, "Let non one unjust sneak in here", because geometry is equality/fairness and justice/righteousness")."

==Podgursky, Ben==
*"When your kids ask to play with you, remember that the actual ask is "I want to spend time with you". They ask to play because play is all they know. If you'd rather do a project (gardening, making an IKEA shelf), just propose doing it with them. They'll be just as excited." (Twitter, 2025)

==Poincare, Henry==
"It is through logic that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
Poincare, H. (1914). Science and Method. (F. Maitland, Preface by B. Russell, Trans.) London: Thomas Nelson and Sons.

==Pope, Alexander==
==="An Essay on Criticism"===
<pre>
*Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang’rous is th’ offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
Some few in that, but numbers err in this,
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss;

‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

In poets as true genius is but rare,
True taste as seldom is the critic’s share;
Both must alike from Heav’n derive their light,
These born to judge, as well as those to write.

Yet if we look more closely we shall find
Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind;
Nature affords at least a glimm’ring light;
The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right.
But as the slightest sketch, if justly trac’d,
Is by ill colouring but the more disgrac’d,
So by false learning is good sense defac’d;
Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.
</pre>

==Popper, Karl==
*[https://www.stephenhicks.org/2021/09/30/popper-to-aron-letter-on-adorno-and-habermas/ Letter of Popper to Aron in 1970]:
"I can only say that when I read either Adorno or Habermas, I feel as if lunatics were speaking.
I have translated some of their German sentences into simple German. It turns out to be either trivial or tautological or sheer pretentious nonsense. I completely fail to see why Habermas is reputed to have “talent”. I do not think that he was born less intelligent than other people; but he certainly did not have the good sense to resist the influence of a pretentious, lying, and intelligence destroying University education.
Sociology is in a bad way — even here in England. There seems to be an interesting law: bad and pretentious language drives out good and simple language. And once human language is destroyed, we shall return to the beasts."

==Alex Priou==
*"Interpretation of a great work is first and foremost decompression of information and not compression.

:A summary of Plato or Aristotle that did faith to the nerve of their thought would require their near equal, and it would have to be an appropriate task for the times."

==Putin, Vladimir==
“The culture of cancellation is the cancellation of culture.” From [https://nationalfile.com/putin-skewers-cancel-culture-in-latest-moscow-speech/ an October 2022 speech. ]

== ==

==Ramsey, Dave==
*"Tell the money where to go instead of wondering where it went."

==Ramseyer, J. Mark==
"Harvard is a vastly less tolerant place than it was when I arrived in 1998. The intolerance is a function of an increasingly large fraction of our colleagues. And we – the rest of us on the Harvard faculty – let it happen. The cancelling, the punishments, the DEI bureaucracy, the DEI statements, the endless list that we could all recite – all this happened on our watch. We saw it happen, but we did nothing. We were too busy. We were scared to speak up. We – we on the faculty – let Harvard become what it is. The Harvard that we have is the result of our own collective moral failure.

'''The alumni who are furious are not trying to turn Harvard into something we do not want. They are trying to rescue Harvard from what we let it become.'''
We as a faculty failed. That is why the alumni are speaking up. That is why we formed the Council on Academic Freedom in the first place."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].
*"When someone gives you lemons, make lemonade." Synonym for "Every cloud has a silver lining."

*"A model should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." I think I used in my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/ ''Games and Information''], and attributed it to Alfred Einstein. The original saying is “Everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler,” and while it is attributed to Einstein, it’s [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ highly questionable] whether he ever said it.

*"Wiggle words weaken writing." Don't use "maybe" or "perhaps" or "to some extent" or "quite" or "often" or "sometimes" if you don't have to.

*"The humanities are just as hard at math; the difference is, in the humanities you're so lost you don't even know you got the answer wrong. "
*"The only things worse than a dumb bureaucrat handling your problem is a smart computer."

*"The hand that does the daycare ruins the world."

*"For scholars, destroying data is like cutting down giant sequoia trees; it goes against all our instincts. For administrators, destroying data is like cleaning your house before a party so nobody can see what a slob you are; it accords with all their instincts. "

*"Without perspicaciousness, what good is perspicuity?"

*"Delight expressed is delight enhanced. That's why I do not restrain my chuckles of pleasure when I hear a speaker say something witty or surprising. (Also, because I know from experience that audience feedback helps.)"

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks" or "He was so mean he didn't need bug spray to repel ticks."

*"Loving someone is less often to encourage them to do what they desire to do than to desire what they ought to do."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"One of the blessings of having a father is that you can call him when you have a minor car crash. One of the blessings of being a father is that someone thinks you're worth calling, and they're right."

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==Ratzinger (Pope Benedict)==
*“A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music, and nature can be dangerous since blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental: they necessarily are reflected in his theology.” ~Ratzinger (April 16,
1927-December 31, 2022).

==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

::[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

::Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

::English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Will Rogers==
*It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rorty, Richard==
*"The contemporary cultural Left urges that America should not be a melting pot, because we need to respect one another in our differences. This Left wants to preserve otherness rather than ignore it." (From Achieving Our... (1997))

==Routledge, Clay==
*We are living in an era of woke capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Russell, Bertrand==
* “Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat. What he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.”
--[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/08/a-life-of-disagreement/641018/ A Life of Disagreement] television programs , half-hour conversation by BERTRAND RUSSELL with Romney Wheeler, filmed in London by the National Broadcasting Company and shown over the NBC network and BBC-TV on the occasion of Earl Russell’s eightieth birthday (1952).

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

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==Sabien, Duncan==
*"If you've spent your entire life being told you were wrong and being proven right (b/c you were smarter than the people around you), then when you run into another genius who tells you that you're wrong, you have a LOT of memetic antibodies that will make it easier-than-it-should-be to write them off or dismiss them."

==Sailer, Steve==
*"Steve Sailer ... losing the war of public opinion since 1990.

But the crazier the conventional wisdom gets, the more hilarious material I have to write about.

So at least there's that.

Too bad about society, though." ([https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1644853299387199489 Twitter, 2023])

*"When it comes to human behavior, there mostly aren’t systematic differences between what your lying eyes tell you and what The Science says. There’s a continuum between anecdote, anecdata, and data....

:If there’s a strong statistical pattern in the numbers, you should be able to come up with vivid real-life examples of it. And if you can think of several examples suggesting a pattern, you might well be able to find large-scale data for it.

:My main one weird trick for coming up with enough insights to make a living as an unfashionable pundit for 22 years has been to assume that private life facts and public life facts are one and the same. Most pundits assume public controversies, such as BLM, are of a higher realm than daily life, so that what they notice about “safe neighborhoods” and “good schools” when they are making real estate decisions for themselves couldn’t possibly have any relevance to the great issues of the day they discuss in the media." ([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I am told that we shouldn’t mention the truth because either:

:—The facts have no possible policy implications, or

:—The facts have overwhelmingly horrible policy implications, such as the logical necessity of reimposing slavery or instituting genocide.

:The former strikes me as obtuse and the latter as insane and/or evil.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*There’s no need for everybody to continue to pretend ever since the 1978 Bakke decision that exalted “diversity” as the excuse for violating the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection of the laws that affirmative action makes colleges more intellectually stimulating when obviously the opposite has proven true. Quotas have helped make colleges minefields of cancel culture by bringing onto campus insecure and resentful masses of racially preferred students out to punish anyone who alludes to the race gaps that are American society’s central fact. Instead, underqualified preference beneficiaries should be told to be thankful for their privilege.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I quoted this letter at length because it seems like such a vivid example of the mindset of the current day: reality is determined by words, that honest words threaten the marginalized with violence, and asking the marginalized to improve their behavior is unthinkable." ([https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyc-health-czar-takes-strong-action-against-monkeypox-demands-who-change-the-name-of-monkeypox-to-an-incomprehensible-string-of-characters/Column on renaming monkeypox], 2022)

*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*"How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

:The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

:Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general." [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*"The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world."

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Salisbury, Lord==
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury

*"Within certain limits of intelligence, honesty and knowledge of the law, one man would make as good a judge as another and a Tory mentality is ipso facto more trustworthy than a Liberal one."

*First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.
'Democracy on its Trial', Quarterly Review, vol. 110 (July & October 1861), p. 281

*The conflict between Socialism and existing civilisation must be a death-struggle. If the combat is once commenced, one or other of the combatants must perish. It is idle to plead that the schemes of these men are their religion. There are religions so hostile to morality, so poisonous to the life-springs of society, that they are outside the pale of human tolerance.
'The Commune and the Internationale', Quarterly Review, vol. 131 (July & October 1871), p. 562

*It was a part of a budget which even three months had proved to be a mass of miscalculation; it was the pet scheme of a cosmopolitan school who love England little, and whom England loves less, whose sympathies are half-American and half-French; and it was the first application of a theory of combined taxation and reform, according to which the poor were exclusively to fix the revenue which the rich were exclusively to pay.
‘The Conservative Reaction’, Quarterly Review, vol. 108 (July & October 1860), p. 276

*"Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed...The classes that represent civilisation, the holders of accumulated capital and accumulated thought have a right to require securities to protect them from being overwhelmed by hordes who have neither knowledge to guide them nor stake in the Commonwealth to control them."
'English Politics and Parties', Bentley's Quarterly Review, vol. I (March & July 1859), pp. 28-29

* In men of genius, as a rule, the imagination or the
passions are too strongly developed to suffer them
to reach the highest standard of practical states-
, manship. They follow some poetical ideal, they
are under the spell of some fascinating chapter of
past history, they are the slaves of some talismanic
phrase which their generation has taken up, or
they have made to themselves a system to which
all men and all circumstances must be bent. Something there almost always is that beguiles
them away from the plain, prosaic, business-like
view ofthe concerns of this prosaic world. Consequently the mass of mankind, who have a dull but
surefooted instinct of their own interest, feel an
uncomfortable misgiving when they see a genius at
the head oftheir affairs. They are aware that firstrate brilliancy cannot be had without something of
distortion ; but it is no consolation to them that the
illusions which are luring him on to ruin lend in
the mean time an exquisite charm to the eloquence
by which he induces them to accompany him on
the road. On the other hand, the clever world is
very intolerant of plain, practical statesmen. It
maintains, sometimes with very good reason, that
where the imagination is stunted, it is merely
because the whole mind is stunted too ; and that
the claim to practical common sense is often only
a euphemism for a narrow intelligence straitened
by an abject regard for precedents and for routine.
As a rule, both sides are right in the suspicions
they entertain. It is rare to meet with a fervid
imagination which is drilled to reserve its flights
for efforts of oratory, and to give place entirely to
more sober faculties in council. It is still rarer to
see an absolutely unimaginative mind possessed of
the energy and of the breadth of view indispensable
in the statesman of a troubled period. Both kinds
of excellence produce great and successful rulers,
where they occur ; and both are apt to meet, in
those around them, with incredulity that such combinations of opposite qualities can exist.

'Lord Castlereagh', Quarterly Review, vol. 111 (January & April 1862), p. 204 https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QafmXADIh0jnPZqj11iTfMIuIdFT-DZWwP1q0zQiA4yBrYcBXaRXhl4wAaaOcH-1ovmPhezfBeCx0TdkJoRN9AA_GFoAY4s2keT-CwZl1Ac4Hi372YcAOvsu39xIf9x-9EnByraZe58fXqGcaJXEPxzQgDRgCT4Tmx6dycMZDk2BYr8nEVHvroFVV0BBgbmci9-5NQXLe-_TADxWoaHFbQLTkZ_S6X7gooGS2WS2hjnVU9k8TJvQcgrZPgRvcxDa635thiwS18ib2JkrJsBzJpxawXgcLHhLf7Y6EZsBbphBqpbBMgw

==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Scalia, son==
[https://twitter.com/StuffForSisters/status/1581430850159542272 At Scalia's Funeral:]
"We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us—known only by reputation to even more. A man loved by many—scorned by others. A man known for great controversy & for great compassion. That man, of course, is Jesus of Nazareth."

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shakespeare, William==
*"Ten masts deep make not the altitude from which though has perpendicularly fell." King Lear, Edgar to Gloucester.

===Insults===
From Cultural Tutor on Twitter:
1) "Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon."
~Timon of Athens

2) "You, minion, are too saucy."
~The Two Gentleman of Verona

3) "Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat."
~Henry V

4) "The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril."
~The Merry Wives of Windsor

5) "Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows."
~Troilus and Cressida

10) "I’ll beat thee, but I would infect my hands."
~Timon of Athens

11) "More of your conversation would infect my brain."
~Coriolanus

12) "There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune."
~Henry IV, Part 1

14) "Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

18) "This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

23) "Some report a sea-maid spawn’d him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice."
~Measure for Measure

25) "Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood."
~King Lear

31) "Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant."
~The Taming of the Shrew

46) "A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition."
~King Lear

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
"Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king."
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==SMITH, ADAM==
*"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” (no source)

==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
*“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
*"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

*"The best obituary a man can have is that the people who knew him loved him, even if those who didn't know him hated him," ''Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays''

*“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice'.” The Quest for Cosmic Justice

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
*“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” In english: "To understand all is to forgive all." 
[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

*“Madame,” the general informed the lady in question, “I do not want women mixed up in politics.” “You are perfectly right,” came the reply, “but in a country where their heads are cut off, it is only natural for them to want to know why.” (Exchange between Napoleon Bonaparte and Madame de Staël, J. Christopher Herold’s ''The Mind of Napoleon''.)

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==st exuery==
Drawing on French aristocrat Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, philosopher Byung Chul Han noted that, while houses are homes in space, rituals are homes in time. Rituals are an assertion of continuity — you act as your ancestors acted before you. They shift the family from the moment into ‘eternal time’. https://www.theculturist.io/p/why-did-wealth-stop-building-beautiful?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2242126&post_id=179128916&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

==Sutton, Willy==
When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is."

== ==

==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==TACITUS==
*Omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset." 
“All would have agreed that he was capable of being emperor, if only he had never been it.” 
So wrote Tacitus of Galba.

==Taft, William==
*"The opportunity freely and publicly to criticize judicial action is of vastly more iportance to the body politic than the immunity of courts and judges from unjust aspersions and attack. Nothing tends more to render judges careful in their decisions and anxiously solicitous to do exact justice than the consciousness that every act of theirs is to be subjected to the intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their fellow-men. Such criticism is beneficial in proportion as it is fair, dispassionate, discriminating, and based on a knowledge of sound legal principles. The comments made by learned text writers and by the acute editors of the various law reviews upon judicial decisions are therefore highly useful. Such critics constitute more or less impartial tribunals of professional opinion before which each judgment is made to stand or fall on its merits, and thus exert a strong influence to secure uniformity of decision. But non-professional criticism also is by no means without its uses, even if accompanied, as it often is, by a direct attack upon the judicial fairness and motives of the occupants of the bench; for if the law is but the essence of common sense, the protest of many average men may evidence a defect in a judicial conclusion, though based on the nicest legal reasoning and profoundest learning. The two important elements of moral character in a judge are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it. In so far as fear of public comment does not affect the courage of a judge, but only spurs him on to search his conscience and to reach the result which approves itself to his inmost heart such comment serves a useful purpose. There are few men, whether they are judges for life or for a shorter term, who do not prefer to earn and hold the respect of all, and who can not be reached and made to pause and deliberate by hostile public criticism. In the case of judges having a life tenure, indeed their very independence makes the right freely to comment on their decisions of greater importance, because it is the only practical and available instrument in the hands of a free people to keep such judges alive to the reasonable demands of those they serve." (1895) As [http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/state-of-the-union-1906.php cited by Pres. Roosevelt] in 1906.

==Tate, Jeremy==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted at 9:15 AM on Sun, Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

==Taylor, Charles==
*As reported [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/04/westafrica.qanda by The Guardian]: "He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him." Running successfully for President of Liberia.

==Teller, Edward==
*"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
*Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

* His election rerunning announcement speech:
Michael Tracey@mtracey·14hSorry to break it to you, but Trump was spot-on with this one: “They say the ocean will rise 1/8 of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years, but don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries with one shot. Something is wrong with their thinking.”

:This is an example of how he exaggerates in the hope that someone will correct him and make his point for him (1/8 inch corrected to 2 inches, still tiny).

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*"Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain, message to Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 1901.

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

*"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

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== ==
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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 

Often quoted in W. H. Auden's translation,‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’, but the French is so easy, an Anglophone might as well use the original phrase. See also "Le code n'est jamais fini, seulement termine." 

Valery didn't actually say this, though it is what is commonly quoted in France. Pierre Vinclair tells us about that in [https://poezibao.typepad.com/files/ashbery-9.pdf «Portrait d’une énigme dans un miroir convexe», "9. et fin. Clack"], [https://www.poesibao.fr/ ''Poezibao'']
[https://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2020/11/feuilleton-critique-portrait-dune-%C3%A9nigme-dans-un-miroir-convexe-9-et-fin-clack-par-pierre-vinclair.html archive] (2020):

"Et l’on connaît la célèbre formule de Valéry : « un poème n’est jamais fini, seulement abandonné ». Dicton apocryphe, qui trouve sans doute son origine dans cette page de «Littérature»:

::Une œuvre dont l’achèvement — le jugement qui la déclare achevée, est uniquement subordonné à la condition qu’elle nous plaise — n’est jamais achevée. […]
:: Un poème n’est jamais achevé — c’est toujours un accident qui le termine, c’est-àdire qui le donne au public.
::Ce sont la lassitude, la demande de l’éditeur, — la poussée d’un autre poème.
::Mais jamais l’état même de l’ouvrage (si l’auteur n’est pas un sot) ne montre qu’il ne pourrait être poussé, changé, considéré comme première approximation, ou origine d’une recherche nouvelle.
::Je conçois, quant à moi, que le même sujet et presque les mêmes mots pourraient être repris indéfiniment et occuper toute une vie.
::« Perfection »
::c’est travail. 

Notre premier bumper soit donc Paul Valéry, selon qui l’œuvre ne s’achève jamais
(car la perfection qu’elle cherche est asymptotique) : seul un accident extérieur peut
l’interrompre. Or, des trois causes qu’il nomme — lassitude, demande de l’éditeur,
poussée d’un autre poème — aucune ne ressemble au tarissement dont parle
Ashbery. C’est sans doute que, pour celui-ci, le poème n’est pas l’objet d’un travail
infini visant la perfection, la confection maniaque d’une œuvre aussi proche que
possible de l’idéal."

Paul Valéry, «Littérature» in Tel Quel, Gallimard, 1941, p. 154. "

==Vaughan, Sarah==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html Easy Street]

==Von Neumann, John==
*“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You get used to them.”

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== ==

==Wang, John==
@johnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Watson, Thomas==
* After talking about the Prodigal Son: “Before a man can come to Christ he must first come to himself. . . . A man must first recognize and consider what his sin is, and know the plague of his heart, before he can be duly humbled for it.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

*“Affliction is but corrective; sin is destructive” ''The Doctrine of Repentance.'' (1668).

*“Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

==Watt, Peter==
*"Judy Holliday said. "Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''. In Hunter Biden's case it seems that nothing he does will ever be printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

==Wilde, Oscar==
*"Algernon: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” 
:Jack: “Is that clever?” 
:Algernon: “It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be.” " 
::(from ''The Importance of Being Earnest'')

===[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phrases_and_Philosophies_for_the_Use_of_the_Young "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young"], ''Chameleon'' magazine, (1894)===

*Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.

*A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

*If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

*It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

*Only the shallow know themselves.

*One should always be a little improbable.

*The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

*One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

*The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

==Will, George==
"The ancients had asked, What is the highest attainment of which mankind is capable and how can we pursue this? Hobbes and subsequent moderns asked, What is the worst that can happen and how can we avoid it?" (TCS, p 19)

==Williams, Robin==
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”

==Wolfe, Humbert==
[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-british-journalist-by-humbert-wolfe-f9r6pb9hb07 The London Times]:

. 
You cannot ever bribe or twist 
The freeborn British journalist 
Seeing what, unbribed, he’ll do 
You realize there’s no reason to

==Warhol, Andrew==
*“The President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”

— Andy Warhol, 1975,

== ==
==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zeto, Salena==
*<> [https://www.thefp.com/p/my-decade-with-donald-trump-salena-zito?utm_campaign=email-post&r=fjeib&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "My Decade with Donald Trump,"] Salena Zito, ''The Free Press'' (2025), linking to her article, [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-makes-his-case-in-pittsburgh/501335/ "Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally",] ''The Atlantic'' (2016).

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

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Music

2026-02-25T21:58:58Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* WAGNER */

==Introduction==
*[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good musicwriting freeware

*[https://www.lifewire.com/free-classical-music-downloads-1358036 Top Five Free Classical Music] download sites.

*[https://www.stringquest.com/all-open-strings-violin-viola-cello-bass/ Viola open notes in alto clef], and cello and violin too.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGeBem72R3Y Clock diagram] you-tube that shows how you can arrange the notes in a circle and then different scales's choice of notes show patterns around the circle.

==[[Sheet music]]==

==[[Obscure Composers Article]]==
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==Music Criticism==
*[https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1283/the-art-of-the-musical-stephen-sondheim "Stephen Sondheim, The Art of the Musical,"]
Interviewed by James Lipton The Paris Review (1997). Excerpted in https://www.unz.com/isteve/into-the-woods/.

===Send in the Clowns, and Sondheim generally===
*[https://www.steynonline.com/11936/send-in-the-clowns#.YadcBPGuLPs.twitter Mark Steyn's article] (2021).

*[https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1283/the-art-of-the-musical-stephen-sondheim "Stephen Sondheim, The Art of the Musical,"] Interviewed by James Lipton The Paris Review (1997). Excerpted in https://www.unz.com/isteve/into-the-woods/.

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==Songs==
See [[Songs]].
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==Allegri==
*[https://youtu.be/H3v9unphfi0 Allegri's Miserere Mei]. See [https://richardvigilantebooks.com/what-song-did-mozart-steal-from-the-vatican/ Richardvigilantebooks.com/] : "Writing down ‘Miserere’ by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri, was punishable by excommunication, but 14 year old Mozart committed it to memory…". [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6hD8YtO5HI The Story of Allegri's Miserere].

==Alpert, Herb (Tijuana Brass)==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jouzf79QNuA Fandango]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3p8ll5JQ0c The Beat of the Brass] (30min)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYJtU6WV_J4&list=PLlYFBQULBYC48gjtG7rCCCmDEygF8YDoH The Lonely Bull, etc.], 2 hours.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI5aDT3WPgE Tribute] to Herb Alpert (50 minutes).

== ==
==Bach, Johann Sebastian==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zveKEk3A5fo The Musical Offering] as orchestrated by Webern. 9 minutes.

== BEATLES==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=0pGOFX1D_jg Love Me Do. ] Audio only.

== BEETHOVEN==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbBmH9mj2R0 Complete quartets] by the Hungarian Quartet (lots of ads, YouTube) and
Quartets [http://youtube.com./watch?v=77xBZf0XcBY 1] and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=TPk0Gv3LBpA 2] and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=Jbi09i3iPoo 5](with members all telling us about it, as classical performers always should do), opus[http://youtube.com./watch?v=QQWVlCZyrWY 59-1 ] , opus [http://youtube.com./watch?v=VcVOOv0pl9g 59-2](starts with two chords), opus [http://youtube.com/watch?v=S4cOshcxRFE 59-3](starts with lots of chords), [http://youtube.com/watch?v=JVVdMzv02s8 Quartet 12] and [http://youtube.com/watch?v=a7wk0M125JM 14 ] opus 131, and [http://youtube.com/watch?v=gumi5pEpOaA 15](Lydian mode, slow start) and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=MVOQu481uZQ 16 ] .

* Symphonies [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CplmVMyPH80 One with Bernstein] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLHqr2e5TA Two] (Oslo, 35 minutes) and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=W5NsPOgyALI Seven with Karajan ]

*The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NOF_ueaxJ4 Kreutzer Sonata].

* The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4muQttjFxE Ghost Trio] (with score)

*[https://vimeo.com/69119967?turnstile=0.mm5QyK7FxXTCUI12h4CFbjp7Im0hI-gpSMpC3kagCCpjNoWnMdIAI0oEMI2uDzEh0Fd-WpME2fDtutXNsU3-2RN8jBBTO4mwSyP-tX4Yf9lx3MgQz_J9nkZO6MJpSHcIH5cjU4Kw4qvUuRw1eKbM_SAPBcwm3rKU9vN6cNtNQRc3UBy62vcWyGSHhkaPSfSsFD4CpLf9Xm2w1XAQTocAyhMtDD0VLKnPIDwKy3d0nB6Orrpnj2mI-prMtuJGJ1qA0AKO0tXd05go-3uRxuPGLxBK4LeC5dR_uIWGVPoLK83KHDbh43zTuAwr8rLAEmvnfR5CcKeU_xDfcMSar2JFXHsghZNteKdEL09iE6AICSaMf8NXQbhNMZMhrNDJk8a6h79slYxR6t_4wA8Li_4UlP5uZhcmWMp0om5KZAvHSiUaeifogeVY0CbNI_vu6MtaCTs2X7MDvkDHBDx8OZkFaHOdTPjmcpqvjlvqmFmjFjG-CYnpSjH7l270FvDYqIous3-sd4-aAWDNa-BeZcpsXRikNF1ANUdG_UIFJsSoaDLFRIcGfkqAzeb1DGjCp5e47GuFiBFPA23N9cRuqe4nFHdEbimm8cCJufsWSwFZAHfJyqQRIbNgWmpSdUPjCixB5rAlABuLiyhIoZ1rlw_dPCqocZ1OPcDygyJAitA65NYOyawnTOvJG2P5QIyQfTer4_grTSi7379-ShUWlssM64vpI_UrhEw2LiqUg-MOvws4JFuMcuSZ5Xy4BNwja6zKh2P5Ym7kfl67k5IXXYk6QYbswLKN4Kj5vR9TnYh_9sEdotnSUsrQJngKv4hgTyCJ8eVBetRAFw8ZZVA8FRc9opBw_kGmI7f2hecooC7L_jx3nbEWyYibGXFewkCBi1W-x4q-CE5kCVKyI1w9NsUci97X-jg-6mE4UgW_EoVAfco.YHXYJEMa2mtObRZLq_RxWg.398abd4969793f2d7307eb3637bbc62ac18b7fc0183d141d1f7bf2f4c12afeb3 Waldstein Sonata] (op. 53) on Vimeo.

== BOCCHERINI==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=zZbcIVTuHKQ Complete Cello Concertos ]

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ4tqM7n-4A String Quartet in G major]

==BURGMULLER, Norbert==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoMo5C9QWzU Symphony No.1] in C-minor, Op.2 (1833)

== ==

==CBU Choir==
*[https://youtu.be/3y98T2lXZm4 King of Kings], small college group done very well.

==CHERUBINI, Lewis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ByKnapicRw String Quartet 1]

==Christmas Music==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UznpnMXVQOQ Tennessee Ernie Ford]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjywAed4ywg Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat Cole, etc. album] (56 minutes, You-Tube)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjywAed4ywg Andy Williams]

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==COATES, ERIC==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f5XBD0SOow The Three Elizabeths Suite]

== PETER CORNELIUS==
1859. ''Ein Ton'' (One Tone) in [http://youtube.com/watch?v=9ALqXaervew German] and [http://youtu.be/WEtctSobrqY English ]. Sheet music (free) [http://wnload-sheet-music.php?pdf=2372# here.]
(Thanks, Professor David Hirshleifer, for telling me of this.) The English is much better--- extraordinary and moving. I can't remember ever hearing such a striking improvement on the standard rendition of a piece of classical music. And it's surprising to find the English better than the original which is, to be frank, boring and mediocre when a soprano sings it as an art song. I wonder what Germans would think?
There is [hundredyearslate.wordpress.com/?s=nelligan a webpage]at HundredYearsLate on this song.

David Nelligan did that English recording in 2013. I am very frustrated. He is a musical genius and a marketing cretin. His name is not listed at the you-tube site, though if you read quickly you can see it in small font on the video as the music plays. I couldn't find him on Google to find out about him and what other good work he may have done. He's made himself close to a "mute inglorious Milton". I hate it when people do that, often from a modesty which is admirable in some ways but really selfish because it means the rest of us don't get to benefit from their talent. The HundredYearsLate site, which has just a few entries, from around 2014, is his, but his name isn't in the About section or on the Ein Ton webpage I link to--- you have to really search the site to find him mention his name somewhere.

I'll write to him, and see if he likes my idea for another rendition. I'd like to hear it in his style--- with the piano loud and not pretty, and a drone in the background, and processed voice--- but in German. The words are good, but they are about anguish over a lost love, so having a pretty, highly controlled, soprano voice just kills the song. Nelligan gets it. You need a bit of honky tonk feel, real pain, just barely under control, for both piano and voice. The voice only has one note, but it needs lots of emotion, the impression that the singer might collapse before it's done and doesn't care if he sounds good or not.

I was just listening to Lotte Lehmann singing "Ein Ton" and found myself whistling it afterwards. 
Whistling that song is kind of stupid. 
But I could hear the piano in my mind.

==Country Songs==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV9mPfHoUak Give Me Forthy Acres and I'll Turn THis Rig Around", ] Willis Bros.

*[https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/13416902/She+Thinks+My+Tractor%27s+Sexy She Think's My Tractor's Sexy], lyrics (Kenny Chesney) ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Thinks_My_Tractor%27s_Sexy 1999])

*Brother Jukebox, Sister Wine," Mark Chestnutt.

* Nine to Five," Dolly Parton.

* Hey, Good Lookin, Whatcha Got Cookin?" Hank Williams.

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==DELIBES==
Barbier did not write the words for the Flower Duet in Delibes's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakm%C3%A9 Lakme ] . The Flower Duet is as good music as Offenbach's ''Barcarolle'', but the words are nondescript.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMO0KFL3E58 the Bell Song] from Lakhme, sung by Sabine Somthing.

==Dies Irae==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RKJur8wpfYM Dies Irae] of Mozart's requiem, and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6OsBQzoAQ Metal Version] which is good.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6cogix3cwQ Verdi]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETocdXjv1HU Britten]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs4a-p-Hewk Cherubini]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApdYpaPamMs Ligeti], which is junk not worth listening to.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z79vOYnb3DA Caldara] (1720)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGennvJpj8w "Introduction Music History - Music Through Time Dies Irae"] by Keirsten Bible, 34 minutes.

==DVORAK==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=llB7NaWLUc4 Jacqueline du Pré ] , Dvořák Cello Concerto.

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==ELGAR==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=vLNLvcBmoqo Enigma Variations. ]

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==Fandangos==
Soler's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMvgGUGn1-E Fandango in D], like [https://youtu.be/IgEaS_d6qUE Boccherini has], but for harpsichord. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itS_9f5MMsA Scarlatti has a harpsichord fandango] too. The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCwEyIBM4Q Andalusian folk dance] is interesting.

==ELLA FITZGERALD==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=T1FV5s4JHi8 Various. ]

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==FODOR, Karl==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0h1mlpJ3Zc Symphony 3]

==Franck, Richard (1858-1938) ==
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNJ_lkPhANU Piano Quartet in A major, Op. 33], but just the allegro movement is good, I think.

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==Handel, George==
*[https://vimeo.com/540431339 Messiah] oratorio, Hillsdale choir, 2 hours, on Vimeo.

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==Hasse, Johann Adolf==
*[https://youtu.be/zF5p12F5ymY Artaserse Sinfonia (1760).]

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==Haydn, Franz==
* Symphonies [https://vimeo.com/2446771 44](20+ minutes), and [https://vimeo.com/367278393 96] (22 minutes) Vimeo,a nd [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ug2Og6j4ag&list=PL9R7PKq6lPML0lCdyQD_rp9MTlrdYLJTW All Symphonies]

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be2bunwqilM Harmoniemesse] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwB_enC55EQ&list=PL-FaA4k7UdNa1-bptTm3ZoirORvBeuRdC&index=6 St. Cecilia Mass] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EPI70sRk5s Mass in Time of War]

*Quartets: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh-tMac2Y_g opus 77 and 103].

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==Hoffman, Joseph==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRbzddoDVk4 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C Op.2 N.3 (1/4) ], Joseph Hoffman playing (1929).

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ZIuRJHeE0 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28, Op. 101 (Roll - 1915) ], Joseph Hoffman playing.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFwg-o8sgxE Schubert's Erlkonig,] piano, Joseph Hoffman playing.

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==Janucek==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO2UUxO3RfE Glagolitic Mass.]

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==Lehar, Francis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djc7QQeyT9c Land of Smiles video] from 1961 and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ultt6LbI51Q 1930], with the original Fritz Tauber but a bad Mi, and [https://imslp.hk/files/imglnks/euimg/b/b6/IMSLP381718-PMLP364005-Leh%C3%A1r_Das_Land_des_L%C3%A4chelns.pdf The Land of Smiles] score, in German and [https://rasmusen.org/special/Lehar_Land_of_Smiles.pdf lyrics in English] (Jerry H. translation).

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkPsr5SPN3Y Eva] (1911).

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==Mahler, Gustav==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICDXYu1JOnY You-tbue Mahler 1st Symphony] and a very good [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LtPTo8YOXw 2nd (Resurrection) Symphony] with no ads.

== MAYER, LAUREN==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSnAgRZMumQ Time Change], a liberal com ic song after The Time Warp from Rocky Horror (2022).

==Mendelsoh, Felix==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KioVcstEF9E Trio 1], with score, Beaux Arts Trio.

==MOLTER==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=oKMC8HvjVus Complete cantatas. ] After reading about Jack's "molter vivace" joke in ''The Far Side of the World.'' Molter really is good!

==MORINI, GUIDO==
*[https://www.tafelmusik.org/breaking-baroque/get-know-italian-composer-guido-morini "Get to know Italian composer, Guido Morini"] (2019)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMupfY8InTw Passacaglia - Improvisationskonzert ] (11 minutes)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdp1VvZQbD8 Canzona alla Montemaranese - Storie di Napoli] (4 minutes)

==Mozart==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEO3MduIiV4 Early string quartets], no ads.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1m_YoGbDt4&t=6034s Mozart violin concertos,] 2 hours' worth with Oistrakh.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvRhkZLM__E Various piano concertos,] no ads.

*[https://youtu.be/H3v9unphfi0 Allegri's Miserere Mei]. See [https://richardvigilantebooks.com/what-song-did-mozart-steal-from-the-vatican/ Richardvigilantebooks.com/] : "Writing down ‘Miserere’ by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri, was punishable by excommunication, but 14 year old Mozart committed it to memory…"

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOdgE461MfY Various symphonies 25-40] (You-tube)

*[https://vimeo.com/240369823 Requiem], from Vimeo (Bergen Philharmonic) or just the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RKJur8wpfYM Dies Irae]

*The Queen of the Night's aria from The Magic Flute, by [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R5HM9xlrGKg Sabine Devieilhe], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNYws1PNCH8 Who Sang The "Queen Of The Night" Staccatos The Best?], where Miklosa and Kim get my votes, I guess.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioc9shJa_lI Just the statue scene] from ''Don Giovanni '' and the entire opera, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPYjqz7nToY "Don Giovanni."]
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==Nelson, David(Moe)==
[https://www.facebook.com/TheGrandsons/videos/441077030370746 Lundi Gras New Orleans style jazz]. Moe is the bass player.
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==OFFENBACH==
I didn't remember that [http://youtube.com/watch?v=0u0M4CMq7uI the Barcarolle in Tales of Hoffmann] was a duet. Why does it bring tears to my eyes? I can't even make out the words. I did look up [http://lyricstranslate.com/en/jacques-offenbach-barcarolle-lyrics.html the words ] just now:
<blockquote style="color: gray">
Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour Souris à nos ivresses Nuit plus douce que le jour Ô,belle nuit d’amour! Le temps fuit et sans retour Emporte nos tendresses Loin de cet heureux séjour Le temps fuit sans retour Zéphyrs embrasés Versez-nous vos caresses Zéphyrs embrasés Donnez-nous vos baisers! Vos baisers! Vos baisers! Ah! Belle nuit, ô, nuit d’amour Souris à nos ivresses Nuit plus douce que le jour, Ô, belle nuit d’amour! Ah! souris à nos ivresses! Nuit d’amour, ô, nuit d’amour!
</blockquote>

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqR6Ai5ObPw The wind-up doll song] with Sabine Delxxxx.

They really are quite good. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Barbier Jules Barbier.] Maybe it got through my subconscious, since I can understand the French in text if not in song.<html>
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Barbier%2C_Jules%2C_Nadar%2C_Gallica.jpg/330px-Barbier%2C_Jules%2C_Nadar%2C_Gallica.jpg" alt="" /></html>

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==OLIVER, Joseph "King"==
Louis Armstrong was his protege.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2wM-d-2QOI King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Canal Street Blues]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBAF1iGsGw0 King Oliver's Jazz Band (Okeh, October, 1923 Session)]

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==Paganini, Nicholas==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSBHsrPzf_s Complete guitar works] (3 hours) Audio only, ''You-Tube.''

==Paine, John==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7cOqrolsy4 Mass in D-minor], Op.10 (1866). Much like Haydn.

==PRESLEY, Elvis==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=-eHJ12Vhpyc You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog.] Audio only.

==Psy==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 Gangnam Style] and [https://www.businessinsider.com/gangnam-style-translation-2012-9 a translation]

I’m a guy
A guy who seems calm but plays when he plays
A guy who goes completely crazy when the right time comes
A guy who has bulging ideas rather than muscles
That kind of guy

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==Rameau==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NybTtlHiFbk Overture to Zais], a weird and wonderful piece of music.

==Ries, Ferdinand==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J36CNOYFJCE Cello sonatas]

==Rossini==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CgYLpt9lHA Edward and Christina overture]

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==SCARLATTI==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itS_9f5MMsA Scarlatti has a harpsichord fandango].

==SCHUBERT==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zBUXhZx4w Trio 1,] opus 100, Beaux Art Trio.

*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=J_nKAXM9CY8 Trout quintet, Wigmore Hall. ]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFwg-o8sgxE Schubert's Erlkonig, piano, Joseph Hoffman]

*[https://kennethwoods.net/blog1/2007/11/06/podcast-rcco-death-and-the-maiden/ Death and the Maiden blogpost] and [https://kennethwoods.net/blog1/product/visions-of-childhood-four-last-songs-eso-april-fredrick-nimbus/ album with a very good recording].

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDGcyKhPV0M COmplete Schubert string quartets]

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==SCHUMANN==
Symphony [https://youtube.com./watch?v=xmXWs-nPSjc 1] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAnB45ZGIts 2] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl3RAqmN3Oo 4] (Karajan, 31 minutes) and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUes-2BON2s Norrington talk on Number 4 ] (10 minutes)

==SHOSTAKOVICH==
*Piano pieces in classical style, Preludes and Fugues, Op 8, [https://youtu.be/ZyURjdnYQaU first 12] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7JgJGZeyg no. 24].

*Movie music. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_CdYmAbVs "The Return of Maxim"] (Film Score), Op. 45. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d0h4T3lcQE "Stupid Little Mouse"], Op. 56 (not so good).

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtOFwI1dkXo 8 Waltzes from Film Music Suite for Symphony Orchestra T. Sanderling] 
0:01 Waltz from "Maxim's Return" (op.45) 
3:19 Waltz from "Golden Mountains" (op.30) 
8:39 Waltz from "Michurin" (op.78) 
10:50 Waltz from "Pirogov" (op.76) 
16:07 Waltz from "The Gadfly" (op.97) 
18:32 Waltz from "The First Echelon" (op.99) (Second Waltz) 
21:45 Waltz from "Unity" (op. 95) 
25:27 Waltz from "The Human Comedy" (op.37)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qJdaHon2os "The Golden Age"] (Op. 22a, 1935).

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFg8lbHcEqs "Golden Mountains"] (op.30)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK1IgQnLTic "Hamlet, music for the film Op. 116 (1964)]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKKMXG3ulE "New Babylon"]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjExRLfU7x8 "King Lear,"] music for the film Op. 137 (1970)

==Soler, Lewis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q13W_HcLkNM Fandango in D], like [https://youtu.be/IgEaS_d6qUE Boccherini has for guitar], but for harpsichord.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQbW75y3P9g Scarlatti has one] too. The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCwEyIBM4Q Andalusian folk dance] is interesting.

==SOUSA==
[http://youtube.com./watch?v=cxleNf2mjfg&list=PLA7no0L9zTk5QnKpwAcWV4jjhkCMsLuEt Complete marches.]STRAUSS. [http://youtube.com/watch?v=KY2Mw0LMz-E Die Fliedermaus ] , German.

==Stalin songs==
*[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:The_Ballad_of_Stalin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "The Ballad of Stalin"]
One day he looked upon his map and frowned and shook his head,
"There's too much brown and not enough green," these are the words he said;
"We'll have to change the weather, boys," he said and then he smiled,
"So let's begin by planting trees along three thousand miles."

==Steffan, Joseph==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8j9XNINAKA A piece]

==Steibelt==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfUdF547kh4 One piece] and
[http://www.annapetrova.com/en/daniel-steibelt-1765-1823-piano-works-cd/ piano works.]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTQ-P-G96Lo Harp Concerto]

This cd of Steibelt's concertos and like it a lot: https://www.amazon.com/Steibelt-Classical-Piano-Concertos-Vol/dp/B016VKBJYS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=steibelt&qid=1631494850&s=music&sr=1-1

==John STRAUSS==
[https://duckduckgo.com/?q=you+tube+die+fliedermaus&pn=1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DB_bOebWQoRc Die Fleidermaus], with English subtitles.

==Richard STRAUSS==
Does [http://youtube.com/watch?v=o9qVSXUU7Hw the timpani player]in Also Sprach really look like me as a young man?

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==Tausig==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yLi7gr5yqw "Josef Hofmann plays Scarlatti - Tausig, Pastorale e capriccio (1923)"]

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== Vinci==
*[https://youtu.be/OCTiqj2lrTs Four-minute aria in the Artaserces] opera, and the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F8g8lVbjs4 hour-long first act.] Is it right to watch a castrato part, even if nowadays not played by a castrato? Yes, I think, though it would not if it were a real castrato, because it would be to encourage mutilation. This recording has countertenor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Jaroussky Philippe Jaroussky]
<html> <img src= "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Philippe_Jaroussky_-_Misteria_Paschalia_2011_%281%29.JPG/440px-Philippe_Jaroussky_-_Misteria_Paschalia_2011_%281%29.JPG" height= 120 align= left> </html>

==Vivaldi, Anthony==
*[https://vimeo.com/110472348 the Four Seasons] (Vimeo, 58 minutes).

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==WAGNER==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI3CS0xficoFLying Dutchman ] with score....... [https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=wagner+lohengrin&&view=detail&mid=08F3457961D035EAC58208F3457961D035EAC582&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dwagner%2Blohengrin%26FORM%3DHDRSC3 Lohengrin], Kemp (3hrs 38min)......[http://youtube.com./watch?v=dfuksVNEqAA Rienzi.] Audio only......[http://youtube.com./watch?v=9d-3nqzKTKU Rheingold,] China; ..... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufTndujS5Bs Gotterdammerung, no ads?]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNTmpISEBWA "The Ring without Words"], 2 hours or so.

* [https://completerichardwagner.blogspot.com/2015/09/hitler-und-wagner.html "Hitler and Wagner,"] Peter Crawford, blog (2014). {{Quotation| In 1923, Winifred met Adolf Hitler who, as we know, greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Winifred sent him food parcels and stationery on which Hitler's autobiography 'Mein Kampf' was written. In the late 1930s, she served as Hitler's personal translator during treaty negotiations with England. Winifred's relationship with Hitler grew so close that by 1933 there were rumors of impending marriage. 'Haus Wahnfried', the Wagner home in Bayreuth, became Hitler's favorite retreat, and he had his own separate accommodation in the grounds of Wahnfried, known as the Führerbau.}}

{{Quotation| The name of the villa Wahnfried, is interesting. Wahnen means endless striving of an artist for the fulfillment of his aspirations and the triumph of his art. So Wahnfried (Wahnen free) was the name chosen and even today we can see Wagner's motto on the front: "Here where my delusions have found peace, let this place be named Wahnfried."... In a shady grove beyond the garden, surrounded with ivy, is the tomb of Richard and Cosima Wagner. The stone is unmarked, because as Wagner insisted, as long as it remained, everyone would know who was buried there. ...}}

{{Quotation| Symphonies - initially - held little interest, and chamber music none at all. There is no record of his ever having attended a chamber concert or a lieder recital. His attendance at symphony concerts was increasingly rare as time passed and, when chancellor, he seldom appeared except on ceremonial occasions.}}

==Webern==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zveKEk3A5fo Johann Sebastian Bach: Musical Offering, No. 2 Ricercar a 6] (arranged by Anton Webern), Paavo Järvi, conductor Berlin Philharmonic

==Wieniawski, Joseph ==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6hgSGqL1c Piano Concerto in G-minor,] Op.20 (1858)
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==ANONYMOUS==
The [http://youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=Va6yxMru9jE&feature=emb_title Le Boudin, ]the [http://foreignlegion.info/songs/le-boudin/ Sausage Song] of the Foreign Legion that insults the Belgians ] . They're not politically correct. A more polished version, probably sung by professionals, and with subtitles is [http://youtube.com/watch?list=RDVa6yxMru9jE&v=FKGLGFQSpXE&feature=emb_rel_end here. ]

Music

2026-02-19T18:38:33Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* Haydn, Franz */

==Introduction==
*[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good musicwriting freeware

*[https://www.lifewire.com/free-classical-music-downloads-1358036 Top Five Free Classical Music] download sites.

*[https://www.stringquest.com/all-open-strings-violin-viola-cello-bass/ Viola open notes in alto clef], and cello and violin too.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGeBem72R3Y Clock diagram] you-tube that shows how you can arrange the notes in a circle and then different scales's choice of notes show patterns around the circle.

==[[Sheet music]]==

==[[Obscure Composers Article]]==
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==Music Criticism==
*[https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1283/the-art-of-the-musical-stephen-sondheim "Stephen Sondheim, The Art of the Musical,"]
Interviewed by James Lipton The Paris Review (1997). Excerpted in https://www.unz.com/isteve/into-the-woods/.

===Send in the Clowns, and Sondheim generally===
*[https://www.steynonline.com/11936/send-in-the-clowns#.YadcBPGuLPs.twitter Mark Steyn's article] (2021).

*[https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1283/the-art-of-the-musical-stephen-sondheim "Stephen Sondheim, The Art of the Musical,"] Interviewed by James Lipton The Paris Review (1997). Excerpted in https://www.unz.com/isteve/into-the-woods/.

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==Songs==
See [[Songs]].
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==Allegri==
*[https://youtu.be/H3v9unphfi0 Allegri's Miserere Mei]. See [https://richardvigilantebooks.com/what-song-did-mozart-steal-from-the-vatican/ Richardvigilantebooks.com/] : "Writing down ‘Miserere’ by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri, was punishable by excommunication, but 14 year old Mozart committed it to memory…". [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6hD8YtO5HI The Story of Allegri's Miserere].

==Alpert, Herb (Tijuana Brass)==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jouzf79QNuA Fandango]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3p8ll5JQ0c The Beat of the Brass] (30min)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYJtU6WV_J4&list=PLlYFBQULBYC48gjtG7rCCCmDEygF8YDoH The Lonely Bull, etc.], 2 hours.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI5aDT3WPgE Tribute] to Herb Alpert (50 minutes).

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==Bach, Johann Sebastian==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zveKEk3A5fo The Musical Offering] as orchestrated by Webern. 9 minutes.

== BEATLES==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=0pGOFX1D_jg Love Me Do. ] Audio only.

== BEETHOVEN==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbBmH9mj2R0 Complete quartets] by the Hungarian Quartet (lots of ads, YouTube) and
Quartets [http://youtube.com./watch?v=77xBZf0XcBY 1] and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=TPk0Gv3LBpA 2] and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=Jbi09i3iPoo 5](with members all telling us about it, as classical performers always should do), opus[http://youtube.com./watch?v=QQWVlCZyrWY 59-1 ] , opus [http://youtube.com./watch?v=VcVOOv0pl9g 59-2](starts with two chords), opus [http://youtube.com/watch?v=S4cOshcxRFE 59-3](starts with lots of chords), [http://youtube.com/watch?v=JVVdMzv02s8 Quartet 12] and [http://youtube.com/watch?v=a7wk0M125JM 14 ] opus 131, and [http://youtube.com/watch?v=gumi5pEpOaA 15](Lydian mode, slow start) and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=MVOQu481uZQ 16 ] .

* Symphonies [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CplmVMyPH80 One with Bernstein] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLHqr2e5TA Two] (Oslo, 35 minutes) and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=W5NsPOgyALI Seven with Karajan ]

*The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NOF_ueaxJ4 Kreutzer Sonata].

* The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4muQttjFxE Ghost Trio] (with score)

*[https://vimeo.com/69119967?turnstile=0.mm5QyK7FxXTCUI12h4CFbjp7Im0hI-gpSMpC3kagCCpjNoWnMdIAI0oEMI2uDzEh0Fd-WpME2fDtutXNsU3-2RN8jBBTO4mwSyP-tX4Yf9lx3MgQz_J9nkZO6MJpSHcIH5cjU4Kw4qvUuRw1eKbM_SAPBcwm3rKU9vN6cNtNQRc3UBy62vcWyGSHhkaPSfSsFD4CpLf9Xm2w1XAQTocAyhMtDD0VLKnPIDwKy3d0nB6Orrpnj2mI-prMtuJGJ1qA0AKO0tXd05go-3uRxuPGLxBK4LeC5dR_uIWGVPoLK83KHDbh43zTuAwr8rLAEmvnfR5CcKeU_xDfcMSar2JFXHsghZNteKdEL09iE6AICSaMf8NXQbhNMZMhrNDJk8a6h79slYxR6t_4wA8Li_4UlP5uZhcmWMp0om5KZAvHSiUaeifogeVY0CbNI_vu6MtaCTs2X7MDvkDHBDx8OZkFaHOdTPjmcpqvjlvqmFmjFjG-CYnpSjH7l270FvDYqIous3-sd4-aAWDNa-BeZcpsXRikNF1ANUdG_UIFJsSoaDLFRIcGfkqAzeb1DGjCp5e47GuFiBFPA23N9cRuqe4nFHdEbimm8cCJufsWSwFZAHfJyqQRIbNgWmpSdUPjCixB5rAlABuLiyhIoZ1rlw_dPCqocZ1OPcDygyJAitA65NYOyawnTOvJG2P5QIyQfTer4_grTSi7379-ShUWlssM64vpI_UrhEw2LiqUg-MOvws4JFuMcuSZ5Xy4BNwja6zKh2P5Ym7kfl67k5IXXYk6QYbswLKN4Kj5vR9TnYh_9sEdotnSUsrQJngKv4hgTyCJ8eVBetRAFw8ZZVA8FRc9opBw_kGmI7f2hecooC7L_jx3nbEWyYibGXFewkCBi1W-x4q-CE5kCVKyI1w9NsUci97X-jg-6mE4UgW_EoVAfco.YHXYJEMa2mtObRZLq_RxWg.398abd4969793f2d7307eb3637bbc62ac18b7fc0183d141d1f7bf2f4c12afeb3 Waldstein Sonata] (op. 53) on Vimeo.

== BOCCHERINI==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=zZbcIVTuHKQ Complete Cello Concertos ]

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ4tqM7n-4A String Quartet in G major]

==BURGMULLER, Norbert==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoMo5C9QWzU Symphony No.1] in C-minor, Op.2 (1833)

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==CBU Choir==
*[https://youtu.be/3y98T2lXZm4 King of Kings], small college group done very well.

==CHERUBINI, Lewis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ByKnapicRw String Quartet 1]

==Christmas Music==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UznpnMXVQOQ Tennessee Ernie Ford]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjywAed4ywg Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat Cole, etc. album] (56 minutes, You-Tube)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjywAed4ywg Andy Williams]

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==COATES, ERIC==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f5XBD0SOow The Three Elizabeths Suite]

== PETER CORNELIUS==
1859. ''Ein Ton'' (One Tone) in [http://youtube.com/watch?v=9ALqXaervew German] and [http://youtu.be/WEtctSobrqY English ]. Sheet music (free) [http://wnload-sheet-music.php?pdf=2372# here.]
(Thanks, Professor David Hirshleifer, for telling me of this.) The English is much better--- extraordinary and moving. I can't remember ever hearing such a striking improvement on the standard rendition of a piece of classical music. And it's surprising to find the English better than the original which is, to be frank, boring and mediocre when a soprano sings it as an art song. I wonder what Germans would think?
There is [hundredyearslate.wordpress.com/?s=nelligan a webpage]at HundredYearsLate on this song.

David Nelligan did that English recording in 2013. I am very frustrated. He is a musical genius and a marketing cretin. His name is not listed at the you-tube site, though if you read quickly you can see it in small font on the video as the music plays. I couldn't find him on Google to find out about him and what other good work he may have done. He's made himself close to a "mute inglorious Milton". I hate it when people do that, often from a modesty which is admirable in some ways but really selfish because it means the rest of us don't get to benefit from their talent. The HundredYearsLate site, which has just a few entries, from around 2014, is his, but his name isn't in the About section or on the Ein Ton webpage I link to--- you have to really search the site to find him mention his name somewhere.

I'll write to him, and see if he likes my idea for another rendition. I'd like to hear it in his style--- with the piano loud and not pretty, and a drone in the background, and processed voice--- but in German. The words are good, but they are about anguish over a lost love, so having a pretty, highly controlled, soprano voice just kills the song. Nelligan gets it. You need a bit of honky tonk feel, real pain, just barely under control, for both piano and voice. The voice only has one note, but it needs lots of emotion, the impression that the singer might collapse before it's done and doesn't care if he sounds good or not.

I was just listening to Lotte Lehmann singing "Ein Ton" and found myself whistling it afterwards. 
Whistling that song is kind of stupid. 
But I could hear the piano in my mind.

==Country Songs==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV9mPfHoUak Give Me Forthy Acres and I'll Turn THis Rig Around", ] Willis Bros.

*[https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/13416902/She+Thinks+My+Tractor%27s+Sexy She Think's My Tractor's Sexy], lyrics (Kenny Chesney) ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Thinks_My_Tractor%27s_Sexy 1999])

*Brother Jukebox, Sister Wine," Mark Chestnutt.

* Nine to Five," Dolly Parton.

* Hey, Good Lookin, Whatcha Got Cookin?" Hank Williams.

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==DELIBES==
Barbier did not write the words for the Flower Duet in Delibes's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakm%C3%A9 Lakme ] . The Flower Duet is as good music as Offenbach's ''Barcarolle'', but the words are nondescript.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMO0KFL3E58 the Bell Song] from Lakhme, sung by Sabine Somthing.

==Dies Irae==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RKJur8wpfYM Dies Irae] of Mozart's requiem, and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6OsBQzoAQ Metal Version] which is good.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6cogix3cwQ Verdi]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETocdXjv1HU Britten]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs4a-p-Hewk Cherubini]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApdYpaPamMs Ligeti], which is junk not worth listening to.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z79vOYnb3DA Caldara] (1720)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGennvJpj8w "Introduction Music History - Music Through Time Dies Irae"] by Keirsten Bible, 34 minutes.

==DVORAK==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=llB7NaWLUc4 Jacqueline du Pré ] , Dvořák Cello Concerto.

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==ELGAR==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=vLNLvcBmoqo Enigma Variations. ]

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==Fandangos==
Soler's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMvgGUGn1-E Fandango in D], like [https://youtu.be/IgEaS_d6qUE Boccherini has], but for harpsichord. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itS_9f5MMsA Scarlatti has a harpsichord fandango] too. The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCwEyIBM4Q Andalusian folk dance] is interesting.

==ELLA FITZGERALD==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=T1FV5s4JHi8 Various. ]

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==FODOR, Karl==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0h1mlpJ3Zc Symphony 3]

==Franck, Richard (1858-1938) ==
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNJ_lkPhANU Piano Quartet in A major, Op. 33], but just the allegro movement is good, I think.

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==Handel, George==
*[https://vimeo.com/540431339 Messiah] oratorio, Hillsdale choir, 2 hours, on Vimeo.

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==Hasse, Johann Adolf==
*[https://youtu.be/zF5p12F5ymY Artaserse Sinfonia (1760).]

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==Haydn, Franz==
* Symphonies [https://vimeo.com/2446771 44](20+ minutes), and [https://vimeo.com/367278393 96] (22 minutes) Vimeo,a nd [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ug2Og6j4ag&list=PL9R7PKq6lPML0lCdyQD_rp9MTlrdYLJTW All Symphonies]

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be2bunwqilM Harmoniemesse] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwB_enC55EQ&list=PL-FaA4k7UdNa1-bptTm3ZoirORvBeuRdC&index=6 St. Cecilia Mass] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EPI70sRk5s Mass in Time of War]

*Quartets: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh-tMac2Y_g opus 77 and 103].

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==Hoffman, Joseph==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRbzddoDVk4 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C Op.2 N.3 (1/4) ], Joseph Hoffman playing (1929).

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ZIuRJHeE0 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28, Op. 101 (Roll - 1915) ], Joseph Hoffman playing.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFwg-o8sgxE Schubert's Erlkonig,] piano, Joseph Hoffman playing.

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==Janucek==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO2UUxO3RfE Glagolitic Mass.]

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==Lehar, Francis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djc7QQeyT9c Land of Smiles video] from 1961 and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ultt6LbI51Q 1930], with the original Fritz Tauber but a bad Mi, and [https://imslp.hk/files/imglnks/euimg/b/b6/IMSLP381718-PMLP364005-Leh%C3%A1r_Das_Land_des_L%C3%A4chelns.pdf The Land of Smiles] score, in German and [https://rasmusen.org/special/Lehar_Land_of_Smiles.pdf lyrics in English] (Jerry H. translation).

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkPsr5SPN3Y Eva] (1911).

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==Mahler, Gustav==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICDXYu1JOnY You-tbue Mahler 1st Symphony] and a very good [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LtPTo8YOXw 2nd (Resurrection) Symphony] with no ads.

== MAYER, LAUREN==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSnAgRZMumQ Time Change], a liberal com ic song after The Time Warp from Rocky Horror (2022).

==Mendelsoh, Felix==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KioVcstEF9E Trio 1], with score, Beaux Arts Trio.

==MOLTER==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=oKMC8HvjVus Complete cantatas. ] After reading about Jack's "molter vivace" joke in ''The Far Side of the World.'' Molter really is good!

==MORINI, GUIDO==
*[https://www.tafelmusik.org/breaking-baroque/get-know-italian-composer-guido-morini "Get to know Italian composer, Guido Morini"] (2019)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMupfY8InTw Passacaglia - Improvisationskonzert ] (11 minutes)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdp1VvZQbD8 Canzona alla Montemaranese - Storie di Napoli] (4 minutes)

==Mozart==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEO3MduIiV4 Early string quartets], no ads.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1m_YoGbDt4&t=6034s Mozart violin concertos,] 2 hours' worth with Oistrakh.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvRhkZLM__E Various piano concertos,] no ads.

*[https://youtu.be/H3v9unphfi0 Allegri's Miserere Mei]. See [https://richardvigilantebooks.com/what-song-did-mozart-steal-from-the-vatican/ Richardvigilantebooks.com/] : "Writing down ‘Miserere’ by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri, was punishable by excommunication, but 14 year old Mozart committed it to memory…"

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOdgE461MfY Various symphonies 25-40] (You-tube)

*[https://vimeo.com/240369823 Requiem], from Vimeo (Bergen Philharmonic) or just the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RKJur8wpfYM Dies Irae]

*The Queen of the Night's aria from The Magic Flute, by [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R5HM9xlrGKg Sabine Devieilhe], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNYws1PNCH8 Who Sang The "Queen Of The Night" Staccatos The Best?], where Miklosa and Kim get my votes, I guess.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioc9shJa_lI Just the statue scene] from ''Don Giovanni '' and the entire opera, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPYjqz7nToY "Don Giovanni."]
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==Nelson, David(Moe)==
[https://www.facebook.com/TheGrandsons/videos/441077030370746 Lundi Gras New Orleans style jazz]. Moe is the bass player.
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==OFFENBACH==
I didn't remember that [http://youtube.com/watch?v=0u0M4CMq7uI the Barcarolle in Tales of Hoffmann] was a duet. Why does it bring tears to my eyes? I can't even make out the words. I did look up [http://lyricstranslate.com/en/jacques-offenbach-barcarolle-lyrics.html the words ] just now:
<blockquote style="color: gray">
Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour Souris à nos ivresses Nuit plus douce que le jour Ô,belle nuit d’amour! Le temps fuit et sans retour Emporte nos tendresses Loin de cet heureux séjour Le temps fuit sans retour Zéphyrs embrasés Versez-nous vos caresses Zéphyrs embrasés Donnez-nous vos baisers! Vos baisers! Vos baisers! Ah! Belle nuit, ô, nuit d’amour Souris à nos ivresses Nuit plus douce que le jour, Ô, belle nuit d’amour! Ah! souris à nos ivresses! Nuit d’amour, ô, nuit d’amour!
</blockquote>

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqR6Ai5ObPw The wind-up doll song] with Sabine Delxxxx.

They really are quite good. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Barbier Jules Barbier.] Maybe it got through my subconscious, since I can understand the French in text if not in song.<html>
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Barbier%2C_Jules%2C_Nadar%2C_Gallica.jpg/330px-Barbier%2C_Jules%2C_Nadar%2C_Gallica.jpg" alt="" /></html>

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==OLIVER, Joseph "King"==
Louis Armstrong was his protege.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2wM-d-2QOI King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Canal Street Blues]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBAF1iGsGw0 King Oliver's Jazz Band (Okeh, October, 1923 Session)]

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==Paganini, Nicholas==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSBHsrPzf_s Complete guitar works] (3 hours) Audio only, ''You-Tube.''

==Paine, John==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7cOqrolsy4 Mass in D-minor], Op.10 (1866). Much like Haydn.

==PRESLEY, Elvis==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=-eHJ12Vhpyc You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog.] Audio only.

==Psy==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 Gangnam Style] and [https://www.businessinsider.com/gangnam-style-translation-2012-9 a translation]

I’m a guy
A guy who seems calm but plays when he plays
A guy who goes completely crazy when the right time comes
A guy who has bulging ideas rather than muscles
That kind of guy

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==Rameau==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NybTtlHiFbk Overture to Zais], a weird and wonderful piece of music.

==Ries, Ferdinand==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J36CNOYFJCE Cello sonatas]

==Rossini==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CgYLpt9lHA Edward and Christina overture]

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==SCARLATTI==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itS_9f5MMsA Scarlatti has a harpsichord fandango].

==SCHUBERT==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zBUXhZx4w Trio 1,] opus 100, Beaux Art Trio.

*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=J_nKAXM9CY8 Trout quintet, Wigmore Hall. ]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFwg-o8sgxE Schubert's Erlkonig, piano, Joseph Hoffman]

*[https://kennethwoods.net/blog1/2007/11/06/podcast-rcco-death-and-the-maiden/ Death and the Maiden blogpost] and [https://kennethwoods.net/blog1/product/visions-of-childhood-four-last-songs-eso-april-fredrick-nimbus/ album with a very good recording].

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDGcyKhPV0M COmplete Schubert string quartets]

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==SCHUMANN==
Symphony [https://youtube.com./watch?v=xmXWs-nPSjc 1] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAnB45ZGIts 2] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl3RAqmN3Oo 4] (Karajan, 31 minutes) and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUes-2BON2s Norrington talk on Number 4 ] (10 minutes)

==SHOSTAKOVICH==
*Piano pieces in classical style, Preludes and Fugues, Op 8, [https://youtu.be/ZyURjdnYQaU first 12] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7JgJGZeyg no. 24].

*Movie music. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_CdYmAbVs "The Return of Maxim"] (Film Score), Op. 45. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d0h4T3lcQE "Stupid Little Mouse"], Op. 56 (not so good).

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtOFwI1dkXo 8 Waltzes from Film Music Suite for Symphony Orchestra T. Sanderling] 
0:01 Waltz from "Maxim's Return" (op.45) 
3:19 Waltz from "Golden Mountains" (op.30) 
8:39 Waltz from "Michurin" (op.78) 
10:50 Waltz from "Pirogov" (op.76) 
16:07 Waltz from "The Gadfly" (op.97) 
18:32 Waltz from "The First Echelon" (op.99) (Second Waltz) 
21:45 Waltz from "Unity" (op. 95) 
25:27 Waltz from "The Human Comedy" (op.37)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qJdaHon2os "The Golden Age"] (Op. 22a, 1935).

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFg8lbHcEqs "Golden Mountains"] (op.30)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK1IgQnLTic "Hamlet, music for the film Op. 116 (1964)]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKKMXG3ulE "New Babylon"]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjExRLfU7x8 "King Lear,"] music for the film Op. 137 (1970)

==Soler, Lewis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q13W_HcLkNM Fandango in D], like [https://youtu.be/IgEaS_d6qUE Boccherini has for guitar], but for harpsichord.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQbW75y3P9g Scarlatti has one] too. The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCwEyIBM4Q Andalusian folk dance] is interesting.

==SOUSA==
[http://youtube.com./watch?v=cxleNf2mjfg&list=PLA7no0L9zTk5QnKpwAcWV4jjhkCMsLuEt Complete marches.]STRAUSS. [http://youtube.com/watch?v=KY2Mw0LMz-E Die Fliedermaus ] , German.

==Stalin songs==
*[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:The_Ballad_of_Stalin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "The Ballad of Stalin"]
One day he looked upon his map and frowned and shook his head,
"There's too much brown and not enough green," these are the words he said;
"We'll have to change the weather, boys," he said and then he smiled,
"So let's begin by planting trees along three thousand miles."

==Steffan, Joseph==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8j9XNINAKA A piece]

==Steibelt==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfUdF547kh4 One piece] and
[http://www.annapetrova.com/en/daniel-steibelt-1765-1823-piano-works-cd/ piano works.]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTQ-P-G96Lo Harp Concerto]

This cd of Steibelt's concertos and like it a lot: https://www.amazon.com/Steibelt-Classical-Piano-Concertos-Vol/dp/B016VKBJYS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=steibelt&qid=1631494850&s=music&sr=1-1

==John STRAUSS==
[https://duckduckgo.com/?q=you+tube+die+fliedermaus&pn=1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DB_bOebWQoRc Die Fleidermaus], with English subtitles.

==Richard STRAUSS==
Does [http://youtube.com/watch?v=o9qVSXUU7Hw the timpani player]in Also Sprach really look like me as a young man?

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==Tausig==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yLi7gr5yqw "Josef Hofmann plays Scarlatti - Tausig, Pastorale e capriccio (1923)"]

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== Vinci==
*[https://youtu.be/OCTiqj2lrTs Four-minute aria in the Artaserces] opera, and the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F8g8lVbjs4 hour-long first act.] Is it right to watch a castrato part, even if nowadays not played by a castrato? Yes, I think, though it would not if it were a real castrato, because it would be to encourage mutilation. This recording has countertenor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Jaroussky Philippe Jaroussky]
<html> <img src= "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Philippe_Jaroussky_-_Misteria_Paschalia_2011_%281%29.JPG/440px-Philippe_Jaroussky_-_Misteria_Paschalia_2011_%281%29.JPG" height= 120 align= left> </html>

==Vivaldi, Anthony==
*[https://vimeo.com/110472348 the Four Seasons] (Vimeo, 58 minutes).

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==WAGNER==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI3CS0xficoFLying Dutchman ] with score....... [https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=wagner+lohengrin&&view=detail&mid=08F3457961D035EAC58208F3457961D035EAC582&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dwagner%2Blohengrin%26FORM%3DHDRSC3 Lohengrin], Kemp (3hrs 38min)......[http://youtube.com./watch?v=dfuksVNEqAA Rienzi.] Audio only......[http://youtube.com./watch?v=9d-3nqzKTKU Rheingold,] China; ..... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufTndujS5Bs Gotterdammerung, no ads?]

* [https://completerichardwagner.blogspot.com/2015/09/hitler-und-wagner.html "Hitler and Wagner,"] Peter Crawford, blog (2014). {{Quotation| In 1923, Winifred met Adolf Hitler who, as we know, greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Winifred sent him food parcels and stationery on which Hitler's autobiography 'Mein Kampf' was written. In the late 1930s, she served as Hitler's personal translator during treaty negotiations with England. Winifred's relationship with Hitler grew so close that by 1933 there were rumors of impending marriage. 'Haus Wahnfried', the Wagner home in Bayreuth, became Hitler's favorite retreat, and he had his own separate accommodation in the grounds of Wahnfried, known as the Führerbau.}}

{{Quotation| The name of the villa Wahnfried, is interesting. Wahnen means endless striving of an artist for the fulfillment of his aspirations and the triumph of his art. So Wahnfried (Wahnen free) was the name chosen and even today we can see Wagner's motto on the front: "Here where my delusions have found peace, let this place be named Wahnfried."... In a shady grove beyond the garden, surrounded with ivy, is the tomb of Richard and Cosima Wagner. The stone is unmarked, because as Wagner insisted, as long as it remained, everyone would know who was buried there. ...}}

{{Quotation| Symphonies - initially - held little interest, and chamber music none at all. There is no record of his ever having attended a chamber concert or a lieder recital. His attendance at symphony concerts was increasingly rare as time passed and, when chancellor, he seldom appeared except on ceremonial occasions.}}

==Webern==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zveKEk3A5fo Johann Sebastian Bach: Musical Offering, No. 2 Ricercar a 6] (arranged by Anton Webern), Paavo Järvi, conductor Berlin Philharmonic

==Wieniawski, Joseph ==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6hgSGqL1c Piano Concerto in G-minor,] Op.20 (1858)
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==ANONYMOUS==
The [http://youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=Va6yxMru9jE&feature=emb_title Le Boudin, ]the [http://foreignlegion.info/songs/le-boudin/ Sausage Song] of the Foreign Legion that insults the Belgians ] . They're not politically correct. A more polished version, probably sung by professionals, and with subtitles is [http://youtube.com/watch?list=RDVa6yxMru9jE&v=FKGLGFQSpXE&feature=emb_rel_end here. ]

Music

2026-02-19T14:02:15Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* Haydn, Franz */

==Introduction==
*[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good musicwriting freeware

*[https://www.lifewire.com/free-classical-music-downloads-1358036 Top Five Free Classical Music] download sites.

*[https://www.stringquest.com/all-open-strings-violin-viola-cello-bass/ Viola open notes in alto clef], and cello and violin too.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGeBem72R3Y Clock diagram] you-tube that shows how you can arrange the notes in a circle and then different scales's choice of notes show patterns around the circle.

==[[Sheet music]]==

==[[Obscure Composers Article]]==
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==Music Criticism==
*[https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1283/the-art-of-the-musical-stephen-sondheim "Stephen Sondheim, The Art of the Musical,"]
Interviewed by James Lipton The Paris Review (1997). Excerpted in https://www.unz.com/isteve/into-the-woods/.

===Send in the Clowns, and Sondheim generally===
*[https://www.steynonline.com/11936/send-in-the-clowns#.YadcBPGuLPs.twitter Mark Steyn's article] (2021).

*[https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1283/the-art-of-the-musical-stephen-sondheim "Stephen Sondheim, The Art of the Musical,"] Interviewed by James Lipton The Paris Review (1997). Excerpted in https://www.unz.com/isteve/into-the-woods/.

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==Songs==
See [[Songs]].
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==Allegri==
*[https://youtu.be/H3v9unphfi0 Allegri's Miserere Mei]. See [https://richardvigilantebooks.com/what-song-did-mozart-steal-from-the-vatican/ Richardvigilantebooks.com/] : "Writing down ‘Miserere’ by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri, was punishable by excommunication, but 14 year old Mozart committed it to memory…". [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6hD8YtO5HI The Story of Allegri's Miserere].

==Alpert, Herb (Tijuana Brass)==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jouzf79QNuA Fandango]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3p8ll5JQ0c The Beat of the Brass] (30min)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYJtU6WV_J4&list=PLlYFBQULBYC48gjtG7rCCCmDEygF8YDoH The Lonely Bull, etc.], 2 hours.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI5aDT3WPgE Tribute] to Herb Alpert (50 minutes).

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==Bach, Johann Sebastian==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zveKEk3A5fo The Musical Offering] as orchestrated by Webern. 9 minutes.

== BEATLES==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=0pGOFX1D_jg Love Me Do. ] Audio only.

== BEETHOVEN==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbBmH9mj2R0 Complete quartets] by the Hungarian Quartet (lots of ads, YouTube) and
Quartets [http://youtube.com./watch?v=77xBZf0XcBY 1] and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=TPk0Gv3LBpA 2] and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=Jbi09i3iPoo 5](with members all telling us about it, as classical performers always should do), opus[http://youtube.com./watch?v=QQWVlCZyrWY 59-1 ] , opus [http://youtube.com./watch?v=VcVOOv0pl9g 59-2](starts with two chords), opus [http://youtube.com/watch?v=S4cOshcxRFE 59-3](starts with lots of chords), [http://youtube.com/watch?v=JVVdMzv02s8 Quartet 12] and [http://youtube.com/watch?v=a7wk0M125JM 14 ] opus 131, and [http://youtube.com/watch?v=gumi5pEpOaA 15](Lydian mode, slow start) and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=MVOQu481uZQ 16 ] .

* Symphonies [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CplmVMyPH80 One with Bernstein] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLHqr2e5TA Two] (Oslo, 35 minutes) and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=W5NsPOgyALI Seven with Karajan ]

*The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NOF_ueaxJ4 Kreutzer Sonata].

* The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4muQttjFxE Ghost Trio] (with score)

*[https://vimeo.com/69119967?turnstile=0.mm5QyK7FxXTCUI12h4CFbjp7Im0hI-gpSMpC3kagCCpjNoWnMdIAI0oEMI2uDzEh0Fd-WpME2fDtutXNsU3-2RN8jBBTO4mwSyP-tX4Yf9lx3MgQz_J9nkZO6MJpSHcIH5cjU4Kw4qvUuRw1eKbM_SAPBcwm3rKU9vN6cNtNQRc3UBy62vcWyGSHhkaPSfSsFD4CpLf9Xm2w1XAQTocAyhMtDD0VLKnPIDwKy3d0nB6Orrpnj2mI-prMtuJGJ1qA0AKO0tXd05go-3uRxuPGLxBK4LeC5dR_uIWGVPoLK83KHDbh43zTuAwr8rLAEmvnfR5CcKeU_xDfcMSar2JFXHsghZNteKdEL09iE6AICSaMf8NXQbhNMZMhrNDJk8a6h79slYxR6t_4wA8Li_4UlP5uZhcmWMp0om5KZAvHSiUaeifogeVY0CbNI_vu6MtaCTs2X7MDvkDHBDx8OZkFaHOdTPjmcpqvjlvqmFmjFjG-CYnpSjH7l270FvDYqIous3-sd4-aAWDNa-BeZcpsXRikNF1ANUdG_UIFJsSoaDLFRIcGfkqAzeb1DGjCp5e47GuFiBFPA23N9cRuqe4nFHdEbimm8cCJufsWSwFZAHfJyqQRIbNgWmpSdUPjCixB5rAlABuLiyhIoZ1rlw_dPCqocZ1OPcDygyJAitA65NYOyawnTOvJG2P5QIyQfTer4_grTSi7379-ShUWlssM64vpI_UrhEw2LiqUg-MOvws4JFuMcuSZ5Xy4BNwja6zKh2P5Ym7kfl67k5IXXYk6QYbswLKN4Kj5vR9TnYh_9sEdotnSUsrQJngKv4hgTyCJ8eVBetRAFw8ZZVA8FRc9opBw_kGmI7f2hecooC7L_jx3nbEWyYibGXFewkCBi1W-x4q-CE5kCVKyI1w9NsUci97X-jg-6mE4UgW_EoVAfco.YHXYJEMa2mtObRZLq_RxWg.398abd4969793f2d7307eb3637bbc62ac18b7fc0183d141d1f7bf2f4c12afeb3 Waldstein Sonata] (op. 53) on Vimeo.

== BOCCHERINI==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=zZbcIVTuHKQ Complete Cello Concertos ]

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ4tqM7n-4A String Quartet in G major]

==BURGMULLER, Norbert==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoMo5C9QWzU Symphony No.1] in C-minor, Op.2 (1833)

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==CBU Choir==
*[https://youtu.be/3y98T2lXZm4 King of Kings], small college group done very well.

==CHERUBINI, Lewis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ByKnapicRw String Quartet 1]

==Christmas Music==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UznpnMXVQOQ Tennessee Ernie Ford]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjywAed4ywg Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat Cole, etc. album] (56 minutes, You-Tube)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjywAed4ywg Andy Williams]

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==COATES, ERIC==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f5XBD0SOow The Three Elizabeths Suite]

== PETER CORNELIUS==
1859. ''Ein Ton'' (One Tone) in [http://youtube.com/watch?v=9ALqXaervew German] and [http://youtu.be/WEtctSobrqY English ]. Sheet music (free) [http://wnload-sheet-music.php?pdf=2372# here.]
(Thanks, Professor David Hirshleifer, for telling me of this.) The English is much better--- extraordinary and moving. I can't remember ever hearing such a striking improvement on the standard rendition of a piece of classical music. And it's surprising to find the English better than the original which is, to be frank, boring and mediocre when a soprano sings it as an art song. I wonder what Germans would think?
There is [hundredyearslate.wordpress.com/?s=nelligan a webpage]at HundredYearsLate on this song.

David Nelligan did that English recording in 2013. I am very frustrated. He is a musical genius and a marketing cretin. His name is not listed at the you-tube site, though if you read quickly you can see it in small font on the video as the music plays. I couldn't find him on Google to find out about him and what other good work he may have done. He's made himself close to a "mute inglorious Milton". I hate it when people do that, often from a modesty which is admirable in some ways but really selfish because it means the rest of us don't get to benefit from their talent. The HundredYearsLate site, which has just a few entries, from around 2014, is his, but his name isn't in the About section or on the Ein Ton webpage I link to--- you have to really search the site to find him mention his name somewhere.

I'll write to him, and see if he likes my idea for another rendition. I'd like to hear it in his style--- with the piano loud and not pretty, and a drone in the background, and processed voice--- but in German. The words are good, but they are about anguish over a lost love, so having a pretty, highly controlled, soprano voice just kills the song. Nelligan gets it. You need a bit of honky tonk feel, real pain, just barely under control, for both piano and voice. The voice only has one note, but it needs lots of emotion, the impression that the singer might collapse before it's done and doesn't care if he sounds good or not.

I was just listening to Lotte Lehmann singing "Ein Ton" and found myself whistling it afterwards. 
Whistling that song is kind of stupid. 
But I could hear the piano in my mind.

==Country Songs==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV9mPfHoUak Give Me Forthy Acres and I'll Turn THis Rig Around", ] Willis Bros.

*[https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/13416902/She+Thinks+My+Tractor%27s+Sexy She Think's My Tractor's Sexy], lyrics (Kenny Chesney) ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Thinks_My_Tractor%27s_Sexy 1999])

*Brother Jukebox, Sister Wine," Mark Chestnutt.

* Nine to Five," Dolly Parton.

* Hey, Good Lookin, Whatcha Got Cookin?" Hank Williams.

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==DELIBES==
Barbier did not write the words for the Flower Duet in Delibes's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakm%C3%A9 Lakme ] . The Flower Duet is as good music as Offenbach's ''Barcarolle'', but the words are nondescript.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMO0KFL3E58 the Bell Song] from Lakhme, sung by Sabine Somthing.

==Dies Irae==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RKJur8wpfYM Dies Irae] of Mozart's requiem, and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6OsBQzoAQ Metal Version] which is good.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6cogix3cwQ Verdi]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETocdXjv1HU Britten]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs4a-p-Hewk Cherubini]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApdYpaPamMs Ligeti], which is junk not worth listening to.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z79vOYnb3DA Caldara] (1720)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGennvJpj8w "Introduction Music History - Music Through Time Dies Irae"] by Keirsten Bible, 34 minutes.

==DVORAK==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=llB7NaWLUc4 Jacqueline du Pré ] , Dvořák Cello Concerto.

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==ELGAR==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=vLNLvcBmoqo Enigma Variations. ]

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==Fandangos==
Soler's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMvgGUGn1-E Fandango in D], like [https://youtu.be/IgEaS_d6qUE Boccherini has], but for harpsichord. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itS_9f5MMsA Scarlatti has a harpsichord fandango] too. The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCwEyIBM4Q Andalusian folk dance] is interesting.

==ELLA FITZGERALD==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=T1FV5s4JHi8 Various. ]

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==FODOR, Karl==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0h1mlpJ3Zc Symphony 3]

==Franck, Richard (1858-1938) ==
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNJ_lkPhANU Piano Quartet in A major, Op. 33], but just the allegro movement is good, I think.

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==Handel, George==
*[https://vimeo.com/540431339 Messiah] oratorio, Hillsdale choir, 2 hours, on Vimeo.

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==Hasse, Johann Adolf==
*[https://youtu.be/zF5p12F5ymY Artaserse Sinfonia (1760).]

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==Haydn, Franz==
* Symphonies [https://vimeo.com/2446771 44](20+ minutes), and [https://vimeo.com/367278393 96] (22 minutes) Vimeo,a nd [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ug2Og6j4ag&list=PL9R7PKq6lPML0lCdyQD_rp9MTlrdYLJTW All Symphonies]

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be2bunwqilM Harmoniemesse] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwB_enC55EQ&list=PL-FaA4k7UdNa1-bptTm3ZoirORvBeuRdC&index=6 St. Cecilia Mass]

*Quartets: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh-tMac2Y_g opus 77 and 103].

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==Hoffman, Joseph==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRbzddoDVk4 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C Op.2 N.3 (1/4) ], Joseph Hoffman playing (1929).

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ZIuRJHeE0 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28, Op. 101 (Roll - 1915) ], Joseph Hoffman playing.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFwg-o8sgxE Schubert's Erlkonig,] piano, Joseph Hoffman playing.

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==Janucek==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO2UUxO3RfE Glagolitic Mass.]

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==Lehar, Francis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djc7QQeyT9c Land of Smiles video] from 1961 and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ultt6LbI51Q 1930], with the original Fritz Tauber but a bad Mi, and [https://imslp.hk/files/imglnks/euimg/b/b6/IMSLP381718-PMLP364005-Leh%C3%A1r_Das_Land_des_L%C3%A4chelns.pdf The Land of Smiles] score, in German and [https://rasmusen.org/special/Lehar_Land_of_Smiles.pdf lyrics in English] (Jerry H. translation).

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkPsr5SPN3Y Eva] (1911).

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==Mahler, Gustav==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICDXYu1JOnY You-tbue Mahler 1st Symphony] and a very good [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LtPTo8YOXw 2nd (Resurrection) Symphony] with no ads.

== MAYER, LAUREN==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSnAgRZMumQ Time Change], a liberal com ic song after The Time Warp from Rocky Horror (2022).

==Mendelsoh, Felix==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KioVcstEF9E Trio 1], with score, Beaux Arts Trio.

==MOLTER==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=oKMC8HvjVus Complete cantatas. ] After reading about Jack's "molter vivace" joke in ''The Far Side of the World.'' Molter really is good!

==MORINI, GUIDO==
*[https://www.tafelmusik.org/breaking-baroque/get-know-italian-composer-guido-morini "Get to know Italian composer, Guido Morini"] (2019)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMupfY8InTw Passacaglia - Improvisationskonzert ] (11 minutes)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdp1VvZQbD8 Canzona alla Montemaranese - Storie di Napoli] (4 minutes)

==Mozart==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEO3MduIiV4 Early string quartets], no ads.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1m_YoGbDt4&t=6034s Mozart violin concertos,] 2 hours' worth with Oistrakh.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvRhkZLM__E Various piano concertos,] no ads.

*[https://youtu.be/H3v9unphfi0 Allegri's Miserere Mei]. See [https://richardvigilantebooks.com/what-song-did-mozart-steal-from-the-vatican/ Richardvigilantebooks.com/] : "Writing down ‘Miserere’ by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri, was punishable by excommunication, but 14 year old Mozart committed it to memory…"

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOdgE461MfY Various symphonies 25-40] (You-tube)

*[https://vimeo.com/240369823 Requiem], from Vimeo (Bergen Philharmonic) or just the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RKJur8wpfYM Dies Irae]

*The Queen of the Night's aria from The Magic Flute, by [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R5HM9xlrGKg Sabine Devieilhe], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNYws1PNCH8 Who Sang The "Queen Of The Night" Staccatos The Best?], where Miklosa and Kim get my votes, I guess.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioc9shJa_lI Just the statue scene] from ''Don Giovanni '' and the entire opera, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPYjqz7nToY "Don Giovanni."]
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==Nelson, David(Moe)==
[https://www.facebook.com/TheGrandsons/videos/441077030370746 Lundi Gras New Orleans style jazz]. Moe is the bass player.
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==OFFENBACH==
I didn't remember that [http://youtube.com/watch?v=0u0M4CMq7uI the Barcarolle in Tales of Hoffmann] was a duet. Why does it bring tears to my eyes? I can't even make out the words. I did look up [http://lyricstranslate.com/en/jacques-offenbach-barcarolle-lyrics.html the words ] just now:
<blockquote style="color: gray">
Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour Souris à nos ivresses Nuit plus douce que le jour Ô,belle nuit d’amour! Le temps fuit et sans retour Emporte nos tendresses Loin de cet heureux séjour Le temps fuit sans retour Zéphyrs embrasés Versez-nous vos caresses Zéphyrs embrasés Donnez-nous vos baisers! Vos baisers! Vos baisers! Ah! Belle nuit, ô, nuit d’amour Souris à nos ivresses Nuit plus douce que le jour, Ô, belle nuit d’amour! Ah! souris à nos ivresses! Nuit d’amour, ô, nuit d’amour!
</blockquote>

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqR6Ai5ObPw The wind-up doll song] with Sabine Delxxxx.

They really are quite good. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Barbier Jules Barbier.] Maybe it got through my subconscious, since I can understand the French in text if not in song.<html>
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Barbier%2C_Jules%2C_Nadar%2C_Gallica.jpg/330px-Barbier%2C_Jules%2C_Nadar%2C_Gallica.jpg" alt="" /></html>

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==OLIVER, Joseph "King"==
Louis Armstrong was his protege.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2wM-d-2QOI King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Canal Street Blues]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBAF1iGsGw0 King Oliver's Jazz Band (Okeh, October, 1923 Session)]

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==Paganini, Nicholas==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSBHsrPzf_s Complete guitar works] (3 hours) Audio only, ''You-Tube.''

==Paine, John==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7cOqrolsy4 Mass in D-minor], Op.10 (1866). Much like Haydn.

==PRESLEY, Elvis==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=-eHJ12Vhpyc You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog.] Audio only.

==Psy==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 Gangnam Style] and [https://www.businessinsider.com/gangnam-style-translation-2012-9 a translation]

I’m a guy
A guy who seems calm but plays when he plays
A guy who goes completely crazy when the right time comes
A guy who has bulging ideas rather than muscles
That kind of guy

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==Rameau==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NybTtlHiFbk Overture to Zais], a weird and wonderful piece of music.

==Ries, Ferdinand==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J36CNOYFJCE Cello sonatas]

==Rossini==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CgYLpt9lHA Edward and Christina overture]

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==SCARLATTI==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itS_9f5MMsA Scarlatti has a harpsichord fandango].

==SCHUBERT==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zBUXhZx4w Trio 1,] opus 100, Beaux Art Trio.

*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=J_nKAXM9CY8 Trout quintet, Wigmore Hall. ]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFwg-o8sgxE Schubert's Erlkonig, piano, Joseph Hoffman]

*[https://kennethwoods.net/blog1/2007/11/06/podcast-rcco-death-and-the-maiden/ Death and the Maiden blogpost] and [https://kennethwoods.net/blog1/product/visions-of-childhood-four-last-songs-eso-april-fredrick-nimbus/ album with a very good recording].

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDGcyKhPV0M COmplete Schubert string quartets]

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==SCHUMANN==
Symphony [https://youtube.com./watch?v=xmXWs-nPSjc 1] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAnB45ZGIts 2] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl3RAqmN3Oo 4] (Karajan, 31 minutes) and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUes-2BON2s Norrington talk on Number 4 ] (10 minutes)

==SHOSTAKOVICH==
*Piano pieces in classical style, Preludes and Fugues, Op 8, [https://youtu.be/ZyURjdnYQaU first 12] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7JgJGZeyg no. 24].

*Movie music. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_CdYmAbVs "The Return of Maxim"] (Film Score), Op. 45. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d0h4T3lcQE "Stupid Little Mouse"], Op. 56 (not so good).

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtOFwI1dkXo 8 Waltzes from Film Music Suite for Symphony Orchestra T. Sanderling] 
0:01 Waltz from "Maxim's Return" (op.45) 
3:19 Waltz from "Golden Mountains" (op.30) 
8:39 Waltz from "Michurin" (op.78) 
10:50 Waltz from "Pirogov" (op.76) 
16:07 Waltz from "The Gadfly" (op.97) 
18:32 Waltz from "The First Echelon" (op.99) (Second Waltz) 
21:45 Waltz from "Unity" (op. 95) 
25:27 Waltz from "The Human Comedy" (op.37)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qJdaHon2os "The Golden Age"] (Op. 22a, 1935).

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFg8lbHcEqs "Golden Mountains"] (op.30)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK1IgQnLTic "Hamlet, music for the film Op. 116 (1964)]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKKMXG3ulE "New Babylon"]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjExRLfU7x8 "King Lear,"] music for the film Op. 137 (1970)

==Soler, Lewis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q13W_HcLkNM Fandango in D], like [https://youtu.be/IgEaS_d6qUE Boccherini has for guitar], but for harpsichord.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQbW75y3P9g Scarlatti has one] too. The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCwEyIBM4Q Andalusian folk dance] is interesting.

==SOUSA==
[http://youtube.com./watch?v=cxleNf2mjfg&list=PLA7no0L9zTk5QnKpwAcWV4jjhkCMsLuEt Complete marches.]STRAUSS. [http://youtube.com/watch?v=KY2Mw0LMz-E Die Fliedermaus ] , German.

==Stalin songs==
*[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:The_Ballad_of_Stalin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "The Ballad of Stalin"]
One day he looked upon his map and frowned and shook his head,
"There's too much brown and not enough green," these are the words he said;
"We'll have to change the weather, boys," he said and then he smiled,
"So let's begin by planting trees along three thousand miles."

==Steffan, Joseph==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8j9XNINAKA A piece]

==Steibelt==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfUdF547kh4 One piece] and
[http://www.annapetrova.com/en/daniel-steibelt-1765-1823-piano-works-cd/ piano works.]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTQ-P-G96Lo Harp Concerto]

This cd of Steibelt's concertos and like it a lot: https://www.amazon.com/Steibelt-Classical-Piano-Concertos-Vol/dp/B016VKBJYS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=steibelt&qid=1631494850&s=music&sr=1-1

==John STRAUSS==
[https://duckduckgo.com/?q=you+tube+die+fliedermaus&pn=1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DB_bOebWQoRc Die Fleidermaus], with English subtitles.

==Richard STRAUSS==
Does [http://youtube.com/watch?v=o9qVSXUU7Hw the timpani player]in Also Sprach really look like me as a young man?

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==Tausig==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yLi7gr5yqw "Josef Hofmann plays Scarlatti - Tausig, Pastorale e capriccio (1923)"]

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== Vinci==
*[https://youtu.be/OCTiqj2lrTs Four-minute aria in the Artaserces] opera, and the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F8g8lVbjs4 hour-long first act.] Is it right to watch a castrato part, even if nowadays not played by a castrato? Yes, I think, though it would not if it were a real castrato, because it would be to encourage mutilation. This recording has countertenor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Jaroussky Philippe Jaroussky]
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==Vivaldi, Anthony==
*[https://vimeo.com/110472348 the Four Seasons] (Vimeo, 58 minutes).

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==WAGNER==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI3CS0xficoFLying Dutchman ] with score....... [https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=wagner+lohengrin&&view=detail&mid=08F3457961D035EAC58208F3457961D035EAC582&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dwagner%2Blohengrin%26FORM%3DHDRSC3 Lohengrin], Kemp (3hrs 38min)......[http://youtube.com./watch?v=dfuksVNEqAA Rienzi.] Audio only......[http://youtube.com./watch?v=9d-3nqzKTKU Rheingold,] China; ..... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufTndujS5Bs Gotterdammerung, no ads?]

* [https://completerichardwagner.blogspot.com/2015/09/hitler-und-wagner.html "Hitler and Wagner,"] Peter Crawford, blog (2014). {{Quotation| In 1923, Winifred met Adolf Hitler who, as we know, greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Winifred sent him food parcels and stationery on which Hitler's autobiography 'Mein Kampf' was written. In the late 1930s, she served as Hitler's personal translator during treaty negotiations with England. Winifred's relationship with Hitler grew so close that by 1933 there were rumors of impending marriage. 'Haus Wahnfried', the Wagner home in Bayreuth, became Hitler's favorite retreat, and he had his own separate accommodation in the grounds of Wahnfried, known as the Führerbau.}}

{{Quotation| The name of the villa Wahnfried, is interesting. Wahnen means endless striving of an artist for the fulfillment of his aspirations and the triumph of his art. So Wahnfried (Wahnen free) was the name chosen and even today we can see Wagner's motto on the front: "Here where my delusions have found peace, let this place be named Wahnfried."... In a shady grove beyond the garden, surrounded with ivy, is the tomb of Richard and Cosima Wagner. The stone is unmarked, because as Wagner insisted, as long as it remained, everyone would know who was buried there. ...}}

{{Quotation| Symphonies - initially - held little interest, and chamber music none at all. There is no record of his ever having attended a chamber concert or a lieder recital. His attendance at symphony concerts was increasingly rare as time passed and, when chancellor, he seldom appeared except on ceremonial occasions.}}

==Webern==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zveKEk3A5fo Johann Sebastian Bach: Musical Offering, No. 2 Ricercar a 6] (arranged by Anton Webern), Paavo Järvi, conductor Berlin Philharmonic

==Wieniawski, Joseph ==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6hgSGqL1c Piano Concerto in G-minor,] Op.20 (1858)
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==ANONYMOUS==
The [http://youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=Va6yxMru9jE&feature=emb_title Le Boudin, ]the [http://foreignlegion.info/songs/le-boudin/ Sausage Song] of the Foreign Legion that insults the Belgians ] . They're not politically correct. A more polished version, probably sung by professionals, and with subtitles is [http://youtube.com/watch?list=RDVa6yxMru9jE&v=FKGLGFQSpXE&feature=emb_rel_end here. ]

Music

2026-02-19T01:02:25Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* Haydn, Franz */

==Introduction==
*[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good musicwriting freeware

*[https://www.lifewire.com/free-classical-music-downloads-1358036 Top Five Free Classical Music] download sites.

*[https://www.stringquest.com/all-open-strings-violin-viola-cello-bass/ Viola open notes in alto clef], and cello and violin too.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGeBem72R3Y Clock diagram] you-tube that shows how you can arrange the notes in a circle and then different scales's choice of notes show patterns around the circle.

==[[Sheet music]]==

==[[Obscure Composers Article]]==
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==Music Criticism==
*[https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1283/the-art-of-the-musical-stephen-sondheim "Stephen Sondheim, The Art of the Musical,"]
Interviewed by James Lipton The Paris Review (1997). Excerpted in https://www.unz.com/isteve/into-the-woods/.

===Send in the Clowns, and Sondheim generally===
*[https://www.steynonline.com/11936/send-in-the-clowns#.YadcBPGuLPs.twitter Mark Steyn's article] (2021).

*[https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1283/the-art-of-the-musical-stephen-sondheim "Stephen Sondheim, The Art of the Musical,"] Interviewed by James Lipton The Paris Review (1997). Excerpted in https://www.unz.com/isteve/into-the-woods/.

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==Songs==
See [[Songs]].
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==Allegri==
*[https://youtu.be/H3v9unphfi0 Allegri's Miserere Mei]. See [https://richardvigilantebooks.com/what-song-did-mozart-steal-from-the-vatican/ Richardvigilantebooks.com/] : "Writing down ‘Miserere’ by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri, was punishable by excommunication, but 14 year old Mozart committed it to memory…". [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6hD8YtO5HI The Story of Allegri's Miserere].

==Alpert, Herb (Tijuana Brass)==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jouzf79QNuA Fandango]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3p8ll5JQ0c The Beat of the Brass] (30min)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYJtU6WV_J4&list=PLlYFBQULBYC48gjtG7rCCCmDEygF8YDoH The Lonely Bull, etc.], 2 hours.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI5aDT3WPgE Tribute] to Herb Alpert (50 minutes).

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==Bach, Johann Sebastian==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zveKEk3A5fo The Musical Offering] as orchestrated by Webern. 9 minutes.

== BEATLES==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=0pGOFX1D_jg Love Me Do. ] Audio only.

== BEETHOVEN==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbBmH9mj2R0 Complete quartets] by the Hungarian Quartet (lots of ads, YouTube) and
Quartets [http://youtube.com./watch?v=77xBZf0XcBY 1] and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=TPk0Gv3LBpA 2] and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=Jbi09i3iPoo 5](with members all telling us about it, as classical performers always should do), opus[http://youtube.com./watch?v=QQWVlCZyrWY 59-1 ] , opus [http://youtube.com./watch?v=VcVOOv0pl9g 59-2](starts with two chords), opus [http://youtube.com/watch?v=S4cOshcxRFE 59-3](starts with lots of chords), [http://youtube.com/watch?v=JVVdMzv02s8 Quartet 12] and [http://youtube.com/watch?v=a7wk0M125JM 14 ] opus 131, and [http://youtube.com/watch?v=gumi5pEpOaA 15](Lydian mode, slow start) and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=MVOQu481uZQ 16 ] .

* Symphonies [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CplmVMyPH80 One with Bernstein] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLHqr2e5TA Two] (Oslo, 35 minutes) and [http://youtube.com./watch?v=W5NsPOgyALI Seven with Karajan ]

*The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NOF_ueaxJ4 Kreutzer Sonata].

* The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4muQttjFxE Ghost Trio] (with score)

*[https://vimeo.com/69119967?turnstile=0.mm5QyK7FxXTCUI12h4CFbjp7Im0hI-gpSMpC3kagCCpjNoWnMdIAI0oEMI2uDzEh0Fd-WpME2fDtutXNsU3-2RN8jBBTO4mwSyP-tX4Yf9lx3MgQz_J9nkZO6MJpSHcIH5cjU4Kw4qvUuRw1eKbM_SAPBcwm3rKU9vN6cNtNQRc3UBy62vcWyGSHhkaPSfSsFD4CpLf9Xm2w1XAQTocAyhMtDD0VLKnPIDwKy3d0nB6Orrpnj2mI-prMtuJGJ1qA0AKO0tXd05go-3uRxuPGLxBK4LeC5dR_uIWGVPoLK83KHDbh43zTuAwr8rLAEmvnfR5CcKeU_xDfcMSar2JFXHsghZNteKdEL09iE6AICSaMf8NXQbhNMZMhrNDJk8a6h79slYxR6t_4wA8Li_4UlP5uZhcmWMp0om5KZAvHSiUaeifogeVY0CbNI_vu6MtaCTs2X7MDvkDHBDx8OZkFaHOdTPjmcpqvjlvqmFmjFjG-CYnpSjH7l270FvDYqIous3-sd4-aAWDNa-BeZcpsXRikNF1ANUdG_UIFJsSoaDLFRIcGfkqAzeb1DGjCp5e47GuFiBFPA23N9cRuqe4nFHdEbimm8cCJufsWSwFZAHfJyqQRIbNgWmpSdUPjCixB5rAlABuLiyhIoZ1rlw_dPCqocZ1OPcDygyJAitA65NYOyawnTOvJG2P5QIyQfTer4_grTSi7379-ShUWlssM64vpI_UrhEw2LiqUg-MOvws4JFuMcuSZ5Xy4BNwja6zKh2P5Ym7kfl67k5IXXYk6QYbswLKN4Kj5vR9TnYh_9sEdotnSUsrQJngKv4hgTyCJ8eVBetRAFw8ZZVA8FRc9opBw_kGmI7f2hecooC7L_jx3nbEWyYibGXFewkCBi1W-x4q-CE5kCVKyI1w9NsUci97X-jg-6mE4UgW_EoVAfco.YHXYJEMa2mtObRZLq_RxWg.398abd4969793f2d7307eb3637bbc62ac18b7fc0183d141d1f7bf2f4c12afeb3 Waldstein Sonata] (op. 53) on Vimeo.

== BOCCHERINI==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=zZbcIVTuHKQ Complete Cello Concertos ]

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ4tqM7n-4A String Quartet in G major]

==BURGMULLER, Norbert==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoMo5C9QWzU Symphony No.1] in C-minor, Op.2 (1833)

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==CBU Choir==
*[https://youtu.be/3y98T2lXZm4 King of Kings], small college group done very well.

==CHERUBINI, Lewis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ByKnapicRw String Quartet 1]

==Christmas Music==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UznpnMXVQOQ Tennessee Ernie Ford]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjywAed4ywg Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat Cole, etc. album] (56 minutes, You-Tube)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjywAed4ywg Andy Williams]

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==COATES, ERIC==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f5XBD0SOow The Three Elizabeths Suite]

== PETER CORNELIUS==
1859. ''Ein Ton'' (One Tone) in [http://youtube.com/watch?v=9ALqXaervew German] and [http://youtu.be/WEtctSobrqY English ]. Sheet music (free) [http://wnload-sheet-music.php?pdf=2372# here.]
(Thanks, Professor David Hirshleifer, for telling me of this.) The English is much better--- extraordinary and moving. I can't remember ever hearing such a striking improvement on the standard rendition of a piece of classical music. And it's surprising to find the English better than the original which is, to be frank, boring and mediocre when a soprano sings it as an art song. I wonder what Germans would think?
There is [hundredyearslate.wordpress.com/?s=nelligan a webpage]at HundredYearsLate on this song.

David Nelligan did that English recording in 2013. I am very frustrated. He is a musical genius and a marketing cretin. His name is not listed at the you-tube site, though if you read quickly you can see it in small font on the video as the music plays. I couldn't find him on Google to find out about him and what other good work he may have done. He's made himself close to a "mute inglorious Milton". I hate it when people do that, often from a modesty which is admirable in some ways but really selfish because it means the rest of us don't get to benefit from their talent. The HundredYearsLate site, which has just a few entries, from around 2014, is his, but his name isn't in the About section or on the Ein Ton webpage I link to--- you have to really search the site to find him mention his name somewhere.

I'll write to him, and see if he likes my idea for another rendition. I'd like to hear it in his style--- with the piano loud and not pretty, and a drone in the background, and processed voice--- but in German. The words are good, but they are about anguish over a lost love, so having a pretty, highly controlled, soprano voice just kills the song. Nelligan gets it. You need a bit of honky tonk feel, real pain, just barely under control, for both piano and voice. The voice only has one note, but it needs lots of emotion, the impression that the singer might collapse before it's done and doesn't care if he sounds good or not.

I was just listening to Lotte Lehmann singing "Ein Ton" and found myself whistling it afterwards. 
Whistling that song is kind of stupid. 
But I could hear the piano in my mind.

==Country Songs==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV9mPfHoUak Give Me Forthy Acres and I'll Turn THis Rig Around", ] Willis Bros.

*[https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/13416902/She+Thinks+My+Tractor%27s+Sexy She Think's My Tractor's Sexy], lyrics (Kenny Chesney) ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Thinks_My_Tractor%27s_Sexy 1999])

*Brother Jukebox, Sister Wine," Mark Chestnutt.

* Nine to Five," Dolly Parton.

* Hey, Good Lookin, Whatcha Got Cookin?" Hank Williams.

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==DELIBES==
Barbier did not write the words for the Flower Duet in Delibes's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakm%C3%A9 Lakme ] . The Flower Duet is as good music as Offenbach's ''Barcarolle'', but the words are nondescript.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMO0KFL3E58 the Bell Song] from Lakhme, sung by Sabine Somthing.

==Dies Irae==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RKJur8wpfYM Dies Irae] of Mozart's requiem, and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6OsBQzoAQ Metal Version] which is good.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6cogix3cwQ Verdi]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETocdXjv1HU Britten]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs4a-p-Hewk Cherubini]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApdYpaPamMs Ligeti], which is junk not worth listening to.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z79vOYnb3DA Caldara] (1720)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGennvJpj8w "Introduction Music History - Music Through Time Dies Irae"] by Keirsten Bible, 34 minutes.

==DVORAK==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=llB7NaWLUc4 Jacqueline du Pré ] , Dvořák Cello Concerto.

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==ELGAR==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=vLNLvcBmoqo Enigma Variations. ]

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==Fandangos==
Soler's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMvgGUGn1-E Fandango in D], like [https://youtu.be/IgEaS_d6qUE Boccherini has], but for harpsichord. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itS_9f5MMsA Scarlatti has a harpsichord fandango] too. The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCwEyIBM4Q Andalusian folk dance] is interesting.

==ELLA FITZGERALD==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=T1FV5s4JHi8 Various. ]

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==FODOR, Karl==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0h1mlpJ3Zc Symphony 3]

==Franck, Richard (1858-1938) ==
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNJ_lkPhANU Piano Quartet in A major, Op. 33], but just the allegro movement is good, I think.

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==Handel, George==
*[https://vimeo.com/540431339 Messiah] oratorio, Hillsdale choir, 2 hours, on Vimeo.

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==Hasse, Johann Adolf==
*[https://youtu.be/zF5p12F5ymY Artaserse Sinfonia (1760).]

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==Haydn, Franz==
* Symphonies [https://vimeo.com/2446771 44](20+ minutes), and [https://vimeo.com/367278393 96] (22 minutes) Vimeo.

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be2bunwqilM Harmoniemesse] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwB_enC55EQ&list=PL-FaA4k7UdNa1-bptTm3ZoirORvBeuRdC&index=6 St. Cecilia Mass]

*Quartets:[https://vimeo.com/65003425 Emperor] (15 min., Vimeo, no ads) and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh-tMac2Y_g opus 77 and 103].

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==Hoffman, Joseph==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRbzddoDVk4 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C Op.2 N.3 (1/4) ], Joseph Hoffman playing (1929).

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ZIuRJHeE0 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28, Op. 101 (Roll - 1915) ], Joseph Hoffman playing.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFwg-o8sgxE Schubert's Erlkonig,] piano, Joseph Hoffman playing.

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==Janucek==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO2UUxO3RfE Glagolitic Mass.]

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==Lehar, Francis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djc7QQeyT9c Land of Smiles video] from 1961 and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ultt6LbI51Q 1930], with the original Fritz Tauber but a bad Mi, and [https://imslp.hk/files/imglnks/euimg/b/b6/IMSLP381718-PMLP364005-Leh%C3%A1r_Das_Land_des_L%C3%A4chelns.pdf The Land of Smiles] score, in German and [https://rasmusen.org/special/Lehar_Land_of_Smiles.pdf lyrics in English] (Jerry H. translation).

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkPsr5SPN3Y Eva] (1911).

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==Mahler, Gustav==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICDXYu1JOnY You-tbue Mahler 1st Symphony] and a very good [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LtPTo8YOXw 2nd (Resurrection) Symphony] with no ads.

== MAYER, LAUREN==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSnAgRZMumQ Time Change], a liberal com ic song after The Time Warp from Rocky Horror (2022).

==Mendelsoh, Felix==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KioVcstEF9E Trio 1], with score, Beaux Arts Trio.

==MOLTER==
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=oKMC8HvjVus Complete cantatas. ] After reading about Jack's "molter vivace" joke in ''The Far Side of the World.'' Molter really is good!

==MORINI, GUIDO==
*[https://www.tafelmusik.org/breaking-baroque/get-know-italian-composer-guido-morini "Get to know Italian composer, Guido Morini"] (2019)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMupfY8InTw Passacaglia - Improvisationskonzert ] (11 minutes)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdp1VvZQbD8 Canzona alla Montemaranese - Storie di Napoli] (4 minutes)

==Mozart==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEO3MduIiV4 Early string quartets], no ads.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1m_YoGbDt4&t=6034s Mozart violin concertos,] 2 hours' worth with Oistrakh.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvRhkZLM__E Various piano concertos,] no ads.

*[https://youtu.be/H3v9unphfi0 Allegri's Miserere Mei]. See [https://richardvigilantebooks.com/what-song-did-mozart-steal-from-the-vatican/ Richardvigilantebooks.com/] : "Writing down ‘Miserere’ by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri, was punishable by excommunication, but 14 year old Mozart committed it to memory…"

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOdgE461MfY Various symphonies 25-40] (You-tube)

*[https://vimeo.com/240369823 Requiem], from Vimeo (Bergen Philharmonic) or just the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RKJur8wpfYM Dies Irae]

*The Queen of the Night's aria from The Magic Flute, by [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R5HM9xlrGKg Sabine Devieilhe], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNYws1PNCH8 Who Sang The "Queen Of The Night" Staccatos The Best?], where Miklosa and Kim get my votes, I guess.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioc9shJa_lI Just the statue scene] from ''Don Giovanni '' and the entire opera, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPYjqz7nToY "Don Giovanni."]
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==Nelson, David(Moe)==
[https://www.facebook.com/TheGrandsons/videos/441077030370746 Lundi Gras New Orleans style jazz]. Moe is the bass player.
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==OFFENBACH==
I didn't remember that [http://youtube.com/watch?v=0u0M4CMq7uI the Barcarolle in Tales of Hoffmann] was a duet. Why does it bring tears to my eyes? I can't even make out the words. I did look up [http://lyricstranslate.com/en/jacques-offenbach-barcarolle-lyrics.html the words ] just now:
<blockquote style="color: gray">
Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour Souris à nos ivresses Nuit plus douce que le jour Ô,belle nuit d’amour! Le temps fuit et sans retour Emporte nos tendresses Loin de cet heureux séjour Le temps fuit sans retour Zéphyrs embrasés Versez-nous vos caresses Zéphyrs embrasés Donnez-nous vos baisers! Vos baisers! Vos baisers! Ah! Belle nuit, ô, nuit d’amour Souris à nos ivresses Nuit plus douce que le jour, Ô, belle nuit d’amour! Ah! souris à nos ivresses! Nuit d’amour, ô, nuit d’amour!
</blockquote>

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqR6Ai5ObPw The wind-up doll song] with Sabine Delxxxx.

They really are quite good. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Barbier Jules Barbier.] Maybe it got through my subconscious, since I can understand the French in text if not in song.<html>
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==OLIVER, Joseph "King"==
Louis Armstrong was his protege.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2wM-d-2QOI King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Canal Street Blues]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBAF1iGsGw0 King Oliver's Jazz Band (Okeh, October, 1923 Session)]

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==Paganini, Nicholas==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSBHsrPzf_s Complete guitar works] (3 hours) Audio only, ''You-Tube.''

==Paine, John==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7cOqrolsy4 Mass in D-minor], Op.10 (1866). Much like Haydn.

==PRESLEY, Elvis==
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=-eHJ12Vhpyc You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog.] Audio only.

==Psy==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 Gangnam Style] and [https://www.businessinsider.com/gangnam-style-translation-2012-9 a translation]

I’m a guy
A guy who seems calm but plays when he plays
A guy who goes completely crazy when the right time comes
A guy who has bulging ideas rather than muscles
That kind of guy

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==Rameau==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NybTtlHiFbk Overture to Zais], a weird and wonderful piece of music.

==Ries, Ferdinand==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J36CNOYFJCE Cello sonatas]

==Rossini==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CgYLpt9lHA Edward and Christina overture]

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==SCARLATTI==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itS_9f5MMsA Scarlatti has a harpsichord fandango].

==SCHUBERT==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zBUXhZx4w Trio 1,] opus 100, Beaux Art Trio.

*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=J_nKAXM9CY8 Trout quintet, Wigmore Hall. ]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFwg-o8sgxE Schubert's Erlkonig, piano, Joseph Hoffman]

*[https://kennethwoods.net/blog1/2007/11/06/podcast-rcco-death-and-the-maiden/ Death and the Maiden blogpost] and [https://kennethwoods.net/blog1/product/visions-of-childhood-four-last-songs-eso-april-fredrick-nimbus/ album with a very good recording].

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDGcyKhPV0M COmplete Schubert string quartets]

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==SCHUMANN==
Symphony [https://youtube.com./watch?v=xmXWs-nPSjc 1] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAnB45ZGIts 2] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl3RAqmN3Oo 4] (Karajan, 31 minutes) and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUes-2BON2s Norrington talk on Number 4 ] (10 minutes)

==SHOSTAKOVICH==
*Piano pieces in classical style, Preludes and Fugues, Op 8, [https://youtu.be/ZyURjdnYQaU first 12] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7JgJGZeyg no. 24].

*Movie music. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_CdYmAbVs "The Return of Maxim"] (Film Score), Op. 45. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d0h4T3lcQE "Stupid Little Mouse"], Op. 56 (not so good).

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtOFwI1dkXo 8 Waltzes from Film Music Suite for Symphony Orchestra T. Sanderling] 
0:01 Waltz from "Maxim's Return" (op.45) 
3:19 Waltz from "Golden Mountains" (op.30) 
8:39 Waltz from "Michurin" (op.78) 
10:50 Waltz from "Pirogov" (op.76) 
16:07 Waltz from "The Gadfly" (op.97) 
18:32 Waltz from "The First Echelon" (op.99) (Second Waltz) 
21:45 Waltz from "Unity" (op. 95) 
25:27 Waltz from "The Human Comedy" (op.37)

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qJdaHon2os "The Golden Age"] (Op. 22a, 1935).

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFg8lbHcEqs "Golden Mountains"] (op.30)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK1IgQnLTic "Hamlet, music for the film Op. 116 (1964)]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKKMXG3ulE "New Babylon"]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjExRLfU7x8 "King Lear,"] music for the film Op. 137 (1970)

==Soler, Lewis==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q13W_HcLkNM Fandango in D], like [https://youtu.be/IgEaS_d6qUE Boccherini has for guitar], but for harpsichord.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQbW75y3P9g Scarlatti has one] too. The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCwEyIBM4Q Andalusian folk dance] is interesting.

==SOUSA==
[http://youtube.com./watch?v=cxleNf2mjfg&list=PLA7no0L9zTk5QnKpwAcWV4jjhkCMsLuEt Complete marches.]STRAUSS. [http://youtube.com/watch?v=KY2Mw0LMz-E Die Fliedermaus ] , German.

==Stalin songs==
*[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:The_Ballad_of_Stalin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "The Ballad of Stalin"]
One day he looked upon his map and frowned and shook his head,
"There's too much brown and not enough green," these are the words he said;
"We'll have to change the weather, boys," he said and then he smiled,
"So let's begin by planting trees along three thousand miles."

==Steffan, Joseph==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8j9XNINAKA A piece]

==Steibelt==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfUdF547kh4 One piece] and
[http://www.annapetrova.com/en/daniel-steibelt-1765-1823-piano-works-cd/ piano works.]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTQ-P-G96Lo Harp Concerto]

This cd of Steibelt's concertos and like it a lot: https://www.amazon.com/Steibelt-Classical-Piano-Concertos-Vol/dp/B016VKBJYS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=steibelt&qid=1631494850&s=music&sr=1-1

==John STRAUSS==
[https://duckduckgo.com/?q=you+tube+die+fliedermaus&pn=1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DB_bOebWQoRc Die Fleidermaus], with English subtitles.

==Richard STRAUSS==
Does [http://youtube.com/watch?v=o9qVSXUU7Hw the timpani player]in Also Sprach really look like me as a young man?

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==Tausig==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yLi7gr5yqw "Josef Hofmann plays Scarlatti - Tausig, Pastorale e capriccio (1923)"]

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== Vinci==
*[https://youtu.be/OCTiqj2lrTs Four-minute aria in the Artaserces] opera, and the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F8g8lVbjs4 hour-long first act.] Is it right to watch a castrato part, even if nowadays not played by a castrato? Yes, I think, though it would not if it were a real castrato, because it would be to encourage mutilation. This recording has countertenor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Jaroussky Philippe Jaroussky]
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==Vivaldi, Anthony==
*[https://vimeo.com/110472348 the Four Seasons] (Vimeo, 58 minutes).

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==WAGNER==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI3CS0xficoFLying Dutchman ] with score....... [https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=wagner+lohengrin&&view=detail&mid=08F3457961D035EAC58208F3457961D035EAC582&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dwagner%2Blohengrin%26FORM%3DHDRSC3 Lohengrin], Kemp (3hrs 38min)......[http://youtube.com./watch?v=dfuksVNEqAA Rienzi.] Audio only......[http://youtube.com./watch?v=9d-3nqzKTKU Rheingold,] China; ..... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufTndujS5Bs Gotterdammerung, no ads?]

* [https://completerichardwagner.blogspot.com/2015/09/hitler-und-wagner.html "Hitler and Wagner,"] Peter Crawford, blog (2014). {{Quotation| In 1923, Winifred met Adolf Hitler who, as we know, greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Winifred sent him food parcels and stationery on which Hitler's autobiography 'Mein Kampf' was written. In the late 1930s, she served as Hitler's personal translator during treaty negotiations with England. Winifred's relationship with Hitler grew so close that by 1933 there were rumors of impending marriage. 'Haus Wahnfried', the Wagner home in Bayreuth, became Hitler's favorite retreat, and he had his own separate accommodation in the grounds of Wahnfried, known as the Führerbau.}}

{{Quotation| The name of the villa Wahnfried, is interesting. Wahnen means endless striving of an artist for the fulfillment of his aspirations and the triumph of his art. So Wahnfried (Wahnen free) was the name chosen and even today we can see Wagner's motto on the front: "Here where my delusions have found peace, let this place be named Wahnfried."... In a shady grove beyond the garden, surrounded with ivy, is the tomb of Richard and Cosima Wagner. The stone is unmarked, because as Wagner insisted, as long as it remained, everyone would know who was buried there. ...}}

{{Quotation| Symphonies - initially - held little interest, and chamber music none at all. There is no record of his ever having attended a chamber concert or a lieder recital. His attendance at symphony concerts was increasingly rare as time passed and, when chancellor, he seldom appeared except on ceremonial occasions.}}

==Webern==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zveKEk3A5fo Johann Sebastian Bach: Musical Offering, No. 2 Ricercar a 6] (arranged by Anton Webern), Paavo Järvi, conductor Berlin Philharmonic

==Wieniawski, Joseph ==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6hgSGqL1c Piano Concerto in G-minor,] Op.20 (1858)
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==ANONYMOUS==
The [http://youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=Va6yxMru9jE&feature=emb_title Le Boudin, ]the [http://foreignlegion.info/songs/le-boudin/ Sausage Song] of the Foreign Legion that insults the Belgians ] . They're not politically correct. A more polished version, probably sung by professionals, and with subtitles is [http://youtube.com/watch?list=RDVa6yxMru9jE&v=FKGLGFQSpXE&feature=emb_rel_end here. ]

Words

2026-02-13T00:45:18Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* RAREBIT */

https://twitter.com/BrilliantMaps/status/1449114106200535041

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==NEW WORDS NEEDED==
*{{Quotation|I taught misrepresentation/fraud yesterday; and midway through our analysis of the famous case Vokes v. Arthur Murray dance studio, I realized that the gullible, pathetic, 2-left-footed widow in that case -- Audrey Vokes -- was younger than I am now. Confused }}

:{{Quotation|Replying to @ProfEricTalley}}
:{{Quotation|If I were the mainstream media, I would now report that Columbia University admits that it teaches misrepresentation and fraud. }}
:{{Quotation|(What is the word for that self-reflexive sentence?-someone who fraudulently accuses someone else of fraud? Useful term for Russiagate too.)}}

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==Academic Scaffolding==
A scholarly backdrop to make an idea I believe in anyway look fancier than it is. In economics, we have an idea, and then we spend a year trying to construct a rational-actor math model of it, or trying to see if the data supports it. In our case, though, we reject the idea if we can't get rigor behind it.

==Acrid==
Unpleasantly sharp, pungent, or bitter.

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==Ad hominem==
{{Quotation| Yes...when JMac made a statement about the nature of the Son of God that was very, very off and he publicly acknowledged it before the entire world. Let's take a peak at your life and see what we can find. What are you hiding Dennis? Unbelievable. The level of hypocrisy is sick.

The sin of "Dennis Swanson" is a different subject, and not as interesting.
There should be a name for this.
"Ad hominem" doesn't quite fit.
Nor "ad hominem libellum"
Nor "ad hominem innuedum"More like "ad hominem conjecturum" But my grammar may be off.}}

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==Adiaphora==
The plural of adiaphoron, a thing that exists outside of moral law, neither condemned nor approved by morality; “indifferent things,” neither right nor wrong, spiritually neutral.

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==Anscombe's Quartet==
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet The Wikipedia article on it.]
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== Antifaschistischer Schutzwall ==
"Anti-fascist protection dike" or "rampart", the Berlin Wall's official name in East Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall

==Apophenia==Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.

==Apparatchicks, Apparatjocks==
"The apparatchiks and apparatjocks of National Public Radio."

==Arcsine(x)==
In the unit circle, "the arc whose sine is x" is the same as "the angle whose sine is x", because the length of the arc of the circle is a measure of the angle. In Mexico the functions was also called angsin, meaning "angle whose sine is..." https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/33175/etymology-of-arccos-arcsin-arctan

==Argumentum ad Verecundiam==
The fallacy of argument from inappropriate authority: an appeal to the testimony of an authority outside of the authority's special field of expertise. https://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/authority.html

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==[[Baizhuo]]==
{{Quotation| WIKIPEDIA: Baizuo (/ˈbaɪˌdzwɔː/, /baɪˈzwoʊ/; Chinese: 白左; pinyin: báizuǒ, Mandarin pronunciation: [pǎi.tswò], literally White Left)[1][2] is a Chinese neologism and political epithet used to refer to Western leftist ideologies primarily espoused by white leftists.[3] The term baizuo is related to the term shèngmǔ (圣母, 聖母, literally "Blessed Mother") or shèngmǔbiǎo (圣母婊, 聖母婊, literally "Blessed Mother of Bitch"), a sarcastic reference to those whose political opinions are perceived as being guided by emotions or a hypocritical show of selflessness and empathy.

The term baizuo was apparently coined in a 2010 article published on Renren Network by user Li Shuo, entitled The Fake Morality of the Western White Left and the Chinese Patriotic Scientists (西方白左和中国爱国科学家的伪道德), initially used as a general critique of certain socialist values in the American left.[3] No further use of the term is known until 2013, where on Chinese forum Zhihu through 2013–2015, the term evolved to criticize some people among the left who seemingly advocate for positive slogans like peace and equality to boast their sense of moral superiority, but are ignorant of real-world consequences, and utilize destructive behavior like political sacrifice and identity politics.

Substantial use in Chinese Internet culture began in early 2016, at first at MIT BBS, a bulletin board system used by many Chinese in the U.S., during the 2016 United States presidential election.}}

==Beautilicious==

==Bug-Man==
Synonym for Nietzsche's Last Man of Zarathustra, probably derived from "Bourgeois Man".
"The Bugmen, to stay with BAP, are the “pretentious bureaucrats” who harbor “titanic hatred of the well-turned out and beautiful.” They believe in “social justice” and “first-world regimented hygiene”" from the Bronze Age Pervert via [https://newrepublic.com/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SF_TNR the New Republic 2023 article] on the Claremont Institute.

==Bushing==
Wikipedia:"A bushing or rubber bushing is a type of vibration isolator. It provides an interface between two parts, damping the energy transmitted through the bushing. A common application is in vehicle suspension systems, where a bushing made of rubber (or, more often, synthetic rubber or polyurethane) separates the faces of two metal objects while allowing a certain amount of movement."

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==Cadence==
{{Quotation| [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cadence#English From Wiktionary:] 
1. The act or state of declining or sinking. 
2. Balanced, rhythmic flow. 
3. The measure or beat of movement. 
4. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound. 
5. (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation. 
6. (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. 
7. (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.}}

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==Camel case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with capitals, as in FirstSecondThird. See also: pothole case, kebab case.

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==Chesterton's Fence==
{{Quotation| “In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”
Chesterton is not alone in the observation. It is found throughout our literature and theatre. In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to famously challenge his reformist son-in-law. The poet Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in “Mending Wall.” Scripture is replete with its warning, beginning in Proverbs 22:28, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone that your fathers have placed.” }}--[https://mailchi.mp/inpolicy/2022-and-chestertons-fence-488333?e=bda54c6080 "Chesterton's Fence"]

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==Combatativeness==
"Combativeness" is a word. So is "combatative".. : Is "combatativeness" an existing word? Should it be? Is it better than "combativeness"?

==CHYMPS==
{{Quotation| CHYMPS is the acronym for the top political science PhD programs in the United States. It is the political science PhD equivalent to HYS (Harvard, Yale, Stanford) for law schools and HSW (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton) for business schools. CHYMPS stands for: 
Cal-Berkeley 
Harvard 
Yale 
Michigan 
Princeton 
Stanford.

[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a443ef9dd190e688bf05648a48e463e7 image of network]

The acronym was originally Hypes-Bomb (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT) as a shorthand for the top political science departments (perhaps pejorative, as in overhyped but famous political science schools).

Hypes-Bomb then morphed to CHYMPS since it’s catchier.

CHYMPS then became the updated HYP as an acronym for the most prestigious schools in the US generally (see Urban Dictionary entry from 2009), though it’s causing some confusion among Columbia, Cornell, Caltech, and University of Chicago fans who feel that “C” should stand for them, not Cal-Berkeley (just a bias against public schools IMO, since Cal is clearly superior to the other “C” schools, at least at the graduate level). 
--https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-CHYMPS-Cal-Berkeley-Harvard-Yale-MIT-Princeton-and-Stanford }}

==Contradictorily==
"In selling stock, the filer is not ''contradictorily'' asserting it is solvent; the *buyers* are saying that."

==Coolitude==
The property of being "cool". A neologism.

==Coviderati==
The people who designed and promoted America's covid epidemic policy in 2021-- the lockdowns, masks, vaccines for children, and so forth. I saw Jay Bhattacharya use this in a 2023 tweet at https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/1650268566036574208.

== Crazytown==
"I feel like I'm in crazytown when I express distress about taxation - literally people forcibly taking away your property - and ppl act like I'm the crazy one." [https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1386021135112839171 A tweet] (2021).

==Curtilage==
Legal. An area of land attached to a house and forming one enclosure with it.

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==Damnatio memoriae==
[https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/11/the-academic-memory-hole/ Joshua Katz: "I’ve “been disappeared.” The standard name for this is damnatio memoriae, Latin for “condemnation of memory”. ]

==[[Deificatio]]==
"Deificatio hominis" or just "deificatio" is the Latin term used in theology for the idea of a man trying to become more like God. It might be exactly the same idea as "sanctification"; I'm not sure. Often people say "deification", which is bad terminology. It already has a main meaning, and that main meaning is completely different, almost opposite, since it is to make something into an idol, treating it as God. The idea here is not to set yourself up falsely as God, but to make yourself slightly more like God and diminish your own contrary will. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosis_(Eastern_Christian_theology)#:~:text=Theosis%2C%20or%20deification%20(deification%20may,and%20the%20Byzantine%20Catholic%20Churches. Greek term “Theosis”] is better, maybe; I don’t grasp the Eastern Orthodox concept very well. “Sanctification” is good. “Divinization” is okay, but sounds too much like “divining”, as in fortune-telling.

==Degringolade==
A rapid decline or deterioration in a situation.

==Derangement==
From [https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1168597790127284224 Twitter]: "A permutation that leaves no element in-place is called a 'derangement'."

==Devolution==
Devolution can mean either the reverse of evolution or the devolving of power, two quite distinct meanings.

==Doctrine of Double Effect==
"The doctrine (or principle) of double effect is often invoked to explain the permissibility of an action that causes a serious harm, such as the death of a human being, as a side effect of promoting some good end. According to the principle of double effect, sometimes it is permissible to cause a harm as a side effect (or “double effect”) of bringing about a good result even though it would not be permissible to cause such a harm as a means to bringing about the same good end." [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-effect/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20principle%20of,about%20the%20same%20good%20end. "Doctrine of Double Effect,"] Stanford dictionary.

==Doomscrolling==
“Doomscrolling is the act of spending an excessive amount of time online, particularly on social media or news sites, scrolling through content that is overwhelmingly negative, depressing, or anxiety-inducing."

==Doublethink==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

==Drafty Version of a Paper==
“Very drafty version”: I like that, and will use it myself. You eventually will insulate it from criticism. "Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of State
Formation in Europe, " Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University, August 31, 2020.

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==Enantiomer==
"Enantiomers, also known as optical isomers, are two stereoisomers that are related to each other by a reflection: they are mirror images of each other that are non-superposable. Human hands are a macroscopic analog of this." --[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoisomerism#:~:text=Enantiomers%2C%20also%20known%20as%20optical,opposite%20configuration%20in%20the%20other "Steroisomerism,"] ''Wikipedia.''

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==Enunciative and Enunciatory==
I think these mean "enunciating well", but I haven't been able to find out, googling.

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==Epiphany==
One meaning in Greek of ἐπιφάνεια is, from [https://www.studylight.org/lexicons/eng/greek/2015.html Liddel-Scott-Jones, ]
" in war, sudden appearance of an enemy, Aen.Tact. 31.8, Plb. 1.54.2, Ascl. Tact. 12.10(pl.), Onos. 22.3 (pl.)."

==Epsilontik==
"Epsilontik" is the precise development of analysis, differential geometry, and topology using epsilon-neighborhoods in the style of Weierstrass. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Johannes_Thomae.

==The Fallacy of Equivocation==
Using a term with one meaning in the premise, and another in the conclusion. [http://fallacyoftheweek.professorsykes.com/fallacy-types/equivocation/ From Professorsykes.com:] 
“Noisy children are a real pain. Two aspirin will make any pain go away. Therefore, two aspirin will make noisy children go away.”

==Erdocity==
The nearness of relationship between two people or things, after mathematician Paul Erdos. He has Erdos Number 0; his co-author has 1; his co-author's author 2;...Eric Rasmusen, 5 (3 ways: Connell-Farb-Lubotzky-Alon-Erdos, Janssen-Sierksma-Doignon-Fishburn-Erdos, and Ayres-Rowat-Beardon-Lehner-Erdos). Like 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon. It applies broadly; e.g. how distant I am in relationship of having conversed with economists who've conversed with historians who've conversed with journalists. The word is original with me, I think. I would pronounce it "erdossity" rather than "erdoshity", despite Erdos being Hungarian.

==Eructation==
A belch.
A violent bursting forth or ejection of matter from the earth.

==Exvangelical==
An ex-evangelical; in particular, not a convert to Romanism or Eastern Orthodoxy, but someone who used to be part of conservative Protestantism but then started to attack it.

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==Fiat Abuse==
A debate team term. "Fiat abuse is where you try to prevent debate not only on whether you could actually enact a policy (that's what you can "fiat" into existence) but also the policy's workability. So, if you were debating Communism, you might be able to fiat a Communist revolution- "if the workers revolted, would it be good", but you can't fiat the moneyed classes giving up all their private property voluntarily. One of the problems with Communism is they'd resist!" Dilan Esper
@dilanesper

==Fissiparous==
Inclined to cause or undergo division into separate parts or groups."she was unsuccessful in holding a fissiparous membership together"

==Flatus==
Gas generated in or expelled from the digestive tract, especially the stomach or intestines.

==The Flypaper Effect==
"The flypaper effect is '''a concept from the field of public finance''' that suggests that a government grant to a recipient municipality increases the level of local public spending more than an increase in local income of an equivalent size. '''When a dollar of exogenous grants to a community leads to significantly greater public spending than an equivalent dollar of citizen income: money sticks where it hits, like a fly to flypaper'''. Grants to the government will stay in the hands of the government and income to individuals will stay with these individuals." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flypaper_effect

==Freudenschade==
Sorrow over someone's success. The counterpart to Schadenfreude (joy over someone's loss).

==Fugacity==
1. The noun for being fleeting, evanescent. 
2. A coefficient for a real-world gas which makes the ideal gas equation be true. The fugacity of an ideal gas is 1. The fugacity of real-world gases is between 0 and 1, e.g. the fugacity of nitrogen is about .93. 
This came up in Ben's Thermodynamics class. 
I would like there to be the word "Fugacitaceous" too, for the sound of it, but that's a neologism.

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==Gasket==
A shaped piece or ring of rubber or other material sealing the junction between two surfaces in an engine or other device.

==Googleability or Googlability==
A measure of how easy it is to find information about a person on the Web. Which spelling is better?

==Gluckschmerz==
Pain at seeing someone else's good fortune, analogous to Schadenfreude. But it's fake German. See this [https://twitter.com/TomVaid/status/1442500467158765574 twitter thread].
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==Hanja==
(Korean: 한자; Hanja: 漢字, Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write Korean.

==Haredi ==
"Haredi is a Modern Hebrew adjective derived from the Biblical verb hared, which appears in the Book of Isaiah (66:2; its plural haredim appears in Isaiah 66:5)[27] and is translated as "one who trembles" at the word of God. The word connotes an awe-inspired fear to perform the will of God."

==Heisenbug==
There’s a bug in my code.
I add logging.
the bug disappears.
I remove the logging.
the bug is back.

See [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/heisenbug.html Catb.org]:
[from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment significantly enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialized memory, behaves quite differently.) Antonym of Bohr bug; see also mandelbug, schroedinbug. In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialized auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (esp. lossage related to corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack.

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==The Javert Paradox==
{{Quotation| The Javert Paradox: Suppose you find a problem with published work. If you just point it out once or twice, the authors of the work are likely to do nothing. But if you really pursue the problem, then you look like a Javert.
-- [https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2009/05/24/handy_statistic/ Andrew Gelman]}}

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==[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos '''Kairos.''']==
καιρός. "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved."

{{quotation| While chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative, permanent nature.<ref> [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkairo%2Fs1 Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon ]</ref> ''Kairos'' also means ''weather'' in Modern Greek... In weaving, kairos denotes the moment in which the shuttle could be passed through threads on the loom."<ref>Stephenson,Hunter W. (2005) "Forecasting Opportunity: Kairos, Production, and Writing, p.4. University Press of America: Oxford</ref> ..."Kairos" (used 86 times in the New Testament) refers to an opportune time, a "moment" or a "season" such as "harvest time," whereas "chronos" (used 54 times) refers to a specific amount of time, such as a day or an hour (e.g. Acts 13:18 and 27:9).}}

==Katz==
Short for "Kohen Tzedeq ("priest of justice"/"authentic priest") or Kohen Tzadok (meaning the name-bearer is of patrilineal descent of the Kohanim sons of Zadok)", Wikipedia says.

==Kebab case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with dashes, as in first-second-third. See also: camel case, pothole case.

==Kofferbuch==
A book that one takes along on a trip with the intention of reading but is never actually read.

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==LIMERENCE==
The state of being in love. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence

==Lunate epsilon==
The lunate epsilon (tex: $\epsilon$) is the moon-shaped one that I like to use for something very small because it looks smaller. The "reverse-3" form is the uglier squiggly one that has the advantage of one-stroke cursive writing on the blackboard. See the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon Wikipedia entry].

==To Lustrate==
To purify by expiatory sacrifice, ceremonial washing, or some other ritual action.
"a soul lustrated in the baptismal waters"

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==Malum in se==
I've long been frustrated that the opposite of ''malum in se'' is ''malum in prohibitum'', which is not audibly parallel. I'd very much like ''malum in lex'', but it's ungrammatrical. It would have to be ''malum in lege'', ablative case. But how about
"''malum in legibus''"? "Bad in the laws"? That has a nice-sounding consonant "s" at the end, even though "x" ("ks") would be even better.

==Menschlichkeit==
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Menschlichkeit The quality of humanness (the condition or quality of being human). Related to the Yiddish Mensch ("What a stand-up guy! He is a real mensch.")

==Meomarxism==
The vulgar marxism of circa 2020 that is based on the oppressor/oppressed dichotomy and identity politics. In adult Sunday school today, I figured out this word for the wokesters, wokies, wokers, neo-marxists: Meomarxists. It's all about me showing I'm not an oppressor, and that I'm one of the oppressed (though this is tough if you're a straight white male, even if you're effeminate).

This is a better word than "identomarxism", another coinage of mine. The word "meowmarkism" is also inferior.

==Merism==
DbPedia [https://dbpedia.org/page/Merism] says,
"Merism (Latin: merismus, Greek: μερισμός, translit. merismós) is a rhetorical device (or figure of speech) in which a combination of two contrasting parts of the whole refer to the whole. For example, in order to say that someone "searched everywhere", one could use the merism "searched high and low"." See also [https://www.thoughtco.com/merism-rhetoric-term-1691307#:~:text=Merism%20(from%20the%20Greek%2C%20%22,used%20to%20describe%20the%20whole] Thoughtco on merism.

==Midwit==
"Someone who is around average intelligence but is so opinionated and full of themselves that they think they're some kind of genius. They overlap with pseuds."

==Misnagdim==
"Misnagdim ((מתנגדים‎,"Opponents"; a religious movement among the Jews of Eastern Europe which resisted the rise of Hasidism in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Misnagdim were particularly concentrated in Lithuania, where Vilnius served as the bastion of the movement, but anti-Hasidic activity was undertaken by the establishment in many locales. The most severe clashes between the factions took place in the latter third of the 18th century; the failure to contain Hasidism led the Misnagdim to develop distinct religious philosophies and communal institutions, which were not merely a perpetuation of the old status quo but often innovative. The most notable results of these efforts, pioneered by Chaim of Volozhin and continued by his disciples, were the modern, independent yeshiva and the Musar movement. Since the late 19th century, tensions with the Hasidim largely subsided, and the heirs of Misnagdim adopted the epithet Litvishe or Litvaks."

==Mizrahim==
*Mizrahim is a term coined with the creation of the State of Israel. It means "Easterner" in Hebrew and refers to Oriental Jews or descendants of Jewish communities from the Middle East and North Africa.

==Mnemonic==
Mnemonic (plural mnemonics): Anything (especially in verbal form) used to help remember something.
:How do you spell mnemonic? 
:It's practically demonic. 
:You put an M before the N; 
:And then it's just phenomic.

==Mokita==
"Mokita is a Papua New Guinean term for something that everyone knows but no one talks about." https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/1439993770519445508?s=03. 
"Earl Hunt, the eminent psychometrician, invoked that word in his review of TBC many, many years ago."--Charles Murray, https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/1439993770519445508?s=03.

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==Neuronormal, Neurotypical==
I realize I'm a Neurotypical (or am I?). It makes me sound very powerful, or even scary. A useful word. Neuronormal might be better though.

==Noncentral Fallacy==
<pre>
If he can unilaterally declare a Worst Argument, then so can I. I declare the Worst Argument In The World to be this: "X is in a category whose archetypal member gives us a certain emotional reaction. Therefore, we should apply that emotional reaction to X, even though it is not a central category member."

Call it the Noncentral Fallacy.
</pre>
From Scott Alexander, [https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncentral-fallacy-the-worst-argument-in-the-world "The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world?"] ''LessWrong'' (2012).

==Nuisance parameter==
A nuisance parameter is any parameter which is not of immediate interest but must be accounted for in the analysis of the parameter of interest. The classic example is the variance of distribution when the mean is of primary interest. [https://buff.ly/2RVnaMH Wikipedia's article].

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==Overmorrow==
The day after tomorrow, an old English word. Ubermorgen in German.

==Obrazovanshchina==
"Obrazovanshchina (Russian: образованщина, 'educationdom', 'educaties',[1] 'smatterers') is a Russian ironical, derogatory term for a category of people with superficial education who lack the higher ethics of an educated person.[2] The term was introduced by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his 1974 essay "Obrazovanshchina" (translated as "The Smatterers") as a criticism of the transformation of the Russian intelligentsia, which, in his opinion had lost high ethical values." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obrazovanshchina

==Obscurantisme terroriste==
'Foucault said that Derrida practiced the method of obscurantisme terroriste (terrorism of obscurantism). We were speaking French. And I said, “What the hell do you mean by that?” And he said, “He writes so obscurely you can’t tell what he’s saying, that’s the obscurantism part, and then when you criticize him, he can always say, ‘You didn’t understand me; you’re an idiot.’ That’s the terrorism part.” ' Quoted in [https://benthams.substack.com/p/is-continental-philosophy-unclear Bentham's Bulldog. ]

==On the Record==
{{Quotation|
AP's guidelines for "Off the record", "Background" and "Deep Background"
Published 2011-08-01

Not everyone understands “off the record” or “on background” to mean the same things. Before any interview in which any degree of anonymity is expected, there should be a discussion in which the ground rules are set explicitly.
These are the AP’s definitions:

On the record: The information can be used with no caveats, quoting the source by name.

Off the record: The information cannot be used for publication.

Background: The information can be published but only under conditions negotiated with the source. Generally, the sources do not want their names published but will agree to a description of their position. AP reporters should object vigorously when a source wants to brief a group of reporters on background and try to persuade the source to put the briefing on the record. These background briefings have become routine in many venues, especially with government officials.

Deep background: The information can be used but without attribution. The source does not want to be identified in any way, even on condition of anonymity.
https://blog.chrislkeller.com/aps-guidelines-for-off-the-record-background/}}

==Overfeatures==
I'd like to popularize the word "overfeatured" to mean software, cars, or any other product that has too many bells and whistles. These can either actively degrade usability, or make it too hard to figure out simple uses.

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==Palooka==
"Palooka is a classic term for an inexperienced or incompetent boxer, one who has no business being in the ring. More broadly, it can mean any oaf or lout."

==Panache==
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==Per curiam==
A way for a court to sign a judicial opinion. "Traditionally, the per curiam was used to signal that a case was
uncontroversial, obvious, and did not require a substantial opinion... These early
opinions often comprised only a sentence or two, rarely more than a
paragraph, and never displayed disagreement among the Justices.
Beginning in 1909 with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose
strongly worded separate opinions earned him the moniker "the Great
Dissenter," per curiam opinions began to feature dissents... The per curiam
not only allowed the Court to quickly adjudicate these more
substantive cases but also to signify to the public that the issues in
them were easily resolved and required little explanation."
[https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/425/ "Hiding Behind the Cloak of Invisibility: The Supreme Court and Per Curiam Opinions,"]
Ira Robbins (2012).

==Pistarckle==
[https://twitter.com/RBrookhiser/status/1656389209286909954?t=97hk1vD-di0L5C8xJ47ytg&s=03 Richard Brookhiser]: "Virgin Islands slang, meaning uproar, confusion. I encountered the word years ago in the USVI and have been using it ever since."

==Persiflage==
Light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter.

==Pothole case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with underscores, as in first_second_third. See also: camel case, kebab case.

==Plaque==
1. an ornamental tablet,
2. A sticky bacterial deposit on teeth.

==Prevenient Grace==
"Free will is unable to begin or to perfect any true and spiritual good, without grace. …This grace [prævenit] goes before, accompanies, and follows; it excites, assists, operates that we will, and co operates lest we will in vain." Arminius [https://ccel.org/ccel/arminius/works2/works2.ix.vi.html "Grace and Free Will"]

==Procatalepsis==
Procatalepsis is the rhetorical device of raising objections to your own argument and then answering them, thus forestalling your opponent.

==Pronunciamento==
{{Quotation| A pronunciamiento (Spanish: [pɾonunθjaˈmjento], Portuguese: pronunciamento [pɾunũsiɐˈmẽtu]; "proclamation , announcement or declaration") is a form of military rebellion or coup d'état particularly associated with Spain, Portugal and Latin America, especially in the 19th century.}}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciamiento

==Propaganda Press==
The media outlets that parrot the regime's propaganda, e.g., ''The New York Times, The Washington Post'', MSNBC, CNN. This term is better than "mainstream media" or "corporate media" or "legacy media" or "fake news" or "establishment media" or "regime media".

==Proptreptic==
Writing that is aimed at conversion, changing the path of the reader.
:"Collins defines protreptic as conversion, since the exhortatory movement implied in the verb προτρέπω (‘urge on, impel’) is often—or, more radically, always—linked to the abandoning of previous opinions and ways of life (apotreptic, cf. ἀποτρέπω, ‘turn away from’). However, it soon becomes clear that the author aims at a broader examination of ancient and modern genre theory in order to highlight the versatility of protreptic at its beginning. Collins sets out four characteristics of protreptic (17-18). According to him protreptic is: (a) dialogic, in the sense that it ‘always contains the voices of its competition’; (b) agonistic; (c) situational; and (d) rhetorical." ([https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2015/2015.12.16/ "Exhortations to Philosophy: The Protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle" review])

==Psephology==
The statistical study of elections and voting.

==Pseudo-Wiki==
A website that looks like a wiki and uses wiki software, but is written by one or a very limited set of people. This website, [https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia Rasmapedia], is an example.

==PUMP AND DUMP==
1. The stock manipulation trick of using rumor or purchase to inflate a stock's purchase and then selling it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump.
:2. The political dirty trick of getting a crowd so excited that it charges off to wreck a building or kill someone, so it gets in trouble and discredits the movement, and then quietly leaving before the arrests and shooting.
:3. A Full Service Company Offering Residential & Commercial Septic Services. https://www.pumpndumpusa.com/.

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==Quandary==
A situation of perplexity. It is spelled with a silent "a", which I hate and will omit when I can get away with it.

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==Selectorate==
British English:"a body of people responsible for making a selection, esp members of a political party who select candidates for an election."

==Semble==
Legal phrase meaning "see the following case, but it's just in dictum or some other loose relevance". Italicized, because it's from law French, il semble, "it seems". Discussed at length on [https://twitter.com/SCOTUSPlaces/status/1674432352431538177 Twitter] in 2023 after the Harvard decision on Asians having bad personalities.

==Shekhina==
From Wikipedia:
:"Shekhinah, also spelled Shechinah (Hebrew: שְׁכִינָה Šəḵīnā, Tiberian: Šăḵīnā) is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning "dwelling" or "settling" and denotes the presence of God, as it were, in a place. This concept is found in Judaism.

:The Hebrew Bible mentions several places where the presence of God was felt and experienced as a Shekhinah, including the burning bush and the cloud that rested on Mount Sinai. The Shekhinah was often pictured as a cloud or as a pillar of fire and was referred to as the glory of God. The Shekhinah was also understood to be present in the Tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem, and to be seated at the right hand of God.

:The word shekhinah is not found in the Bible. It appears in the Mishnah, the Talmud, and in midrash. . . .

:The Talmud states that
:: "the Shekhinah rests on man neither through gloom, nor through sloth, nor through frivolity, nor through levity, nor through talk, nor through idle chatter, but only through a matter of joy in connection with a mitzvah.""

==Spitster==
A double-cup invention for eating sunflower seeds, peanuts, or pistachios. https://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9254850.htm

==Stanch==
To stop the flow of blood.

==Steelmanning==
Presenting one's opponent's arguments as well as possible, even if that's not the way they presented them. Chicago's Professor [https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/12/steelmanning-and-interpretive-charity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Will Baude says,]
"Indeed, I now sometimes test a version of this skill on my exams, asking students to write up both sides of an argument, with the rule that their grade will be based on the quality of the worse of the two arguments."

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==Traumata==
An alternative to "traumas" as a plural for "trauma".

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==The Unpronounceable Case==
[https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-968_8nj9.pdf Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski], US Supreme Court (2020) may supplant whatever case has traditionally held this title.

==Unterschlepper==
Neologism from [https://stljewishlight.org/news/news-local/yiddish-word-of-the-week-schlep-or-schlepper/ "schlepper"].
{{Quotation| From Yiddish שלעפּן (“to drag”); from High German schleppen (“to drag”)– “to carry”- 
1) a servant who carries things 
2) a porter 
3) a pejorative insult for an individual who wanders aimlessly 
4) One who acts in a slovenly, lazy, or sloppy manner. Kind of like the modern idiom of “slacker”. 

Synonyms in academia are "assistant dean", "deanlet" and "deanlette".

==Urdummheit==
From the novel ''Amigos:'' the word urdummheit. It means something like "great stupidity", "stupidityat its very origins". [https://thesaurasize.com/Urdummheit https://thesaurasize.com/Urdummheit] was being tricked by someone.

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==Vatic==
Describing or predicting what will happen in the future.

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== Valley of the Clueles: Das Tal der Ahnungslosen==
The valley in East Germany that could not be reached by Voice of America radio. "regions in the northeast to Greifswald and in the southeast of the GDR in the former district of Dresden... about 15 % of the population of the GDR...The term is now used for local communities or areas in Germany with missing or poorly developed broadband Internet access," from [https://memim.com/tal-der-ahnungslosen.html Tal der Ahnungslosen].

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==Verbesserschlechterung==
A improvement that makes things worse. The German word for "software update".

==Verschlimmbessern==
To make something worse while trying to improve it.

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==Wokeschaltung==
The Woke pressure to bring everything in society into conformity or else crush it, by analogy to the Nazi gleichschaltung. Perhaps coined by Curtis Yarvin in [https://graymirror.substack.com/p/big-tech-has-no-power-at-all?s=r "Big tech has no power at all: The basics of tech censorship and the structure of the cathedral,"] (2021).

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==Zeptosecond==
The shortest time period measured is 247 zeptoseconds, a the time for light to cross a hydrogen molecule, a Livescience.com article tells us. A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second, or a decimal point followed by 20 zeroes and a 1, .00000 00000 00000 000001 seconds.

==Zornhau==
A zornhau (wrath hew) is the diagonal cut sword cut from shoulder to opposite waist known as "kesa-giri" in Japan. It is said to be historically the most effective at killing people. See https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Diagonal_Cut and https://danielagnewauthor.com/2017/04/27/the-zornhau-ort-its-simpler-than-you-think/.

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2026-02-13T00:43:29Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* PUMP AND DUMP */

https://twitter.com/BrilliantMaps/status/1449114106200535041

== commands==
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==NEW WORDS NEEDED==
*{{Quotation|I taught misrepresentation/fraud yesterday; and midway through our analysis of the famous case Vokes v. Arthur Murray dance studio, I realized that the gullible, pathetic, 2-left-footed widow in that case -- Audrey Vokes -- was younger than I am now. Confused }}

:{{Quotation|Replying to @ProfEricTalley}}
:{{Quotation|If I were the mainstream media, I would now report that Columbia University admits that it teaches misrepresentation and fraud. }}
:{{Quotation|(What is the word for that self-reflexive sentence?-someone who fraudulently accuses someone else of fraud? Useful term for Russiagate too.)}}

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==Academic Scaffolding==
A scholarly backdrop to make an idea I believe in anyway look fancier than it is. In economics, we have an idea, and then we spend a year trying to construct a rational-actor math model of it, or trying to see if the data supports it. In our case, though, we reject the idea if we can't get rigor behind it.

==Acrid==
Unpleasantly sharp, pungent, or bitter.

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==Ad hominem==
{{Quotation| Yes...when JMac made a statement about the nature of the Son of God that was very, very off and he publicly acknowledged it before the entire world. Let's take a peak at your life and see what we can find. What are you hiding Dennis? Unbelievable. The level of hypocrisy is sick.

The sin of "Dennis Swanson" is a different subject, and not as interesting.
There should be a name for this.
"Ad hominem" doesn't quite fit.
Nor "ad hominem libellum"
Nor "ad hominem innuedum"More like "ad hominem conjecturum" But my grammar may be off.}}

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==Adiaphora==
The plural of adiaphoron, a thing that exists outside of moral law, neither condemned nor approved by morality; “indifferent things,” neither right nor wrong, spiritually neutral.

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==Anscombe's Quartet==
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet The Wikipedia article on it.]
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== Antifaschistischer Schutzwall ==
"Anti-fascist protection dike" or "rampart", the Berlin Wall's official name in East Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall

==Apophenia==Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.

==Apparatchicks, Apparatjocks==
"The apparatchiks and apparatjocks of National Public Radio."

==Arcsine(x)==
In the unit circle, "the arc whose sine is x" is the same as "the angle whose sine is x", because the length of the arc of the circle is a measure of the angle. In Mexico the functions was also called angsin, meaning "angle whose sine is..." https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/33175/etymology-of-arccos-arcsin-arctan

==Argumentum ad Verecundiam==
The fallacy of argument from inappropriate authority: an appeal to the testimony of an authority outside of the authority's special field of expertise. https://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/authority.html

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==[[Baizhuo]]==
{{Quotation| WIKIPEDIA: Baizuo (/ˈbaɪˌdzwɔː/, /baɪˈzwoʊ/; Chinese: 白左; pinyin: báizuǒ, Mandarin pronunciation: [pǎi.tswò], literally White Left)[1][2] is a Chinese neologism and political epithet used to refer to Western leftist ideologies primarily espoused by white leftists.[3] The term baizuo is related to the term shèngmǔ (圣母, 聖母, literally "Blessed Mother") or shèngmǔbiǎo (圣母婊, 聖母婊, literally "Blessed Mother of Bitch"), a sarcastic reference to those whose political opinions are perceived as being guided by emotions or a hypocritical show of selflessness and empathy.

The term baizuo was apparently coined in a 2010 article published on Renren Network by user Li Shuo, entitled The Fake Morality of the Western White Left and the Chinese Patriotic Scientists (西方白左和中国爱国科学家的伪道德), initially used as a general critique of certain socialist values in the American left.[3] No further use of the term is known until 2013, where on Chinese forum Zhihu through 2013–2015, the term evolved to criticize some people among the left who seemingly advocate for positive slogans like peace and equality to boast their sense of moral superiority, but are ignorant of real-world consequences, and utilize destructive behavior like political sacrifice and identity politics.

Substantial use in Chinese Internet culture began in early 2016, at first at MIT BBS, a bulletin board system used by many Chinese in the U.S., during the 2016 United States presidential election.}}

==Beautilicious==

==Bug-Man==
Synonym for Nietzsche's Last Man of Zarathustra, probably derived from "Bourgeois Man".
"The Bugmen, to stay with BAP, are the “pretentious bureaucrats” who harbor “titanic hatred of the well-turned out and beautiful.” They believe in “social justice” and “first-world regimented hygiene”" from the Bronze Age Pervert via [https://newrepublic.com/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SF_TNR the New Republic 2023 article] on the Claremont Institute.

==Bushing==
Wikipedia:"A bushing or rubber bushing is a type of vibration isolator. It provides an interface between two parts, damping the energy transmitted through the bushing. A common application is in vehicle suspension systems, where a bushing made of rubber (or, more often, synthetic rubber or polyurethane) separates the faces of two metal objects while allowing a certain amount of movement."

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==Cadence==
{{Quotation| [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cadence#English From Wiktionary:] 
1. The act or state of declining or sinking. 
2. Balanced, rhythmic flow. 
3. The measure or beat of movement. 
4. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound. 
5. (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation. 
6. (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. 
7. (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.}}

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==Camel case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with capitals, as in FirstSecondThird. See also: pothole case, kebab case.

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==Chesterton's Fence==
{{Quotation| “In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”
Chesterton is not alone in the observation. It is found throughout our literature and theatre. In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to famously challenge his reformist son-in-law. The poet Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in “Mending Wall.” Scripture is replete with its warning, beginning in Proverbs 22:28, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone that your fathers have placed.” }}--[https://mailchi.mp/inpolicy/2022-and-chestertons-fence-488333?e=bda54c6080 "Chesterton's Fence"]

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==Combatativeness==
"Combativeness" is a word. So is "combatative".. : Is "combatativeness" an existing word? Should it be? Is it better than "combativeness"?

==CHYMPS==
{{Quotation| CHYMPS is the acronym for the top political science PhD programs in the United States. It is the political science PhD equivalent to HYS (Harvard, Yale, Stanford) for law schools and HSW (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton) for business schools. CHYMPS stands for: 
Cal-Berkeley 
Harvard 
Yale 
Michigan 
Princeton 
Stanford.

[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a443ef9dd190e688bf05648a48e463e7 image of network]

The acronym was originally Hypes-Bomb (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT) as a shorthand for the top political science departments (perhaps pejorative, as in overhyped but famous political science schools).

Hypes-Bomb then morphed to CHYMPS since it’s catchier.

CHYMPS then became the updated HYP as an acronym for the most prestigious schools in the US generally (see Urban Dictionary entry from 2009), though it’s causing some confusion among Columbia, Cornell, Caltech, and University of Chicago fans who feel that “C” should stand for them, not Cal-Berkeley (just a bias against public schools IMO, since Cal is clearly superior to the other “C” schools, at least at the graduate level). 
--https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-CHYMPS-Cal-Berkeley-Harvard-Yale-MIT-Princeton-and-Stanford }}

==Contradictorily==
"In selling stock, the filer is not ''contradictorily'' asserting it is solvent; the *buyers* are saying that."

==Coolitude==
The property of being "cool". A neologism.

==Coviderati==
The people who designed and promoted America's covid epidemic policy in 2021-- the lockdowns, masks, vaccines for children, and so forth. I saw Jay Bhattacharya use this in a 2023 tweet at https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/1650268566036574208.

== Crazytown==
"I feel like I'm in crazytown when I express distress about taxation - literally people forcibly taking away your property - and ppl act like I'm the crazy one." [https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1386021135112839171 A tweet] (2021).

==Curtilage==
Legal. An area of land attached to a house and forming one enclosure with it.

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==Damnatio memoriae==
[https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/11/the-academic-memory-hole/ Joshua Katz: "I’ve “been disappeared.” The standard name for this is damnatio memoriae, Latin for “condemnation of memory”. ]

==[[Deificatio]]==
"Deificatio hominis" or just "deificatio" is the Latin term used in theology for the idea of a man trying to become more like God. It might be exactly the same idea as "sanctification"; I'm not sure. Often people say "deification", which is bad terminology. It already has a main meaning, and that main meaning is completely different, almost opposite, since it is to make something into an idol, treating it as God. The idea here is not to set yourself up falsely as God, but to make yourself slightly more like God and diminish your own contrary will. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosis_(Eastern_Christian_theology)#:~:text=Theosis%2C%20or%20deification%20(deification%20may,and%20the%20Byzantine%20Catholic%20Churches. Greek term “Theosis”] is better, maybe; I don’t grasp the Eastern Orthodox concept very well. “Sanctification” is good. “Divinization” is okay, but sounds too much like “divining”, as in fortune-telling.

==Degringolade==
A rapid decline or deterioration in a situation.

==Derangement==
From [https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1168597790127284224 Twitter]: "A permutation that leaves no element in-place is called a 'derangement'."

==Devolution==
Devolution can mean either the reverse of evolution or the devolving of power, two quite distinct meanings.

==Doctrine of Double Effect==
"The doctrine (or principle) of double effect is often invoked to explain the permissibility of an action that causes a serious harm, such as the death of a human being, as a side effect of promoting some good end. According to the principle of double effect, sometimes it is permissible to cause a harm as a side effect (or “double effect”) of bringing about a good result even though it would not be permissible to cause such a harm as a means to bringing about the same good end." [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-effect/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20principle%20of,about%20the%20same%20good%20end. "Doctrine of Double Effect,"] Stanford dictionary.

==Doomscrolling==
“Doomscrolling is the act of spending an excessive amount of time online, particularly on social media or news sites, scrolling through content that is overwhelmingly negative, depressing, or anxiety-inducing."

==Doublethink==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

==Drafty Version of a Paper==
“Very drafty version”: I like that, and will use it myself. You eventually will insulate it from criticism. "Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of State
Formation in Europe, " Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University, August 31, 2020.

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==Enantiomer==
"Enantiomers, also known as optical isomers, are two stereoisomers that are related to each other by a reflection: they are mirror images of each other that are non-superposable. Human hands are a macroscopic analog of this." --[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoisomerism#:~:text=Enantiomers%2C%20also%20known%20as%20optical,opposite%20configuration%20in%20the%20other "Steroisomerism,"] ''Wikipedia.''

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==Enunciative and Enunciatory==
I think these mean "enunciating well", but I haven't been able to find out, googling.

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==Epiphany==
One meaning in Greek of ἐπιφάνεια is, from [https://www.studylight.org/lexicons/eng/greek/2015.html Liddel-Scott-Jones, ]
" in war, sudden appearance of an enemy, Aen.Tact. 31.8, Plb. 1.54.2, Ascl. Tact. 12.10(pl.), Onos. 22.3 (pl.)."

==Epsilontik==
"Epsilontik" is the precise development of analysis, differential geometry, and topology using epsilon-neighborhoods in the style of Weierstrass. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Johannes_Thomae.

==The Fallacy of Equivocation==
Using a term with one meaning in the premise, and another in the conclusion. [http://fallacyoftheweek.professorsykes.com/fallacy-types/equivocation/ From Professorsykes.com:] 
“Noisy children are a real pain. Two aspirin will make any pain go away. Therefore, two aspirin will make noisy children go away.”

==Erdocity==
The nearness of relationship between two people or things, after mathematician Paul Erdos. He has Erdos Number 0; his co-author has 1; his co-author's author 2;...Eric Rasmusen, 5 (3 ways: Connell-Farb-Lubotzky-Alon-Erdos, Janssen-Sierksma-Doignon-Fishburn-Erdos, and Ayres-Rowat-Beardon-Lehner-Erdos). Like 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon. It applies broadly; e.g. how distant I am in relationship of having conversed with economists who've conversed with historians who've conversed with journalists. The word is original with me, I think. I would pronounce it "erdossity" rather than "erdoshity", despite Erdos being Hungarian.

==Eructation==
A belch.
A violent bursting forth or ejection of matter from the earth.

==Exvangelical==
An ex-evangelical; in particular, not a convert to Romanism or Eastern Orthodoxy, but someone who used to be part of conservative Protestantism but then started to attack it.

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==Fiat Abuse==
A debate team term. "Fiat abuse is where you try to prevent debate not only on whether you could actually enact a policy (that's what you can "fiat" into existence) but also the policy's workability. So, if you were debating Communism, you might be able to fiat a Communist revolution- "if the workers revolted, would it be good", but you can't fiat the moneyed classes giving up all their private property voluntarily. One of the problems with Communism is they'd resist!" Dilan Esper
@dilanesper

==Fissiparous==
Inclined to cause or undergo division into separate parts or groups."she was unsuccessful in holding a fissiparous membership together"

==Flatus==
Gas generated in or expelled from the digestive tract, especially the stomach or intestines.

==The Flypaper Effect==
"The flypaper effect is '''a concept from the field of public finance''' that suggests that a government grant to a recipient municipality increases the level of local public spending more than an increase in local income of an equivalent size. '''When a dollar of exogenous grants to a community leads to significantly greater public spending than an equivalent dollar of citizen income: money sticks where it hits, like a fly to flypaper'''. Grants to the government will stay in the hands of the government and income to individuals will stay with these individuals." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flypaper_effect

==Freudenschade==
Sorrow over someone's success. The counterpart to Schadenfreude (joy over someone's loss).

==Fugacity==
1. The noun for being fleeting, evanescent. 
2. A coefficient for a real-world gas which makes the ideal gas equation be true. The fugacity of an ideal gas is 1. The fugacity of real-world gases is between 0 and 1, e.g. the fugacity of nitrogen is about .93. 
This came up in Ben's Thermodynamics class. 
I would like there to be the word "Fugacitaceous" too, for the sound of it, but that's a neologism.

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==Gasket==
A shaped piece or ring of rubber or other material sealing the junction between two surfaces in an engine or other device.

==Googleability or Googlability==
A measure of how easy it is to find information about a person on the Web. Which spelling is better?

==Gluckschmerz==
Pain at seeing someone else's good fortune, analogous to Schadenfreude. But it's fake German. See this [https://twitter.com/TomVaid/status/1442500467158765574 twitter thread].
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==Hanja==
(Korean: 한자; Hanja: 漢字, Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write Korean.

==Haredi ==
"Haredi is a Modern Hebrew adjective derived from the Biblical verb hared, which appears in the Book of Isaiah (66:2; its plural haredim appears in Isaiah 66:5)[27] and is translated as "one who trembles" at the word of God. The word connotes an awe-inspired fear to perform the will of God."

==Heisenbug==
There’s a bug in my code.
I add logging.
the bug disappears.
I remove the logging.
the bug is back.

See [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/heisenbug.html Catb.org]:
[from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment significantly enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialized memory, behaves quite differently.) Antonym of Bohr bug; see also mandelbug, schroedinbug. In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialized auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (esp. lossage related to corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack.

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==The Javert Paradox==
{{Quotation| The Javert Paradox: Suppose you find a problem with published work. If you just point it out once or twice, the authors of the work are likely to do nothing. But if you really pursue the problem, then you look like a Javert.
-- [https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2009/05/24/handy_statistic/ Andrew Gelman]}}

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==[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos '''Kairos.''']==
καιρός. "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved."

{{quotation| While chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative, permanent nature.<ref> [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkairo%2Fs1 Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon ]</ref> ''Kairos'' also means ''weather'' in Modern Greek... In weaving, kairos denotes the moment in which the shuttle could be passed through threads on the loom."<ref>Stephenson,Hunter W. (2005) "Forecasting Opportunity: Kairos, Production, and Writing, p.4. University Press of America: Oxford</ref> ..."Kairos" (used 86 times in the New Testament) refers to an opportune time, a "moment" or a "season" such as "harvest time," whereas "chronos" (used 54 times) refers to a specific amount of time, such as a day or an hour (e.g. Acts 13:18 and 27:9).}}

==Katz==
Short for "Kohen Tzedeq ("priest of justice"/"authentic priest") or Kohen Tzadok (meaning the name-bearer is of patrilineal descent of the Kohanim sons of Zadok)", Wikipedia says.

==Kebab case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with dashes, as in first-second-third. See also: camel case, pothole case.

==Kofferbuch==
A book that one takes along on a trip with the intention of reading but is never actually read.

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==LIMERENCE==
The state of being in love. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence

==Lunate epsilon==
The lunate epsilon (tex: $\epsilon$) is the moon-shaped one that I like to use for something very small because it looks smaller. The "reverse-3" form is the uglier squiggly one that has the advantage of one-stroke cursive writing on the blackboard. See the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon Wikipedia entry].

==To Lustrate==
To purify by expiatory sacrifice, ceremonial washing, or some other ritual action.
"a soul lustrated in the baptismal waters"

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==Malum in se==
I've long been frustrated that the opposite of ''malum in se'' is ''malum in prohibitum'', which is not audibly parallel. I'd very much like ''malum in lex'', but it's ungrammatrical. It would have to be ''malum in lege'', ablative case. But how about
"''malum in legibus''"? "Bad in the laws"? That has a nice-sounding consonant "s" at the end, even though "x" ("ks") would be even better.

==Menschlichkeit==
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Menschlichkeit The quality of humanness (the condition or quality of being human). Related to the Yiddish Mensch ("What a stand-up guy! He is a real mensch.")

==Meomarxism==
The vulgar marxism of circa 2020 that is based on the oppressor/oppressed dichotomy and identity politics. In adult Sunday school today, I figured out this word for the wokesters, wokies, wokers, neo-marxists: Meomarxists. It's all about me showing I'm not an oppressor, and that I'm one of the oppressed (though this is tough if you're a straight white male, even if you're effeminate).

This is a better word than "identomarxism", another coinage of mine. The word "meowmarkism" is also inferior.

==Merism==
DbPedia [https://dbpedia.org/page/Merism] says,
"Merism (Latin: merismus, Greek: μερισμός, translit. merismós) is a rhetorical device (or figure of speech) in which a combination of two contrasting parts of the whole refer to the whole. For example, in order to say that someone "searched everywhere", one could use the merism "searched high and low"." See also [https://www.thoughtco.com/merism-rhetoric-term-1691307#:~:text=Merism%20(from%20the%20Greek%2C%20%22,used%20to%20describe%20the%20whole] Thoughtco on merism.

==Midwit==
"Someone who is around average intelligence but is so opinionated and full of themselves that they think they're some kind of genius. They overlap with pseuds."

==Misnagdim==
"Misnagdim ((מתנגדים‎,"Opponents"; a religious movement among the Jews of Eastern Europe which resisted the rise of Hasidism in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Misnagdim were particularly concentrated in Lithuania, where Vilnius served as the bastion of the movement, but anti-Hasidic activity was undertaken by the establishment in many locales. The most severe clashes between the factions took place in the latter third of the 18th century; the failure to contain Hasidism led the Misnagdim to develop distinct religious philosophies and communal institutions, which were not merely a perpetuation of the old status quo but often innovative. The most notable results of these efforts, pioneered by Chaim of Volozhin and continued by his disciples, were the modern, independent yeshiva and the Musar movement. Since the late 19th century, tensions with the Hasidim largely subsided, and the heirs of Misnagdim adopted the epithet Litvishe or Litvaks."

==Mizrahim==
*Mizrahim is a term coined with the creation of the State of Israel. It means "Easterner" in Hebrew and refers to Oriental Jews or descendants of Jewish communities from the Middle East and North Africa.

==Mnemonic==
Mnemonic (plural mnemonics): Anything (especially in verbal form) used to help remember something.
:How do you spell mnemonic? 
:It's practically demonic. 
:You put an M before the N; 
:And then it's just phenomic.

==Mokita==
"Mokita is a Papua New Guinean term for something that everyone knows but no one talks about." https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/1439993770519445508?s=03. 
"Earl Hunt, the eminent psychometrician, invoked that word in his review of TBC many, many years ago."--Charles Murray, https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/1439993770519445508?s=03.

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==Neuronormal, Neurotypical==
I realize I'm a Neurotypical (or am I?). It makes me sound very powerful, or even scary. A useful word. Neuronormal might be better though.

==Noncentral Fallacy==
<pre>
If he can unilaterally declare a Worst Argument, then so can I. I declare the Worst Argument In The World to be this: "X is in a category whose archetypal member gives us a certain emotional reaction. Therefore, we should apply that emotional reaction to X, even though it is not a central category member."

Call it the Noncentral Fallacy.
</pre>
From Scott Alexander, [https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncentral-fallacy-the-worst-argument-in-the-world "The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world?"] ''LessWrong'' (2012).

==Nuisance parameter==
A nuisance parameter is any parameter which is not of immediate interest but must be accounted for in the analysis of the parameter of interest. The classic example is the variance of distribution when the mean is of primary interest. [https://buff.ly/2RVnaMH Wikipedia's article].

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==Overmorrow==
The day after tomorrow, an old English word. Ubermorgen in German.

==Obrazovanshchina==
"Obrazovanshchina (Russian: образованщина, 'educationdom', 'educaties',[1] 'smatterers') is a Russian ironical, derogatory term for a category of people with superficial education who lack the higher ethics of an educated person.[2] The term was introduced by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his 1974 essay "Obrazovanshchina" (translated as "The Smatterers") as a criticism of the transformation of the Russian intelligentsia, which, in his opinion had lost high ethical values." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obrazovanshchina

==Obscurantisme terroriste==
'Foucault said that Derrida practiced the method of obscurantisme terroriste (terrorism of obscurantism). We were speaking French. And I said, “What the hell do you mean by that?” And he said, “He writes so obscurely you can’t tell what he’s saying, that’s the obscurantism part, and then when you criticize him, he can always say, ‘You didn’t understand me; you’re an idiot.’ That’s the terrorism part.” ' Quoted in [https://benthams.substack.com/p/is-continental-philosophy-unclear Bentham's Bulldog. ]

==On the Record==
{{Quotation|
AP's guidelines for "Off the record", "Background" and "Deep Background"
Published 2011-08-01

Not everyone understands “off the record” or “on background” to mean the same things. Before any interview in which any degree of anonymity is expected, there should be a discussion in which the ground rules are set explicitly.
These are the AP’s definitions:

On the record: The information can be used with no caveats, quoting the source by name.

Off the record: The information cannot be used for publication.

Background: The information can be published but only under conditions negotiated with the source. Generally, the sources do not want their names published but will agree to a description of their position. AP reporters should object vigorously when a source wants to brief a group of reporters on background and try to persuade the source to put the briefing on the record. These background briefings have become routine in many venues, especially with government officials.

Deep background: The information can be used but without attribution. The source does not want to be identified in any way, even on condition of anonymity.
https://blog.chrislkeller.com/aps-guidelines-for-off-the-record-background/}}

==Overfeatures==
I'd like to popularize the word "overfeatured" to mean software, cars, or any other product that has too many bells and whistles. These can either actively degrade usability, or make it too hard to figure out simple uses.

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==Palooka==
"Palooka is a classic term for an inexperienced or incompetent boxer, one who has no business being in the ring. More broadly, it can mean any oaf or lout."

==Panache==
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==Per curiam==
A way for a court to sign a judicial opinion. "Traditionally, the per curiam was used to signal that a case was
uncontroversial, obvious, and did not require a substantial opinion... These early
opinions often comprised only a sentence or two, rarely more than a
paragraph, and never displayed disagreement among the Justices.
Beginning in 1909 with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose
strongly worded separate opinions earned him the moniker "the Great
Dissenter," per curiam opinions began to feature dissents... The per curiam
not only allowed the Court to quickly adjudicate these more
substantive cases but also to signify to the public that the issues in
them were easily resolved and required little explanation."
[https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/425/ "Hiding Behind the Cloak of Invisibility: The Supreme Court and Per Curiam Opinions,"]
Ira Robbins (2012).

==Pistarckle==
[https://twitter.com/RBrookhiser/status/1656389209286909954?t=97hk1vD-di0L5C8xJ47ytg&s=03 Richard Brookhiser]: "Virgin Islands slang, meaning uproar, confusion. I encountered the word years ago in the USVI and have been using it ever since."

==Persiflage==
Light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter.

==Pothole case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with underscores, as in first_second_third. See also: camel case, kebab case.

==Plaque==
1. an ornamental tablet,
2. A sticky bacterial deposit on teeth.

==Prevenient Grace==
"Free will is unable to begin or to perfect any true and spiritual good, without grace. …This grace [prævenit] goes before, accompanies, and follows; it excites, assists, operates that we will, and co operates lest we will in vain." Arminius [https://ccel.org/ccel/arminius/works2/works2.ix.vi.html "Grace and Free Will"]

==Procatalepsis==
Procatalepsis is the rhetorical device of raising objections to your own argument and then answering them, thus forestalling your opponent.

==Pronunciamento==
{{Quotation| A pronunciamiento (Spanish: [pɾonunθjaˈmjento], Portuguese: pronunciamento [pɾunũsiɐˈmẽtu]; "proclamation , announcement or declaration") is a form of military rebellion or coup d'état particularly associated with Spain, Portugal and Latin America, especially in the 19th century.}}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciamiento

==Propaganda Press==
The media outlets that parrot the regime's propaganda, e.g., ''The New York Times, The Washington Post'', MSNBC, CNN. This term is better than "mainstream media" or "corporate media" or "legacy media" or "fake news" or "establishment media" or "regime media".

==Proptreptic==
Writing that is aimed at conversion, changing the path of the reader.
:"Collins defines protreptic as conversion, since the exhortatory movement implied in the verb προτρέπω (‘urge on, impel’) is often—or, more radically, always—linked to the abandoning of previous opinions and ways of life (apotreptic, cf. ἀποτρέπω, ‘turn away from’). However, it soon becomes clear that the author aims at a broader examination of ancient and modern genre theory in order to highlight the versatility of protreptic at its beginning. Collins sets out four characteristics of protreptic (17-18). According to him protreptic is: (a) dialogic, in the sense that it ‘always contains the voices of its competition’; (b) agonistic; (c) situational; and (d) rhetorical." ([https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2015/2015.12.16/ "Exhortations to Philosophy: The Protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle" review])

==Psephology==
The statistical study of elections and voting.

==Pseudo-Wiki==
A website that looks like a wiki and uses wiki software, but is written by one or a very limited set of people. This website, [https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia Rasmapedia], is an example.

==PUMP AND DUMP==
1. The stock manipulation trick of using rumor or purchase to inflate a stock's purchase and then selling it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump.
:2. The political dirty trick of getting a crowd so excited that it charges off to wreck a building or kill someone, so it gets in trouble and discredits the movement, and then quietly leaving before the arrests and shooting.
:3. A Full Service Company Offering Residential & Commercial Septic Services. https://www.pumpndumpusa.com/.

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==Quandary==
A situation of perplexity. It is spelled with a silent "a", which I hate and will omit when I can get away with it.

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==RAREBIT==
Ambrose Bierce (1911): "Rarebit n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad in the hole is really not a toad, and that ris de veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker."
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==Selectorate==
British English:"a body of people responsible for making a selection, esp members of a political party who select candidates for an election."

==Semble==
Legal phrase meaning "see the following case, but it's just in dictum or some other loose relevance". Italicized, because it's from law French, il semble, "it seems". Discussed at length on [https://twitter.com/SCOTUSPlaces/status/1674432352431538177 Twitter] in 2023 after the Harvard decision on Asians having bad personalities.

==Shekhina==
From Wikipedia:
:"Shekhinah, also spelled Shechinah (Hebrew: שְׁכִינָה Šəḵīnā, Tiberian: Šăḵīnā) is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning "dwelling" or "settling" and denotes the presence of God, as it were, in a place. This concept is found in Judaism.

:The Hebrew Bible mentions several places where the presence of God was felt and experienced as a Shekhinah, including the burning bush and the cloud that rested on Mount Sinai. The Shekhinah was often pictured as a cloud or as a pillar of fire and was referred to as the glory of God. The Shekhinah was also understood to be present in the Tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem, and to be seated at the right hand of God.

:The word shekhinah is not found in the Bible. It appears in the Mishnah, the Talmud, and in midrash. . . .

:The Talmud states that
:: "the Shekhinah rests on man neither through gloom, nor through sloth, nor through frivolity, nor through levity, nor through talk, nor through idle chatter, but only through a matter of joy in connection with a mitzvah.""

==Spitster==
A double-cup invention for eating sunflower seeds, peanuts, or pistachios. https://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9254850.htm

==Stanch==
To stop the flow of blood.

==Steelmanning==
Presenting one's opponent's arguments as well as possible, even if that's not the way they presented them. Chicago's Professor [https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/12/steelmanning-and-interpretive-charity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Will Baude says,]
"Indeed, I now sometimes test a version of this skill on my exams, asking students to write up both sides of an argument, with the rule that their grade will be based on the quality of the worse of the two arguments."

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==Traumata==
An alternative to "traumas" as a plural for "trauma".

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==The Unpronounceable Case==
[https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-968_8nj9.pdf Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski], US Supreme Court (2020) may supplant whatever case has traditionally held this title.

==Unterschlepper==
Neologism from [https://stljewishlight.org/news/news-local/yiddish-word-of-the-week-schlep-or-schlepper/ "schlepper"].
{{Quotation| From Yiddish שלעפּן (“to drag”); from High German schleppen (“to drag”)– “to carry”- 
1) a servant who carries things 
2) a porter 
3) a pejorative insult for an individual who wanders aimlessly 
4) One who acts in a slovenly, lazy, or sloppy manner. Kind of like the modern idiom of “slacker”. 

Synonyms in academia are "assistant dean", "deanlet" and "deanlette".

==Urdummheit==
From the novel ''Amigos:'' the word urdummheit. It means something like "great stupidity", "stupidityat its very origins". [https://thesaurasize.com/Urdummheit https://thesaurasize.com/Urdummheit] was being tricked by someone.

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==Vatic==
Describing or predicting what will happen in the future.

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== Valley of the Clueles: Das Tal der Ahnungslosen==
The valley in East Germany that could not be reached by Voice of America radio. "regions in the northeast to Greifswald and in the southeast of the GDR in the former district of Dresden... about 15 % of the population of the GDR...The term is now used for local communities or areas in Germany with missing or poorly developed broadband Internet access," from [https://memim.com/tal-der-ahnungslosen.html Tal der Ahnungslosen].

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==Verbesserschlechterung==
A improvement that makes things worse. The German word for "software update".

==Verschlimmbessern==
To make something worse while trying to improve it.

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==Wokeschaltung==
The Woke pressure to bring everything in society into conformity or else crush it, by analogy to the Nazi gleichschaltung. Perhaps coined by Curtis Yarvin in [https://graymirror.substack.com/p/big-tech-has-no-power-at-all?s=r "Big tech has no power at all: The basics of tech censorship and the structure of the cathedral,"] (2021).

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==Zeptosecond==
The shortest time period measured is 247 zeptoseconds, a the time for light to cross a hydrogen molecule, a Livescience.com article tells us. A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second, or a decimal point followed by 20 zeroes and a 1, .00000 00000 00000 000001 seconds.

==Zornhau==
A zornhau (wrath hew) is the diagonal cut sword cut from shoulder to opposite waist known as "kesa-giri" in Japan. It is said to be historically the most effective at killing people. See https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Diagonal_Cut and https://danielagnewauthor.com/2017/04/27/the-zornhau-ort-its-simpler-than-you-think/.

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Words

2026-02-12T21:00:57Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* Quandary */

https://twitter.com/BrilliantMaps/status/1449114106200535041

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==NEW WORDS NEEDED==
*{{Quotation|I taught misrepresentation/fraud yesterday; and midway through our analysis of the famous case Vokes v. Arthur Murray dance studio, I realized that the gullible, pathetic, 2-left-footed widow in that case -- Audrey Vokes -- was younger than I am now. Confused }}

:{{Quotation|Replying to @ProfEricTalley}}
:{{Quotation|If I were the mainstream media, I would now report that Columbia University admits that it teaches misrepresentation and fraud. }}
:{{Quotation|(What is the word for that self-reflexive sentence?-someone who fraudulently accuses someone else of fraud? Useful term for Russiagate too.)}}

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==Academic Scaffolding==
A scholarly backdrop to make an idea I believe in anyway look fancier than it is. In economics, we have an idea, and then we spend a year trying to construct a rational-actor math model of it, or trying to see if the data supports it. In our case, though, we reject the idea if we can't get rigor behind it.

==Acrid==
Unpleasantly sharp, pungent, or bitter.

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==Ad hominem==
{{Quotation| Yes...when JMac made a statement about the nature of the Son of God that was very, very off and he publicly acknowledged it before the entire world. Let's take a peak at your life and see what we can find. What are you hiding Dennis? Unbelievable. The level of hypocrisy is sick.

The sin of "Dennis Swanson" is a different subject, and not as interesting.
There should be a name for this.
"Ad hominem" doesn't quite fit.
Nor "ad hominem libellum"
Nor "ad hominem innuedum"More like "ad hominem conjecturum" But my grammar may be off.}}

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==Adiaphora==
The plural of adiaphoron, a thing that exists outside of moral law, neither condemned nor approved by morality; “indifferent things,” neither right nor wrong, spiritually neutral.

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==Anscombe's Quartet==
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet The Wikipedia article on it.]
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== Antifaschistischer Schutzwall ==
"Anti-fascist protection dike" or "rampart", the Berlin Wall's official name in East Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall

==Apophenia==Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.

==Apparatchicks, Apparatjocks==
"The apparatchiks and apparatjocks of National Public Radio."

==Arcsine(x)==
In the unit circle, "the arc whose sine is x" is the same as "the angle whose sine is x", because the length of the arc of the circle is a measure of the angle. In Mexico the functions was also called angsin, meaning "angle whose sine is..." https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/33175/etymology-of-arccos-arcsin-arctan

==Argumentum ad Verecundiam==
The fallacy of argument from inappropriate authority: an appeal to the testimony of an authority outside of the authority's special field of expertise. https://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/authority.html

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==[[Baizhuo]]==
{{Quotation| WIKIPEDIA: Baizuo (/ˈbaɪˌdzwɔː/, /baɪˈzwoʊ/; Chinese: 白左; pinyin: báizuǒ, Mandarin pronunciation: [pǎi.tswò], literally White Left)[1][2] is a Chinese neologism and political epithet used to refer to Western leftist ideologies primarily espoused by white leftists.[3] The term baizuo is related to the term shèngmǔ (圣母, 聖母, literally "Blessed Mother") or shèngmǔbiǎo (圣母婊, 聖母婊, literally "Blessed Mother of Bitch"), a sarcastic reference to those whose political opinions are perceived as being guided by emotions or a hypocritical show of selflessness and empathy.

The term baizuo was apparently coined in a 2010 article published on Renren Network by user Li Shuo, entitled The Fake Morality of the Western White Left and the Chinese Patriotic Scientists (西方白左和中国爱国科学家的伪道德), initially used as a general critique of certain socialist values in the American left.[3] No further use of the term is known until 2013, where on Chinese forum Zhihu through 2013–2015, the term evolved to criticize some people among the left who seemingly advocate for positive slogans like peace and equality to boast their sense of moral superiority, but are ignorant of real-world consequences, and utilize destructive behavior like political sacrifice and identity politics.

Substantial use in Chinese Internet culture began in early 2016, at first at MIT BBS, a bulletin board system used by many Chinese in the U.S., during the 2016 United States presidential election.}}

==Beautilicious==

==Bug-Man==
Synonym for Nietzsche's Last Man of Zarathustra, probably derived from "Bourgeois Man".
"The Bugmen, to stay with BAP, are the “pretentious bureaucrats” who harbor “titanic hatred of the well-turned out and beautiful.” They believe in “social justice” and “first-world regimented hygiene”" from the Bronze Age Pervert via [https://newrepublic.com/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SF_TNR the New Republic 2023 article] on the Claremont Institute.

==Bushing==
Wikipedia:"A bushing or rubber bushing is a type of vibration isolator. It provides an interface between two parts, damping the energy transmitted through the bushing. A common application is in vehicle suspension systems, where a bushing made of rubber (or, more often, synthetic rubber or polyurethane) separates the faces of two metal objects while allowing a certain amount of movement."

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==Cadence==
{{Quotation| [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cadence#English From Wiktionary:] 
1. The act or state of declining or sinking. 
2. Balanced, rhythmic flow. 
3. The measure or beat of movement. 
4. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound. 
5. (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation. 
6. (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. 
7. (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.}}

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==Camel case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with capitals, as in FirstSecondThird. See also: pothole case, kebab case.

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==Chesterton's Fence==
{{Quotation| “In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”
Chesterton is not alone in the observation. It is found throughout our literature and theatre. In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to famously challenge his reformist son-in-law. The poet Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in “Mending Wall.” Scripture is replete with its warning, beginning in Proverbs 22:28, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone that your fathers have placed.” }}--[https://mailchi.mp/inpolicy/2022-and-chestertons-fence-488333?e=bda54c6080 "Chesterton's Fence"]

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==Combatativeness==
"Combativeness" is a word. So is "combatative".. : Is "combatativeness" an existing word? Should it be? Is it better than "combativeness"?

==CHYMPS==
{{Quotation| CHYMPS is the acronym for the top political science PhD programs in the United States. It is the political science PhD equivalent to HYS (Harvard, Yale, Stanford) for law schools and HSW (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton) for business schools. CHYMPS stands for: 
Cal-Berkeley 
Harvard 
Yale 
Michigan 
Princeton 
Stanford.

[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a443ef9dd190e688bf05648a48e463e7 image of network]

The acronym was originally Hypes-Bomb (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT) as a shorthand for the top political science departments (perhaps pejorative, as in overhyped but famous political science schools).

Hypes-Bomb then morphed to CHYMPS since it’s catchier.

CHYMPS then became the updated HYP as an acronym for the most prestigious schools in the US generally (see Urban Dictionary entry from 2009), though it’s causing some confusion among Columbia, Cornell, Caltech, and University of Chicago fans who feel that “C” should stand for them, not Cal-Berkeley (just a bias against public schools IMO, since Cal is clearly superior to the other “C” schools, at least at the graduate level). 
--https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-CHYMPS-Cal-Berkeley-Harvard-Yale-MIT-Princeton-and-Stanford }}

==Contradictorily==
"In selling stock, the filer is not ''contradictorily'' asserting it is solvent; the *buyers* are saying that."

==Coolitude==
The property of being "cool". A neologism.

==Coviderati==
The people who designed and promoted America's covid epidemic policy in 2021-- the lockdowns, masks, vaccines for children, and so forth. I saw Jay Bhattacharya use this in a 2023 tweet at https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/1650268566036574208.

== Crazytown==
"I feel like I'm in crazytown when I express distress about taxation - literally people forcibly taking away your property - and ppl act like I'm the crazy one." [https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1386021135112839171 A tweet] (2021).

==Curtilage==
Legal. An area of land attached to a house and forming one enclosure with it.

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==Damnatio memoriae==
[https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/11/the-academic-memory-hole/ Joshua Katz: "I’ve “been disappeared.” The standard name for this is damnatio memoriae, Latin for “condemnation of memory”. ]

==[[Deificatio]]==
"Deificatio hominis" or just "deificatio" is the Latin term used in theology for the idea of a man trying to become more like God. It might be exactly the same idea as "sanctification"; I'm not sure. Often people say "deification", which is bad terminology. It already has a main meaning, and that main meaning is completely different, almost opposite, since it is to make something into an idol, treating it as God. The idea here is not to set yourself up falsely as God, but to make yourself slightly more like God and diminish your own contrary will. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosis_(Eastern_Christian_theology)#:~:text=Theosis%2C%20or%20deification%20(deification%20may,and%20the%20Byzantine%20Catholic%20Churches. Greek term “Theosis”] is better, maybe; I don’t grasp the Eastern Orthodox concept very well. “Sanctification” is good. “Divinization” is okay, but sounds too much like “divining”, as in fortune-telling.

==Degringolade==
A rapid decline or deterioration in a situation.

==Derangement==
From [https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1168597790127284224 Twitter]: "A permutation that leaves no element in-place is called a 'derangement'."

==Devolution==
Devolution can mean either the reverse of evolution or the devolving of power, two quite distinct meanings.

==Doctrine of Double Effect==
"The doctrine (or principle) of double effect is often invoked to explain the permissibility of an action that causes a serious harm, such as the death of a human being, as a side effect of promoting some good end. According to the principle of double effect, sometimes it is permissible to cause a harm as a side effect (or “double effect”) of bringing about a good result even though it would not be permissible to cause such a harm as a means to bringing about the same good end." [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-effect/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20principle%20of,about%20the%20same%20good%20end. "Doctrine of Double Effect,"] Stanford dictionary.

==Doomscrolling==
“Doomscrolling is the act of spending an excessive amount of time online, particularly on social media or news sites, scrolling through content that is overwhelmingly negative, depressing, or anxiety-inducing."

==Doublethink==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

==Drafty Version of a Paper==
“Very drafty version”: I like that, and will use it myself. You eventually will insulate it from criticism. "Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of State
Formation in Europe, " Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University, August 31, 2020.

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==Enantiomer==
"Enantiomers, also known as optical isomers, are two stereoisomers that are related to each other by a reflection: they are mirror images of each other that are non-superposable. Human hands are a macroscopic analog of this." --[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoisomerism#:~:text=Enantiomers%2C%20also%20known%20as%20optical,opposite%20configuration%20in%20the%20other "Steroisomerism,"] ''Wikipedia.''

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==Enunciative and Enunciatory==
I think these mean "enunciating well", but I haven't been able to find out, googling.

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==Epiphany==
One meaning in Greek of ἐπιφάνεια is, from [https://www.studylight.org/lexicons/eng/greek/2015.html Liddel-Scott-Jones, ]
" in war, sudden appearance of an enemy, Aen.Tact. 31.8, Plb. 1.54.2, Ascl. Tact. 12.10(pl.), Onos. 22.3 (pl.)."

==Epsilontik==
"Epsilontik" is the precise development of analysis, differential geometry, and topology using epsilon-neighborhoods in the style of Weierstrass. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Johannes_Thomae.

==The Fallacy of Equivocation==
Using a term with one meaning in the premise, and another in the conclusion. [http://fallacyoftheweek.professorsykes.com/fallacy-types/equivocation/ From Professorsykes.com:] 
“Noisy children are a real pain. Two aspirin will make any pain go away. Therefore, two aspirin will make noisy children go away.”

==Erdocity==
The nearness of relationship between two people or things, after mathematician Paul Erdos. He has Erdos Number 0; his co-author has 1; his co-author's author 2;...Eric Rasmusen, 5 (3 ways: Connell-Farb-Lubotzky-Alon-Erdos, Janssen-Sierksma-Doignon-Fishburn-Erdos, and Ayres-Rowat-Beardon-Lehner-Erdos). Like 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon. It applies broadly; e.g. how distant I am in relationship of having conversed with economists who've conversed with historians who've conversed with journalists. The word is original with me, I think. I would pronounce it "erdossity" rather than "erdoshity", despite Erdos being Hungarian.

==Eructation==
A belch.
A violent bursting forth or ejection of matter from the earth.

==Exvangelical==
An ex-evangelical; in particular, not a convert to Romanism or Eastern Orthodoxy, but someone who used to be part of conservative Protestantism but then started to attack it.

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==Fiat Abuse==
A debate team term. "Fiat abuse is where you try to prevent debate not only on whether you could actually enact a policy (that's what you can "fiat" into existence) but also the policy's workability. So, if you were debating Communism, you might be able to fiat a Communist revolution- "if the workers revolted, would it be good", but you can't fiat the moneyed classes giving up all their private property voluntarily. One of the problems with Communism is they'd resist!" Dilan Esper
@dilanesper

==Fissiparous==
Inclined to cause or undergo division into separate parts or groups."she was unsuccessful in holding a fissiparous membership together"

==Flatus==
Gas generated in or expelled from the digestive tract, especially the stomach or intestines.

==The Flypaper Effect==
"The flypaper effect is '''a concept from the field of public finance''' that suggests that a government grant to a recipient municipality increases the level of local public spending more than an increase in local income of an equivalent size. '''When a dollar of exogenous grants to a community leads to significantly greater public spending than an equivalent dollar of citizen income: money sticks where it hits, like a fly to flypaper'''. Grants to the government will stay in the hands of the government and income to individuals will stay with these individuals." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flypaper_effect

==Freudenschade==
Sorrow over someone's success. The counterpart to Schadenfreude (joy over someone's loss).

==Fugacity==
1. The noun for being fleeting, evanescent. 
2. A coefficient for a real-world gas which makes the ideal gas equation be true. The fugacity of an ideal gas is 1. The fugacity of real-world gases is between 0 and 1, e.g. the fugacity of nitrogen is about .93. 
This came up in Ben's Thermodynamics class. 
I would like there to be the word "Fugacitaceous" too, for the sound of it, but that's a neologism.

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==Gasket==
A shaped piece or ring of rubber or other material sealing the junction between two surfaces in an engine or other device.

==Googleability or Googlability==
A measure of how easy it is to find information about a person on the Web. Which spelling is better?

==Gluckschmerz==
Pain at seeing someone else's good fortune, analogous to Schadenfreude. But it's fake German. See this [https://twitter.com/TomVaid/status/1442500467158765574 twitter thread].
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==Hanja==
(Korean: 한자; Hanja: 漢字, Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write Korean.

==Haredi ==
"Haredi is a Modern Hebrew adjective derived from the Biblical verb hared, which appears in the Book of Isaiah (66:2; its plural haredim appears in Isaiah 66:5)[27] and is translated as "one who trembles" at the word of God. The word connotes an awe-inspired fear to perform the will of God."

==Heisenbug==
There’s a bug in my code.
I add logging.
the bug disappears.
I remove the logging.
the bug is back.

See [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/heisenbug.html Catb.org]:
[from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment significantly enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialized memory, behaves quite differently.) Antonym of Bohr bug; see also mandelbug, schroedinbug. In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialized auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (esp. lossage related to corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack.

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==The Javert Paradox==
{{Quotation| The Javert Paradox: Suppose you find a problem with published work. If you just point it out once or twice, the authors of the work are likely to do nothing. But if you really pursue the problem, then you look like a Javert.
-- [https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2009/05/24/handy_statistic/ Andrew Gelman]}}

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==[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos '''Kairos.''']==
καιρός. "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved."

{{quotation| While chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative, permanent nature.<ref> [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkairo%2Fs1 Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon ]</ref> ''Kairos'' also means ''weather'' in Modern Greek... In weaving, kairos denotes the moment in which the shuttle could be passed through threads on the loom."<ref>Stephenson,Hunter W. (2005) "Forecasting Opportunity: Kairos, Production, and Writing, p.4. University Press of America: Oxford</ref> ..."Kairos" (used 86 times in the New Testament) refers to an opportune time, a "moment" or a "season" such as "harvest time," whereas "chronos" (used 54 times) refers to a specific amount of time, such as a day or an hour (e.g. Acts 13:18 and 27:9).}}

==Katz==
Short for "Kohen Tzedeq ("priest of justice"/"authentic priest") or Kohen Tzadok (meaning the name-bearer is of patrilineal descent of the Kohanim sons of Zadok)", Wikipedia says.

==Kebab case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with dashes, as in first-second-third. See also: camel case, pothole case.

==Kofferbuch==
A book that one takes along on a trip with the intention of reading but is never actually read.

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==LIMERENCE==
The state of being in love. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence

==Lunate epsilon==
The lunate epsilon (tex: $\epsilon$) is the moon-shaped one that I like to use for something very small because it looks smaller. The "reverse-3" form is the uglier squiggly one that has the advantage of one-stroke cursive writing on the blackboard. See the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon Wikipedia entry].

==To Lustrate==
To purify by expiatory sacrifice, ceremonial washing, or some other ritual action.
"a soul lustrated in the baptismal waters"

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==Malum in se==
I've long been frustrated that the opposite of ''malum in se'' is ''malum in prohibitum'', which is not audibly parallel. I'd very much like ''malum in lex'', but it's ungrammatrical. It would have to be ''malum in lege'', ablative case. But how about
"''malum in legibus''"? "Bad in the laws"? That has a nice-sounding consonant "s" at the end, even though "x" ("ks") would be even better.

==Menschlichkeit==
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Menschlichkeit The quality of humanness (the condition or quality of being human). Related to the Yiddish Mensch ("What a stand-up guy! He is a real mensch.")

==Meomarxism==
The vulgar marxism of circa 2020 that is based on the oppressor/oppressed dichotomy and identity politics. In adult Sunday school today, I figured out this word for the wokesters, wokies, wokers, neo-marxists: Meomarxists. It's all about me showing I'm not an oppressor, and that I'm one of the oppressed (though this is tough if you're a straight white male, even if you're effeminate).

This is a better word than "identomarxism", another coinage of mine. The word "meowmarkism" is also inferior.

==Merism==
DbPedia [https://dbpedia.org/page/Merism] says,
"Merism (Latin: merismus, Greek: μερισμός, translit. merismós) is a rhetorical device (or figure of speech) in which a combination of two contrasting parts of the whole refer to the whole. For example, in order to say that someone "searched everywhere", one could use the merism "searched high and low"." See also [https://www.thoughtco.com/merism-rhetoric-term-1691307#:~:text=Merism%20(from%20the%20Greek%2C%20%22,used%20to%20describe%20the%20whole] Thoughtco on merism.

==Midwit==
"Someone who is around average intelligence but is so opinionated and full of themselves that they think they're some kind of genius. They overlap with pseuds."

==Misnagdim==
"Misnagdim ((מתנגדים‎,"Opponents"; a religious movement among the Jews of Eastern Europe which resisted the rise of Hasidism in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Misnagdim were particularly concentrated in Lithuania, where Vilnius served as the bastion of the movement, but anti-Hasidic activity was undertaken by the establishment in many locales. The most severe clashes between the factions took place in the latter third of the 18th century; the failure to contain Hasidism led the Misnagdim to develop distinct religious philosophies and communal institutions, which were not merely a perpetuation of the old status quo but often innovative. The most notable results of these efforts, pioneered by Chaim of Volozhin and continued by his disciples, were the modern, independent yeshiva and the Musar movement. Since the late 19th century, tensions with the Hasidim largely subsided, and the heirs of Misnagdim adopted the epithet Litvishe or Litvaks."

==Mizrahim==
*Mizrahim is a term coined with the creation of the State of Israel. It means "Easterner" in Hebrew and refers to Oriental Jews or descendants of Jewish communities from the Middle East and North Africa.

==Mnemonic==
Mnemonic (plural mnemonics): Anything (especially in verbal form) used to help remember something.
:How do you spell mnemonic? 
:It's practically demonic. 
:You put an M before the N; 
:And then it's just phenomic.

==Mokita==
"Mokita is a Papua New Guinean term for something that everyone knows but no one talks about." https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/1439993770519445508?s=03. 
"Earl Hunt, the eminent psychometrician, invoked that word in his review of TBC many, many years ago."--Charles Murray, https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/1439993770519445508?s=03.

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==Neuronormal, Neurotypical==
I realize I'm a Neurotypical (or am I?). It makes me sound very powerful, or even scary. A useful word. Neuronormal might be better though.

==Noncentral Fallacy==
<pre>
If he can unilaterally declare a Worst Argument, then so can I. I declare the Worst Argument In The World to be this: "X is in a category whose archetypal member gives us a certain emotional reaction. Therefore, we should apply that emotional reaction to X, even though it is not a central category member."

Call it the Noncentral Fallacy.
</pre>
From Scott Alexander, [https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncentral-fallacy-the-worst-argument-in-the-world "The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world?"] ''LessWrong'' (2012).

==Nuisance parameter==
A nuisance parameter is any parameter which is not of immediate interest but must be accounted for in the analysis of the parameter of interest. The classic example is the variance of distribution when the mean is of primary interest. [https://buff.ly/2RVnaMH Wikipedia's article].

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==Overmorrow==
The day after tomorrow, an old English word. Ubermorgen in German.

==Obrazovanshchina==
"Obrazovanshchina (Russian: образованщина, 'educationdom', 'educaties',[1] 'smatterers') is a Russian ironical, derogatory term for a category of people with superficial education who lack the higher ethics of an educated person.[2] The term was introduced by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his 1974 essay "Obrazovanshchina" (translated as "The Smatterers") as a criticism of the transformation of the Russian intelligentsia, which, in his opinion had lost high ethical values." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obrazovanshchina

==Obscurantisme terroriste==
'Foucault said that Derrida practiced the method of obscurantisme terroriste (terrorism of obscurantism). We were speaking French. And I said, “What the hell do you mean by that?” And he said, “He writes so obscurely you can’t tell what he’s saying, that’s the obscurantism part, and then when you criticize him, he can always say, ‘You didn’t understand me; you’re an idiot.’ That’s the terrorism part.” ' Quoted in [https://benthams.substack.com/p/is-continental-philosophy-unclear Bentham's Bulldog. ]

==On the Record==
{{Quotation|
AP's guidelines for "Off the record", "Background" and "Deep Background"
Published 2011-08-01

Not everyone understands “off the record” or “on background” to mean the same things. Before any interview in which any degree of anonymity is expected, there should be a discussion in which the ground rules are set explicitly.
These are the AP’s definitions:

On the record: The information can be used with no caveats, quoting the source by name.

Off the record: The information cannot be used for publication.

Background: The information can be published but only under conditions negotiated with the source. Generally, the sources do not want their names published but will agree to a description of their position. AP reporters should object vigorously when a source wants to brief a group of reporters on background and try to persuade the source to put the briefing on the record. These background briefings have become routine in many venues, especially with government officials.

Deep background: The information can be used but without attribution. The source does not want to be identified in any way, even on condition of anonymity.
https://blog.chrislkeller.com/aps-guidelines-for-off-the-record-background/}}

==Overfeatures==
I'd like to popularize the word "overfeatured" to mean software, cars, or any other product that has too many bells and whistles. These can either actively degrade usability, or make it too hard to figure out simple uses.

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==Palooka==
"Palooka is a classic term for an inexperienced or incompetent boxer, one who has no business being in the ring. More broadly, it can mean any oaf or lout."

==Panache==
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==Per curiam==
A way for a court to sign a judicial opinion. "Traditionally, the per curiam was used to signal that a case was
uncontroversial, obvious, and did not require a substantial opinion... These early
opinions often comprised only a sentence or two, rarely more than a
paragraph, and never displayed disagreement among the Justices.
Beginning in 1909 with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose
strongly worded separate opinions earned him the moniker "the Great
Dissenter," per curiam opinions began to feature dissents... The per curiam
not only allowed the Court to quickly adjudicate these more
substantive cases but also to signify to the public that the issues in
them were easily resolved and required little explanation."
[https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/425/ "Hiding Behind the Cloak of Invisibility: The Supreme Court and Per Curiam Opinions,"]
Ira Robbins (2012).

==Pistarckle==
[https://twitter.com/RBrookhiser/status/1656389209286909954?t=97hk1vD-di0L5C8xJ47ytg&s=03 Richard Brookhiser]: "Virgin Islands slang, meaning uproar, confusion. I encountered the word years ago in the USVI and have been using it ever since."

==Persiflage==
Light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter.

==Pothole case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with underscores, as in first_second_third. See also: camel case, kebab case.

==Plaque==
1. an ornamental tablet,
2. A sticky bacterial deposit on teeth.

==Prevenient Grace==
"Free will is unable to begin or to perfect any true and spiritual good, without grace. …This grace [prævenit] goes before, accompanies, and follows; it excites, assists, operates that we will, and co operates lest we will in vain." Arminius [https://ccel.org/ccel/arminius/works2/works2.ix.vi.html "Grace and Free Will"]

==Procatalepsis==
Procatalepsis is the rhetorical device of raising objections to your own argument and then answering them, thus forestalling your opponent.

==Pronunciamento==
{{Quotation| A pronunciamiento (Spanish: [pɾonunθjaˈmjento], Portuguese: pronunciamento [pɾunũsiɐˈmẽtu]; "proclamation , announcement or declaration") is a form of military rebellion or coup d'état particularly associated with Spain, Portugal and Latin America, especially in the 19th century.}}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciamiento

==Propaganda Press==
The media outlets that parrot the regime's propaganda, e.g., ''The New York Times, The Washington Post'', MSNBC, CNN. This term is better than "mainstream media" or "corporate media" or "legacy media" or "fake news" or "establishment media" or "regime media".

==Proptreptic==
Writing that is aimed at conversion, changing the path of the reader.
:"Collins defines protreptic as conversion, since the exhortatory movement implied in the verb προτρέπω (‘urge on, impel’) is often—or, more radically, always—linked to the abandoning of previous opinions and ways of life (apotreptic, cf. ἀποτρέπω, ‘turn away from’). However, it soon becomes clear that the author aims at a broader examination of ancient and modern genre theory in order to highlight the versatility of protreptic at its beginning. Collins sets out four characteristics of protreptic (17-18). According to him protreptic is: (a) dialogic, in the sense that it ‘always contains the voices of its competition’; (b) agonistic; (c) situational; and (d) rhetorical." ([https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2015/2015.12.16/ "Exhortations to Philosophy: The Protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle" review])

==Psephology==
The statistical study of elections and voting.

==Pseudo-Wiki==
A website that looks like a wiki and uses wiki software, but is written by one or a very limited set of people. This website, [https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia Rasmapedia], is an example.

==PUMP AND DUMP==
1. The stock manipulation trick of using rumor or purchase to inflate a stock's purchase and then selling it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump. 2. The political dirty trick of getting a crowd so excited that it charges off to wreck a building or kill someone, so it gets in trouble and discredits the movement, and then quietly leaving before the arrests and shooting. 3. A Full Service Company Offering Residential & Commercial Septic Services. https://www.pumpndumpusa.com/.
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==Quandary==
A situation of perplexity. It is spelled with a silent "a", which I hate and will omit when I can get away with it.

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==RAREBIT==
Ambrose Bierce (1911): "Rarebit n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad in the hole is really not a toad, and that ris de veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker."
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==Selectorate==
British English:"a body of people responsible for making a selection, esp members of a political party who select candidates for an election."

==Semble==
Legal phrase meaning "see the following case, but it's just in dictum or some other loose relevance". Italicized, because it's from law French, il semble, "it seems". Discussed at length on [https://twitter.com/SCOTUSPlaces/status/1674432352431538177 Twitter] in 2023 after the Harvard decision on Asians having bad personalities.

==Shekhina==
From Wikipedia:
:"Shekhinah, also spelled Shechinah (Hebrew: שְׁכִינָה Šəḵīnā, Tiberian: Šăḵīnā) is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning "dwelling" or "settling" and denotes the presence of God, as it were, in a place. This concept is found in Judaism.

:The Hebrew Bible mentions several places where the presence of God was felt and experienced as a Shekhinah, including the burning bush and the cloud that rested on Mount Sinai. The Shekhinah was often pictured as a cloud or as a pillar of fire and was referred to as the glory of God. The Shekhinah was also understood to be present in the Tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem, and to be seated at the right hand of God.

:The word shekhinah is not found in the Bible. It appears in the Mishnah, the Talmud, and in midrash. . . .

:The Talmud states that
:: "the Shekhinah rests on man neither through gloom, nor through sloth, nor through frivolity, nor through levity, nor through talk, nor through idle chatter, but only through a matter of joy in connection with a mitzvah.""

==Spitster==
A double-cup invention for eating sunflower seeds, peanuts, or pistachios. https://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9254850.htm

==Stanch==
To stop the flow of blood.

==Steelmanning==
Presenting one's opponent's arguments as well as possible, even if that's not the way they presented them. Chicago's Professor [https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/12/steelmanning-and-interpretive-charity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Will Baude says,]
"Indeed, I now sometimes test a version of this skill on my exams, asking students to write up both sides of an argument, with the rule that their grade will be based on the quality of the worse of the two arguments."

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==Traumata==
An alternative to "traumas" as a plural for "trauma".

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==The Unpronounceable Case==
[https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-968_8nj9.pdf Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski], US Supreme Court (2020) may supplant whatever case has traditionally held this title.

==Unterschlepper==
Neologism from [https://stljewishlight.org/news/news-local/yiddish-word-of-the-week-schlep-or-schlepper/ "schlepper"].
{{Quotation| From Yiddish שלעפּן (“to drag”); from High German schleppen (“to drag”)– “to carry”- 
1) a servant who carries things 
2) a porter 
3) a pejorative insult for an individual who wanders aimlessly 
4) One who acts in a slovenly, lazy, or sloppy manner. Kind of like the modern idiom of “slacker”. 

Synonyms in academia are "assistant dean", "deanlet" and "deanlette".

==Urdummheit==
From the novel ''Amigos:'' the word urdummheit. It means something like "great stupidity", "stupidityat its very origins". [https://thesaurasize.com/Urdummheit https://thesaurasize.com/Urdummheit] was being tricked by someone.

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==Vatic==
Describing or predicting what will happen in the future.

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== Valley of the Clueles: Das Tal der Ahnungslosen==
The valley in East Germany that could not be reached by Voice of America radio. "regions in the northeast to Greifswald and in the southeast of the GDR in the former district of Dresden... about 15 % of the population of the GDR...The term is now used for local communities or areas in Germany with missing or poorly developed broadband Internet access," from [https://memim.com/tal-der-ahnungslosen.html Tal der Ahnungslosen].

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==Verbesserschlechterung==
A improvement that makes things worse. The German word for "software update".

==Verschlimmbessern==
To make something worse while trying to improve it.

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==Wokeschaltung==
The Woke pressure to bring everything in society into conformity or else crush it, by analogy to the Nazi gleichschaltung. Perhaps coined by Curtis Yarvin in [https://graymirror.substack.com/p/big-tech-has-no-power-at-all?s=r "Big tech has no power at all: The basics of tech censorship and the structure of the cathedral,"] (2021).

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==Zeptosecond==
The shortest time period measured is 247 zeptoseconds, a the time for light to cross a hydrogen molecule, a Livescience.com article tells us. A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second, or a decimal point followed by 20 zeroes and a 1, .00000 00000 00000 000001 seconds.

==Zornhau==
A zornhau (wrath hew) is the diagonal cut sword cut from shoulder to opposite waist known as "kesa-giri" in Japan. It is said to be historically the most effective at killing people. See https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Diagonal_Cut and https://danielagnewauthor.com/2017/04/27/the-zornhau-ort-its-simpler-than-you-think/.

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https://twitter.com/BrilliantMaps/status/1449114106200535041

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==NEW WORDS NEEDED==
*{{Quotation|I taught misrepresentation/fraud yesterday; and midway through our analysis of the famous case Vokes v. Arthur Murray dance studio, I realized that the gullible, pathetic, 2-left-footed widow in that case -- Audrey Vokes -- was younger than I am now. Confused }}

:{{Quotation|Replying to @ProfEricTalley}}
:{{Quotation|If I were the mainstream media, I would now report that Columbia University admits that it teaches misrepresentation and fraud. }}
:{{Quotation|(What is the word for that self-reflexive sentence?-someone who fraudulently accuses someone else of fraud? Useful term for Russiagate too.)}}

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==Academic Scaffolding==
A scholarly backdrop to make an idea I believe in anyway look fancier than it is. In economics, we have an idea, and then we spend a year trying to construct a rational-actor math model of it, or trying to see if the data supports it. In our case, though, we reject the idea if we can't get rigor behind it.

==Acrid==
Unpleasantly sharp, pungent, or bitter.

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==Ad hominem==
{{Quotation| Yes...when JMac made a statement about the nature of the Son of God that was very, very off and he publicly acknowledged it before the entire world. Let's take a peak at your life and see what we can find. What are you hiding Dennis? Unbelievable. The level of hypocrisy is sick.

The sin of "Dennis Swanson" is a different subject, and not as interesting.
There should be a name for this.
"Ad hominem" doesn't quite fit.
Nor "ad hominem libellum"
Nor "ad hominem innuedum"More like "ad hominem conjecturum" But my grammar may be off.}}

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==Adiaphora==
The plural of adiaphoron, a thing that exists outside of moral law, neither condemned nor approved by morality; “indifferent things,” neither right nor wrong, spiritually neutral.

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==Anscombe's Quartet==
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet The Wikipedia article on it.]
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== Antifaschistischer Schutzwall ==
"Anti-fascist protection dike" or "rampart", the Berlin Wall's official name in East Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall

==Apophenia==Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.

==Apparatchicks, Apparatjocks==
"The apparatchiks and apparatjocks of National Public Radio."

==Arcsine(x)==
In the unit circle, "the arc whose sine is x" is the same as "the angle whose sine is x", because the length of the arc of the circle is a measure of the angle. In Mexico the functions was also called angsin, meaning "angle whose sine is..." https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/33175/etymology-of-arccos-arcsin-arctan

==Argumentum ad Verecundiam==
The fallacy of argument from inappropriate authority: an appeal to the testimony of an authority outside of the authority's special field of expertise. https://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/authority.html

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==[[Baizhuo]]==
{{Quotation| WIKIPEDIA: Baizuo (/ˈbaɪˌdzwɔː/, /baɪˈzwoʊ/; Chinese: 白左; pinyin: báizuǒ, Mandarin pronunciation: [pǎi.tswò], literally White Left)[1][2] is a Chinese neologism and political epithet used to refer to Western leftist ideologies primarily espoused by white leftists.[3] The term baizuo is related to the term shèngmǔ (圣母, 聖母, literally "Blessed Mother") or shèngmǔbiǎo (圣母婊, 聖母婊, literally "Blessed Mother of Bitch"), a sarcastic reference to those whose political opinions are perceived as being guided by emotions or a hypocritical show of selflessness and empathy.

The term baizuo was apparently coined in a 2010 article published on Renren Network by user Li Shuo, entitled The Fake Morality of the Western White Left and the Chinese Patriotic Scientists (西方白左和中国爱国科学家的伪道德), initially used as a general critique of certain socialist values in the American left.[3] No further use of the term is known until 2013, where on Chinese forum Zhihu through 2013–2015, the term evolved to criticize some people among the left who seemingly advocate for positive slogans like peace and equality to boast their sense of moral superiority, but are ignorant of real-world consequences, and utilize destructive behavior like political sacrifice and identity politics.

Substantial use in Chinese Internet culture began in early 2016, at first at MIT BBS, a bulletin board system used by many Chinese in the U.S., during the 2016 United States presidential election.}}

==Beautilicious==

==Bug-Man==
Synonym for Nietzsche's Last Man of Zarathustra, probably derived from "Bourgeois Man".
"The Bugmen, to stay with BAP, are the “pretentious bureaucrats” who harbor “titanic hatred of the well-turned out and beautiful.” They believe in “social justice” and “first-world regimented hygiene”" from the Bronze Age Pervert via [https://newrepublic.com/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SF_TNR the New Republic 2023 article] on the Claremont Institute.

==Bushing==
Wikipedia:"A bushing or rubber bushing is a type of vibration isolator. It provides an interface between two parts, damping the energy transmitted through the bushing. A common application is in vehicle suspension systems, where a bushing made of rubber (or, more often, synthetic rubber or polyurethane) separates the faces of two metal objects while allowing a certain amount of movement."

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==Cadence==
{{Quotation| [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cadence#English From Wiktionary:] 
1. The act or state of declining or sinking. 
2. Balanced, rhythmic flow. 
3. The measure or beat of movement. 
4. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound. 
5. (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation. 
6. (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. 
7. (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.}}

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==Camel case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with capitals, as in FirstSecondThird. See also: pothole case, kebab case.

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==Chesterton's Fence==
{{Quotation| “In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”
Chesterton is not alone in the observation. It is found throughout our literature and theatre. In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to famously challenge his reformist son-in-law. The poet Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in “Mending Wall.” Scripture is replete with its warning, beginning in Proverbs 22:28, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone that your fathers have placed.” }}--[https://mailchi.mp/inpolicy/2022-and-chestertons-fence-488333?e=bda54c6080 "Chesterton's Fence"]

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==Combatativeness==
"Combativeness" is a word. So is "combatative".. : Is "combatativeness" an existing word? Should it be? Is it better than "combativeness"?

==CHYMPS==
{{Quotation| CHYMPS is the acronym for the top political science PhD programs in the United States. It is the political science PhD equivalent to HYS (Harvard, Yale, Stanford) for law schools and HSW (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton) for business schools. CHYMPS stands for: 
Cal-Berkeley 
Harvard 
Yale 
Michigan 
Princeton 
Stanford.

[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a443ef9dd190e688bf05648a48e463e7 image of network]

The acronym was originally Hypes-Bomb (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT) as a shorthand for the top political science departments (perhaps pejorative, as in overhyped but famous political science schools).

Hypes-Bomb then morphed to CHYMPS since it’s catchier.

CHYMPS then became the updated HYP as an acronym for the most prestigious schools in the US generally (see Urban Dictionary entry from 2009), though it’s causing some confusion among Columbia, Cornell, Caltech, and University of Chicago fans who feel that “C” should stand for them, not Cal-Berkeley (just a bias against public schools IMO, since Cal is clearly superior to the other “C” schools, at least at the graduate level). 
--https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-CHYMPS-Cal-Berkeley-Harvard-Yale-MIT-Princeton-and-Stanford }}

==Contradictorily==
"In selling stock, the filer is not ''contradictorily'' asserting it is solvent; the *buyers* are saying that."

==Coolitude==
The property of being "cool". A neologism.

==Coviderati==
The people who designed and promoted America's covid epidemic policy in 2021-- the lockdowns, masks, vaccines for children, and so forth. I saw Jay Bhattacharya use this in a 2023 tweet at https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/1650268566036574208.

== Crazytown==
"I feel like I'm in crazytown when I express distress about taxation - literally people forcibly taking away your property - and ppl act like I'm the crazy one." [https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1386021135112839171 A tweet] (2021).

==Curtilage==
Legal. An area of land attached to a house and forming one enclosure with it.

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==Damnatio memoriae==
[https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/11/the-academic-memory-hole/ Joshua Katz: "I’ve “been disappeared.” The standard name for this is damnatio memoriae, Latin for “condemnation of memory”. ]

==[[Deificatio]]==
"Deificatio hominis" or just "deificatio" is the Latin term used in theology for the idea of a man trying to become more like God. It might be exactly the same idea as "sanctification"; I'm not sure. Often people say "deification", which is bad terminology. It already has a main meaning, and that main meaning is completely different, almost opposite, since it is to make something into an idol, treating it as God. The idea here is not to set yourself up falsely as God, but to make yourself slightly more like God and diminish your own contrary will. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosis_(Eastern_Christian_theology)#:~:text=Theosis%2C%20or%20deification%20(deification%20may,and%20the%20Byzantine%20Catholic%20Churches. Greek term “Theosis”] is better, maybe; I don’t grasp the Eastern Orthodox concept very well. “Sanctification” is good. “Divinization” is okay, but sounds too much like “divining”, as in fortune-telling.

==Degringolade==
A rapid decline or deterioration in a situation.

==Derangement==
From [https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1168597790127284224 Twitter]: "A permutation that leaves no element in-place is called a 'derangement'."

==Devolution==
Devolution can mean either the reverse of evolution or the devolving of power, two quite distinct meanings.

==Doctrine of Double Effect==
"The doctrine (or principle) of double effect is often invoked to explain the permissibility of an action that causes a serious harm, such as the death of a human being, as a side effect of promoting some good end. According to the principle of double effect, sometimes it is permissible to cause a harm as a side effect (or “double effect”) of bringing about a good result even though it would not be permissible to cause such a harm as a means to bringing about the same good end." [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-effect/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20principle%20of,about%20the%20same%20good%20end. "Doctrine of Double Effect,"] Stanford dictionary.

==Doomscrolling==
“Doomscrolling is the act of spending an excessive amount of time online, particularly on social media or news sites, scrolling through content that is overwhelmingly negative, depressing, or anxiety-inducing."

==Doublethink==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

==Drafty Version of a Paper==
“Very drafty version”: I like that, and will use it myself. You eventually will insulate it from criticism. "Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of State
Formation in Europe, " Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University, August 31, 2020.

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==Enantiomer==
"Enantiomers, also known as optical isomers, are two stereoisomers that are related to each other by a reflection: they are mirror images of each other that are non-superposable. Human hands are a macroscopic analog of this." --[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoisomerism#:~:text=Enantiomers%2C%20also%20known%20as%20optical,opposite%20configuration%20in%20the%20other "Steroisomerism,"] ''Wikipedia.''

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==Enunciative and Enunciatory==
I think these mean "enunciating well", but I haven't been able to find out, googling.

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==Epiphany==
One meaning in Greek of ἐπιφάνεια is, from [https://www.studylight.org/lexicons/eng/greek/2015.html Liddel-Scott-Jones, ]
" in war, sudden appearance of an enemy, Aen.Tact. 31.8, Plb. 1.54.2, Ascl. Tact. 12.10(pl.), Onos. 22.3 (pl.)."

==Epsilontik==
"Epsilontik" is the precise development of analysis, differential geometry, and topology using epsilon-neighborhoods in the style of Weierstrass. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Johannes_Thomae.

==The Fallacy of Equivocation==
Using a term with one meaning in the premise, and another in the conclusion. [http://fallacyoftheweek.professorsykes.com/fallacy-types/equivocation/ From Professorsykes.com:] 
“Noisy children are a real pain. Two aspirin will make any pain go away. Therefore, two aspirin will make noisy children go away.”

==Erdocity==
The nearness of relationship between two people or things, after mathematician Paul Erdos. He has Erdos Number 0; his co-author has 1; his co-author's author 2;...Eric Rasmusen, 5 (3 ways: Connell-Farb-Lubotzky-Alon-Erdos, Janssen-Sierksma-Doignon-Fishburn-Erdos, and Ayres-Rowat-Beardon-Lehner-Erdos). Like 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon. It applies broadly; e.g. how distant I am in relationship of having conversed with economists who've conversed with historians who've conversed with journalists. The word is original with me, I think. I would pronounce it "erdossity" rather than "erdoshity", despite Erdos being Hungarian.

==Eructation==
A belch.
A violent bursting forth or ejection of matter from the earth.

==Exvangelical==
An ex-evangelical; in particular, not a convert to Romanism or Eastern Orthodoxy, but someone who used to be part of conservative Protestantism but then started to attack it.

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==Fiat Abuse==
A debate team term. "Fiat abuse is where you try to prevent debate not only on whether you could actually enact a policy (that's what you can "fiat" into existence) but also the policy's workability. So, if you were debating Communism, you might be able to fiat a Communist revolution- "if the workers revolted, would it be good", but you can't fiat the moneyed classes giving up all their private property voluntarily. One of the problems with Communism is they'd resist!" Dilan Esper
@dilanesper

==Fissiparous==
Inclined to cause or undergo division into separate parts or groups."she was unsuccessful in holding a fissiparous membership together"

==Flatus==
Gas generated in or expelled from the digestive tract, especially the stomach or intestines.

==The Flypaper Effect==
"The flypaper effect is '''a concept from the field of public finance''' that suggests that a government grant to a recipient municipality increases the level of local public spending more than an increase in local income of an equivalent size. '''When a dollar of exogenous grants to a community leads to significantly greater public spending than an equivalent dollar of citizen income: money sticks where it hits, like a fly to flypaper'''. Grants to the government will stay in the hands of the government and income to individuals will stay with these individuals." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flypaper_effect

==Freudenschade==
Sorrow over someone's success. The counterpart to Schadenfreude (joy over someone's loss).

==Fugacity==
1. The noun for being fleeting, evanescent. 
2. A coefficient for a real-world gas which makes the ideal gas equation be true. The fugacity of an ideal gas is 1. The fugacity of real-world gases is between 0 and 1, e.g. the fugacity of nitrogen is about .93. 
This came up in Ben's Thermodynamics class. 
I would like there to be the word "Fugacitaceous" too, for the sound of it, but that's a neologism.

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==Gasket==
A shaped piece or ring of rubber or other material sealing the junction between two surfaces in an engine or other device.

==Googleability or Googlability==
A measure of how easy it is to find information about a person on the Web. Which spelling is better?

==Gluckschmerz==
Pain at seeing someone else's good fortune, analogous to Schadenfreude. But it's fake German. See this [https://twitter.com/TomVaid/status/1442500467158765574 twitter thread].
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==Hanja==
(Korean: 한자; Hanja: 漢字, Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write Korean.

==Haredi ==
"Haredi is a Modern Hebrew adjective derived from the Biblical verb hared, which appears in the Book of Isaiah (66:2; its plural haredim appears in Isaiah 66:5)[27] and is translated as "one who trembles" at the word of God. The word connotes an awe-inspired fear to perform the will of God."

==Heisenbug==
There’s a bug in my code.
I add logging.
the bug disappears.
I remove the logging.
the bug is back.

See [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/heisenbug.html Catb.org]:
[from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment significantly enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialized memory, behaves quite differently.) Antonym of Bohr bug; see also mandelbug, schroedinbug. In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialized auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (esp. lossage related to corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack.

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==The Javert Paradox==
{{Quotation| The Javert Paradox: Suppose you find a problem with published work. If you just point it out once or twice, the authors of the work are likely to do nothing. But if you really pursue the problem, then you look like a Javert.
-- [https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2009/05/24/handy_statistic/ Andrew Gelman]}}

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==[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos '''Kairos.''']==
καιρός. "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved."

{{quotation| While chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative, permanent nature.<ref> [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkairo%2Fs1 Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon ]</ref> ''Kairos'' also means ''weather'' in Modern Greek... In weaving, kairos denotes the moment in which the shuttle could be passed through threads on the loom."<ref>Stephenson,Hunter W. (2005) "Forecasting Opportunity: Kairos, Production, and Writing, p.4. University Press of America: Oxford</ref> ..."Kairos" (used 86 times in the New Testament) refers to an opportune time, a "moment" or a "season" such as "harvest time," whereas "chronos" (used 54 times) refers to a specific amount of time, such as a day or an hour (e.g. Acts 13:18 and 27:9).}}

==Katz==
Short for "Kohen Tzedeq ("priest of justice"/"authentic priest") or Kohen Tzadok (meaning the name-bearer is of patrilineal descent of the Kohanim sons of Zadok)", Wikipedia says.

==Kebab case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with dashes, as in first-second-third. See also: camel case, pothole case.

==Kofferbuch==
A book that one takes along on a trip with the intention of reading but is never actually read.

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==LIMERENCE==
The state of being in love. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence

==Lunate epsilon==
The lunate epsilon (tex: $\epsilon$) is the moon-shaped one that I like to use for something very small because it looks smaller. The "reverse-3" form is the uglier squiggly one that has the advantage of one-stroke cursive writing on the blackboard. See the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon Wikipedia entry].

==To Lustrate==
To purify by expiatory sacrifice, ceremonial washing, or some other ritual action.
"a soul lustrated in the baptismal waters"

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==Malum in se==
I've long been frustrated that the opposite of ''malum in se'' is ''malum in prohibitum'', which is not audibly parallel. I'd very much like ''malum in lex'', but it's ungrammatrical. It would have to be ''malum in lege'', ablative case. But how about
"''malum in legibus''"? "Bad in the laws"? That has a nice-sounding consonant "s" at the end, even though "x" ("ks") would be even better.

==Menschlichkeit==
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Menschlichkeit The quality of humanness (the condition or quality of being human). Related to the Yiddish Mensch ("What a stand-up guy! He is a real mensch.")

==Meomarxism==
The vulgar marxism of circa 2020 that is based on the oppressor/oppressed dichotomy and identity politics. In adult Sunday school today, I figured out this word for the wokesters, wokies, wokers, neo-marxists: Meomarxists. It's all about me showing I'm not an oppressor, and that I'm one of the oppressed (though this is tough if you're a straight white male, even if you're effeminate).

This is a better word than "identomarxism", another coinage of mine. The word "meowmarkism" is also inferior.

==Merism==
DbPedia [https://dbpedia.org/page/Merism] says,
"Merism (Latin: merismus, Greek: μερισμός, translit. merismós) is a rhetorical device (or figure of speech) in which a combination of two contrasting parts of the whole refer to the whole. For example, in order to say that someone "searched everywhere", one could use the merism "searched high and low"." See also [https://www.thoughtco.com/merism-rhetoric-term-1691307#:~:text=Merism%20(from%20the%20Greek%2C%20%22,used%20to%20describe%20the%20whole] Thoughtco on merism.

==Midwit==
"Someone who is around average intelligence but is so opinionated and full of themselves that they think they're some kind of genius. They overlap with pseuds."

==Misnagdim==
"Misnagdim ((מתנגדים‎,"Opponents"; a religious movement among the Jews of Eastern Europe which resisted the rise of Hasidism in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Misnagdim were particularly concentrated in Lithuania, where Vilnius served as the bastion of the movement, but anti-Hasidic activity was undertaken by the establishment in many locales. The most severe clashes between the factions took place in the latter third of the 18th century; the failure to contain Hasidism led the Misnagdim to develop distinct religious philosophies and communal institutions, which were not merely a perpetuation of the old status quo but often innovative. The most notable results of these efforts, pioneered by Chaim of Volozhin and continued by his disciples, were the modern, independent yeshiva and the Musar movement. Since the late 19th century, tensions with the Hasidim largely subsided, and the heirs of Misnagdim adopted the epithet Litvishe or Litvaks."

==Mizrahim==
*Mizrahim is a term coined with the creation of the State of Israel. It means "Easterner" in Hebrew and refers to Oriental Jews or descendants of Jewish communities from the Middle East and North Africa.

==Mnemonic==
Mnemonic (plural mnemonics): Anything (especially in verbal form) used to help remember something.
:How do you spell mnemonic? 
:It's practically demonic. 
:You put an M before the N; 
:And then it's just phenomic.

==Mokita==
"Mokita is a Papua New Guinean term for something that everyone knows but no one talks about." https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/1439993770519445508?s=03. 
"Earl Hunt, the eminent psychometrician, invoked that word in his review of TBC many, many years ago."--Charles Murray, https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/1439993770519445508?s=03.

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==Neuronormal, Neurotypical==
I realize I'm a Neurotypical (or am I?). It makes me sound very powerful, or even scary. A useful word. Neuronormal might be better though.

==Noncentral Fallacy==
<pre>
If he can unilaterally declare a Worst Argument, then so can I. I declare the Worst Argument In The World to be this: "X is in a category whose archetypal member gives us a certain emotional reaction. Therefore, we should apply that emotional reaction to X, even though it is not a central category member."

Call it the Noncentral Fallacy.
</pre>
From Scott Alexander, [https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncentral-fallacy-the-worst-argument-in-the-world "The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world?"] ''LessWrong'' (2012).

==Nuisance parameter==
A nuisance parameter is any parameter which is not of immediate interest but must be accounted for in the analysis of the parameter of interest. The classic example is the variance of distribution when the mean is of primary interest. [https://buff.ly/2RVnaMH Wikipedia's article].

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==Overmorrow==
The day after tomorrow, an old English word. Ubermorgen in German.

==Obrazovanshchina==
"Obrazovanshchina (Russian: образованщина, 'educationdom', 'educaties',[1] 'smatterers') is a Russian ironical, derogatory term for a category of people with superficial education who lack the higher ethics of an educated person.[2] The term was introduced by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his 1974 essay "Obrazovanshchina" (translated as "The Smatterers") as a criticism of the transformation of the Russian intelligentsia, which, in his opinion had lost high ethical values." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obrazovanshchina

==Obscurantisme terroriste==
'Foucault said that Derrida practiced the method of obscurantisme terroriste (terrorism of obscurantism). We were speaking French. And I said, “What the hell do you mean by that?” And he said, “He writes so obscurely you can’t tell what he’s saying, that’s the obscurantism part, and then when you criticize him, he can always say, ‘You didn’t understand me; you’re an idiot.’ That’s the terrorism part.” ' Quoted in [https://benthams.substack.com/p/is-continental-philosophy-unclear Bentham's Bulldog. ]

==On the Record==
{{Quotation|
AP's guidelines for "Off the record", "Background" and "Deep Background"
Published 2011-08-01

Not everyone understands “off the record” or “on background” to mean the same things. Before any interview in which any degree of anonymity is expected, there should be a discussion in which the ground rules are set explicitly.
These are the AP’s definitions:

On the record: The information can be used with no caveats, quoting the source by name.

Off the record: The information cannot be used for publication.

Background: The information can be published but only under conditions negotiated with the source. Generally, the sources do not want their names published but will agree to a description of their position. AP reporters should object vigorously when a source wants to brief a group of reporters on background and try to persuade the source to put the briefing on the record. These background briefings have become routine in many venues, especially with government officials.

Deep background: The information can be used but without attribution. The source does not want to be identified in any way, even on condition of anonymity.
https://blog.chrislkeller.com/aps-guidelines-for-off-the-record-background/}}

==Overfeatures==
I'd like to popularize the word "overfeatured" to mean software, cars, or any other product that has too many bells and whistles. These can either actively degrade usability, or make it too hard to figure out simple uses.

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==Palooka==
"Palooka is a classic term for an inexperienced or incompetent boxer, one who has no business being in the ring. More broadly, it can mean any oaf or lout."

==Panache==
<html> <img src= "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0ubUYsXoAMSjO1?format=jpg&name=900x900" height= 120 align= left> </html>
 
 
 
 

==Per curiam==
A way for a court to sign a judicial opinion. "Traditionally, the per curiam was used to signal that a case was
uncontroversial, obvious, and did not require a substantial opinion... These early
opinions often comprised only a sentence or two, rarely more than a
paragraph, and never displayed disagreement among the Justices.
Beginning in 1909 with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose
strongly worded separate opinions earned him the moniker "the Great
Dissenter," per curiam opinions began to feature dissents... The per curiam
not only allowed the Court to quickly adjudicate these more
substantive cases but also to signify to the public that the issues in
them were easily resolved and required little explanation."
[https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/425/ "Hiding Behind the Cloak of Invisibility: The Supreme Court and Per Curiam Opinions,"]
Ira Robbins (2012).

==Pistarckle==
[https://twitter.com/RBrookhiser/status/1656389209286909954?t=97hk1vD-di0L5C8xJ47ytg&s=03 Richard Brookhiser]: "Virgin Islands slang, meaning uproar, confusion. I encountered the word years ago in the USVI and have been using it ever since."

==Persiflage==
Light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter.

==Pothole case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with underscores, as in first_second_third. See also: camel case, kebab case.

==Plaque==
1. an ornamental tablet,
2. A sticky bacterial deposit on teeth.

==Prevenient Grace==
"Free will is unable to begin or to perfect any true and spiritual good, without grace. …This grace [prævenit] goes before, accompanies, and follows; it excites, assists, operates that we will, and co operates lest we will in vain." Arminius [https://ccel.org/ccel/arminius/works2/works2.ix.vi.html "Grace and Free Will"]

==Procatalepsis==
Procatalepsis is the rhetorical device of raising objections to your own argument and then answering them, thus forestalling your opponent.

==Pronunciamento==
{{Quotation| A pronunciamiento (Spanish: [pɾonunθjaˈmjento], Portuguese: pronunciamento [pɾunũsiɐˈmẽtu]; "proclamation , announcement or declaration") is a form of military rebellion or coup d'état particularly associated with Spain, Portugal and Latin America, especially in the 19th century.}}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciamiento

==Propaganda Press==
The media outlets that parrot the regime's propaganda, e.g., ''The New York Times, The Washington Post'', MSNBC, CNN. This term is better than "mainstream media" or "corporate media" or "legacy media" or "fake news" or "establishment media" or "regime media".

==Proptreptic==
Writing that is aimed at conversion, changing the path of the reader.
:"Collins defines protreptic as conversion, since the exhortatory movement implied in the verb προτρέπω (‘urge on, impel’) is often—or, more radically, always—linked to the abandoning of previous opinions and ways of life (apotreptic, cf. ἀποτρέπω, ‘turn away from’). However, it soon becomes clear that the author aims at a broader examination of ancient and modern genre theory in order to highlight the versatility of protreptic at its beginning. Collins sets out four characteristics of protreptic (17-18). According to him protreptic is: (a) dialogic, in the sense that it ‘always contains the voices of its competition’; (b) agonistic; (c) situational; and (d) rhetorical." ([https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2015/2015.12.16/ "Exhortations to Philosophy: The Protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle" review])

==Psephology==
The statistical study of elections and voting.

==Pseudo-Wiki==
A website that looks like a wiki and uses wiki software, but is written by one or a very limited set of people. This website, [https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia Rasmapedia], is an example.

==PUMP AND DUMP==
1. The stock manipulation trick of using rumor or purchase to inflate a stock's purchase and then selling it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump. 2. The political dirty trick of getting a crowd so excited that it charges off to wreck a building or kill someone, so it gets in trouble and discredits the movement, and then quietly leaving before the arrests and shooting. 3. A Full Service Company Offering Residential & Commercial Septic Services. https://www.pumpndumpusa.com/.
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==Quandary==
A situation of perplexity. It is spelled with a silent "a", which I hate and will omit when I can get away with it.
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==RAREBIT==
Ambrose Bierce (1911): "Rarebit n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad in the hole is really not a toad, and that ris de veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker."
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==Selectorate==
British English:"a body of people responsible for making a selection, esp members of a political party who select candidates for an election."

==Semble==
Legal phrase meaning "see the following case, but it's just in dictum or some other loose relevance". Italicized, because it's from law French, il semble, "it seems". Discussed at length on [https://twitter.com/SCOTUSPlaces/status/1674432352431538177 Twitter] in 2023 after the Harvard decision on Asians having bad personalities.

==Shekhina==
From Wikipedia:
:"Shekhinah, also spelled Shechinah (Hebrew: שְׁכִינָה Šəḵīnā, Tiberian: Šăḵīnā) is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning "dwelling" or "settling" and denotes the presence of God, as it were, in a place. This concept is found in Judaism.

:The Hebrew Bible mentions several places where the presence of God was felt and experienced as a Shekhinah, including the burning bush and the cloud that rested on Mount Sinai. The Shekhinah was often pictured as a cloud or as a pillar of fire and was referred to as the glory of God. The Shekhinah was also understood to be present in the Tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem, and to be seated at the right hand of God.

:The word shekhinah is not found in the Bible. It appears in the Mishnah, the Talmud, and in midrash. . . .

:The Talmud states that
:: "the Shekhinah rests on man neither through gloom, nor through sloth, nor through frivolity, nor through levity, nor through talk, nor through idle chatter, but only through a matter of joy in connection with a mitzvah.""

==Spitster==
A double-cup invention for eating sunflower seeds, peanuts, or pistachios. https://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9254850.htm

==Stanch==
To stop the flow of blood.

==Steelmanning==
Presenting one's opponent's arguments as well as possible, even if that's not the way they presented them. Chicago's Professor [https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/12/steelmanning-and-interpretive-charity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Will Baude says,]
"Indeed, I now sometimes test a version of this skill on my exams, asking students to write up both sides of an argument, with the rule that their grade will be based on the quality of the worse of the two arguments."

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==Traumata==
An alternative to "traumas" as a plural for "trauma".

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==The Unpronounceable Case==
[https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-968_8nj9.pdf Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski], US Supreme Court (2020) may supplant whatever case has traditionally held this title.

==Unterschlepper==
Neologism from [https://stljewishlight.org/news/news-local/yiddish-word-of-the-week-schlep-or-schlepper/ "schlepper"].
{{Quotation| From Yiddish שלעפּן (“to drag”); from High German schleppen (“to drag”)– “to carry”- 
1) a servant who carries things 
2) a porter 
3) a pejorative insult for an individual who wanders aimlessly 
4) One who acts in a slovenly, lazy, or sloppy manner. Kind of like the modern idiom of “slacker”. 

Synonyms in academia are "assistant dean", "deanlet" and "deanlette".

==Urdummheit==
From the novel ''Amigos:'' the word urdummheit. It means something like "great stupidity", "stupidityat its very origins". [https://thesaurasize.com/Urdummheit https://thesaurasize.com/Urdummheit] was being tricked by someone.

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==Vatic==
Describing or predicting what will happen in the future.

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== Valley of the Clueles: Das Tal der Ahnungslosen==
The valley in East Germany that could not be reached by Voice of America radio. "regions in the northeast to Greifswald and in the southeast of the GDR in the former district of Dresden... about 15 % of the population of the GDR...The term is now used for local communities or areas in Germany with missing or poorly developed broadband Internet access," from [https://memim.com/tal-der-ahnungslosen.html Tal der Ahnungslosen].

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==Verbesserschlechterung==
A improvement that makes things worse. The German word for "software update".

==Verschlimmbessern==
To make something worse while trying to improve it.

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==Wokeschaltung==
The Woke pressure to bring everything in society into conformity or else crush it, by analogy to the Nazi gleichschaltung. Perhaps coined by Curtis Yarvin in [https://graymirror.substack.com/p/big-tech-has-no-power-at-all?s=r "Big tech has no power at all: The basics of tech censorship and the structure of the cathedral,"] (2021).

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==Zeptosecond==
The shortest time period measured is 247 zeptoseconds, a the time for light to cross a hydrogen molecule, a Livescience.com article tells us. A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second, or a decimal point followed by 20 zeroes and a 1, .00000 00000 00000 000001 seconds.

==Zornhau==
A zornhau (wrath hew) is the diagonal cut sword cut from shoulder to opposite waist known as "kesa-giri" in Japan. It is said to be historically the most effective at killing people. See https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Diagonal_Cut and https://danielagnewauthor.com/2017/04/27/the-zornhau-ort-its-simpler-than-you-think/.

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2026-02-12T14:32:27Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* Anonymous */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

*[https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089 "On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs' "], Jia Tolentino ( /23/16).

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==Anonymous==
*"Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (“Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched”) The motto of the University of Chicago.

*"South Africa has introduced a new category to geopolitics: a de-developing nation." (@ConCaracal, X, 2026).

*"Don't take notes of what the professor says, take note."

*"What other people think of me is none of my business.”

*"Do you have 10 years of experience, or are you just living the same year at your job 10 times over?" [https://twitter.com/randomrecruiter/status/1690753402014232576 @randomrecruiter] (2023)

*I am reminded of a woman who graduated from MIT in 1987. I asked her about her social life as an undergrad. "The odds were good, but the goods were odd."

*"VOCATUS ATQUA NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT." (CALLED OR NOT CALLED, GOD IS PRESENT.)

*"The rich man smokes the same sort of cigarettes as the poor man, shaves with the same sort of razor, uses the same sort of telephone, vacuum cleaner, radio, and TV set, has the same sort of lighting and heating equipment in his house, and so on indefinitely. The differences between his automobile and the poor man’s are minor. Essentially they have similar engines, similar fittings. In the early years of the century there was a hierarchy of automobiles." (''Harper's Magazine'' [1957])

*"Conservatives view themselves as underdogs because they are, especially culturally. Liberals view themselves underdogs because although in charge of every significant human institution they have set themselves the impossible egalitarian task of waging war against nature and reality itself - so when results inevitably conflict with their egalitarian ideology - when racial gaps, poverty, sex differences, inequality etc persist - they blame reactionary forces rather than nature (reality)." ''Twitter'' (2023).

*The Hillary defense:
:I didn’t do it.
:You can’t prove it.
:Everybody does it.
:He did it.
:You're just a racist.
:It's old news.
:What difference, at this point, does it make?

*The Russian Teapot defense:
:It isn’t broken
:If it is broken, I didn’t do it
:If I did do it, it was no good anyway

*A canon of legal interpretation:"Specialia generalibus non derogant". Special things don't derogate from the general rule.

* “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original:"Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement , il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." [https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa as written by Jomini] (1827))..

*When everything works fine, they wonder why they hired you. When everything stops working, they wonder why they hired you. I.T. in a nutshell.

*“I don't drink, or cuss, or chew; and I don't go out with girls that do.”

*"The plural of outlier is out-and-out-liar".

*"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*[https://allaboutfrench.com/qui-se-ressemble-sassemble "Qui se ressemble s'assemble"]

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan," as quoted in ''A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition) by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Owning a sailboat is like turning your shower's cold water on and standing there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own." Stalin?

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Showing up is 90% of success," or "Being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them." — an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain". This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointment, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: the person secretly believe the world revolves around him, everyone is paying attention to him and his actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan. It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.
Women will always and forever rely on men.}}
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==Adams, John==
*"It is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State." [https://buff.ly/3rFhAzP "From John Adams to James Sullivan"] (26 May 1776).

==Adams, Scott==
*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1577277568310341632 Twitter, October 4, 2022]:"Elon Musk took control of the Ukraine/Russia endgame by writing the first draft in bullet form and drawing all attention to it.

:You just learned one of the most powerful persuasion techniques in the modern world: Write the first draft and keep it simple."

*I’m not worried about climate change because any species that can predict the average temperature a hundred years in advance won’t have trouble handling it.

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==The African Queen==
Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature. 
Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

See [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/characters/nm0000031 the IMDB quote page.]

==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” 
Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Allred, Austen==
*"Job descriptions should be strongly opinionated, and should both attract the people you’d want to work with while repelling those you wouldn’t."(Twitter 2023)

==Amin, Idi==
*"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."

==Anderson, Robert==
*"It would be nice if people would put (D) or (R) in their profiles so I know whether to retweet or ratio them without having to do a bunch of reading." Twitter (2024).

==Andreessen, Mark==
*"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

*Whitepill #14: Every day, two lists get longer: The things you believe but can't say, and the things you don't believe but must say. (Twitter, 2022)

==Aquinas, Thomas==
*"Nevertheless, sacred doctrine makes use of these authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the authority of the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the authority of the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable. For our faith rests upon the revelation made to the apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books, and not on the revelations (if any such there are) made to other doctors. Hence Augustine says (Epis. ad Hieron. xix, 1): 'Only those books of Scripture which are called canonical have I learned to hold in such honor as to believe their authors have not erred in any way in writing them. But other authors I so read as not to deem everything in their works to be true, merely on account of their having so thought and written, whatever may have been their holiness and learning'" (Summa Theologica,. Part 1, Q. 1, Art. 8).

==The Apocrypha==
"Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

2But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.

3With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.

4But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.

5For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen." Wisdom of SOlomon 13.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
*“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

*"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

*"The other environmental risk factors for schizophrenia are equally hard to change. Poverty? Okay, don’t be poor, thanks for the important life advice. Social defeat? “Doctor, are you saying I have to never let anyone defeat me?” “Yes, it’s my official medical recommendation that you become invincible.” " [https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-fair-to-describe-schizophrenia "It's Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic"] (Jan. 31, 2024).

==Auden==
*“The Danish Lutheran Church may have been as worldly as Kierkegaard thought it was, but if it had not existed he would never have heard of the Gospels, in which he found the standards by which he condemned it.”

==Augustine==
*“Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and that not of one man, but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices” (''City of God'', Book IV)

*"If they shall be deprived of all good, they shall no longer be. So long, therefore, as they are, they are good; therefore whatsoever is, is good. That evil, then, which I sought whence it was, is not any substance; for were it a substance, it would be good. For either it would be an incorruptible substance, and so a chief good, or a corruptible substance, which unless it were good it could not be corrupted. I perceived, therefore, and it was made clear to me, that Thou didst make all things good, nor is there any substance at all that was not made by Thee; and because all that Thou hast made are not equal, therefore all things are; because individually they are good, and altogether very good, because our God made all things very good." ''Confessions'', Book 7, chapter 12.

== ==
==Balfour, Arthur==
*“The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which, for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.”

==Bankman-Fried, Sam ==
“...this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us.” --
"[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself]: The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way," ''Vox,'' Kelsey Piper (Nov. 16, 2022).

==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
*“Eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

==The Bible==
*“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” Proverbs 15:1.

*"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits." Proverbs 16:2.

*"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs 16:4.

*"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9.

==Boghossian, Peter==
*"If a thing's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well." (''Unherd'' panel interview, 2024, ''You-Tube'').

==Booth, William (Salvation Army founder)==
*Asked about the chief dangers for the 20th century, Salvation Army founder Booth [https://rlhymersjr.com/Online_Sermons/2007/090907_OldEvangelicalismReview.html said], “Religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.”

==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

==Bloom,Allen==
*“Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason’s power.” ''The Closing of the American Mind''

==Bloom, Harold==
*[https://biblioklept.org/2013/02/19/harold-bloom-on-the-school-of-resentment/ Harold Bloom on his agon with “The School of Resentment.”] From [https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2225/the-art-of-criticism-no-1-harold-bloom his 1991 interview with The Paris Review.]:
When I was a young man back in the fifties starting out on what was to be my career, I used to proclaim that my chosen profession seemed to consist of secular clergy or clerisy. I was thinking, of course, of the highly Anglo-Catholic New Criticism under the sponsorship or demigodness of T. S. Eliot. But I realized in latish middle age that, no better or worse, I was surrounded by a pride of displaced social workers, a rabblement of lemmings, all rushing down to the sea carrying their subject down to destruction with them. The school of resentment is an extraordinary sort of mélange of latest-model feminists, Lacanians, that whole semiotic cackle, latest-model pseudo-Marxists, so-called New Historicists, who are neither new nor historicist, and third generation deconstructors, who I believe have no relationship whatever to literary values. . . .

It is tiresome to be encountering myths called “The Social Responsibility of the Critic” or “The Political Responsibility of the Critic.” I would rather walk into a bookstore and find a book called “The Aesthetic Responsibilities of the Statesman,” or “The Literary Responsibilities of the Engineer.” Criticism is not a program for social betterment, not an engine for social change. I don’t see how it possibly could be. . . .

What else is there like Invisible Man? Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God has a kind of superior intensity and firm control. It’s a very fine book indeed. It surprised and delighted me when I first read it and it has sustained several rereadings since. But that and Invisible Man are the only full scale works of fiction I have read by American blacks in this century that have survival possibilities at all. Alice Walker is an extremely inadequate writer, and I think that is giving her the best of it. A book like The Color Purple is of no aesthetic interest or value whatsoever, yet it is exalted and taught in the academies. It clearly is a time in which social and cultural guilt has taken over. . . .

I’m not terribly fond of feminist criticism. The true test is to find work, whether in the past or present, by women writers that we had undervalued, and thus bring it to our attention and teach us to study it more closely or more usefully. By that test they have failed, because they have added not one to the canon. The women writers who mattered—Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and others who have always mattered on aesthetic grounds—still matter. I do not appreciate Elizabeth Bishop or May Swenson any more or less than I would have appreciated them if we had no feminist literary criticism at all.

==Bowles, Michael==
“Construction is a matter of backing yourself into a corner and then fighting your way out.”

==Bukowski, Charles==
*“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

==Burke, Edmund==
* “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770).

*"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Misattributed. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ Quote Investigator.]

==Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)==
. 
He that complies against his Will, 
Is of his own Opinion still. 
(from ''Hudibras'')
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== ==
==CANNON, William==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Caplan, Bryan==
*"When a normal utilitarian concludes that mass murder would maximize social utility, he checks his work! He goes over his calculations with a fine-tooth comb, hoping to discover a way to implement beneficial policy changes without horrific atrocities. The Leninist, in contrast, reasons backwards from the atrocities that emotionally inspire him to the utilitarian argument that morally justifies his atrocities." [https://betonit.substack.com/p/the_roots_of_lehtml The roots of Leninism] (2012)

==Carlin, George==
*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that."

==Carson, D.A.==
*"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."

==Carver, George Washington==
*“When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well, George, that's more nearly your size.’

==Carville, James==
*“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

==St. Charbel Makhlouf==
*[https://www.lightbook.org/53-best-saint-charbel-quotes.html "Your weakness is to be overcome, not to be used as a pilgrimage."]

==Charles III of the United Kingdom==
* 2011 as he [https://www.royal.uk/clarencehouse/speech/speech-hrh-prince-wales-king-james-bible-trust-reception addressed the King James Bible Trust:] “I’ve never really understood who it was that decided that, for people who aren’t very good at reading, the best things to read are those written by people who aren’t very good at writing!”

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*"Chesterton's Fence", 1929 book, ''The Thing,'' “The Drift from Domesticity”:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to challenge his reformist son-in-law. Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in his poem, “Mending Wall.” }}

*"A man can pretend to be wise; a man cannot pretend to be witty."

*"Those who will not even admit the Capitalist problem deserve to get the Communist solution."

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*"If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization."

*"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it"--Autobiography

*{{Quotation|We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

==Chicago, University of==
*The University of Chicago's motto is "Crescat scientia; vita excolatur," which means,"Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched."

==Chrysostom, John==
*"Should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in the midst of the forum, blaspheming God; go up to him and rebuke him; and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not to do so. Smite him on the face; strike his mouth; sanctify your hand with the blow, and if any should accuse you, and drag you to the place of justice, follow them there; and when the judge on the bench calls you to account, say boldly that the man blasphemed the King of angels! For if it be necessary to punish those who blaspheme an earthly king, much more so those who insult God" ('On the Statues', 1).

== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Coleridge, Samuel==
*"I, for one, do not call the sod under my feet my country. But language, religion, laws, government, blood — identity in these makes men of one country." ''Table Talk'', May 29, 1830.

==Comfort, Ray==
“Atheists don’t hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don’t exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Covey, Stephen==
*"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man."

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [-Twitter, 2021]}}

==Cunningham==
J.V. Cunningham, from "Meditation on Statistical Method"

<pre>
Plato, despair!
We prove by norms
How numbers bear
Empiric forms,

How random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our hearts
Hyperbole
Curves and departs
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
</pre>

My version:

<pre>
Random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our soul
Hyperbole
Makes error roll
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
So hope and doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Won't average out.
</pre>

== ==

==Dalrymple, Theodore==
*"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." a 2005 https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com/dalrymple-interviewed-by-jamie-glazov/ interview] in FrontPage.

==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in ''First Things'', 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, ''The Information'')

==Descartes==
See [[Descartes]]
*"Bene qui latuit, bene vixit."
*"He lives well who lies well hidden." I like the English version better. What is it in French? Ovid, Descartes.

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==Dio Cassius==
*"Although he was very practised as a writer of prose and verse and very skilled in all the arts, yet he always mocked the teachers of all the arts on the grounds that he was more learned than they, and despised and humiliated them. With these same professors and philosophers he often competed, taking turns to publish books or poems. Once, indeed, a word used by Favorinus was criticized by Hadrian. Favorinus yielded, which provoked some very agreeable amusement. He was wrong to concede to Hadrian, his friends charged him, over a word which reputable authors had used. ‘You don’t give me good advice, my friends,’ said Favorinus, ‘when you don’t allow me to believe the man who possesses thirty legions to be more learned than anyone else!’ " From [https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/hadrians-rome/content-section-5.1 Birley, A. (trans.) (1976) Lives of the Later Caesars, London, Penguin, pp. 57–87.]

<pre>
To the poet Florus,Footnote61 who wrote to him:

I do not want to be Caesar,
To walk about among the Britons,
To ensure the Scythian hoar-frosts,

he wrote back:

I do not want to be Florus,
To walk about among taverns,
To lurk about among cook-shops,
To put up with the round insects.
</pre>

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
*"Making a mistake is a net positive if you learn more from it than it cost you."

{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

*"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dornbusch, Rudiger==
*"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought" (on exchange rate crises)

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

== ==

==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==Einstein, Albert==
"in 1952 he wrote a letter to his friend and fellow physicist Max Born where he admits that even if the astronomical data had gone against general relativity, he would still believe in the theory:"

`Even if there were absolutely no light deflection, no perihelion motion and no redshift, the gravitational equations would still be convincing because they avoid the inertial system... It is really quite strange that humans are usually deaf towards the strongest arguments, while they are constantly inclined to overestimate the accuracy of measurement.'
([https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-einsteins-unification-by-jeroen? "John Psmith" 2024)

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

==Esolen, Anthony==
*"Bee as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves, says the Lord.

:The converse is what we have now in our elites, in Church, State, education, etc.: People in charge who are as dopey as pigeons, and as malignant as snakes." (Twitter, 2024)

== ==

==Faulkner, William==
*“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feser, Ed==
*"If a doctor says “This is what lung cancer involves, please stop smoking,” no one accuses him of wanting the patient to suffer. But if a theologian says “This is what damnation involves, please stop sinning,” he is accused of wanting people to go to hell." ([https://twitter.com/FeserEdward/status/1665881489354162177 Twitter, 2023])

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Friedman, Milton==
"Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:

1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality) 
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality) 
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost) 
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

== ==

==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

==Gandhi, Ashvin==
@ashdgandhi (Nov 29 2025)

"Normal people: hear math statements as regular words.

Mathematicians: hear math statements as logic.

Economists: hear regular words as math statements."

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

==Girard, Rene==
*“Nietzsche shared with many intellectuals of his time and our own a passion for irresponsible rhetoric in the attempt to get one up on opponents. But philosophers, for their misfortune, are not the only people in the world. Genuinely mad and frantic people are all around them and do them the worst turn of all: they take them at their word.” I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
*Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies" "I am the spirit who always says no." Faust part I.

*"I am the spirit that always says no. And how right I am! For surely It’s right that everything that comes to be Should cease to be. And so they do. Still better Would be nothing ever was. Hence sin And havoc and ruin—all you call evil, in sum— For me’s the element in which I swim.”

<pre>"Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen:
Verweile doch! du bist so schön!
Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen,
Dann will ich gern zugrunde gehn!
</pre>
Faust, Part I. When I to a moment say, Stay a while! You are so fair! Then you may enslave my soul, then I will submit to you. Or something like that.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==Goodstein, David==
"1.1 INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously. We will begin by considering the simplest meaningful example, the perfect gas, in order to get the central concepts sorted out." ( States of Matter (1985); see https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1651559339067310081)

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*[https://x.com/paulg/status/1874590418463330489 TWITTER:] "A friend who's a former British military officer told me that when he was training soldiers in jungle warfare they were taught that if they got lost in the jungle, the first thing they should do was to brew a cup of tea and think about what to do next."

*"Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign flipped." (2024, X).

*"If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial." [http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html "Putting Ideas into Words"] (2022).

*"A rare counterexample to the principle of specialization: your site should never seem like it was made by communications people, and the best way to achieve this is for it not to be. This is something founders should continue to micromanage forever."[https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1654765304184971264 Twitter] (2023) ]

*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)

==Grandin, Temple==
*Temple Grandin wrote in ''The Way I See It,'' a book on the experience of autism: "What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done."
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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== ==
==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hamblin, Jacob==
*Jacob Hamblin’s "Rules for Dealing with the Indians" from ''Jacob Hamblin among the Indians'' by James Little.

1. I never talk anything but the truth to them.

2. I think it useless to speak of things they cannot comprehend.

3. I strive by all means to never let them see me in a passion.

4. Under no circumstances show fear, thereby showing to them that I have a sound heart and a straight tongue.

5. Never approach them in an austere manner nor use more words than are necessary to convey my ideas, not in a higher tone of voice than to be distinctly heard.

6. Always listen to them when they wish to tell of their grievances, and redress their wrongs, however trifling they may be if possible. If I cannot I let them know I have a desire to do so.

7. I never allow them to hear me use profane or obscene language or take any unbecoming course with them.

8. I never submit to any unjust demands or submit to coercion under any circumstances, thereby showing them that I govern and am governed by the rule of right not by might.

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

==Herrnstein, Robert==
:"Dick recalled the day when, as a young man, he had been awarded tenure. It was his dream fulfilled -- a place in the university he so loved, the chance to follow his research wherever it took him, economic security. For Dick, being a tenured professor at Harvard was not just the perfect job, but the perfect way to live his life. It was too good to be true; there had to be a catch. What's my part of the bargain? he had asked himself. "And I figured it out," he said, looking at me with that benign, gentle half-smile of his. "You have to tell the truth." There was no self-congratulation in his voice, just an answer to my question." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20010421204200/https://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/bell-curve/murray-hstein-obit.html "Richard J. Herrnstein, RIP,"] by Charles Murray, Vol. 46, National Review, 10-10-1994, pp 22.

==Hoffer, Eric==
*[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98215-every-great-cause-begins-as-a-movement-becomes-a-business “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”]

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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==Heath, Joseph==
"Populists have great difficulty respecting the rule of law. If one listens to the explanations that they offer for their actions, a great deal of this reflects a bias toward concreteness in their thinking. They think the purpose of the rules is to stop bad people from doing bad things, but since they themselves are good people trying to do good things, they cannot see why they should be constrained by the rules." "Populism Fast and Slow", ''Substack'' (2025).

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== Rob Henderson==
*“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” [https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/ Quillette article] (2021).

*"Men bond by insulting each other and not really meaning it; women bond by complimenting each other and not really meaning it."

*"Over the course of human evolutionary history, there may have been some independent-minded women who thought things through and decided to avoid the pain and risks of motherhood. These women are not our ancestors." [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-story-of-us-9780190883201?cc=gb&lang=en& one of his books], via Twitter.

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==Hippocrates==
"Ars longa, vita brevis" has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."

The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

==Hitchens, Christopher==
*"It will happen to all of us that at some point you'll be tapped on the shoulder and told - not just that the party is over - but slightly worse: the party's going on but you have to leave."

==Hitchens, PETER==
*'I also remember a French high-speed train, on which Mrs Hitchens and I ate a long, time-consuming, four-course picnic lunch, wine included, partly for the joy of it and partly because we were exempt from French mask rules as long as we were eating.
::'An infuriated French ticket inspector chose to lecture us explosively about our irresponsibility — whereupon I donned a large black Polish Army surplus gas mask, which in those days I carried about for satirical purposes.
::‘Take it off!’ he cried. ‘You are trying to frighten people!’ . :‘No,’ I replied, ‘it is you who are trying to frighten people.’ https://mol.im/a/12947665 via @MailOnline"

==Hooker. Richard==
*“It is dangerous for the feeble mind of man to wade too far into the doings of the Most High. Although it is life to know Him and joy to mention His name, our surest knowledge is that we do not know Him as He truly is, nor can we; our safest eloquence is our silence, confessing without confession that His glory is inexplicable and His greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we are on earth; therefore let our words be wary and few.” (''Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'', Vol. 1, book 1, chapter 2)

==Hochschild, Joshua==
*"It is an academic myth that canonical texts, literary and religious, embody ideology and perpetuate power structures. In the experience of actual readers, canonical texts are typically the means of escaping ideology and challenging power structures." Twitter (2024)

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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== Thomas Jefferson==
" If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion towards his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriæ of the other." [https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/query-xviii-an-excerpt-from-notes-on-the-state-of-virginia-by-thomas-jefferson-1784/ Query 18, Notes from Virginia.]
==Jomini ==
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original: "Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." as written by Jomini (1827). https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa

== ==

==Kac, Mark==
*"Probability theory is measure theory with a soul." Here is one source. Is there a better one, an original one? [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf]

==Karlin, George==
*"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they’re cramming for their final exam."

*"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

*"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body."

*"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts."

*"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it."

==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

*[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

==Keller, Timothy==
*"A possible way to start a conversation with someone who is not a believer:
'Tell me the God you don't believe in because chances are I don't believe in that God either.' "
*"Few people live up to their own standards, let alone an objective one. Either way we come up short on our own accord."
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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==Keynes, John==
* “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”

==Khan, Razib==
:*"The reason we need nerds is that they jump all over little lies, and drown them in the bathtub before the lies can grow up and become invincible monsters." [https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1675204182679207936 Twitter (2023).]

==Kierkegaard, Emil==
{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."
}}

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

== KIPLING, Rudyard==
. 
In August was the jackal born, 
The rains fell in September. 
"Now such a fearful flood as this," 
Says he, "I can't remember!" [http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/second-jungle-book/7/ "The Undertakers"] The 2nd Jungle Book.

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==Kosinski, Jerzy==
* "The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
{{Quotation|
(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk” 
(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
}}
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==Rush Limbaugh==
“Men and women range themselves into three classes... the lowest by talking about persons; the next about things; the highest about ideas.”

==Lindsay, James==
*On the Christian method, which is good for redpilling wokers too: 
::1) Proclaim the truth (tell without coercion or force) 
::2) Remind them that everyone is a sinner (so everyone makes mistakes) 
::3) Invite them to repent in their own time (accept your past error as wrong and move forward productively).

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted , Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

*"The idea that any man or writer should be opaque to those who lived in the same culture, spoke the same language, shared the same habitual imagery and unconscious assumptions, and yet be transparent to those who have none of these advantages, is in my opinion preposterous. " ([https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern Seed speech])

*From "The Abolition of Man": 'When all that says "It is good" has been debunked, what says "I want" remains.'

* "The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

*“His education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

*“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”

*A man who has spent his youth and manhood in the minute study of New Testament texts and of other people’s studies of them, whose literary experience of those texts lacks any standard of comparison such as can only grow from a wide and deep and genial experience of literature in general, is, I should think, very likely to miss the obvious thing about them. If he tells me that something in a Gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavour; not how many years he has spent on that Gospel...

:I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life. I know what they are like. I know that not one of them is like this. Of this text there are only two possible views. Either this is reportage—though it may no doubt contain errors—pretty close up to the facts; nearly as close as Boswell. Or else, some unknown writer in the second century, without known predecessors or successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative
-- CS Lewis. https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern-Seed and Elephants," Originally entitled 'Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism'.

==Long, Earl (Governor of Louisiana, brother of Huey Long)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

==Long, Russell (Senator from Indiana, son of Huey Long)==
*"Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax the man behind the tree." [improved] See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/]

==Long, Rob==
"I was nonplussed — the actual definition of nonplussed, which is baffled, rather than what it sounds like and will eventually come to mean, which is unimpressed." (2024)

==Luther, Martin==
* "Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it."

:"This is a murky Luther quote that seems like something he would have said, yet finding an exact reference isn't easy. A couple of people have searched for this quote uncovering interesting clues and theories of its origin (see for instance, About That Great Luther Quote and also the discussion here). Piggybacking on their efforts, I have my own theory of how this quote became popular: it's in the form it's in because singer-song writer Derek Webb was quoting Charles Spurgeon quoting Luther... whether he knew it or not!" https://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2020/08/luther-every-week-i-preach.html

* “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan." --Book IV of The Prince}}

*"A question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may
be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person it is
much safer to be feared than loved, when only one is possible. The reason for this is that in general men
are ungrateful, inconstant, false, cowardly, and greedy. As long as you succeed, they are yours entirely -
they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, when the need is far distant. But when the
need approaches, they turn against you. A prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected
other ways of protecting himself, will be ruined. Friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by
greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot
be relied upon. Men are less worried about offending one who is loved than one who is feared. Love is
preserved by the link of gratefulness which, owing to the weak nature of men, is broken at every
opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a fear of punishment which never fails." Chapter 17, [https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Principe/Capitolo_XVIII The Prince], Machiavelli.

*"Questo una disputa, s'e' gli è meglio essere amato che temuto o e converso. Rispondesi che si vorrebbe essere l'uno e l'altro; ma perché e' gli è difficile accozzarli insieme, è molto più sicuro essere temuto che amato, quando si abbi a mancare dell'uno de' dua. Perché degli uomini si può dire questo, generalmente, che sieno ingrati, volubili, simulatori e dissimulatori, fuggitori de' pericoli, cupidi del guadagno; e mentre fai loro bene e' sono tutti tua, offeronti el sangue, la roba, la vita, e' figliuoli, come di sopra dissi, quando el bisogno è discosto: ma quando ti si appressa, si rivoltono, e quello principe che si è tutto fondato in su le parole loro, trovandosi nudo di altre preparazioni, ruina. Perché le amicizie che si acquistono col prezzo, e non con grandezza e nobilità di animo, si meritano, ma elle non si hanno, e alli tempi non si possono spendere; e li uomini hanno meno rispetto a offendere uno che si facci amare, che uno che si facci temere: perché lo amore è tenuto da uno vinculo di obligo, il quale, per essere gl'uomini tristi, da ogni occasione di propria utilità è rotto, ma il timore è tenuto da una paura di pena che non ti abbandona mai." Ch. 7. [http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/testo/bibit000214 Il Principe], Machiavelli.

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
*“The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.” (Letter to Napier, November 5, 1841, p. 103 of Trevelyan's ''The Life and Letters..., Vol. 2'')

*"The doctrine which from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words, and stripped of rhetorical disguise is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error."
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Sir James Macintosh"

*From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Mahler Gustav==
*From [https://deepstash.com/article/203717/jean-jaurs-the-true-way-to-honour-the-past Deepstash, Jean Jaures said,] "Ce n'est pas en vain que tous les foyers des générations humaines ont flambé, ont rayonné ; mais c'est nous, parce que nous marchons, parce que nous luttons pour un idéal nouveau, c'est nous qui sommes les vrais héritiers du foyer des aïeux ; nous en avons pris la flamme, vous n'en avez gardé que la cendre." From [https://latoilescoute.net/de-la-tradition-il-faut-garder-la Latoilescoute.net: ] janvier 1910, à Paris, Chambre des députés in Pages choisies, éd. Rieder, paru en 1922, p. 115.

"It is not in vain that all the homes of human generations have burned, have blazed; but it is us - because we walk forward, because we fight for a new ideal - it is us who are the true heirs of the home of the ancestors; we took the flame, you only kept the ashes."

*From [https://x.com/DurhamWASP/status/1942000048822268127 Twitter] and [https://www.wienerzeitung.at/h/irrwege-einer-metapher Irrwege einer Metapher, of Gerald Krieghofer: Gustav Mahler said, ""Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers", Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

That's different and better enough for me to award the credit to Mahler. Mr. Krieghofer might show me to be wrong, though; I don't speak German.

==David MAMET==
*“We know psychology is a scam for two reasons.
One: all the children of psychologists are insane.
And two: in a hundred years of psychoanalysis, no one has ever gotten better.”
2011 book The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

==Mao Tse-Tung==
In ''Khruschev Remembers'', Soviet leader Krushchev [https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/quotations-peoples-republic/ talks about] a 1957 meeting.

"Mao spoke about the war at this meeting . His speech content was roughly this: Do not be afraid of war. Do not be afraid of either the atomic bomb or the weapons. No matter what kind of war, we socialist countries will win. When it comes to China specifically, he claimed: 'If the imperialist impose war on us, we now have 600 million people, even if we lose 300 million, so what, this is war. Years later, we nurture new, and the population will be restored.' After he spoke, the meeting room was in a tomb-like silence."

==de Marenches, Alexandre==
Jack Jolis:"
Reminds me of something the late, (pro-American) former French spy-boss Alexandre de Marenches once said to my late dad (in my presence):

:"That man Reagan-- he may not know much, but he understands everything"
"(Cet homme Reagan – il sait peut-être peu, mais il a tout compris”).

==Marx, Karl==
:"In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. The English Established Church, e.g., will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. Now-a-days atheism is culpa levis as compared with criticism of existing property relations." --[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm Capital], volume 1, Preface.

* "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." Introduction, 1844, in Marx's own journal Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher.

==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

==Mather, Increase==
*"When the Knowledge of the Tongues and Arts Revived, Religion had a Revival with it: And though some Unlearned men have been useful to the Interests of Religion, yet no man ever decried Learning, but what was, an Enemy to Religion, whether he knew it or no."

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==Matjaž Leonardis==
If 0.1mg dose of a drug can massively alter the behaviour of a 100kg human (nine orders of magnitude ratio) then the idea small groups of individuals can change massive social systems should seem at least plausible. (2022, Twitter)
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==Mazarin, Cardinal==
« Le cardinal Mazarin ne pouvait souffrir autour de lui des gens malheureux. Quand on lui proposait quelqu’un pour entrer à son service, sa première question était celle-ci : « Est-il heureux ? » »

"(Translation: "Cardinal Mazarin could not bear unhappy people around him. When someone was proposed to enter his service, his first question was: 'Is he lucky/fortunate?'")

This anecdote is reported by Madame la Palatine (Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, mother of the future Regent Philippe d'Orléans), in her letters or memoirs from the late 17th/early 18th century. It is referenced in multiple French historical sources, including sites dedicated to historical quotations (e.g., histoire-en-citations.fr), which describe it as a "well-known saying" (mot bien connu) attributed via the Palatine.

However, no primary source (e.g., Mazarin's own letters or contemporary accounts) directly records him saying it verbatim about generals. The Palatine's version is general (about service in his entourage), not explicitly military."

==MEIJER, WILLIAM==
*"If you give submissive people power, they’ll use it to submit themselves." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

*"Humans will endure any amount of chronic pain to avoid a temporarily greater level of acute pain." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

*About Pres. Roosevelt and his 1936 opponent Gov. Landon: Landon “probably knows a great deal less than the Hon. Mr. Roosevelt, but much more of what he knows is true.” (from [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Roosevelt_Sweeps_Nation/9qq-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mencken+++++1936++Landon,++%22probably+knows+a+great+deal+less+than+the+Hon+.+Mr.+Roosevelt+,+but+much+more+of+what+he+knows+is+true%22&pg=PT399&printsec=frontcover Pietruza's book])

*"I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey."

*"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

*"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup."

*"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

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==Eric Moody==
*[https://x.com/therealmissjo/status/1935709339567726688 From X:]
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”
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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

*"When you hear the names of legislation or anything done by the government, it is worth remembering that the group that sent so many people to the guillotine during the French Revolution was called “The Committee of Public Safety”, not the “Cut Off Their Heads Committee” " Twitter (2024)

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Newman, John==
*"It is not the way to learn to swim in troubled waters, never to have gone into them.” — “Duties of the Church towards Knowledge,” in ''The Idea of a University'' (1852).

Improved: "You won't learn to swim in troubled waters by avoiding bathtubs."

==Ngo, Richard==
*"To improve the world most in the short term, make the worst country better. To improve the world most in the long term, make the best country better." Twitter, 2025.

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Orwell, George==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

"There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see." (slightly improved, seen secondhand on Twitter)

==Prince Philip==
*“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

*“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

*“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

* “It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

* “If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

*“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

*“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

*“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

*“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

*“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

*“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

* “It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

* “It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/

==Steven PINKER==
*"Historically, positions were distributed by hereditary privilege, family ties, patronage to cronies, or sale to the highest bidder. These are not far from the system we have here." ([https://www.thecrimson.com/column/council-on-academic-freedom-at-harvard/article/2024/1/29/pinker-harvard-legacy-admissions/ of Harvard student admissions, 2024])

==Pablo PICASSO==
From Grok. Original:
« L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de révéler la vérité. » (Art is a lie that permits us to reveal the truth)
(or « L’art est le mensonge qui dit la vérité. » ---Art is the lie that tells the truth.

The most widely quoted French version:« L’art est un mensonge qui nous fait comprendre la vérité. » (Art is a lie that makes us understand the truth.)

Marius de Zayas, “Picasso Speaks,” The Arts (New York), May 1923, pp. 315–326.
French version as Picasso himself later approved or rephrased it (most canonical):
« Nous savons tous que l’Art n’est pas la vérité. L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de reconnaître la vérité, du moins la vérité qu’il nous est donné de comprendre. »
(This longer version appears in French sources quoting Picasso directly, notably in Christian Zervos’s conversations with Picasso and in later interviews.)

==Plato==
*"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter" ([https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=280790.0 in Greek:] μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μου τὴν στέγην," « mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn »). Engraved above the door of Plato's Academy in Athens. [https://www.dialogues-de-platon.org/faq/faq009.htm Bernard Suzanne] says "an anonymous scholion in a manuscript of Aelius Aristides whose author, according to him, might be the fourth century orator Sopatros, which mentions the full text of the inscription, adding that ageômetrètos has been put in place of anisos kai adikos ("unfair and unjust"), sometimes used in similar inscriptions at the entrance of sacred places, and
:"Johannes Tzetzes' Chiliades, whose text is as follows:
Pro tôn prothurôn tôn hautou grapsas hupèrche Platôn
Mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn
Toutestin, adikos mèdeis paresierchestô tèide
Isotès gar kai dikaion esti geômetria.
("Plato had written at the front door of his house: "Let no one who is not geometer enter under my roof", that is, "Let non one unjust sneak in here", because geometry is equality/fairness and justice/righteousness")."

==Podgursky, Ben==
*"When your kids ask to play with you, remember that the actual ask is "I want to spend time with you". They ask to play because play is all they know. If you'd rather do a project (gardening, making an IKEA shelf), just propose doing it with them. They'll be just as excited." (Twitter, 2025)

==Poincare, Henry==
"It is through logic that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
Poincare, H. (1914). Science and Method. (F. Maitland, Preface by B. Russell, Trans.) London: Thomas Nelson and Sons.

==Pope, Alexander==
==="An Essay on Criticism"===
<pre>
*Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang’rous is th’ offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
Some few in that, but numbers err in this,
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss;

‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

In poets as true genius is but rare,
True taste as seldom is the critic’s share;
Both must alike from Heav’n derive their light,
These born to judge, as well as those to write.

Yet if we look more closely we shall find
Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind;
Nature affords at least a glimm’ring light;
The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right.
But as the slightest sketch, if justly trac’d,
Is by ill colouring but the more disgrac’d,
So by false learning is good sense defac’d;
Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.
</pre>

==Popper, Karl==
*[https://www.stephenhicks.org/2021/09/30/popper-to-aron-letter-on-adorno-and-habermas/ Letter of Popper to Aron in 1970]:
"I can only say that when I read either Adorno or Habermas, I feel as if lunatics were speaking.
I have translated some of their German sentences into simple German. It turns out to be either trivial or tautological or sheer pretentious nonsense. I completely fail to see why Habermas is reputed to have “talent”. I do not think that he was born less intelligent than other people; but he certainly did not have the good sense to resist the influence of a pretentious, lying, and intelligence destroying University education.
Sociology is in a bad way — even here in England. There seems to be an interesting law: bad and pretentious language drives out good and simple language. And once human language is destroyed, we shall return to the beasts."

==Alex Priou==
*"Interpretation of a great work is first and foremost decompression of information and not compression.

:A summary of Plato or Aristotle that did faith to the nerve of their thought would require their near equal, and it would have to be an appropriate task for the times."

==Putin, Vladimir==
“The culture of cancellation is the cancellation of culture.” From [https://nationalfile.com/putin-skewers-cancel-culture-in-latest-moscow-speech/ an October 2022 speech. ]

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==Ramsey, Dave==
*"Tell the money where to go instead of wondering where it went."

==Ramseyer, J. Mark==
"Harvard is a vastly less tolerant place than it was when I arrived in 1998. The intolerance is a function of an increasingly large fraction of our colleagues. And we – the rest of us on the Harvard faculty – let it happen. The cancelling, the punishments, the DEI bureaucracy, the DEI statements, the endless list that we could all recite – all this happened on our watch. We saw it happen, but we did nothing. We were too busy. We were scared to speak up. We – we on the faculty – let Harvard become what it is. The Harvard that we have is the result of our own collective moral failure.

'''The alumni who are furious are not trying to turn Harvard into something we do not want. They are trying to rescue Harvard from what we let it become.'''
We as a faculty failed. That is why the alumni are speaking up. That is why we formed the Council on Academic Freedom in the first place."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].
*"When someone gives you lemons, make lemonade." Synonym for "Every cloud has a silver lining."

*"A model should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." I think I used in my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/ ''Games and Information''], and attributed it to Alfred Einstein. The original saying is “Everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler,” and while it is attributed to Einstein, it’s [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ highly questionable] whether he ever said it.

*"Wiggle words weaken writing." Don't use "maybe" or "perhaps" or "to some extent" or "quite" or "often" or "sometimes" if you don't have to.

*"The humanities are just as hard at math; the difference is, in the humanities you're so lost you don't even know you got the answer wrong. "
*"The only things worse than a dumb bureaucrat handling your problem is a smart computer."

*"The hand that does the daycare ruins the world."

*"For scholars, destroying data is like cutting down giant sequoia trees; it goes against all our instincts. For administrators, destroying data is like cleaning your house before a party so nobody can see what a slob you are; it accords with all their instincts. "

*"Without perspicaciousness, what good is perspicuity?"

*"Delight expressed is delight enhanced. That's why I do not restrain my chuckles of pleasure when I hear a speaker say something witty or surprising. (Also, because I know from experience that audience feedback helps.)"

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks" or "He was so mean he didn't need bug spray to repel ticks."

*"Loving someone is less often to encourage them to do what they desire to do than to desire what they ought to do."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"One of the blessings of having a father is that you can call him when you have a minor car crash. One of the blessings of being a father is that someone thinks you're worth calling, and they're right."

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==Ratzinger (Pope Benedict)==
*“A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music, and nature can be dangerous since blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental: they necessarily are reflected in his theology.” ~Ratzinger (April 16,
1927-December 31, 2022).

==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

::[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

::Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

::English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Will Rogers==
*It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rorty, Richard==
*"The contemporary cultural Left urges that America should not be a melting pot, because we need to respect one another in our differences. This Left wants to preserve otherness rather than ignore it." (From Achieving Our... (1997))

==Routledge, Clay==
*We are living in an era of woke capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Russell, Bertrand==
* “Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat. What he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.”
--[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/08/a-life-of-disagreement/641018/ A Life of Disagreement] television programs , half-hour conversation by BERTRAND RUSSELL with Romney Wheeler, filmed in London by the National Broadcasting Company and shown over the NBC network and BBC-TV on the occasion of Earl Russell’s eightieth birthday (1952).

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

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==Sabien, Duncan==
*"If you've spent your entire life being told you were wrong and being proven right (b/c you were smarter than the people around you), then when you run into another genius who tells you that you're wrong, you have a LOT of memetic antibodies that will make it easier-than-it-should-be to write them off or dismiss them."

==Sailer, Steve==
*"Steve Sailer ... losing the war of public opinion since 1990.

But the crazier the conventional wisdom gets, the more hilarious material I have to write about.

So at least there's that.

Too bad about society, though." ([https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1644853299387199489 Twitter, 2023])

*"When it comes to human behavior, there mostly aren’t systematic differences between what your lying eyes tell you and what The Science says. There’s a continuum between anecdote, anecdata, and data....

:If there’s a strong statistical pattern in the numbers, you should be able to come up with vivid real-life examples of it. And if you can think of several examples suggesting a pattern, you might well be able to find large-scale data for it.

:My main one weird trick for coming up with enough insights to make a living as an unfashionable pundit for 22 years has been to assume that private life facts and public life facts are one and the same. Most pundits assume public controversies, such as BLM, are of a higher realm than daily life, so that what they notice about “safe neighborhoods” and “good schools” when they are making real estate decisions for themselves couldn’t possibly have any relevance to the great issues of the day they discuss in the media." ([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I am told that we shouldn’t mention the truth because either:

:—The facts have no possible policy implications, or

:—The facts have overwhelmingly horrible policy implications, such as the logical necessity of reimposing slavery or instituting genocide.

:The former strikes me as obtuse and the latter as insane and/or evil.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*There’s no need for everybody to continue to pretend ever since the 1978 Bakke decision that exalted “diversity” as the excuse for violating the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection of the laws that affirmative action makes colleges more intellectually stimulating when obviously the opposite has proven true. Quotas have helped make colleges minefields of cancel culture by bringing onto campus insecure and resentful masses of racially preferred students out to punish anyone who alludes to the race gaps that are American society’s central fact. Instead, underqualified preference beneficiaries should be told to be thankful for their privilege.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I quoted this letter at length because it seems like such a vivid example of the mindset of the current day: reality is determined by words, that honest words threaten the marginalized with violence, and asking the marginalized to improve their behavior is unthinkable." ([https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyc-health-czar-takes-strong-action-against-monkeypox-demands-who-change-the-name-of-monkeypox-to-an-incomprehensible-string-of-characters/Column on renaming monkeypox], 2022)

*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*"How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

:The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

:Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general." [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*"The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world."

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Salisbury, Lord==
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury

*"Within certain limits of intelligence, honesty and knowledge of the law, one man would make as good a judge as another and a Tory mentality is ipso facto more trustworthy than a Liberal one."

*First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.
'Democracy on its Trial', Quarterly Review, vol. 110 (July & October 1861), p. 281

*The conflict between Socialism and existing civilisation must be a death-struggle. If the combat is once commenced, one or other of the combatants must perish. It is idle to plead that the schemes of these men are their religion. There are religions so hostile to morality, so poisonous to the life-springs of society, that they are outside the pale of human tolerance.
'The Commune and the Internationale', Quarterly Review, vol. 131 (July & October 1871), p. 562

*It was a part of a budget which even three months had proved to be a mass of miscalculation; it was the pet scheme of a cosmopolitan school who love England little, and whom England loves less, whose sympathies are half-American and half-French; and it was the first application of a theory of combined taxation and reform, according to which the poor were exclusively to fix the revenue which the rich were exclusively to pay.
‘The Conservative Reaction’, Quarterly Review, vol. 108 (July & October 1860), p. 276

*"Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed...The classes that represent civilisation, the holders of accumulated capital and accumulated thought have a right to require securities to protect them from being overwhelmed by hordes who have neither knowledge to guide them nor stake in the Commonwealth to control them."
'English Politics and Parties', Bentley's Quarterly Review, vol. I (March & July 1859), pp. 28-29

* In men of genius, as a rule, the imagination or the
passions are too strongly developed to suffer them
to reach the highest standard of practical states-
, manship. They follow some poetical ideal, they
are under the spell of some fascinating chapter of
past history, they are the slaves of some talismanic
phrase which their generation has taken up, or
they have made to themselves a system to which
all men and all circumstances must be bent. Something there almost always is that beguiles
them away from the plain, prosaic, business-like
view ofthe concerns of this prosaic world. Consequently the mass of mankind, who have a dull but
surefooted instinct of their own interest, feel an
uncomfortable misgiving when they see a genius at
the head oftheir affairs. They are aware that firstrate brilliancy cannot be had without something of
distortion ; but it is no consolation to them that the
illusions which are luring him on to ruin lend in
the mean time an exquisite charm to the eloquence
by which he induces them to accompany him on
the road. On the other hand, the clever world is
very intolerant of plain, practical statesmen. It
maintains, sometimes with very good reason, that
where the imagination is stunted, it is merely
because the whole mind is stunted too ; and that
the claim to practical common sense is often only
a euphemism for a narrow intelligence straitened
by an abject regard for precedents and for routine.
As a rule, both sides are right in the suspicions
they entertain. It is rare to meet with a fervid
imagination which is drilled to reserve its flights
for efforts of oratory, and to give place entirely to
more sober faculties in council. It is still rarer to
see an absolutely unimaginative mind possessed of
the energy and of the breadth of view indispensable
in the statesman of a troubled period. Both kinds
of excellence produce great and successful rulers,
where they occur ; and both are apt to meet, in
those around them, with incredulity that such combinations of opposite qualities can exist.

'Lord Castlereagh', Quarterly Review, vol. 111 (January & April 1862), p. 204 https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QafmXADIh0jnPZqj11iTfMIuIdFT-DZWwP1q0zQiA4yBrYcBXaRXhl4wAaaOcH-1ovmPhezfBeCx0TdkJoRN9AA_GFoAY4s2keT-CwZl1Ac4Hi372YcAOvsu39xIf9x-9EnByraZe58fXqGcaJXEPxzQgDRgCT4Tmx6dycMZDk2BYr8nEVHvroFVV0BBgbmci9-5NQXLe-_TADxWoaHFbQLTkZ_S6X7gooGS2WS2hjnVU9k8TJvQcgrZPgRvcxDa635thiwS18ib2JkrJsBzJpxawXgcLHhLf7Y6EZsBbphBqpbBMgw

==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Scalia, son==
[https://twitter.com/StuffForSisters/status/1581430850159542272 At Scalia's Funeral:]
"We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us—known only by reputation to even more. A man loved by many—scorned by others. A man known for great controversy & for great compassion. That man, of course, is Jesus of Nazareth."

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shakespeare, William==
*"Ten masts deep make not the altitude from which though has perpendicularly fell." King Lear, Edgar to Gloucester.

===Insults===
From Cultural Tutor on Twitter:
1) "Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon."
~Timon of Athens

2) "You, minion, are too saucy."
~The Two Gentleman of Verona

3) "Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat."
~Henry V

4) "The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril."
~The Merry Wives of Windsor

5) "Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows."
~Troilus and Cressida

10) "I’ll beat thee, but I would infect my hands."
~Timon of Athens

11) "More of your conversation would infect my brain."
~Coriolanus

12) "There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune."
~Henry IV, Part 1

14) "Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

18) "This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

23) "Some report a sea-maid spawn’d him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice."
~Measure for Measure

25) "Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood."
~King Lear

31) "Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant."
~The Taming of the Shrew

46) "A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition."
~King Lear

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
"Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king."
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==SMITH, ADAM==
*"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” (no source)

==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
*“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
*"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

*"The best obituary a man can have is that the people who knew him loved him, even if those who didn't know him hated him," ''Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays''

*“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice'.” The Quest for Cosmic Justice

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
*“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” In english: "To understand all is to forgive all." 
[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

*“Madame,” the general informed the lady in question, “I do not want women mixed up in politics.” “You are perfectly right,” came the reply, “but in a country where their heads are cut off, it is only natural for them to want to know why.” (Exchange between Napoleon Bonaparte and Madame de Staël, J. Christopher Herold’s ''The Mind of Napoleon''.)

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==st exuery==
Drawing on French aristocrat Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, philosopher Byung Chul Han noted that, while houses are homes in space, rituals are homes in time. Rituals are an assertion of continuity — you act as your ancestors acted before you. They shift the family from the moment into ‘eternal time’. https://www.theculturist.io/p/why-did-wealth-stop-building-beautiful?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2242126&post_id=179128916&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

==Sutton, Willy==
When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is."

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==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==TACITUS==
*Omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset." 
“All would have agreed that he was capable of being emperor, if only he had never been it.” 
So wrote Tacitus of Galba.

==Taft, William==
*"The opportunity freely and publicly to criticize judicial action is of vastly more iportance to the body politic than the immunity of courts and judges from unjust aspersions and attack. Nothing tends more to render judges careful in their decisions and anxiously solicitous to do exact justice than the consciousness that every act of theirs is to be subjected to the intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their fellow-men. Such criticism is beneficial in proportion as it is fair, dispassionate, discriminating, and based on a knowledge of sound legal principles. The comments made by learned text writers and by the acute editors of the various law reviews upon judicial decisions are therefore highly useful. Such critics constitute more or less impartial tribunals of professional opinion before which each judgment is made to stand or fall on its merits, and thus exert a strong influence to secure uniformity of decision. But non-professional criticism also is by no means without its uses, even if accompanied, as it often is, by a direct attack upon the judicial fairness and motives of the occupants of the bench; for if the law is but the essence of common sense, the protest of many average men may evidence a defect in a judicial conclusion, though based on the nicest legal reasoning and profoundest learning. The two important elements of moral character in a judge are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it. In so far as fear of public comment does not affect the courage of a judge, but only spurs him on to search his conscience and to reach the result which approves itself to his inmost heart such comment serves a useful purpose. There are few men, whether they are judges for life or for a shorter term, who do not prefer to earn and hold the respect of all, and who can not be reached and made to pause and deliberate by hostile public criticism. In the case of judges having a life tenure, indeed their very independence makes the right freely to comment on their decisions of greater importance, because it is the only practical and available instrument in the hands of a free people to keep such judges alive to the reasonable demands of those they serve." (1895) As [http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/state-of-the-union-1906.php cited by Pres. Roosevelt] in 1906.

==Tate, Jeremy==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted at 9:15 AM on Sun, Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

==Taylor, Charles==
*As reported [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/04/westafrica.qanda by The Guardian]: "He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him." Running successfully for President of Liberia.

==Teller, Edward==
*"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
*Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

* His election rerunning announcement speech:
Michael Tracey@mtracey·14hSorry to break it to you, but Trump was spot-on with this one: “They say the ocean will rise 1/8 of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years, but don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries with one shot. Something is wrong with their thinking.”

:This is an example of how he exaggerates in the hope that someone will correct him and make his point for him (1/8 inch corrected to 2 inches, still tiny).

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*"Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain, message to Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 1901.

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

*"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 

Often quoted in W. H. Auden's translation,‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’, but the French is so easy, an Anglophone might as well use the original phrase. See also "Le code n'est jamais fini, seulement termine." 

Valery didn't actually say this, though it is what is commonly quoted in France. Pierre Vinclair tells us about that in [https://poezibao.typepad.com/files/ashbery-9.pdf «Portrait d’une énigme dans un miroir convexe», "9. et fin. Clack"], [https://www.poesibao.fr/ ''Poezibao'']
[https://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2020/11/feuilleton-critique-portrait-dune-%C3%A9nigme-dans-un-miroir-convexe-9-et-fin-clack-par-pierre-vinclair.html archive] (2020):

"Et l’on connaît la célèbre formule de Valéry : « un poème n’est jamais fini, seulement abandonné ». Dicton apocryphe, qui trouve sans doute son origine dans cette page de «Littérature»:

::Une œuvre dont l’achèvement — le jugement qui la déclare achevée, est uniquement subordonné à la condition qu’elle nous plaise — n’est jamais achevée. […]
:: Un poème n’est jamais achevé — c’est toujours un accident qui le termine, c’est-àdire qui le donne au public.
::Ce sont la lassitude, la demande de l’éditeur, — la poussée d’un autre poème.
::Mais jamais l’état même de l’ouvrage (si l’auteur n’est pas un sot) ne montre qu’il ne pourrait être poussé, changé, considéré comme première approximation, ou origine d’une recherche nouvelle.
::Je conçois, quant à moi, que le même sujet et presque les mêmes mots pourraient être repris indéfiniment et occuper toute une vie.
::« Perfection »
::c’est travail. 

Notre premier bumper soit donc Paul Valéry, selon qui l’œuvre ne s’achève jamais
(car la perfection qu’elle cherche est asymptotique) : seul un accident extérieur peut
l’interrompre. Or, des trois causes qu’il nomme — lassitude, demande de l’éditeur,
poussée d’un autre poème — aucune ne ressemble au tarissement dont parle
Ashbery. C’est sans doute que, pour celui-ci, le poème n’est pas l’objet d’un travail
infini visant la perfection, la confection maniaque d’une œuvre aussi proche que
possible de l’idéal."

Paul Valéry, «Littérature» in Tel Quel, Gallimard, 1941, p. 154. "

==Vaughan, Sarah==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html Easy Street]

==Von Neumann, John==
*“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You get used to them.”

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==Wang, John==
@johnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Watson, Thomas==
* After talking about the Prodigal Son: “Before a man can come to Christ he must first come to himself. . . . A man must first recognize and consider what his sin is, and know the plague of his heart, before he can be duly humbled for it.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

*“Affliction is but corrective; sin is destructive” ''The Doctrine of Repentance.'' (1668).

*“Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

==Watt, Peter==
*"Judy Holliday said. "Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''. In Hunter Biden's case it seems that nothing he does will ever be printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

==Wilde, Oscar==
*"Algernon: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” 
:Jack: “Is that clever?” 
:Algernon: “It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be.” " 
::(from ''The Importance of Being Earnest'')

===[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phrases_and_Philosophies_for_the_Use_of_the_Young "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young"], ''Chameleon'' magazine, (1894)===

*Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.

*A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

*If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

*It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

*Only the shallow know themselves.

*One should always be a little improbable.

*The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

*One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

*The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

==Will, George==
"The ancients had asked, What is the highest attainment of which mankind is capable and how can we pursue this? Hobbes and subsequent moderns asked, What is the worst that can happen and how can we avoid it?" (TCS, p 19)

==Williams, Robin==
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”

==Wolfe, Humbert==
[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-british-journalist-by-humbert-wolfe-f9r6pb9hb07 The London Times]:

. 
You cannot ever bribe or twist 
The freeborn British journalist 
Seeing what, unbribed, he’ll do 
You realize there’s no reason to

==Warhol, Andrew==
*“The President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”

— Andy Warhol, 1975,

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==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zeto, Salena==
*<> [https://www.thefp.com/p/my-decade-with-donald-trump-salena-zito?utm_campaign=email-post&r=fjeib&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "My Decade with Donald Trump,"] Salena Zito, ''The Free Press'' (2025), linking to her article, [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-makes-his-case-in-pittsburgh/501335/ "Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally",] ''The Atlantic'' (2016).

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

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Quotations

2026-02-11T13:58:30Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* MEIJER, WILLIAM */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

*[https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089 "On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs' "], Jia Tolentino ( /23/16).

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==Anonymous==
*"Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (“Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched”) The motto of the University of Chicago.

*"Don't take notes of what the professor says, take note."

*"What other people think of me is none of my business.”

*"Do you have 10 years of experience, or are you just living the same year at your job 10 times over?" [https://twitter.com/randomrecruiter/status/1690753402014232576 @randomrecruiter] (2023)

*I am reminded of a woman who graduated from MIT in 1987. I asked her about her social life as an undergrad. "The odds were good, but the goods were odd."

*"VOCATUS ATQUA NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT." (CALLED OR NOT CALLED, GOD IS PRESENT.)

*"The rich man smokes the same sort of cigarettes as the poor man, shaves with the same sort of razor, uses the same sort of telephone, vacuum cleaner, radio, and TV set, has the same sort of lighting and heating equipment in his house, and so on indefinitely. The differences between his automobile and the poor man’s are minor. Essentially they have similar engines, similar fittings. In the early years of the century there was a hierarchy of automobiles." (''Harper's Magazine'' [1957])

*"Conservatives view themselves as underdogs because they are, especially culturally. Liberals view themselves underdogs because although in charge of every significant human institution they have set themselves the impossible egalitarian task of waging war against nature and reality itself - so when results inevitably conflict with their egalitarian ideology - when racial gaps, poverty, sex differences, inequality etc persist - they blame reactionary forces rather than nature (reality)." ''Twitter'' (2023).

*The Hillary defense:
:I didn’t do it.
:You can’t prove it.
:Everybody does it.
:He did it.
:You're just a racist.
:It's old news.
:What difference, at this point, does it make?

*The Russian Teapot defense:
:It isn’t broken
:If it is broken, I didn’t do it
:If I did do it, it was no good anyway

*A canon of legal interpretation:"Specialia generalibus non derogant". Special things don't derogate from the general rule.

* “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original:"Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement , il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." [https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa as written by Jomini] (1827))..

*When everything works fine, they wonder why they hired you. When everything stops working, they wonder why they hired you. I.T. in a nutshell.

*“I don't drink, or cuss, or chew; and I don't go out with girls that do.”

*"The plural of outlier is out-and-out-liar".

*"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*[https://allaboutfrench.com/qui-se-ressemble-sassemble "Qui se ressemble s'assemble"]

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan," as quoted in ''A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition) by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Owning a sailboat is like turning your shower's cold water on and standing there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own." Stalin?

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Showing up is 90% of success," or "Being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them." — an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain". This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointment, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: the person secretly believe the world revolves around him, everyone is paying attention to him and his actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan. It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.
Women will always and forever rely on men.}}
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==Adams, John==
*"It is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State." [https://buff.ly/3rFhAzP "From John Adams to James Sullivan"] (26 May 1776).

==Adams, Scott==
*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1577277568310341632 Twitter, October 4, 2022]:"Elon Musk took control of the Ukraine/Russia endgame by writing the first draft in bullet form and drawing all attention to it.

:You just learned one of the most powerful persuasion techniques in the modern world: Write the first draft and keep it simple."

*I’m not worried about climate change because any species that can predict the average temperature a hundred years in advance won’t have trouble handling it.

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==The African Queen==
Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature. 
Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

See [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/characters/nm0000031 the IMDB quote page.]

==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” 
Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Allred, Austen==
*"Job descriptions should be strongly opinionated, and should both attract the people you’d want to work with while repelling those you wouldn’t."(Twitter 2023)

==Amin, Idi==
*"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."

==Anderson, Robert==
*"It would be nice if people would put (D) or (R) in their profiles so I know whether to retweet or ratio them without having to do a bunch of reading." Twitter (2024).

==Andreessen, Mark==
*"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

*Whitepill #14: Every day, two lists get longer: The things you believe but can't say, and the things you don't believe but must say. (Twitter, 2022)

==Aquinas, Thomas==
*"Nevertheless, sacred doctrine makes use of these authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the authority of the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the authority of the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable. For our faith rests upon the revelation made to the apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books, and not on the revelations (if any such there are) made to other doctors. Hence Augustine says (Epis. ad Hieron. xix, 1): 'Only those books of Scripture which are called canonical have I learned to hold in such honor as to believe their authors have not erred in any way in writing them. But other authors I so read as not to deem everything in their works to be true, merely on account of their having so thought and written, whatever may have been their holiness and learning'" (Summa Theologica,. Part 1, Q. 1, Art. 8).

==The Apocrypha==
"Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

2But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.

3With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.

4But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.

5For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen." Wisdom of SOlomon 13.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
*“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

*"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

*"The other environmental risk factors for schizophrenia are equally hard to change. Poverty? Okay, don’t be poor, thanks for the important life advice. Social defeat? “Doctor, are you saying I have to never let anyone defeat me?” “Yes, it’s my official medical recommendation that you become invincible.” " [https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-fair-to-describe-schizophrenia "It's Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic"] (Jan. 31, 2024).

==Auden==
*“The Danish Lutheran Church may have been as worldly as Kierkegaard thought it was, but if it had not existed he would never have heard of the Gospels, in which he found the standards by which he condemned it.”

==Augustine==
*“Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and that not of one man, but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices” (''City of God'', Book IV)

*"If they shall be deprived of all good, they shall no longer be. So long, therefore, as they are, they are good; therefore whatsoever is, is good. That evil, then, which I sought whence it was, is not any substance; for were it a substance, it would be good. For either it would be an incorruptible substance, and so a chief good, or a corruptible substance, which unless it were good it could not be corrupted. I perceived, therefore, and it was made clear to me, that Thou didst make all things good, nor is there any substance at all that was not made by Thee; and because all that Thou hast made are not equal, therefore all things are; because individually they are good, and altogether very good, because our God made all things very good." ''Confessions'', Book 7, chapter 12.

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==Balfour, Arthur==
*“The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which, for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.”

==Bankman-Fried, Sam ==
“...this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us.” --
"[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself]: The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way," ''Vox,'' Kelsey Piper (Nov. 16, 2022).

==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
*“Eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

==The Bible==
*“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” Proverbs 15:1.

*"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits." Proverbs 16:2.

*"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs 16:4.

*"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9.

==Boghossian, Peter==
*"If a thing's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well." (''Unherd'' panel interview, 2024, ''You-Tube'').

==Booth, William (Salvation Army founder)==
*Asked about the chief dangers for the 20th century, Salvation Army founder Booth [https://rlhymersjr.com/Online_Sermons/2007/090907_OldEvangelicalismReview.html said], “Religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.”

==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

==Bloom,Allen==
*“Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason’s power.” ''The Closing of the American Mind''

==Bloom, Harold==
*[https://biblioklept.org/2013/02/19/harold-bloom-on-the-school-of-resentment/ Harold Bloom on his agon with “The School of Resentment.”] From [https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2225/the-art-of-criticism-no-1-harold-bloom his 1991 interview with The Paris Review.]:
When I was a young man back in the fifties starting out on what was to be my career, I used to proclaim that my chosen profession seemed to consist of secular clergy or clerisy. I was thinking, of course, of the highly Anglo-Catholic New Criticism under the sponsorship or demigodness of T. S. Eliot. But I realized in latish middle age that, no better or worse, I was surrounded by a pride of displaced social workers, a rabblement of lemmings, all rushing down to the sea carrying their subject down to destruction with them. The school of resentment is an extraordinary sort of mélange of latest-model feminists, Lacanians, that whole semiotic cackle, latest-model pseudo-Marxists, so-called New Historicists, who are neither new nor historicist, and third generation deconstructors, who I believe have no relationship whatever to literary values. . . .

It is tiresome to be encountering myths called “The Social Responsibility of the Critic” or “The Political Responsibility of the Critic.” I would rather walk into a bookstore and find a book called “The Aesthetic Responsibilities of the Statesman,” or “The Literary Responsibilities of the Engineer.” Criticism is not a program for social betterment, not an engine for social change. I don’t see how it possibly could be. . . .

What else is there like Invisible Man? Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God has a kind of superior intensity and firm control. It’s a very fine book indeed. It surprised and delighted me when I first read it and it has sustained several rereadings since. But that and Invisible Man are the only full scale works of fiction I have read by American blacks in this century that have survival possibilities at all. Alice Walker is an extremely inadequate writer, and I think that is giving her the best of it. A book like The Color Purple is of no aesthetic interest or value whatsoever, yet it is exalted and taught in the academies. It clearly is a time in which social and cultural guilt has taken over. . . .

I’m not terribly fond of feminist criticism. The true test is to find work, whether in the past or present, by women writers that we had undervalued, and thus bring it to our attention and teach us to study it more closely or more usefully. By that test they have failed, because they have added not one to the canon. The women writers who mattered—Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and others who have always mattered on aesthetic grounds—still matter. I do not appreciate Elizabeth Bishop or May Swenson any more or less than I would have appreciated them if we had no feminist literary criticism at all.

==Bowles, Michael==
“Construction is a matter of backing yourself into a corner and then fighting your way out.”

==Bukowski, Charles==
*“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

==Burke, Edmund==
* “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770).

*"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Misattributed. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ Quote Investigator.]

==Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)==
. 
He that complies against his Will, 
Is of his own Opinion still. 
(from ''Hudibras'')
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==CANNON, William==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Caplan, Bryan==
*"When a normal utilitarian concludes that mass murder would maximize social utility, he checks his work! He goes over his calculations with a fine-tooth comb, hoping to discover a way to implement beneficial policy changes without horrific atrocities. The Leninist, in contrast, reasons backwards from the atrocities that emotionally inspire him to the utilitarian argument that morally justifies his atrocities." [https://betonit.substack.com/p/the_roots_of_lehtml The roots of Leninism] (2012)

==Carlin, George==
*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that."

==Carson, D.A.==
*"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."

==Carver, George Washington==
*“When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well, George, that's more nearly your size.’

==Carville, James==
*“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

==St. Charbel Makhlouf==
*[https://www.lightbook.org/53-best-saint-charbel-quotes.html "Your weakness is to be overcome, not to be used as a pilgrimage."]

==Charles III of the United Kingdom==
* 2011 as he [https://www.royal.uk/clarencehouse/speech/speech-hrh-prince-wales-king-james-bible-trust-reception addressed the King James Bible Trust:] “I’ve never really understood who it was that decided that, for people who aren’t very good at reading, the best things to read are those written by people who aren’t very good at writing!”

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*"Chesterton's Fence", 1929 book, ''The Thing,'' “The Drift from Domesticity”:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to challenge his reformist son-in-law. Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in his poem, “Mending Wall.” }}

*"A man can pretend to be wise; a man cannot pretend to be witty."

*"Those who will not even admit the Capitalist problem deserve to get the Communist solution."

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*"If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization."

*"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it"--Autobiography

*{{Quotation|We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

==Chicago, University of==
*The University of Chicago's motto is "Crescat scientia; vita excolatur," which means,"Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched."

==Chrysostom, John==
*"Should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in the midst of the forum, blaspheming God; go up to him and rebuke him; and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not to do so. Smite him on the face; strike his mouth; sanctify your hand with the blow, and if any should accuse you, and drag you to the place of justice, follow them there; and when the judge on the bench calls you to account, say boldly that the man blasphemed the King of angels! For if it be necessary to punish those who blaspheme an earthly king, much more so those who insult God" ('On the Statues', 1).

== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Coleridge, Samuel==
*"I, for one, do not call the sod under my feet my country. But language, religion, laws, government, blood — identity in these makes men of one country." ''Table Talk'', May 29, 1830.

==Comfort, Ray==
“Atheists don’t hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don’t exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Covey, Stephen==
*"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man."

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [-Twitter, 2021]}}

==Cunningham==
J.V. Cunningham, from "Meditation on Statistical Method"

<pre>
Plato, despair!
We prove by norms
How numbers bear
Empiric forms,

How random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our hearts
Hyperbole
Curves and departs
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
</pre>

My version:

<pre>
Random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our soul
Hyperbole
Makes error roll
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
So hope and doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Won't average out.
</pre>

== ==

==Dalrymple, Theodore==
*"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." a 2005 https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com/dalrymple-interviewed-by-jamie-glazov/ interview] in FrontPage.

==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in ''First Things'', 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, ''The Information'')

==Descartes==
See [[Descartes]]
*"Bene qui latuit, bene vixit."
*"He lives well who lies well hidden." I like the English version better. What is it in French? Ovid, Descartes.

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==Dio Cassius==
*"Although he was very practised as a writer of prose and verse and very skilled in all the arts, yet he always mocked the teachers of all the arts on the grounds that he was more learned than they, and despised and humiliated them. With these same professors and philosophers he often competed, taking turns to publish books or poems. Once, indeed, a word used by Favorinus was criticized by Hadrian. Favorinus yielded, which provoked some very agreeable amusement. He was wrong to concede to Hadrian, his friends charged him, over a word which reputable authors had used. ‘You don’t give me good advice, my friends,’ said Favorinus, ‘when you don’t allow me to believe the man who possesses thirty legions to be more learned than anyone else!’ " From [https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/hadrians-rome/content-section-5.1 Birley, A. (trans.) (1976) Lives of the Later Caesars, London, Penguin, pp. 57–87.]

<pre>
To the poet Florus,Footnote61 who wrote to him:

I do not want to be Caesar,
To walk about among the Britons,
To ensure the Scythian hoar-frosts,

he wrote back:

I do not want to be Florus,
To walk about among taverns,
To lurk about among cook-shops,
To put up with the round insects.
</pre>

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
*"Making a mistake is a net positive if you learn more from it than it cost you."

{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

*"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dornbusch, Rudiger==
*"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought" (on exchange rate crises)

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

== ==

==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==Einstein, Albert==
"in 1952 he wrote a letter to his friend and fellow physicist Max Born where he admits that even if the astronomical data had gone against general relativity, he would still believe in the theory:"

`Even if there were absolutely no light deflection, no perihelion motion and no redshift, the gravitational equations would still be convincing because they avoid the inertial system... It is really quite strange that humans are usually deaf towards the strongest arguments, while they are constantly inclined to overestimate the accuracy of measurement.'
([https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-einsteins-unification-by-jeroen? "John Psmith" 2024)

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

==Esolen, Anthony==
*"Bee as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves, says the Lord.

:The converse is what we have now in our elites, in Church, State, education, etc.: People in charge who are as dopey as pigeons, and as malignant as snakes." (Twitter, 2024)

== ==

==Faulkner, William==
*“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feser, Ed==
*"If a doctor says “This is what lung cancer involves, please stop smoking,” no one accuses him of wanting the patient to suffer. But if a theologian says “This is what damnation involves, please stop sinning,” he is accused of wanting people to go to hell." ([https://twitter.com/FeserEdward/status/1665881489354162177 Twitter, 2023])

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Friedman, Milton==
"Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:

1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality) 
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality) 
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost) 
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

== ==

==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

==Gandhi, Ashvin==
@ashdgandhi (Nov 29 2025)

"Normal people: hear math statements as regular words.

Mathematicians: hear math statements as logic.

Economists: hear regular words as math statements."

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

==Girard, Rene==
*“Nietzsche shared with many intellectuals of his time and our own a passion for irresponsible rhetoric in the attempt to get one up on opponents. But philosophers, for their misfortune, are not the only people in the world. Genuinely mad and frantic people are all around them and do them the worst turn of all: they take them at their word.” I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
*Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies" "I am the spirit who always says no." Faust part I.

*"I am the spirit that always says no. And how right I am! For surely It’s right that everything that comes to be Should cease to be. And so they do. Still better Would be nothing ever was. Hence sin And havoc and ruin—all you call evil, in sum— For me’s the element in which I swim.”

<pre>"Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen:
Verweile doch! du bist so schön!
Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen,
Dann will ich gern zugrunde gehn!
</pre>
Faust, Part I. When I to a moment say, Stay a while! You are so fair! Then you may enslave my soul, then I will submit to you. Or something like that.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==Goodstein, David==
"1.1 INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously. We will begin by considering the simplest meaningful example, the perfect gas, in order to get the central concepts sorted out." ( States of Matter (1985); see https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1651559339067310081)

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*[https://x.com/paulg/status/1874590418463330489 TWITTER:] "A friend who's a former British military officer told me that when he was training soldiers in jungle warfare they were taught that if they got lost in the jungle, the first thing they should do was to brew a cup of tea and think about what to do next."

*"Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign flipped." (2024, X).

*"If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial." [http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html "Putting Ideas into Words"] (2022).

*"A rare counterexample to the principle of specialization: your site should never seem like it was made by communications people, and the best way to achieve this is for it not to be. This is something founders should continue to micromanage forever."[https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1654765304184971264 Twitter] (2023) ]

*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)

==Grandin, Temple==
*Temple Grandin wrote in ''The Way I See It,'' a book on the experience of autism: "What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done."
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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== ==
==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hamblin, Jacob==
*Jacob Hamblin’s "Rules for Dealing with the Indians" from ''Jacob Hamblin among the Indians'' by James Little.

1. I never talk anything but the truth to them.

2. I think it useless to speak of things they cannot comprehend.

3. I strive by all means to never let them see me in a passion.

4. Under no circumstances show fear, thereby showing to them that I have a sound heart and a straight tongue.

5. Never approach them in an austere manner nor use more words than are necessary to convey my ideas, not in a higher tone of voice than to be distinctly heard.

6. Always listen to them when they wish to tell of their grievances, and redress their wrongs, however trifling they may be if possible. If I cannot I let them know I have a desire to do so.

7. I never allow them to hear me use profane or obscene language or take any unbecoming course with them.

8. I never submit to any unjust demands or submit to coercion under any circumstances, thereby showing them that I govern and am governed by the rule of right not by might.

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

==Herrnstein, Robert==
:"Dick recalled the day when, as a young man, he had been awarded tenure. It was his dream fulfilled -- a place in the university he so loved, the chance to follow his research wherever it took him, economic security. For Dick, being a tenured professor at Harvard was not just the perfect job, but the perfect way to live his life. It was too good to be true; there had to be a catch. What's my part of the bargain? he had asked himself. "And I figured it out," he said, looking at me with that benign, gentle half-smile of his. "You have to tell the truth." There was no self-congratulation in his voice, just an answer to my question." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20010421204200/https://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/bell-curve/murray-hstein-obit.html "Richard J. Herrnstein, RIP,"] by Charles Murray, Vol. 46, National Review, 10-10-1994, pp 22.

==Hoffer, Eric==
*[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98215-every-great-cause-begins-as-a-movement-becomes-a-business “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”]

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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==Heath, Joseph==
"Populists have great difficulty respecting the rule of law. If one listens to the explanations that they offer for their actions, a great deal of this reflects a bias toward concreteness in their thinking. They think the purpose of the rules is to stop bad people from doing bad things, but since they themselves are good people trying to do good things, they cannot see why they should be constrained by the rules." "Populism Fast and Slow", ''Substack'' (2025).

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== Rob Henderson==
*“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” [https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/ Quillette article] (2021).

*"Men bond by insulting each other and not really meaning it; women bond by complimenting each other and not really meaning it."

*"Over the course of human evolutionary history, there may have been some independent-minded women who thought things through and decided to avoid the pain and risks of motherhood. These women are not our ancestors." [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-story-of-us-9780190883201?cc=gb&lang=en& one of his books], via Twitter.

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==Hippocrates==
"Ars longa, vita brevis" has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."

The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

==Hitchens, Christopher==
*"It will happen to all of us that at some point you'll be tapped on the shoulder and told - not just that the party is over - but slightly worse: the party's going on but you have to leave."

==Hitchens, PETER==
*'I also remember a French high-speed train, on which Mrs Hitchens and I ate a long, time-consuming, four-course picnic lunch, wine included, partly for the joy of it and partly because we were exempt from French mask rules as long as we were eating.
::'An infuriated French ticket inspector chose to lecture us explosively about our irresponsibility — whereupon I donned a large black Polish Army surplus gas mask, which in those days I carried about for satirical purposes.
::‘Take it off!’ he cried. ‘You are trying to frighten people!’ . :‘No,’ I replied, ‘it is you who are trying to frighten people.’ https://mol.im/a/12947665 via @MailOnline"

==Hooker. Richard==
*“It is dangerous for the feeble mind of man to wade too far into the doings of the Most High. Although it is life to know Him and joy to mention His name, our surest knowledge is that we do not know Him as He truly is, nor can we; our safest eloquence is our silence, confessing without confession that His glory is inexplicable and His greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we are on earth; therefore let our words be wary and few.” (''Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'', Vol. 1, book 1, chapter 2)

==Hochschild, Joshua==
*"It is an academic myth that canonical texts, literary and religious, embody ideology and perpetuate power structures. In the experience of actual readers, canonical texts are typically the means of escaping ideology and challenging power structures." Twitter (2024)

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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== Thomas Jefferson==
" If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion towards his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriæ of the other." [https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/query-xviii-an-excerpt-from-notes-on-the-state-of-virginia-by-thomas-jefferson-1784/ Query 18, Notes from Virginia.]
==Jomini ==
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original: "Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." as written by Jomini (1827). https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa

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==Kac, Mark==
*"Probability theory is measure theory with a soul." Here is one source. Is there a better one, an original one? [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf]

==Karlin, George==
*"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they’re cramming for their final exam."

*"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

*"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body."

*"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts."

*"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it."

==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

*[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

==Keller, Timothy==
*"A possible way to start a conversation with someone who is not a believer:
'Tell me the God you don't believe in because chances are I don't believe in that God either.' "
*"Few people live up to their own standards, let alone an objective one. Either way we come up short on our own accord."
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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==Keynes, John==
* “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”

==Khan, Razib==
:*"The reason we need nerds is that they jump all over little lies, and drown them in the bathtub before the lies can grow up and become invincible monsters." [https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1675204182679207936 Twitter (2023).]

==Kierkegaard, Emil==
{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."
}}

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

== KIPLING, Rudyard==
. 
In August was the jackal born, 
The rains fell in September. 
"Now such a fearful flood as this," 
Says he, "I can't remember!" [http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/second-jungle-book/7/ "The Undertakers"] The 2nd Jungle Book.

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==Kosinski, Jerzy==
* "The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
{{Quotation|
(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk” 
(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
}}
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==Rush Limbaugh==
“Men and women range themselves into three classes... the lowest by talking about persons; the next about things; the highest about ideas.”

==Lindsay, James==
*On the Christian method, which is good for redpilling wokers too: 
::1) Proclaim the truth (tell without coercion or force) 
::2) Remind them that everyone is a sinner (so everyone makes mistakes) 
::3) Invite them to repent in their own time (accept your past error as wrong and move forward productively).

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted , Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

*"The idea that any man or writer should be opaque to those who lived in the same culture, spoke the same language, shared the same habitual imagery and unconscious assumptions, and yet be transparent to those who have none of these advantages, is in my opinion preposterous. " ([https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern Seed speech])

*From "The Abolition of Man": 'When all that says "It is good" has been debunked, what says "I want" remains.'

* "The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

*“His education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

*“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”

*A man who has spent his youth and manhood in the minute study of New Testament texts and of other people’s studies of them, whose literary experience of those texts lacks any standard of comparison such as can only grow from a wide and deep and genial experience of literature in general, is, I should think, very likely to miss the obvious thing about them. If he tells me that something in a Gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavour; not how many years he has spent on that Gospel...

:I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life. I know what they are like. I know that not one of them is like this. Of this text there are only two possible views. Either this is reportage—though it may no doubt contain errors—pretty close up to the facts; nearly as close as Boswell. Or else, some unknown writer in the second century, without known predecessors or successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative
-- CS Lewis. https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern-Seed and Elephants," Originally entitled 'Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism'.

==Long, Earl (Governor of Louisiana, brother of Huey Long)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

==Long, Russell (Senator from Indiana, son of Huey Long)==
*"Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax the man behind the tree." [improved] See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/]

==Long, Rob==
"I was nonplussed — the actual definition of nonplussed, which is baffled, rather than what it sounds like and will eventually come to mean, which is unimpressed." (2024)

==Luther, Martin==
* "Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it."

:"This is a murky Luther quote that seems like something he would have said, yet finding an exact reference isn't easy. A couple of people have searched for this quote uncovering interesting clues and theories of its origin (see for instance, About That Great Luther Quote and also the discussion here). Piggybacking on their efforts, I have my own theory of how this quote became popular: it's in the form it's in because singer-song writer Derek Webb was quoting Charles Spurgeon quoting Luther... whether he knew it or not!" https://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2020/08/luther-every-week-i-preach.html

* “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan." --Book IV of The Prince}}

*"A question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may
be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person it is
much safer to be feared than loved, when only one is possible. The reason for this is that in general men
are ungrateful, inconstant, false, cowardly, and greedy. As long as you succeed, they are yours entirely -
they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, when the need is far distant. But when the
need approaches, they turn against you. A prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected
other ways of protecting himself, will be ruined. Friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by
greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot
be relied upon. Men are less worried about offending one who is loved than one who is feared. Love is
preserved by the link of gratefulness which, owing to the weak nature of men, is broken at every
opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a fear of punishment which never fails." Chapter 17, [https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Principe/Capitolo_XVIII The Prince], Machiavelli.

*"Questo una disputa, s'e' gli è meglio essere amato che temuto o e converso. Rispondesi che si vorrebbe essere l'uno e l'altro; ma perché e' gli è difficile accozzarli insieme, è molto più sicuro essere temuto che amato, quando si abbi a mancare dell'uno de' dua. Perché degli uomini si può dire questo, generalmente, che sieno ingrati, volubili, simulatori e dissimulatori, fuggitori de' pericoli, cupidi del guadagno; e mentre fai loro bene e' sono tutti tua, offeronti el sangue, la roba, la vita, e' figliuoli, come di sopra dissi, quando el bisogno è discosto: ma quando ti si appressa, si rivoltono, e quello principe che si è tutto fondato in su le parole loro, trovandosi nudo di altre preparazioni, ruina. Perché le amicizie che si acquistono col prezzo, e non con grandezza e nobilità di animo, si meritano, ma elle non si hanno, e alli tempi non si possono spendere; e li uomini hanno meno rispetto a offendere uno che si facci amare, che uno che si facci temere: perché lo amore è tenuto da uno vinculo di obligo, il quale, per essere gl'uomini tristi, da ogni occasione di propria utilità è rotto, ma il timore è tenuto da una paura di pena che non ti abbandona mai." Ch. 7. [http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/testo/bibit000214 Il Principe], Machiavelli.

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
*“The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.” (Letter to Napier, November 5, 1841, p. 103 of Trevelyan's ''The Life and Letters..., Vol. 2'')

*"The doctrine which from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words, and stripped of rhetorical disguise is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error."
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Sir James Macintosh"

*From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Mahler Gustav==
*From [https://deepstash.com/article/203717/jean-jaurs-the-true-way-to-honour-the-past Deepstash, Jean Jaures said,] "Ce n'est pas en vain que tous les foyers des générations humaines ont flambé, ont rayonné ; mais c'est nous, parce que nous marchons, parce que nous luttons pour un idéal nouveau, c'est nous qui sommes les vrais héritiers du foyer des aïeux ; nous en avons pris la flamme, vous n'en avez gardé que la cendre." From [https://latoilescoute.net/de-la-tradition-il-faut-garder-la Latoilescoute.net: ] janvier 1910, à Paris, Chambre des députés in Pages choisies, éd. Rieder, paru en 1922, p. 115.

"It is not in vain that all the homes of human generations have burned, have blazed; but it is us - because we walk forward, because we fight for a new ideal - it is us who are the true heirs of the home of the ancestors; we took the flame, you only kept the ashes."

*From [https://x.com/DurhamWASP/status/1942000048822268127 Twitter] and [https://www.wienerzeitung.at/h/irrwege-einer-metapher Irrwege einer Metapher, of Gerald Krieghofer: Gustav Mahler said, ""Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers", Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

That's different and better enough for me to award the credit to Mahler. Mr. Krieghofer might show me to be wrong, though; I don't speak German.

==David MAMET==
*“We know psychology is a scam for two reasons.
One: all the children of psychologists are insane.
And two: in a hundred years of psychoanalysis, no one has ever gotten better.”
2011 book The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

==Mao Tse-Tung==
In ''Khruschev Remembers'', Soviet leader Krushchev [https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/quotations-peoples-republic/ talks about] a 1957 meeting.

"Mao spoke about the war at this meeting . His speech content was roughly this: Do not be afraid of war. Do not be afraid of either the atomic bomb or the weapons. No matter what kind of war, we socialist countries will win. When it comes to China specifically, he claimed: 'If the imperialist impose war on us, we now have 600 million people, even if we lose 300 million, so what, this is war. Years later, we nurture new, and the population will be restored.' After he spoke, the meeting room was in a tomb-like silence."

==de Marenches, Alexandre==
Jack Jolis:"
Reminds me of something the late, (pro-American) former French spy-boss Alexandre de Marenches once said to my late dad (in my presence):

:"That man Reagan-- he may not know much, but he understands everything"
"(Cet homme Reagan – il sait peut-être peu, mais il a tout compris”).

==Marx, Karl==
:"In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. The English Established Church, e.g., will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. Now-a-days atheism is culpa levis as compared with criticism of existing property relations." --[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm Capital], volume 1, Preface.

* "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." Introduction, 1844, in Marx's own journal Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher.

==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

==Mather, Increase==
*"When the Knowledge of the Tongues and Arts Revived, Religion had a Revival with it: And though some Unlearned men have been useful to the Interests of Religion, yet no man ever decried Learning, but what was, an Enemy to Religion, whether he knew it or no."

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==Matjaž Leonardis==
If 0.1mg dose of a drug can massively alter the behaviour of a 100kg human (nine orders of magnitude ratio) then the idea small groups of individuals can change massive social systems should seem at least plausible. (2022, Twitter)
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==Mazarin, Cardinal==
« Le cardinal Mazarin ne pouvait souffrir autour de lui des gens malheureux. Quand on lui proposait quelqu’un pour entrer à son service, sa première question était celle-ci : « Est-il heureux ? » »

"(Translation: "Cardinal Mazarin could not bear unhappy people around him. When someone was proposed to enter his service, his first question was: 'Is he lucky/fortunate?'")

This anecdote is reported by Madame la Palatine (Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, mother of the future Regent Philippe d'Orléans), in her letters or memoirs from the late 17th/early 18th century. It is referenced in multiple French historical sources, including sites dedicated to historical quotations (e.g., histoire-en-citations.fr), which describe it as a "well-known saying" (mot bien connu) attributed via the Palatine.

However, no primary source (e.g., Mazarin's own letters or contemporary accounts) directly records him saying it verbatim about generals. The Palatine's version is general (about service in his entourage), not explicitly military."

==MEIJER, WILLIAM==
*"If you give submissive people power, they’ll use it to submit themselves." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

*"Humans will endure any amount of chronic pain to avoid a temporarily greater level of acute pain." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

*About Pres. Roosevelt and his 1936 opponent Gov. Landon: Landon “probably knows a great deal less than the Hon. Mr. Roosevelt, but much more of what he knows is true.” (from [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Roosevelt_Sweeps_Nation/9qq-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mencken+++++1936++Landon,++%22probably+knows+a+great+deal+less+than+the+Hon+.+Mr.+Roosevelt+,+but+much+more+of+what+he+knows+is+true%22&pg=PT399&printsec=frontcover Pietruza's book])

*"I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey."

*"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

*"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup."

*"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

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==Eric Moody==
*[https://x.com/therealmissjo/status/1935709339567726688 From X:]
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”
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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

*"When you hear the names of legislation or anything done by the government, it is worth remembering that the group that sent so many people to the guillotine during the French Revolution was called “The Committee of Public Safety”, not the “Cut Off Their Heads Committee” " Twitter (2024)

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Newman, John==
*"It is not the way to learn to swim in troubled waters, never to have gone into them.” — “Duties of the Church towards Knowledge,” in ''The Idea of a University'' (1852).

Improved: "You won't learn to swim in troubled waters by avoiding bathtubs."

==Ngo, Richard==
*"To improve the world most in the short term, make the worst country better. To improve the world most in the long term, make the best country better." Twitter, 2025.

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Orwell, George==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

"There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see." (slightly improved, seen secondhand on Twitter)

==Prince Philip==
*“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

*“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

*“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

* “It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

* “If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

*“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

*“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

*“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

*“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

*“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

*“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

* “It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

* “It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/

==Steven PINKER==
*"Historically, positions were distributed by hereditary privilege, family ties, patronage to cronies, or sale to the highest bidder. These are not far from the system we have here." ([https://www.thecrimson.com/column/council-on-academic-freedom-at-harvard/article/2024/1/29/pinker-harvard-legacy-admissions/ of Harvard student admissions, 2024])

==Pablo PICASSO==
From Grok. Original:
« L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de révéler la vérité. » (Art is a lie that permits us to reveal the truth)
(or « L’art est le mensonge qui dit la vérité. » ---Art is the lie that tells the truth.

The most widely quoted French version:« L’art est un mensonge qui nous fait comprendre la vérité. » (Art is a lie that makes us understand the truth.)

Marius de Zayas, “Picasso Speaks,” The Arts (New York), May 1923, pp. 315–326.
French version as Picasso himself later approved or rephrased it (most canonical):
« Nous savons tous que l’Art n’est pas la vérité. L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de reconnaître la vérité, du moins la vérité qu’il nous est donné de comprendre. »
(This longer version appears in French sources quoting Picasso directly, notably in Christian Zervos’s conversations with Picasso and in later interviews.)

==Plato==
*"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter" ([https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=280790.0 in Greek:] μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μου τὴν στέγην," « mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn »). Engraved above the door of Plato's Academy in Athens. [https://www.dialogues-de-platon.org/faq/faq009.htm Bernard Suzanne] says "an anonymous scholion in a manuscript of Aelius Aristides whose author, according to him, might be the fourth century orator Sopatros, which mentions the full text of the inscription, adding that ageômetrètos has been put in place of anisos kai adikos ("unfair and unjust"), sometimes used in similar inscriptions at the entrance of sacred places, and
:"Johannes Tzetzes' Chiliades, whose text is as follows:
Pro tôn prothurôn tôn hautou grapsas hupèrche Platôn
Mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn
Toutestin, adikos mèdeis paresierchestô tèide
Isotès gar kai dikaion esti geômetria.
("Plato had written at the front door of his house: "Let no one who is not geometer enter under my roof", that is, "Let non one unjust sneak in here", because geometry is equality/fairness and justice/righteousness")."

==Podgursky, Ben==
*"When your kids ask to play with you, remember that the actual ask is "I want to spend time with you". They ask to play because play is all they know. If you'd rather do a project (gardening, making an IKEA shelf), just propose doing it with them. They'll be just as excited." (Twitter, 2025)

==Poincare, Henry==
"It is through logic that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
Poincare, H. (1914). Science and Method. (F. Maitland, Preface by B. Russell, Trans.) London: Thomas Nelson and Sons.

==Pope, Alexander==
==="An Essay on Criticism"===
<pre>
*Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang’rous is th’ offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
Some few in that, but numbers err in this,
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss;

‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

In poets as true genius is but rare,
True taste as seldom is the critic’s share;
Both must alike from Heav’n derive their light,
These born to judge, as well as those to write.

Yet if we look more closely we shall find
Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind;
Nature affords at least a glimm’ring light;
The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right.
But as the slightest sketch, if justly trac’d,
Is by ill colouring but the more disgrac’d,
So by false learning is good sense defac’d;
Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.
</pre>

==Popper, Karl==
*[https://www.stephenhicks.org/2021/09/30/popper-to-aron-letter-on-adorno-and-habermas/ Letter of Popper to Aron in 1970]:
"I can only say that when I read either Adorno or Habermas, I feel as if lunatics were speaking.
I have translated some of their German sentences into simple German. It turns out to be either trivial or tautological or sheer pretentious nonsense. I completely fail to see why Habermas is reputed to have “talent”. I do not think that he was born less intelligent than other people; but he certainly did not have the good sense to resist the influence of a pretentious, lying, and intelligence destroying University education.
Sociology is in a bad way — even here in England. There seems to be an interesting law: bad and pretentious language drives out good and simple language. And once human language is destroyed, we shall return to the beasts."

==Alex Priou==
*"Interpretation of a great work is first and foremost decompression of information and not compression.

:A summary of Plato or Aristotle that did faith to the nerve of their thought would require their near equal, and it would have to be an appropriate task for the times."

==Putin, Vladimir==
“The culture of cancellation is the cancellation of culture.” From [https://nationalfile.com/putin-skewers-cancel-culture-in-latest-moscow-speech/ an October 2022 speech. ]

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==Ramsey, Dave==
*"Tell the money where to go instead of wondering where it went."

==Ramseyer, J. Mark==
"Harvard is a vastly less tolerant place than it was when I arrived in 1998. The intolerance is a function of an increasingly large fraction of our colleagues. And we – the rest of us on the Harvard faculty – let it happen. The cancelling, the punishments, the DEI bureaucracy, the DEI statements, the endless list that we could all recite – all this happened on our watch. We saw it happen, but we did nothing. We were too busy. We were scared to speak up. We – we on the faculty – let Harvard become what it is. The Harvard that we have is the result of our own collective moral failure.

'''The alumni who are furious are not trying to turn Harvard into something we do not want. They are trying to rescue Harvard from what we let it become.'''
We as a faculty failed. That is why the alumni are speaking up. That is why we formed the Council on Academic Freedom in the first place."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].
*"When someone gives you lemons, make lemonade." Synonym for "Every cloud has a silver lining."

*"A model should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." I think I used in my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/ ''Games and Information''], and attributed it to Alfred Einstein. The original saying is “Everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler,” and while it is attributed to Einstein, it’s [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ highly questionable] whether he ever said it.

*"Wiggle words weaken writing." Don't use "maybe" or "perhaps" or "to some extent" or "quite" or "often" or "sometimes" if you don't have to.

*"The humanities are just as hard at math; the difference is, in the humanities you're so lost you don't even know you got the answer wrong. "
*"The only things worse than a dumb bureaucrat handling your problem is a smart computer."

*"The hand that does the daycare ruins the world."

*"For scholars, destroying data is like cutting down giant sequoia trees; it goes against all our instincts. For administrators, destroying data is like cleaning your house before a party so nobody can see what a slob you are; it accords with all their instincts. "

*"Without perspicaciousness, what good is perspicuity?"

*"Delight expressed is delight enhanced. That's why I do not restrain my chuckles of pleasure when I hear a speaker say something witty or surprising. (Also, because I know from experience that audience feedback helps.)"

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks" or "He was so mean he didn't need bug spray to repel ticks."

*"Loving someone is less often to encourage them to do what they desire to do than to desire what they ought to do."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"One of the blessings of having a father is that you can call him when you have a minor car crash. One of the blessings of being a father is that someone thinks you're worth calling, and they're right."

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==Ratzinger (Pope Benedict)==
*“A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music, and nature can be dangerous since blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental: they necessarily are reflected in his theology.” ~Ratzinger (April 16,
1927-December 31, 2022).

==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

::[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

::Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

::English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Will Rogers==
*It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rorty, Richard==
*"The contemporary cultural Left urges that America should not be a melting pot, because we need to respect one another in our differences. This Left wants to preserve otherness rather than ignore it." (From Achieving Our... (1997))

==Routledge, Clay==
*We are living in an era of woke capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Russell, Bertrand==
* “Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat. What he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.”
--[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/08/a-life-of-disagreement/641018/ A Life of Disagreement] television programs , half-hour conversation by BERTRAND RUSSELL with Romney Wheeler, filmed in London by the National Broadcasting Company and shown over the NBC network and BBC-TV on the occasion of Earl Russell’s eightieth birthday (1952).

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

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==Sabien, Duncan==
*"If you've spent your entire life being told you were wrong and being proven right (b/c you were smarter than the people around you), then when you run into another genius who tells you that you're wrong, you have a LOT of memetic antibodies that will make it easier-than-it-should-be to write them off or dismiss them."

==Sailer, Steve==
*"Steve Sailer ... losing the war of public opinion since 1990.

But the crazier the conventional wisdom gets, the more hilarious material I have to write about.

So at least there's that.

Too bad about society, though." ([https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1644853299387199489 Twitter, 2023])

*"When it comes to human behavior, there mostly aren’t systematic differences between what your lying eyes tell you and what The Science says. There’s a continuum between anecdote, anecdata, and data....

:If there’s a strong statistical pattern in the numbers, you should be able to come up with vivid real-life examples of it. And if you can think of several examples suggesting a pattern, you might well be able to find large-scale data for it.

:My main one weird trick for coming up with enough insights to make a living as an unfashionable pundit for 22 years has been to assume that private life facts and public life facts are one and the same. Most pundits assume public controversies, such as BLM, are of a higher realm than daily life, so that what they notice about “safe neighborhoods” and “good schools” when they are making real estate decisions for themselves couldn’t possibly have any relevance to the great issues of the day they discuss in the media." ([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I am told that we shouldn’t mention the truth because either:

:—The facts have no possible policy implications, or

:—The facts have overwhelmingly horrible policy implications, such as the logical necessity of reimposing slavery or instituting genocide.

:The former strikes me as obtuse and the latter as insane and/or evil.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*There’s no need for everybody to continue to pretend ever since the 1978 Bakke decision that exalted “diversity” as the excuse for violating the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection of the laws that affirmative action makes colleges more intellectually stimulating when obviously the opposite has proven true. Quotas have helped make colleges minefields of cancel culture by bringing onto campus insecure and resentful masses of racially preferred students out to punish anyone who alludes to the race gaps that are American society’s central fact. Instead, underqualified preference beneficiaries should be told to be thankful for their privilege.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I quoted this letter at length because it seems like such a vivid example of the mindset of the current day: reality is determined by words, that honest words threaten the marginalized with violence, and asking the marginalized to improve their behavior is unthinkable." ([https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyc-health-czar-takes-strong-action-against-monkeypox-demands-who-change-the-name-of-monkeypox-to-an-incomprehensible-string-of-characters/Column on renaming monkeypox], 2022)

*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*"How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

:The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

:Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general." [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*"The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world."

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Salisbury, Lord==
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury

*"Within certain limits of intelligence, honesty and knowledge of the law, one man would make as good a judge as another and a Tory mentality is ipso facto more trustworthy than a Liberal one."

*First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.
'Democracy on its Trial', Quarterly Review, vol. 110 (July & October 1861), p. 281

*The conflict between Socialism and existing civilisation must be a death-struggle. If the combat is once commenced, one or other of the combatants must perish. It is idle to plead that the schemes of these men are their religion. There are religions so hostile to morality, so poisonous to the life-springs of society, that they are outside the pale of human tolerance.
'The Commune and the Internationale', Quarterly Review, vol. 131 (July & October 1871), p. 562

*It was a part of a budget which even three months had proved to be a mass of miscalculation; it was the pet scheme of a cosmopolitan school who love England little, and whom England loves less, whose sympathies are half-American and half-French; and it was the first application of a theory of combined taxation and reform, according to which the poor were exclusively to fix the revenue which the rich were exclusively to pay.
‘The Conservative Reaction’, Quarterly Review, vol. 108 (July & October 1860), p. 276

*"Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed...The classes that represent civilisation, the holders of accumulated capital and accumulated thought have a right to require securities to protect them from being overwhelmed by hordes who have neither knowledge to guide them nor stake in the Commonwealth to control them."
'English Politics and Parties', Bentley's Quarterly Review, vol. I (March & July 1859), pp. 28-29

* In men of genius, as a rule, the imagination or the
passions are too strongly developed to suffer them
to reach the highest standard of practical states-
, manship. They follow some poetical ideal, they
are under the spell of some fascinating chapter of
past history, they are the slaves of some talismanic
phrase which their generation has taken up, or
they have made to themselves a system to which
all men and all circumstances must be bent. Something there almost always is that beguiles
them away from the plain, prosaic, business-like
view ofthe concerns of this prosaic world. Consequently the mass of mankind, who have a dull but
surefooted instinct of their own interest, feel an
uncomfortable misgiving when they see a genius at
the head oftheir affairs. They are aware that firstrate brilliancy cannot be had without something of
distortion ; but it is no consolation to them that the
illusions which are luring him on to ruin lend in
the mean time an exquisite charm to the eloquence
by which he induces them to accompany him on
the road. On the other hand, the clever world is
very intolerant of plain, practical statesmen. It
maintains, sometimes with very good reason, that
where the imagination is stunted, it is merely
because the whole mind is stunted too ; and that
the claim to practical common sense is often only
a euphemism for a narrow intelligence straitened
by an abject regard for precedents and for routine.
As a rule, both sides are right in the suspicions
they entertain. It is rare to meet with a fervid
imagination which is drilled to reserve its flights
for efforts of oratory, and to give place entirely to
more sober faculties in council. It is still rarer to
see an absolutely unimaginative mind possessed of
the energy and of the breadth of view indispensable
in the statesman of a troubled period. Both kinds
of excellence produce great and successful rulers,
where they occur ; and both are apt to meet, in
those around them, with incredulity that such combinations of opposite qualities can exist.

'Lord Castlereagh', Quarterly Review, vol. 111 (January & April 1862), p. 204 https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QafmXADIh0jnPZqj11iTfMIuIdFT-DZWwP1q0zQiA4yBrYcBXaRXhl4wAaaOcH-1ovmPhezfBeCx0TdkJoRN9AA_GFoAY4s2keT-CwZl1Ac4Hi372YcAOvsu39xIf9x-9EnByraZe58fXqGcaJXEPxzQgDRgCT4Tmx6dycMZDk2BYr8nEVHvroFVV0BBgbmci9-5NQXLe-_TADxWoaHFbQLTkZ_S6X7gooGS2WS2hjnVU9k8TJvQcgrZPgRvcxDa635thiwS18ib2JkrJsBzJpxawXgcLHhLf7Y6EZsBbphBqpbBMgw

==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Scalia, son==
[https://twitter.com/StuffForSisters/status/1581430850159542272 At Scalia's Funeral:]
"We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us—known only by reputation to even more. A man loved by many—scorned by others. A man known for great controversy & for great compassion. That man, of course, is Jesus of Nazareth."

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shakespeare, William==
*"Ten masts deep make not the altitude from which though has perpendicularly fell." King Lear, Edgar to Gloucester.

===Insults===
From Cultural Tutor on Twitter:
1) "Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon."
~Timon of Athens

2) "You, minion, are too saucy."
~The Two Gentleman of Verona

3) "Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat."
~Henry V

4) "The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril."
~The Merry Wives of Windsor

5) "Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows."
~Troilus and Cressida

10) "I’ll beat thee, but I would infect my hands."
~Timon of Athens

11) "More of your conversation would infect my brain."
~Coriolanus

12) "There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune."
~Henry IV, Part 1

14) "Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

18) "This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

23) "Some report a sea-maid spawn’d him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice."
~Measure for Measure

25) "Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood."
~King Lear

31) "Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant."
~The Taming of the Shrew

46) "A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition."
~King Lear

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
"Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king."
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==SMITH, ADAM==
*"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” (no source)

==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
*“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
*"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

*"The best obituary a man can have is that the people who knew him loved him, even if those who didn't know him hated him," ''Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays''

*“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice'.” The Quest for Cosmic Justice

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
*“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” In english: "To understand all is to forgive all." 
[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

*“Madame,” the general informed the lady in question, “I do not want women mixed up in politics.” “You are perfectly right,” came the reply, “but in a country where their heads are cut off, it is only natural for them to want to know why.” (Exchange between Napoleon Bonaparte and Madame de Staël, J. Christopher Herold’s ''The Mind of Napoleon''.)

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==st exuery==
Drawing on French aristocrat Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, philosopher Byung Chul Han noted that, while houses are homes in space, rituals are homes in time. Rituals are an assertion of continuity — you act as your ancestors acted before you. They shift the family from the moment into ‘eternal time’. https://www.theculturist.io/p/why-did-wealth-stop-building-beautiful?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2242126&post_id=179128916&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

==Sutton, Willy==
When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is."

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==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==TACITUS==
*Omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset." 
“All would have agreed that he was capable of being emperor, if only he had never been it.” 
So wrote Tacitus of Galba.

==Taft, William==
*"The opportunity freely and publicly to criticize judicial action is of vastly more iportance to the body politic than the immunity of courts and judges from unjust aspersions and attack. Nothing tends more to render judges careful in their decisions and anxiously solicitous to do exact justice than the consciousness that every act of theirs is to be subjected to the intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their fellow-men. Such criticism is beneficial in proportion as it is fair, dispassionate, discriminating, and based on a knowledge of sound legal principles. The comments made by learned text writers and by the acute editors of the various law reviews upon judicial decisions are therefore highly useful. Such critics constitute more or less impartial tribunals of professional opinion before which each judgment is made to stand or fall on its merits, and thus exert a strong influence to secure uniformity of decision. But non-professional criticism also is by no means without its uses, even if accompanied, as it often is, by a direct attack upon the judicial fairness and motives of the occupants of the bench; for if the law is but the essence of common sense, the protest of many average men may evidence a defect in a judicial conclusion, though based on the nicest legal reasoning and profoundest learning. The two important elements of moral character in a judge are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it. In so far as fear of public comment does not affect the courage of a judge, but only spurs him on to search his conscience and to reach the result which approves itself to his inmost heart such comment serves a useful purpose. There are few men, whether they are judges for life or for a shorter term, who do not prefer to earn and hold the respect of all, and who can not be reached and made to pause and deliberate by hostile public criticism. In the case of judges having a life tenure, indeed their very independence makes the right freely to comment on their decisions of greater importance, because it is the only practical and available instrument in the hands of a free people to keep such judges alive to the reasonable demands of those they serve." (1895) As [http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/state-of-the-union-1906.php cited by Pres. Roosevelt] in 1906.

==Tate, Jeremy==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted at 9:15 AM on Sun, Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

==Taylor, Charles==
*As reported [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/04/westafrica.qanda by The Guardian]: "He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him." Running successfully for President of Liberia.

==Teller, Edward==
*"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
*Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

* His election rerunning announcement speech:
Michael Tracey@mtracey·14hSorry to break it to you, but Trump was spot-on with this one: “They say the ocean will rise 1/8 of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years, but don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries with one shot. Something is wrong with their thinking.”

:This is an example of how he exaggerates in the hope that someone will correct him and make his point for him (1/8 inch corrected to 2 inches, still tiny).

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*"Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain, message to Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 1901.

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

*"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 

Often quoted in W. H. Auden's translation,‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’, but the French is so easy, an Anglophone might as well use the original phrase. See also "Le code n'est jamais fini, seulement termine." 

Valery didn't actually say this, though it is what is commonly quoted in France. Pierre Vinclair tells us about that in [https://poezibao.typepad.com/files/ashbery-9.pdf «Portrait d’une énigme dans un miroir convexe», "9. et fin. Clack"], [https://www.poesibao.fr/ ''Poezibao'']
[https://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2020/11/feuilleton-critique-portrait-dune-%C3%A9nigme-dans-un-miroir-convexe-9-et-fin-clack-par-pierre-vinclair.html archive] (2020):

"Et l’on connaît la célèbre formule de Valéry : « un poème n’est jamais fini, seulement abandonné ». Dicton apocryphe, qui trouve sans doute son origine dans cette page de «Littérature»:

::Une œuvre dont l’achèvement — le jugement qui la déclare achevée, est uniquement subordonné à la condition qu’elle nous plaise — n’est jamais achevée. […]
:: Un poème n’est jamais achevé — c’est toujours un accident qui le termine, c’est-àdire qui le donne au public.
::Ce sont la lassitude, la demande de l’éditeur, — la poussée d’un autre poème.
::Mais jamais l’état même de l’ouvrage (si l’auteur n’est pas un sot) ne montre qu’il ne pourrait être poussé, changé, considéré comme première approximation, ou origine d’une recherche nouvelle.
::Je conçois, quant à moi, que le même sujet et presque les mêmes mots pourraient être repris indéfiniment et occuper toute une vie.
::« Perfection »
::c’est travail. 

Notre premier bumper soit donc Paul Valéry, selon qui l’œuvre ne s’achève jamais
(car la perfection qu’elle cherche est asymptotique) : seul un accident extérieur peut
l’interrompre. Or, des trois causes qu’il nomme — lassitude, demande de l’éditeur,
poussée d’un autre poème — aucune ne ressemble au tarissement dont parle
Ashbery. C’est sans doute que, pour celui-ci, le poème n’est pas l’objet d’un travail
infini visant la perfection, la confection maniaque d’une œuvre aussi proche que
possible de l’idéal."

Paul Valéry, «Littérature» in Tel Quel, Gallimard, 1941, p. 154. "

==Vaughan, Sarah==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html Easy Street]

==Von Neumann, John==
*“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You get used to them.”

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==Wang, John==
@johnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Watson, Thomas==
* After talking about the Prodigal Son: “Before a man can come to Christ he must first come to himself. . . . A man must first recognize and consider what his sin is, and know the plague of his heart, before he can be duly humbled for it.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

*“Affliction is but corrective; sin is destructive” ''The Doctrine of Repentance.'' (1668).

*“Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

==Watt, Peter==
*"Judy Holliday said. "Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''. In Hunter Biden's case it seems that nothing he does will ever be printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

==Wilde, Oscar==
*"Algernon: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” 
:Jack: “Is that clever?” 
:Algernon: “It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be.” " 
::(from ''The Importance of Being Earnest'')

===[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phrases_and_Philosophies_for_the_Use_of_the_Young "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young"], ''Chameleon'' magazine, (1894)===

*Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.

*A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

*If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

*It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

*Only the shallow know themselves.

*One should always be a little improbable.

*The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

*One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

*The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

==Will, George==
"The ancients had asked, What is the highest attainment of which mankind is capable and how can we pursue this? Hobbes and subsequent moderns asked, What is the worst that can happen and how can we avoid it?" (TCS, p 19)

==Williams, Robin==
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”

==Wolfe, Humbert==
[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-british-journalist-by-humbert-wolfe-f9r6pb9hb07 The London Times]:

. 
You cannot ever bribe or twist 
The freeborn British journalist 
Seeing what, unbribed, he’ll do 
You realize there’s no reason to

==Warhol, Andrew==
*“The President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”

— Andy Warhol, 1975,

== ==
==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zeto, Salena==
*<> [https://www.thefp.com/p/my-decade-with-donald-trump-salena-zito?utm_campaign=email-post&r=fjeib&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "My Decade with Donald Trump,"] Salena Zito, ''The Free Press'' (2025), linking to her article, [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-makes-his-case-in-pittsburgh/501335/ "Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally",] ''The Atlantic'' (2016).

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

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Quotations

2026-02-11T13:57:08Z

Eric Rasmusen: /* Mazarin, Cardinal */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

*[https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089 "On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs' "], Jia Tolentino ( /23/16).

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==Anonymous==
*"Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (“Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched”) The motto of the University of Chicago.

*"Don't take notes of what the professor says, take note."

*"What other people think of me is none of my business.”

*"Do you have 10 years of experience, or are you just living the same year at your job 10 times over?" [https://twitter.com/randomrecruiter/status/1690753402014232576 @randomrecruiter] (2023)

*I am reminded of a woman who graduated from MIT in 1987. I asked her about her social life as an undergrad. "The odds were good, but the goods were odd."

*"VOCATUS ATQUA NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT." (CALLED OR NOT CALLED, GOD IS PRESENT.)

*"The rich man smokes the same sort of cigarettes as the poor man, shaves with the same sort of razor, uses the same sort of telephone, vacuum cleaner, radio, and TV set, has the same sort of lighting and heating equipment in his house, and so on indefinitely. The differences between his automobile and the poor man’s are minor. Essentially they have similar engines, similar fittings. In the early years of the century there was a hierarchy of automobiles." (''Harper's Magazine'' [1957])

*"Conservatives view themselves as underdogs because they are, especially culturally. Liberals view themselves underdogs because although in charge of every significant human institution they have set themselves the impossible egalitarian task of waging war against nature and reality itself - so when results inevitably conflict with their egalitarian ideology - when racial gaps, poverty, sex differences, inequality etc persist - they blame reactionary forces rather than nature (reality)." ''Twitter'' (2023).

*The Hillary defense:
:I didn’t do it.
:You can’t prove it.
:Everybody does it.
:He did it.
:You're just a racist.
:It's old news.
:What difference, at this point, does it make?

*The Russian Teapot defense:
:It isn’t broken
:If it is broken, I didn’t do it
:If I did do it, it was no good anyway

*A canon of legal interpretation:"Specialia generalibus non derogant". Special things don't derogate from the general rule.

* “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original:"Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement , il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." [https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa as written by Jomini] (1827))..

*When everything works fine, they wonder why they hired you. When everything stops working, they wonder why they hired you. I.T. in a nutshell.

*“I don't drink, or cuss, or chew; and I don't go out with girls that do.”

*"The plural of outlier is out-and-out-liar".

*"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*[https://allaboutfrench.com/qui-se-ressemble-sassemble "Qui se ressemble s'assemble"]

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan," as quoted in ''A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition) by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Owning a sailboat is like turning your shower's cold water on and standing there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own." Stalin?

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Showing up is 90% of success," or "Being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them." — an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain". This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointment, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: the person secretly believe the world revolves around him, everyone is paying attention to him and his actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan. It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.
Women will always and forever rely on men.}}
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==Adams, John==
*"It is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State." [https://buff.ly/3rFhAzP "From John Adams to James Sullivan"] (26 May 1776).

==Adams, Scott==
*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1577277568310341632 Twitter, October 4, 2022]:"Elon Musk took control of the Ukraine/Russia endgame by writing the first draft in bullet form and drawing all attention to it.

:You just learned one of the most powerful persuasion techniques in the modern world: Write the first draft and keep it simple."

*I’m not worried about climate change because any species that can predict the average temperature a hundred years in advance won’t have trouble handling it.

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==The African Queen==
Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature. 
Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

See [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/characters/nm0000031 the IMDB quote page.]

==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” 
Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Allred, Austen==
*"Job descriptions should be strongly opinionated, and should both attract the people you’d want to work with while repelling those you wouldn’t."(Twitter 2023)

==Amin, Idi==
*"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."

==Anderson, Robert==
*"It would be nice if people would put (D) or (R) in their profiles so I know whether to retweet or ratio them without having to do a bunch of reading." Twitter (2024).

==Andreessen, Mark==
*"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

*Whitepill #14: Every day, two lists get longer: The things you believe but can't say, and the things you don't believe but must say. (Twitter, 2022)

==Aquinas, Thomas==
*"Nevertheless, sacred doctrine makes use of these authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the authority of the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the authority of the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable. For our faith rests upon the revelation made to the apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books, and not on the revelations (if any such there are) made to other doctors. Hence Augustine says (Epis. ad Hieron. xix, 1): 'Only those books of Scripture which are called canonical have I learned to hold in such honor as to believe their authors have not erred in any way in writing them. But other authors I so read as not to deem everything in their works to be true, merely on account of their having so thought and written, whatever may have been their holiness and learning'" (Summa Theologica,. Part 1, Q. 1, Art. 8).

==The Apocrypha==
"Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

2But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.

3With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.

4But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.

5For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen." Wisdom of SOlomon 13.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
*“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

*"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

*"The other environmental risk factors for schizophrenia are equally hard to change. Poverty? Okay, don’t be poor, thanks for the important life advice. Social defeat? “Doctor, are you saying I have to never let anyone defeat me?” “Yes, it’s my official medical recommendation that you become invincible.” " [https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-fair-to-describe-schizophrenia "It's Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic"] (Jan. 31, 2024).

==Auden==
*“The Danish Lutheran Church may have been as worldly as Kierkegaard thought it was, but if it had not existed he would never have heard of the Gospels, in which he found the standards by which he condemned it.”

==Augustine==
*“Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and that not of one man, but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices” (''City of God'', Book IV)

*"If they shall be deprived of all good, they shall no longer be. So long, therefore, as they are, they are good; therefore whatsoever is, is good. That evil, then, which I sought whence it was, is not any substance; for were it a substance, it would be good. For either it would be an incorruptible substance, and so a chief good, or a corruptible substance, which unless it were good it could not be corrupted. I perceived, therefore, and it was made clear to me, that Thou didst make all things good, nor is there any substance at all that was not made by Thee; and because all that Thou hast made are not equal, therefore all things are; because individually they are good, and altogether very good, because our God made all things very good." ''Confessions'', Book 7, chapter 12.

== ==
==Balfour, Arthur==
*“The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which, for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.”

==Bankman-Fried, Sam ==
“...this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us.” --
"[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself]: The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way," ''Vox,'' Kelsey Piper (Nov. 16, 2022).

==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
*“Eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

==The Bible==
*“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” Proverbs 15:1.

*"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits." Proverbs 16:2.

*"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs 16:4.

*"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9.

==Boghossian, Peter==
*"If a thing's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well." (''Unherd'' panel interview, 2024, ''You-Tube'').

==Booth, William (Salvation Army founder)==
*Asked about the chief dangers for the 20th century, Salvation Army founder Booth [https://rlhymersjr.com/Online_Sermons/2007/090907_OldEvangelicalismReview.html said], “Religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.”

==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

==Bloom,Allen==
*“Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason’s power.” ''The Closing of the American Mind''

==Bloom, Harold==
*[https://biblioklept.org/2013/02/19/harold-bloom-on-the-school-of-resentment/ Harold Bloom on his agon with “The School of Resentment.”] From [https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2225/the-art-of-criticism-no-1-harold-bloom his 1991 interview with The Paris Review.]:
When I was a young man back in the fifties starting out on what was to be my career, I used to proclaim that my chosen profession seemed to consist of secular clergy or clerisy. I was thinking, of course, of the highly Anglo-Catholic New Criticism under the sponsorship or demigodness of T. S. Eliot. But I realized in latish middle age that, no better or worse, I was surrounded by a pride of displaced social workers, a rabblement of lemmings, all rushing down to the sea carrying their subject down to destruction with them. The school of resentment is an extraordinary sort of mélange of latest-model feminists, Lacanians, that whole semiotic cackle, latest-model pseudo-Marxists, so-called New Historicists, who are neither new nor historicist, and third generation deconstructors, who I believe have no relationship whatever to literary values. . . .

It is tiresome to be encountering myths called “The Social Responsibility of the Critic” or “The Political Responsibility of the Critic.” I would rather walk into a bookstore and find a book called “The Aesthetic Responsibilities of the Statesman,” or “The Literary Responsibilities of the Engineer.” Criticism is not a program for social betterment, not an engine for social change. I don’t see how it possibly could be. . . .

What else is there like Invisible Man? Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God has a kind of superior intensity and firm control. It’s a very fine book indeed. It surprised and delighted me when I first read it and it has sustained several rereadings since. But that and Invisible Man are the only full scale works of fiction I have read by American blacks in this century that have survival possibilities at all. Alice Walker is an extremely inadequate writer, and I think that is giving her the best of it. A book like The Color Purple is of no aesthetic interest or value whatsoever, yet it is exalted and taught in the academies. It clearly is a time in which social and cultural guilt has taken over. . . .

I’m not terribly fond of feminist criticism. The true test is to find work, whether in the past or present, by women writers that we had undervalued, and thus bring it to our attention and teach us to study it more closely or more usefully. By that test they have failed, because they have added not one to the canon. The women writers who mattered—Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and others who have always mattered on aesthetic grounds—still matter. I do not appreciate Elizabeth Bishop or May Swenson any more or less than I would have appreciated them if we had no feminist literary criticism at all.

==Bowles, Michael==
“Construction is a matter of backing yourself into a corner and then fighting your way out.”

==Bukowski, Charles==
*“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

==Burke, Edmund==
* “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770).

*"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Misattributed. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ Quote Investigator.]

==Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)==
. 
He that complies against his Will, 
Is of his own Opinion still. 
(from ''Hudibras'')
----

== ==
==CANNON, William==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Caplan, Bryan==
*"When a normal utilitarian concludes that mass murder would maximize social utility, he checks his work! He goes over his calculations with a fine-tooth comb, hoping to discover a way to implement beneficial policy changes without horrific atrocities. The Leninist, in contrast, reasons backwards from the atrocities that emotionally inspire him to the utilitarian argument that morally justifies his atrocities." [https://betonit.substack.com/p/the_roots_of_lehtml The roots of Leninism] (2012)

==Carlin, George==
*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that."

==Carson, D.A.==
*"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."

==Carver, George Washington==
*“When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well, George, that's more nearly your size.’

==Carville, James==
*“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

==St. Charbel Makhlouf==
*[https://www.lightbook.org/53-best-saint-charbel-quotes.html "Your weakness is to be overcome, not to be used as a pilgrimage."]

==Charles III of the United Kingdom==
* 2011 as he [https://www.royal.uk/clarencehouse/speech/speech-hrh-prince-wales-king-james-bible-trust-reception addressed the King James Bible Trust:] “I’ve never really understood who it was that decided that, for people who aren’t very good at reading, the best things to read are those written by people who aren’t very good at writing!”

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*"Chesterton's Fence", 1929 book, ''The Thing,'' “The Drift from Domesticity”:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to challenge his reformist son-in-law. Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in his poem, “Mending Wall.” }}

*"A man can pretend to be wise; a man cannot pretend to be witty."

*"Those who will not even admit the Capitalist problem deserve to get the Communist solution."

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*"If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization."

*"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it"--Autobiography

*{{Quotation|We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

==Chicago, University of==
*The University of Chicago's motto is "Crescat scientia; vita excolatur," which means,"Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched."

==Chrysostom, John==
*"Should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in the midst of the forum, blaspheming God; go up to him and rebuke him; and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not to do so. Smite him on the face; strike his mouth; sanctify your hand with the blow, and if any should accuse you, and drag you to the place of justice, follow them there; and when the judge on the bench calls you to account, say boldly that the man blasphemed the King of angels! For if it be necessary to punish those who blaspheme an earthly king, much more so those who insult God" ('On the Statues', 1).

== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Coleridge, Samuel==
*"I, for one, do not call the sod under my feet my country. But language, religion, laws, government, blood — identity in these makes men of one country." ''Table Talk'', May 29, 1830.

==Comfort, Ray==
“Atheists don’t hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don’t exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Covey, Stephen==
*"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man."

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [-Twitter, 2021]}}

==Cunningham==
J.V. Cunningham, from "Meditation on Statistical Method"

<pre>
Plato, despair!
We prove by norms
How numbers bear
Empiric forms,

How random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our hearts
Hyperbole
Curves and departs
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
</pre>

My version:

<pre>
Random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,

But in our soul
Hyperbole
Makes error roll
To infinity.

Error is boundless.
So hope and doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Won't average out.
</pre>

== ==

==Dalrymple, Theodore==
*"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." a 2005 https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com/dalrymple-interviewed-by-jamie-glazov/ interview] in FrontPage.

==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in ''First Things'', 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, ''The Information'')

==Descartes==
See [[Descartes]]
*"Bene qui latuit, bene vixit."
*"He lives well who lies well hidden." I like the English version better. What is it in French? Ovid, Descartes.

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==Dio Cassius==
*"Although he was very practised as a writer of prose and verse and very skilled in all the arts, yet he always mocked the teachers of all the arts on the grounds that he was more learned than they, and despised and humiliated them. With these same professors and philosophers he often competed, taking turns to publish books or poems. Once, indeed, a word used by Favorinus was criticized by Hadrian. Favorinus yielded, which provoked some very agreeable amusement. He was wrong to concede to Hadrian, his friends charged him, over a word which reputable authors had used. ‘You don’t give me good advice, my friends,’ said Favorinus, ‘when you don’t allow me to believe the man who possesses thirty legions to be more learned than anyone else!’ " From [https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/hadrians-rome/content-section-5.1 Birley, A. (trans.) (1976) Lives of the Later Caesars, London, Penguin, pp. 57–87.]

<pre>
To the poet Florus,Footnote61 who wrote to him:

I do not want to be Caesar,
To walk about among the Britons,
To ensure the Scythian hoar-frosts,

he wrote back:

I do not want to be Florus,
To walk about among taverns,
To lurk about among cook-shops,
To put up with the round insects.
</pre>

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
*"Making a mistake is a net positive if you learn more from it than it cost you."

{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

*"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dornbusch, Rudiger==
*"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought" (on exchange rate crises)

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

== ==

==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==Einstein, Albert==
"in 1952 he wrote a letter to his friend and fellow physicist Max Born where he admits that even if the astronomical data had gone against general relativity, he would still believe in the theory:"

`Even if there were absolutely no light deflection, no perihelion motion and no redshift, the gravitational equations would still be convincing because they avoid the inertial system... It is really quite strange that humans are usually deaf towards the strongest arguments, while they are constantly inclined to overestimate the accuracy of measurement.'
([https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-einsteins-unification-by-jeroen? "John Psmith" 2024)

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

==Esolen, Anthony==
*"Bee as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves, says the Lord.

:The converse is what we have now in our elites, in Church, State, education, etc.: People in charge who are as dopey as pigeons, and as malignant as snakes." (Twitter, 2024)

== ==

==Faulkner, William==
*“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feser, Ed==
*"If a doctor says “This is what lung cancer involves, please stop smoking,” no one accuses him of wanting the patient to suffer. But if a theologian says “This is what damnation involves, please stop sinning,” he is accused of wanting people to go to hell." ([https://twitter.com/FeserEdward/status/1665881489354162177 Twitter, 2023])

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Friedman, Milton==
"Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:

1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality) 
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality) 
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost) 
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

== ==

==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

==Gandhi, Ashvin==
@ashdgandhi (Nov 29 2025)

"Normal people: hear math statements as regular words.

Mathematicians: hear math statements as logic.

Economists: hear regular words as math statements."

----

==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

==Girard, Rene==
*“Nietzsche shared with many intellectuals of his time and our own a passion for irresponsible rhetoric in the attempt to get one up on opponents. But philosophers, for their misfortune, are not the only people in the world. Genuinely mad and frantic people are all around them and do them the worst turn of all: they take them at their word.” I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
----

==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
*Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies" "I am the spirit who always says no." Faust part I.

*"I am the spirit that always says no. And how right I am! For surely It’s right that everything that comes to be Should cease to be. And so they do. Still better Would be nothing ever was. Hence sin And havoc and ruin—all you call evil, in sum— For me’s the element in which I swim.”

<pre>"Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen:
Verweile doch! du bist so schön!
Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen,
Dann will ich gern zugrunde gehn!
</pre>
Faust, Part I. When I to a moment say, Stay a while! You are so fair! Then you may enslave my soul, then I will submit to you. Or something like that.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==Goodstein, David==
"1.1 INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously. We will begin by considering the simplest meaningful example, the perfect gas, in order to get the central concepts sorted out." ( States of Matter (1985); see https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1651559339067310081)

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*[https://x.com/paulg/status/1874590418463330489 TWITTER:] "A friend who's a former British military officer told me that when he was training soldiers in jungle warfare they were taught that if they got lost in the jungle, the first thing they should do was to brew a cup of tea and think about what to do next."

*"Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign flipped." (2024, X).

*"If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial." [http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html "Putting Ideas into Words"] (2022).

*"A rare counterexample to the principle of specialization: your site should never seem like it was made by communications people, and the best way to achieve this is for it not to be. This is something founders should continue to micromanage forever."[https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1654765304184971264 Twitter] (2023) ]

*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)

==Grandin, Temple==
*Temple Grandin wrote in ''The Way I See It,'' a book on the experience of autism: "What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done."
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hamblin, Jacob==
*Jacob Hamblin’s "Rules for Dealing with the Indians" from ''Jacob Hamblin among the Indians'' by James Little.

1. I never talk anything but the truth to them.

2. I think it useless to speak of things they cannot comprehend.

3. I strive by all means to never let them see me in a passion.

4. Under no circumstances show fear, thereby showing to them that I have a sound heart and a straight tongue.

5. Never approach them in an austere manner nor use more words than are necessary to convey my ideas, not in a higher tone of voice than to be distinctly heard.

6. Always listen to them when they wish to tell of their grievances, and redress their wrongs, however trifling they may be if possible. If I cannot I let them know I have a desire to do so.

7. I never allow them to hear me use profane or obscene language or take any unbecoming course with them.

8. I never submit to any unjust demands or submit to coercion under any circumstances, thereby showing them that I govern and am governed by the rule of right not by might.

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

==Herrnstein, Robert==
:"Dick recalled the day when, as a young man, he had been awarded tenure. It was his dream fulfilled -- a place in the university he so loved, the chance to follow his research wherever it took him, economic security. For Dick, being a tenured professor at Harvard was not just the perfect job, but the perfect way to live his life. It was too good to be true; there had to be a catch. What's my part of the bargain? he had asked himself. "And I figured it out," he said, looking at me with that benign, gentle half-smile of his. "You have to tell the truth." There was no self-congratulation in his voice, just an answer to my question." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20010421204200/https://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/bell-curve/murray-hstein-obit.html "Richard J. Herrnstein, RIP,"] by Charles Murray, Vol. 46, National Review, 10-10-1994, pp 22.

==Hoffer, Eric==
*[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98215-every-great-cause-begins-as-a-movement-becomes-a-business “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”]

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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==Heath, Joseph==
"Populists have great difficulty respecting the rule of law. If one listens to the explanations that they offer for their actions, a great deal of this reflects a bias toward concreteness in their thinking. They think the purpose of the rules is to stop bad people from doing bad things, but since they themselves are good people trying to do good things, they cannot see why they should be constrained by the rules." "Populism Fast and Slow", ''Substack'' (2025).

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== Rob Henderson==
*“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” [https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/ Quillette article] (2021).

*"Men bond by insulting each other and not really meaning it; women bond by complimenting each other and not really meaning it."

*"Over the course of human evolutionary history, there may have been some independent-minded women who thought things through and decided to avoid the pain and risks of motherhood. These women are not our ancestors." [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-story-of-us-9780190883201?cc=gb&lang=en& one of his books], via Twitter.

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==Hippocrates==
"Ars longa, vita brevis" has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."

The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

==Hitchens, Christopher==
*"It will happen to all of us that at some point you'll be tapped on the shoulder and told - not just that the party is over - but slightly worse: the party's going on but you have to leave."

==Hitchens, PETER==
*'I also remember a French high-speed train, on which Mrs Hitchens and I ate a long, time-consuming, four-course picnic lunch, wine included, partly for the joy of it and partly because we were exempt from French mask rules as long as we were eating.
::'An infuriated French ticket inspector chose to lecture us explosively about our irresponsibility — whereupon I donned a large black Polish Army surplus gas mask, which in those days I carried about for satirical purposes.
::‘Take it off!’ he cried. ‘You are trying to frighten people!’ . :‘No,’ I replied, ‘it is you who are trying to frighten people.’ https://mol.im/a/12947665 via @MailOnline"

==Hooker. Richard==
*“It is dangerous for the feeble mind of man to wade too far into the doings of the Most High. Although it is life to know Him and joy to mention His name, our surest knowledge is that we do not know Him as He truly is, nor can we; our safest eloquence is our silence, confessing without confession that His glory is inexplicable and His greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we are on earth; therefore let our words be wary and few.” (''Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'', Vol. 1, book 1, chapter 2)

==Hochschild, Joshua==
*"It is an academic myth that canonical texts, literary and religious, embody ideology and perpetuate power structures. In the experience of actual readers, canonical texts are typically the means of escaping ideology and challenging power structures." Twitter (2024)

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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== Thomas Jefferson==
" If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion towards his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriæ of the other." [https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/query-xviii-an-excerpt-from-notes-on-the-state-of-virginia-by-thomas-jefferson-1784/ Query 18, Notes from Virginia.]
==Jomini ==
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original: "Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." as written by Jomini (1827). https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa

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==Kac, Mark==
*"Probability theory is measure theory with a soul." Here is one source. Is there a better one, an original one? [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf]

==Karlin, George==
*"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they’re cramming for their final exam."

*"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

*"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body."

*"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts."

*"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it."

==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

*[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

==Keller, Timothy==
*"A possible way to start a conversation with someone who is not a believer:
'Tell me the God you don't believe in because chances are I don't believe in that God either.' "
*"Few people live up to their own standards, let alone an objective one. Either way we come up short on our own accord."
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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==Keynes, John==
* “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”

==Khan, Razib==
:*"The reason we need nerds is that they jump all over little lies, and drown them in the bathtub before the lies can grow up and become invincible monsters." [https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1675204182679207936 Twitter (2023).]

==Kierkegaard, Emil==
{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."
}}

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

== KIPLING, Rudyard==
. 
In August was the jackal born, 
The rains fell in September. 
"Now such a fearful flood as this," 
Says he, "I can't remember!" [http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/second-jungle-book/7/ "The Undertakers"] The 2nd Jungle Book.

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==Kosinski, Jerzy==
* "The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
{{Quotation|
(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk” 
(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
}}
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==Rush Limbaugh==
“Men and women range themselves into three classes... the lowest by talking about persons; the next about things; the highest about ideas.”

==Lindsay, James==
*On the Christian method, which is good for redpilling wokers too: 
::1) Proclaim the truth (tell without coercion or force) 
::2) Remind them that everyone is a sinner (so everyone makes mistakes) 
::3) Invite them to repent in their own time (accept your past error as wrong and move forward productively).

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted , Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

*"The idea that any man or writer should be opaque to those who lived in the same culture, spoke the same language, shared the same habitual imagery and unconscious assumptions, and yet be transparent to those who have none of these advantages, is in my opinion preposterous. " ([https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern Seed speech])

*From "The Abolition of Man": 'When all that says "It is good" has been debunked, what says "I want" remains.'

* "The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

*“His education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

*“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”

*A man who has spent his youth and manhood in the minute study of New Testament texts and of other people’s studies of them, whose literary experience of those texts lacks any standard of comparison such as can only grow from a wide and deep and genial experience of literature in general, is, I should think, very likely to miss the obvious thing about them. If he tells me that something in a Gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavour; not how many years he has spent on that Gospel...

:I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life. I know what they are like. I know that not one of them is like this. Of this text there are only two possible views. Either this is reportage—though it may no doubt contain errors—pretty close up to the facts; nearly as close as Boswell. Or else, some unknown writer in the second century, without known predecessors or successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative
-- CS Lewis. https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern-Seed and Elephants," Originally entitled 'Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism'.

==Long, Earl (Governor of Louisiana, brother of Huey Long)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

==Long, Russell (Senator from Indiana, son of Huey Long)==
*"Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax the man behind the tree." [improved] See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/]

==Long, Rob==
"I was nonplussed — the actual definition of nonplussed, which is baffled, rather than what it sounds like and will eventually come to mean, which is unimpressed." (2024)

==Luther, Martin==
* "Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it."

:"This is a murky Luther quote that seems like something he would have said, yet finding an exact reference isn't easy. A couple of people have searched for this quote uncovering interesting clues and theories of its origin (see for instance, About That Great Luther Quote and also the discussion here). Piggybacking on their efforts, I have my own theory of how this quote became popular: it's in the form it's in because singer-song writer Derek Webb was quoting Charles Spurgeon quoting Luther... whether he knew it or not!" https://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2020/08/luther-every-week-i-preach.html

* “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan." --Book IV of The Prince}}

*"A question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may
be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person it is
much safer to be feared than loved, when only one is possible. The reason for this is that in general men
are ungrateful, inconstant, false, cowardly, and greedy. As long as you succeed, they are yours entirely -
they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, when the need is far distant. But when the
need approaches, they turn against you. A prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected
other ways of protecting himself, will be ruined. Friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by
greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot
be relied upon. Men are less worried about offending one who is loved than one who is feared. Love is
preserved by the link of gratefulness which, owing to the weak nature of men, is broken at every
opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a fear of punishment which never fails." Chapter 17, [https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Principe/Capitolo_XVIII The Prince], Machiavelli.

*"Questo una disputa, s'e' gli è meglio essere amato che temuto o e converso. Rispondesi che si vorrebbe essere l'uno e l'altro; ma perché e' gli è difficile accozzarli insieme, è molto più sicuro essere temuto che amato, quando si abbi a mancare dell'uno de' dua. Perché degli uomini si può dire questo, generalmente, che sieno ingrati, volubili, simulatori e dissimulatori, fuggitori de' pericoli, cupidi del guadagno; e mentre fai loro bene e' sono tutti tua, offeronti el sangue, la roba, la vita, e' figliuoli, come di sopra dissi, quando el bisogno è discosto: ma quando ti si appressa, si rivoltono, e quello principe che si è tutto fondato in su le parole loro, trovandosi nudo di altre preparazioni, ruina. Perché le amicizie che si acquistono col prezzo, e non con grandezza e nobilità di animo, si meritano, ma elle non si hanno, e alli tempi non si possono spendere; e li uomini hanno meno rispetto a offendere uno che si facci amare, che uno che si facci temere: perché lo amore è tenuto da uno vinculo di obligo, il quale, per essere gl'uomini tristi, da ogni occasione di propria utilità è rotto, ma il timore è tenuto da una paura di pena che non ti abbandona mai." Ch. 7. [http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/testo/bibit000214 Il Principe], Machiavelli.

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
*“The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.” (Letter to Napier, November 5, 1841, p. 103 of Trevelyan's ''The Life and Letters..., Vol. 2'')

*"The doctrine which from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words, and stripped of rhetorical disguise is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error."
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Sir James Macintosh"

*From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Mahler Gustav==
*From [https://deepstash.com/article/203717/jean-jaurs-the-true-way-to-honour-the-past Deepstash, Jean Jaures said,] "Ce n'est pas en vain que tous les foyers des générations humaines ont flambé, ont rayonné ; mais c'est nous, parce que nous marchons, parce que nous luttons pour un idéal nouveau, c'est nous qui sommes les vrais héritiers du foyer des aïeux ; nous en avons pris la flamme, vous n'en avez gardé que la cendre." From [https://latoilescoute.net/de-la-tradition-il-faut-garder-la Latoilescoute.net: ] janvier 1910, à Paris, Chambre des députés in Pages choisies, éd. Rieder, paru en 1922, p. 115.

"It is not in vain that all the homes of human generations have burned, have blazed; but it is us - because we walk forward, because we fight for a new ideal - it is us who are the true heirs of the home of the ancestors; we took the flame, you only kept the ashes."

*From [https://x.com/DurhamWASP/status/1942000048822268127 Twitter] and [https://www.wienerzeitung.at/h/irrwege-einer-metapher Irrwege einer Metapher, of Gerald Krieghofer: Gustav Mahler said, ""Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers", Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

That's different and better enough for me to award the credit to Mahler. Mr. Krieghofer might show me to be wrong, though; I don't speak German.

==David MAMET==
*“We know psychology is a scam for two reasons.
One: all the children of psychologists are insane.
And two: in a hundred years of psychoanalysis, no one has ever gotten better.”
2011 book The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

==Mao Tse-Tung==
In ''Khruschev Remembers'', Soviet leader Krushchev [https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/quotations-peoples-republic/ talks about] a 1957 meeting.

"Mao spoke about the war at this meeting . His speech content was roughly this: Do not be afraid of war. Do not be afraid of either the atomic bomb or the weapons. No matter what kind of war, we socialist countries will win. When it comes to China specifically, he claimed: 'If the imperialist impose war on us, we now have 600 million people, even if we lose 300 million, so what, this is war. Years later, we nurture new, and the population will be restored.' After he spoke, the meeting room was in a tomb-like silence."

==de Marenches, Alexandre==
Jack Jolis:"
Reminds me of something the late, (pro-American) former French spy-boss Alexandre de Marenches once said to my late dad (in my presence):

:"That man Reagan-- he may not know much, but he understands everything"
"(Cet homme Reagan – il sait peut-être peu, mais il a tout compris”).

==Marx, Karl==
:"In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. The English Established Church, e.g., will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. Now-a-days atheism is culpa levis as compared with criticism of existing property relations." --[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm Capital], volume 1, Preface.

* "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." Introduction, 1844, in Marx's own journal Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher.

==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

==Mather, Increase==
*"When the Knowledge of the Tongues and Arts Revived, Religion had a Revival with it: And though some Unlearned men have been useful to the Interests of Religion, yet no man ever decried Learning, but what was, an Enemy to Religion, whether he knew it or no."

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==Matjaž Leonardis==
If 0.1mg dose of a drug can massively alter the behaviour of a 100kg human (nine orders of magnitude ratio) then the idea small groups of individuals can change massive social systems should seem at least plausible. (2022, Twitter)
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==Mazarin, Cardinal==
« Le cardinal Mazarin ne pouvait souffrir autour de lui des gens malheureux. Quand on lui proposait quelqu’un pour entrer à son service, sa première question était celle-ci : « Est-il heureux ? » »

"(Translation: "Cardinal Mazarin could not bear unhappy people around him. When someone was proposed to enter his service, his first question was: 'Is he lucky/fortunate?'")

This anecdote is reported by Madame la Palatine (Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, mother of the future Regent Philippe d'Orléans), in her letters or memoirs from the late 17th/early 18th century. It is referenced in multiple French historical sources, including sites dedicated to historical quotations (e.g., histoire-en-citations.fr), which describe it as a "well-known saying" (mot bien connu) attributed via the Palatine.

However, no primary source (e.g., Mazarin's own letters or contemporary accounts) directly records him saying it verbatim about generals. The Palatine's version is general (about service in his entourage), not explicitly military."

==MEIJER, WILLIAM==
:"If you give submissive people power, they’ll use it to submit themselves." (Twitter, 2026,@williameijer)

==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

*About Pres. Roosevelt and his 1936 opponent Gov. Landon: Landon “probably knows a great deal less than the Hon. Mr. Roosevelt, but much more of what he knows is true.” (from [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Roosevelt_Sweeps_Nation/9qq-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mencken+++++1936++Landon,++%22probably+knows+a+great+deal+less+than+the+Hon+.+Mr.+Roosevelt+,+but+much+more+of+what+he+knows+is+true%22&pg=PT399&printsec=frontcover Pietruza's book])

*"I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey."

*"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

*"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup."

*"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

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==Eric Moody==
*[https://x.com/therealmissjo/status/1935709339567726688 From X:]
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”
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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

*"When you hear the names of legislation or anything done by the government, it is worth remembering that the group that sent so many people to the guillotine during the French Revolution was called “The Committee of Public Safety”, not the “Cut Off Their Heads Committee” " Twitter (2024)

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Newman, John==
*"It is not the way to learn to swim in troubled waters, never to have gone into them.” — “Duties of the Church towards Knowledge,” in ''The Idea of a University'' (1852).

Improved: "You won't learn to swim in troubled waters by avoiding bathtubs."

==Ngo, Richard==
*"To improve the world most in the short term, make the worst country better. To improve the world most in the long term, make the best country better." Twitter, 2025.

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Orwell, George==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

"There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see." (slightly improved, seen secondhand on Twitter)

==Prince Philip==
*“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

*“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

*“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

* “It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

* “If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

*“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

*“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

*“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

*“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

*“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

*“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

* “It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

* “It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/

==Steven PINKER==
*"Historically, positions were distributed by hereditary privilege, family ties, patronage to cronies, or sale to the highest bidder. These are not far from the system we have here." ([https://www.thecrimson.com/column/council-on-academic-freedom-at-harvard/article/2024/1/29/pinker-harvard-legacy-admissions/ of Harvard student admissions, 2024])

==Pablo PICASSO==
From Grok. Original:
« L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de révéler la vérité. » (Art is a lie that permits us to reveal the truth)
(or « L’art est le mensonge qui dit la vérité. » ---Art is the lie that tells the truth.

The most widely quoted French version:« L’art est un mensonge qui nous fait comprendre la vérité. » (Art is a lie that makes us understand the truth.)

Marius de Zayas, “Picasso Speaks,” The Arts (New York), May 1923, pp. 315–326.
French version as Picasso himself later approved or rephrased it (most canonical):
« Nous savons tous que l’Art n’est pas la vérité. L’art est un mensonge qui nous permet de reconnaître la vérité, du moins la vérité qu’il nous est donné de comprendre. »
(This longer version appears in French sources quoting Picasso directly, notably in Christian Zervos’s conversations with Picasso and in later interviews.)

==Plato==
*"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter" ([https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=280790.0 in Greek:] μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μου τὴν στέγην," « mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn »). Engraved above the door of Plato's Academy in Athens. [https://www.dialogues-de-platon.org/faq/faq009.htm Bernard Suzanne] says "an anonymous scholion in a manuscript of Aelius Aristides whose author, according to him, might be the fourth century orator Sopatros, which mentions the full text of the inscription, adding that ageômetrètos has been put in place of anisos kai adikos ("unfair and unjust"), sometimes used in similar inscriptions at the entrance of sacred places, and
:"Johannes Tzetzes' Chiliades, whose text is as follows:
Pro tôn prothurôn tôn hautou grapsas hupèrche Platôn
Mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn
Toutestin, adikos mèdeis paresierchestô tèide
Isotès gar kai dikaion esti geômetria.
("Plato had written at the front door of his house: "Let no one who is not geometer enter under my roof", that is, "Let non one unjust sneak in here", because geometry is equality/fairness and justice/righteousness")."

==Podgursky, Ben==
*"When your kids ask to play with you, remember that the actual ask is "I want to spend time with you". They ask to play because play is all they know. If you'd rather do a project (gardening, making an IKEA shelf), just propose doing it with them. They'll be just as excited." (Twitter, 2025)

==Poincare, Henry==
"It is through logic that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
Poincare, H. (1914). Science and Method. (F. Maitland, Preface by B. Russell, Trans.) London: Thomas Nelson and Sons.

==Pope, Alexander==
==="An Essay on Criticism"===
<pre>
*Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang’rous is th’ offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
Some few in that, but numbers err in this,
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss;

‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

In poets as true genius is but rare,
True taste as seldom is the critic’s share;
Both must alike from Heav’n derive their light,
These born to judge, as well as those to write.

Yet if we look more closely we shall find
Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind;
Nature affords at least a glimm’ring light;
The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right.
But as the slightest sketch, if justly trac’d,
Is by ill colouring but the more disgrac’d,
So by false learning is good sense defac’d;
Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.
</pre>

==Popper, Karl==
*[https://www.stephenhicks.org/2021/09/30/popper-to-aron-letter-on-adorno-and-habermas/ Letter of Popper to Aron in 1970]:
"I can only say that when I read either Adorno or Habermas, I feel as if lunatics were speaking.
I have translated some of their German sentences into simple German. It turns out to be either trivial or tautological or sheer pretentious nonsense. I completely fail to see why Habermas is reputed to have “talent”. I do not think that he was born less intelligent than other people; but he certainly did not have the good sense to resist the influence of a pretentious, lying, and intelligence destroying University education.
Sociology is in a bad way — even here in England. There seems to be an interesting law: bad and pretentious language drives out good and simple language. And once human language is destroyed, we shall return to the beasts."

==Alex Priou==
*"Interpretation of a great work is first and foremost decompression of information and not compression.

:A summary of Plato or Aristotle that did faith to the nerve of their thought would require their near equal, and it would have to be an appropriate task for the times."

==Putin, Vladimir==
“The culture of cancellation is the cancellation of culture.” From [https://nationalfile.com/putin-skewers-cancel-culture-in-latest-moscow-speech/ an October 2022 speech. ]

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==Ramsey, Dave==
*"Tell the money where to go instead of wondering where it went."

==Ramseyer, J. Mark==
"Harvard is a vastly less tolerant place than it was when I arrived in 1998. The intolerance is a function of an increasingly large fraction of our colleagues. And we – the rest of us on the Harvard faculty – let it happen. The cancelling, the punishments, the DEI bureaucracy, the DEI statements, the endless list that we could all recite – all this happened on our watch. We saw it happen, but we did nothing. We were too busy. We were scared to speak up. We – we on the faculty – let Harvard become what it is. The Harvard that we have is the result of our own collective moral failure.

'''The alumni who are furious are not trying to turn Harvard into something we do not want. They are trying to rescue Harvard from what we let it become.'''
We as a faculty failed. That is why the alumni are speaking up. That is why we formed the Council on Academic Freedom in the first place."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].
*"When someone gives you lemons, make lemonade." Synonym for "Every cloud has a silver lining."

*"A model should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." I think I used in my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/ ''Games and Information''], and attributed it to Alfred Einstein. The original saying is “Everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler,” and while it is attributed to Einstein, it’s [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ highly questionable] whether he ever said it.

*"Wiggle words weaken writing." Don't use "maybe" or "perhaps" or "to some extent" or "quite" or "often" or "sometimes" if you don't have to.

*"The humanities are just as hard at math; the difference is, in the humanities you're so lost you don't even know you got the answer wrong. "
*"The only things worse than a dumb bureaucrat handling your problem is a smart computer."

*"The hand that does the daycare ruins the world."

*"For scholars, destroying data is like cutting down giant sequoia trees; it goes against all our instincts. For administrators, destroying data is like cleaning your house before a party so nobody can see what a slob you are; it accords with all their instincts. "

*"Without perspicaciousness, what good is perspicuity?"

*"Delight expressed is delight enhanced. That's why I do not restrain my chuckles of pleasure when I hear a speaker say something witty or surprising. (Also, because I know from experience that audience feedback helps.)"

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks" or "He was so mean he didn't need bug spray to repel ticks."

*"Loving someone is less often to encourage them to do what they desire to do than to desire what they ought to do."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"One of the blessings of having a father is that you can call him when you have a minor car crash. One of the blessings of being a father is that someone thinks you're worth calling, and they're right."

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==Ratzinger (Pope Benedict)==
*“A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music, and nature can be dangerous since blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental: they necessarily are reflected in his theology.” ~Ratzinger (April 16,
1927-December 31, 2022).

==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

::[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

::Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

::English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Will Rogers==
*It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rorty, Richard==
*"The contemporary cultural Left urges that America should not be a melting pot, because we need to respect one another in our differences. This Left wants to preserve otherness rather than ignore it." (From Achieving Our... (1997))

==Routledge, Clay==
*We are living in an era of woke capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Russell, Bertrand==
* “Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat. What he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.”
--[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/08/a-life-of-disagreement/641018/ A Life of Disagreement] television programs , half-hour conversation by BERTRAND RUSSELL with Romney Wheeler, filmed in London by the National Broadcasting Company and shown over the NBC network and BBC-TV on the occasion of Earl Russell’s eightieth birthday (1952).

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

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==Sabien, Duncan==
*"If you've spent your entire life being told you were wrong and being proven right (b/c you were smarter than the people around you), then when you run into another genius who tells you that you're wrong, you have a LOT of memetic antibodies that will make it easier-than-it-should-be to write them off or dismiss them."

==Sailer, Steve==
*"Steve Sailer ... losing the war of public opinion since 1990.

But the crazier the conventional wisdom gets, the more hilarious material I have to write about.

So at least there's that.

Too bad about society, though." ([https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1644853299387199489 Twitter, 2023])

*"When it comes to human behavior, there mostly aren’t systematic differences between what your lying eyes tell you and what The Science says. There’s a continuum between anecdote, anecdata, and data....

:If there’s a strong statistical pattern in the numbers, you should be able to come up with vivid real-life examples of it. And if you can think of several examples suggesting a pattern, you might well be able to find large-scale data for it.

:My main one weird trick for coming up with enough insights to make a living as an unfashionable pundit for 22 years has been to assume that private life facts and public life facts are one and the same. Most pundits assume public controversies, such as BLM, are of a higher realm than daily life, so that what they notice about “safe neighborhoods” and “good schools” when they are making real estate decisions for themselves couldn’t possibly have any relevance to the great issues of the day they discuss in the media." ([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I am told that we shouldn’t mention the truth because either:

:—The facts have no possible policy implications, or

:—The facts have overwhelmingly horrible policy implications, such as the logical necessity of reimposing slavery or instituting genocide.

:The former strikes me as obtuse and the latter as insane and/or evil.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*There’s no need for everybody to continue to pretend ever since the 1978 Bakke decision that exalted “diversity” as the excuse for violating the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection of the laws that affirmative action makes colleges more intellectually stimulating when obviously the opposite has proven true. Quotas have helped make colleges minefields of cancel culture by bringing onto campus insecure and resentful masses of racially preferred students out to punish anyone who alludes to the race gaps that are American society’s central fact. Instead, underqualified preference beneficiaries should be told to be thankful for their privilege.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I quoted this letter at length because it seems like such a vivid example of the mindset of the current day: reality is determined by words, that honest words threaten the marginalized with violence, and asking the marginalized to improve their behavior is unthinkable." ([https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyc-health-czar-takes-strong-action-against-monkeypox-demands-who-change-the-name-of-monkeypox-to-an-incomprehensible-string-of-characters/Column on renaming monkeypox], 2022)

*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*"How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

:The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

:Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general." [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*"The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world."

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Salisbury, Lord==
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury

*"Within certain limits of intelligence, honesty and knowledge of the law, one man would make as good a judge as another and a Tory mentality is ipso facto more trustworthy than a Liberal one."

*First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.
'Democracy on its Trial', Quarterly Review, vol. 110 (July & October 1861), p. 281

*The conflict between Socialism and existing civilisation must be a death-struggle. If the combat is once commenced, one or other of the combatants must perish. It is idle to plead that the schemes of these men are their religion. There are religions so hostile to morality, so poisonous to the life-springs of society, that they are outside the pale of human tolerance.
'The Commune and the Internationale', Quarterly Review, vol. 131 (July & October 1871), p. 562

*It was a part of a budget which even three months had proved to be a mass of miscalculation; it was the pet scheme of a cosmopolitan school who love England little, and whom England loves less, whose sympathies are half-American and half-French; and it was the first application of a theory of combined taxation and reform, according to which the poor were exclusively to fix the revenue which the rich were exclusively to pay.
‘The Conservative Reaction’, Quarterly Review, vol. 108 (July & October 1860), p. 276

*"Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed...The classes that represent civilisation, the holders of accumulated capital and accumulated thought have a right to require securities to protect them from being overwhelmed by hordes who have neither knowledge to guide them nor stake in the Commonwealth to control them."
'English Politics and Parties', Bentley's Quarterly Review, vol. I (March & July 1859), pp. 28-29

* In men of genius, as a rule, the imagination or the
passions are too strongly developed to suffer them
to reach the highest standard of practical states-
, manship. They follow some poetical ideal, they
are under the spell of some fascinating chapter of
past history, they are the slaves of some talismanic
phrase which their generation has taken up, or
they have made to themselves a system to which
all men and all circumstances must be bent. Something there almost always is that beguiles
them away from the plain, prosaic, business-like
view ofthe concerns of this prosaic world. Consequently the mass of mankind, who have a dull but
surefooted instinct of their own interest, feel an
uncomfortable misgiving when they see a genius at
the head oftheir affairs. They are aware that firstrate brilliancy cannot be had without something of
distortion ; but it is no consolation to them that the
illusions which are luring him on to ruin lend in
the mean time an exquisite charm to the eloquence
by which he induces them to accompany him on
the road. On the other hand, the clever world is
very intolerant of plain, practical statesmen. It
maintains, sometimes with very good reason, that
where the imagination is stunted, it is merely
because the whole mind is stunted too ; and that
the claim to practical common sense is often only
a euphemism for a narrow intelligence straitened
by an abject regard for precedents and for routine.
As a rule, both sides are right in the suspicions
they entertain. It is rare to meet with a fervid
imagination which is drilled to reserve its flights
for efforts of oratory, and to give place entirely to
more sober faculties in council. It is still rarer to
see an absolutely unimaginative mind possessed of
the energy and of the breadth of view indispensable
in the statesman of a troubled period. Both kinds
of excellence produce great and successful rulers,
where they occur ; and both are apt to meet, in
those around them, with incredulity that such combinations of opposite qualities can exist.

'Lord Castlereagh', Quarterly Review, vol. 111 (January & April 1862), p. 204 https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QafmXADIh0jnPZqj11iTfMIuIdFT-DZWwP1q0zQiA4yBrYcBXaRXhl4wAaaOcH-1ovmPhezfBeCx0TdkJoRN9AA_GFoAY4s2keT-CwZl1Ac4Hi372YcAOvsu39xIf9x-9EnByraZe58fXqGcaJXEPxzQgDRgCT4Tmx6dycMZDk2BYr8nEVHvroFVV0BBgbmci9-5NQXLe-_TADxWoaHFbQLTkZ_S6X7gooGS2WS2hjnVU9k8TJvQcgrZPgRvcxDa635thiwS18ib2JkrJsBzJpxawXgcLHhLf7Y6EZsBbphBqpbBMgw

==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Scalia, son==
[https://twitter.com/StuffForSisters/status/1581430850159542272 At Scalia's Funeral:]
"We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us—known only by reputation to even more. A man loved by many—scorned by others. A man known for great controversy & for great compassion. That man, of course, is Jesus of Nazareth."

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shakespeare, William==
*"Ten masts deep make not the altitude from which though has perpendicularly fell." King Lear, Edgar to Gloucester.

===Insults===
From Cultural Tutor on Twitter:
1) "Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon."
~Timon of Athens

2) "You, minion, are too saucy."
~The Two Gentleman of Verona

3) "Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat."
~Henry V

4) "The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril."
~The Merry Wives of Windsor

5) "Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows."
~Troilus and Cressida

10) "I’ll beat thee, but I would infect my hands."
~Timon of Athens

11) "More of your conversation would infect my brain."
~Coriolanus

12) "There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune."
~Henry IV, Part 1

14) "Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

18) "This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

23) "Some report a sea-maid spawn’d him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice."
~Measure for Measure

25) "Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood."
~King Lear

31) "Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant."
~The Taming of the Shrew

46) "A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition."
~King Lear

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
"Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king."
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==SMITH, ADAM==
*"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” (no source)

==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
*“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
*"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

*"The best obituary a man can have is that the people who knew him loved him, even if those who didn't know him hated him," ''Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays''

*“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice'.” The Quest for Cosmic Justice

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
*“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” In english: "To understand all is to forgive all." 
[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

*“Madame,” the general informed the lady in question, “I do not want women mixed up in politics.” “You are perfectly right,” came the reply, “but in a country where their heads are cut off, it is only natural for them to want to know why.” (Exchange between Napoleon Bonaparte and Madame de Staël, J. Christopher Herold’s ''The Mind of Napoleon''.)

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==st exuery==
Drawing on French aristocrat Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, philosopher Byung Chul Han noted that, while houses are homes in space, rituals are homes in time. Rituals are an assertion of continuity — you act as your ancestors acted before you. They shift the family from the moment into ‘eternal time’. https://www.theculturist.io/p/why-did-wealth-stop-building-beautiful?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2242126&post_id=179128916&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=fjeib&triedRedirect=true

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

==Sutton, Willy==
When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is."

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==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==TACITUS==
*Omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset." 
“All would have agreed that he was capable of being emperor, if only he had never been it.” 
So wrote Tacitus of Galba.

==Taft, William==
*"The opportunity freely and publicly to criticize judicial action is of vastly more iportance to the body politic than the immunity of courts and judges from unjust aspersions and attack. Nothing tends more to render judges careful in their decisions and anxiously solicitous to do exact justice than the consciousness that every act of theirs is to be subjected to the intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their fellow-men. Such criticism is beneficial in proportion as it is fair, dispassionate, discriminating, and based on a knowledge of sound legal principles. The comments made by learned text writers and by the acute editors of the various law reviews upon judicial decisions are therefore highly useful. Such critics constitute more or less impartial tribunals of professional opinion before which each judgment is made to stand or fall on its merits, and thus exert a strong influence to secure uniformity of decision. But non-professional criticism also is by no means without its uses, even if accompanied, as it often is, by a direct attack upon the judicial fairness and motives of the occupants of the bench; for if the law is but the essence of common sense, the protest of many average men may evidence a defect in a judicial conclusion, though based on the nicest legal reasoning and profoundest learning. The two important elements of moral character in a judge are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it. In so far as fear of public comment does not affect the courage of a judge, but only spurs him on to search his conscience and to reach the result which approves itself to his inmost heart such comment serves a useful purpose. There are few men, whether they are judges for life or for a shorter term, who do not prefer to earn and hold the respect of all, and who can not be reached and made to pause and deliberate by hostile public criticism. In the case of judges having a life tenure, indeed their very independence makes the right freely to comment on their decisions of greater importance, because it is the only practical and available instrument in the hands of a free people to keep such judges alive to the reasonable demands of those they serve." (1895) As [http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/state-of-the-union-1906.php cited by Pres. Roosevelt] in 1906.

==Tate, Jeremy==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted at 9:15 AM on Sun, Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

==Taylor, Charles==
*As reported [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/04/westafrica.qanda by The Guardian]: "He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him." Running successfully for President of Liberia.

==Teller, Edward==
*"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
*Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

* His election rerunning announcement speech:
Michael Tracey@mtracey·14hSorry to break it to you, but Trump was spot-on with this one: “They say the ocean will rise 1/8 of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years, but don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries with one shot. Something is wrong with their thinking.”

:This is an example of how he exaggerates in the hope that someone will correct him and make his point for him (1/8 inch corrected to 2 inches, still tiny).

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*"Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain, message to Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 1901.

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

*"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 

Often quoted in W. H. Auden's translation,‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’, but the French is so easy, an Anglophone might as well use the original phrase. See also "Le code n'est jamais fini, seulement termine." 

Valery didn't actually say this, though it is what is commonly quoted in France. Pierre Vinclair tells us about that in [https://poezibao.typepad.com/files/ashbery-9.pdf «Portrait d’une énigme dans un miroir convexe», "9. et fin. Clack"], [https://www.poesibao.fr/ ''Poezibao'']
[https://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2020/11/feuilleton-critique-portrait-dune-%C3%A9nigme-dans-un-miroir-convexe-9-et-fin-clack-par-pierre-vinclair.html archive] (2020):

"Et l’on connaît la célèbre formule de Valéry : « un poème n’est jamais fini, seulement abandonné ». Dicton apocryphe, qui trouve sans doute son origine dans cette page de «Littérature»:

::Une œuvre dont l’achèvement — le jugement qui la déclare achevée, est uniquement subordonné à la condition qu’elle nous plaise — n’est jamais achevée. […]
:: Un poème n’est jamais achevé — c’est toujours un accident qui le termine, c’est-àdire qui le donne au public.
::Ce sont la lassitude, la demande de l’éditeur, — la poussée d’un autre poème.
::Mais jamais l’état même de l’ouvrage (si l’auteur n’est pas un sot) ne montre qu’il ne pourrait être poussé, changé, considéré comme première approximation, ou origine d’une recherche nouvelle.
::Je conçois, quant à moi, que le même sujet et presque les mêmes mots pourraient être repris indéfiniment et occuper toute une vie.
::« Perfection »
::c’est travail. 

Notre premier bumper soit donc Paul Valéry, selon qui l’œuvre ne s’achève jamais
(car la perfection qu’elle cherche est asymptotique) : seul un accident extérieur peut
l’interrompre. Or, des trois causes qu’il nomme — lassitude, demande de l’éditeur,
poussée d’un autre poème — aucune ne ressemble au tarissement dont parle
Ashbery. C’est sans doute que, pour celui-ci, le poème n’est pas l’objet d’un travail
infini visant la perfection, la confection maniaque d’une œuvre aussi proche que
possible de l’idéal."

Paul Valéry, «Littérature» in Tel Quel, Gallimard, 1941, p. 154. "

==Vaughan, Sarah==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html Easy Street]

==Von Neumann, John==
*“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You get used to them.”

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==Wang, John==
@johnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Watson, Thomas==
* After talking about the Prodigal Son: “Before a man can come to Christ he must first come to himself. . . . A man must first recognize and consider what his sin is, and know the plague of his heart, before he can be duly humbled for it.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

*“Affliction is but corrective; sin is destructive” ''The Doctrine of Repentance.'' (1668).

*“Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

==Watt, Peter==
*"Judy Holliday said. "Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''. In Hunter Biden's case it seems that nothing he does will ever be printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

==Wilde, Oscar==
*"Algernon: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” 
:Jack: “Is that clever?” 
:Algernon: “It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be.” " 
::(from ''The Importance of Being Earnest'')

===[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phrases_and_Philosophies_for_the_Use_of_the_Young "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young"], ''Chameleon'' magazine, (1894)===

*Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.

*A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

*If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

*It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

*Only the shallow know themselves.

*One should always be a little improbable.

*The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

*One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

*The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

==Will, George==
"The ancients had asked, What is the highest attainment of which mankind is capable and how can we pursue this? Hobbes and subsequent moderns asked, What is the worst that can happen and how can we avoid it?" (TCS, p 19)

==Williams, Robin==
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”

==Wolfe, Humbert==
[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-british-journalist-by-humbert-wolfe-f9r6pb9hb07 The London Times]:

. 
You cannot ever bribe or twist 
The freeborn British journalist 
Seeing what, unbribed, he’ll do 
You realize there’s no reason to

==Warhol, Andrew==
*“The President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”

— Andy Warhol, 1975,

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==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

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==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zeto, Salena==
*<> [https://www.thefp.com/p/my-decade-with-donald-trump-salena-zito?utm_campaign=email-post&r=fjeib&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "My Decade with Donald Trump,"] Salena Zito, ''The Free Press'' (2025), linking to her article, [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-makes-his-case-in-pittsburgh/501335/ "Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally",] ''The Atlantic'' (2016).

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

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