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SpeechFirst University Database cases

2023-07-25T03:29:35Z

Manson Lilian: /* The Appellate Court */

==Introduction==

==The 4th Circuit Virginia Tech Case==
===The District Court===
*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/VA-Tech-District-Opinion.pdf The District Court opinion] by Judge Urbanski

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/VTComplaintApril7.pdf The Complaint] by SpeechFirst.

===The Appellate Court===
*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CA4-Speech-First-v.-Sands.pdf The 4th Circuit Court Opinion], with dissent by Judge Wilkinson.

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/13_Opening-Br.pdf The SpeechFirst Main Brief] and [https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/33_Reply-Brief.pdf Reply Brief]

*[https://rasmusen.org/special/Virginia_tech_response-brief.pdf Virginia Tech's response brief]

*[https://rasmusen.org/special/21-2061Docket.mhtml The appellate docket]

====Amici, Pro-SpeechFirst====
*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/23_ADF-Brief.pdf The Alliance Defending Freedom]

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/22_FIRE-Brief.pdf FIRE]

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/19_SELF_Brief.pdf The Southeastern Legal Foundation]

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/21_LJC-Brief.pdf Cato and ACTA], counsel Ilya Solmin.

There were no amici for Virginia Tech.

==Other Circuits==
*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=8612008443084507203&q=e+Speech+First,+Inc.+v.+Fenves,++979+F.3d+319+(5th+Cir.+2020)&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Fenves], 979 F.3d 319 (5th Cir. 2020), as revised. University of Texas. Texas loses.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=7243654800301460019&q=Speech+First++v.+Schlissel&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Schlissel, ] 939 F.3d 756 (6th Cir. 2019). University of Michigan. Michigan loses.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=10230691587447196906&q=Speech+First++v.+Killeen&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Killeen, 968 F.3d 628], (7th Circuit). University of Illinois. Illinois wins.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=3995909965112615021&q=Speech+First++v.+Cartwright,&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Cartwright,] 32 F.4th 1110 (11th Cir. 2022). University of Central Florida. Central Florida loses.

SpeechFirst University Database cases

2023-07-25T03:28:50Z

Manson Lilian: /* The 4th Circuit Virginia Tech Case */

==Introduction==

==The 4th Circuit Virginia Tech Case==
===The District Court===
*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/VA-Tech-District-Opinion.pdf The District Court opinion] by Judge Urbanski

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/VTComplaintApril7.pdf The Complaint] by SpeechFirst.

===The Appellate Court===
*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CA4-Speech-First-v.-Sands.pdf The 4th Circuit Court Opinion], with dissent by Judge Wilkinson.

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/13_Opening-Br..pdf The SpeechFirst Main Brief] and [https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/33_Reply-Brief.pdf Reply Brief]

*[https://rasmusen.org/special/Virginia_tech_response-brief Virginia Tech's response brief]

*[https://rasmusen.org/special/21-2061Docket.mhtml The appellate docket]

====Amici, Pro-SpeechFirst====
*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/23_ADF-Brief.pdf The Alliance Defending Freedom]

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/22_FIRE-Brief.pdf FIRE]

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/19_SELF_Brief.pdf The Southeastern Legal Foundation]

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/21_LJC-Brief.pdf Cato and ACTA], counsel Ilya Solmin.

There were no amici for Virginia Tech.

==Other Circuits==
*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=8612008443084507203&q=e+Speech+First,+Inc.+v.+Fenves,++979+F.3d+319+(5th+Cir.+2020)&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Fenves], 979 F.3d 319 (5th Cir. 2020), as revised. University of Texas. Texas loses.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=7243654800301460019&q=Speech+First++v.+Schlissel&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Schlissel, ] 939 F.3d 756 (6th Cir. 2019). University of Michigan. Michigan loses.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=10230691587447196906&q=Speech+First++v.+Killeen&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Killeen, 968 F.3d 628], (7th Circuit). University of Illinois. Illinois wins.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=3995909965112615021&q=Speech+First++v.+Cartwright,&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Cartwright,] 32 F.4th 1110 (11th Cir. 2022). University of Central Florida. Central Florida loses.

SpeechFirst University Database cases

2023-07-25T03:10:45Z

Manson Lilian: /* The 4th Circuit Virginia Tech Case */

==Introduction==

==The 4th Circuit Virginia Tech Case==
===The District Court===
*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/VA-Tech-District-Opinion.pdf The District Court opinion] by Judge Urbanski

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/VTComplaintApril7.pdf The Complaint] by SpeechFirst.

===The Appellate Court===
*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CA4-Speech-First-v.-Sands.pdf The 4th Circuit Court Opinion], with dissent by Judge Wilkinson.

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/13_Opening-Br..pdf The SpeechFirst Main Brief] and [https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/33_Reply-Brief.pdf Reply Brief]

*[ Virginia Tech's response brief]

====Amici, Pro-SpeechFirst====
*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/23_ADF-Brief.pdf The Alliance Defending Freedom]

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/22_FIRE-Brief.pdf FIRE]

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/19_SELF_Brief.pdf The Southeastern Legal Foundation]

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/21_LJC-Brief.pdf Cato and ACTA], counsel Ilya Solmin.

====Amici, Pro-Virginia Tech====

==Other Circuits==
*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=8612008443084507203&q=e+Speech+First,+Inc.+v.+Fenves,++979+F.3d+319+(5th+Cir.+2020)&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Fenves], 979 F.3d 319 (5th Cir. 2020), as revised. University of Texas. Texas loses.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=7243654800301460019&q=Speech+First++v.+Schlissel&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Schlissel, ] 939 F.3d 756 (6th Cir. 2019). University of Michigan. Michigan loses.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=10230691587447196906&q=Speech+First++v.+Killeen&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Killeen, 968 F.3d 628], (7th Circuit). University of Illinois. Illinois wins.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=3995909965112615021&q=Speech+First++v.+Cartwright,&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Cartwright,] 32 F.4th 1110 (11th Cir. 2022). University of Central Florida. Central Florida loses.

SpeechFirst University Database cases

2023-07-25T01:35:58Z

Manson Lilian: /* The 4th Circuit Virginia Tech Case */

==Introduction==

==The 4th Circuit Virginia Tech Case==
===The District Court===
*[ The District Court opinion] by Judge Urbanski

*[ The Complaint] by SpeechFirst.

===The Appellate Court===
*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CA4-Speech-First-v.-Sands.pdf The 4th Circuit Court Opinion], with dissent by Judge Wilkinson.

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/13_Opening-Br..pdf The SpeechFirst Main Brief] and [https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/33_Reply-Brief.pdf Reply Brief]

*[ Virginia Tech's response brief]

====Amici, Pro-SpeechFirst====
*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/23_ADF-Brief.pdf The Alliance Defending Freedom]

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/22_FIRE-Brief.pdf FIRE]

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/19_SELF_Brief.pdf The Southeastern Legal Foundation]

*[https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/21_LJC-Brief.pdf Cato and ACTA], counsel Ilya Solmin.

====Amici, Pro-Virginia Tech====

==Other Circuits==
*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=8612008443084507203&q=e+Speech+First,+Inc.+v.+Fenves,++979+F.3d+319+(5th+Cir.+2020)&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Fenves], 979 F.3d 319 (5th Cir. 2020), as revised. University of Texas. Texas loses.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=7243654800301460019&q=Speech+First++v.+Schlissel&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Schlissel, ] 939 F.3d 756 (6th Cir. 2019). University of Michigan. Michigan loses.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=10230691587447196906&q=Speech+First++v.+Killeen&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Killeen, 968 F.3d 628], (7th Circuit). University of Illinois. Illinois wins.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=3995909965112615021&q=Speech+First++v.+Cartwright,&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Cartwright,] 32 F.4th 1110 (11th Cir. 2022). University of Central Florida. Central Florida loses.

SpeechFirst University Database cases

2023-07-25T01:32:22Z

Manson Lilian: /* Other Circuits */

==Introduction==

==The 4th Circuit Virginia Tech Case==
===The District Court===
*[ The District Court opinion] by Judge Urbanski

*[ The Complaint] by SpeechFirst.

===The Appellate Court===
*[ The 4th Circuit Court Opinion], with dissent by Judge Wilkinson.

*[ The SpeechFirst Main Brief] and [ Reply Brief]

*[ Virginia Tech's response brief]

====Amici, Pro-SpeechFirst====
*[ The Alliance Defending Freedom]

*[ FIRE]

*[ The Southeastern Legal Foundation]

*[ Cato,] counsel Ilya Solmin.

====Amici, Pro-Virginia Tech====

==Other Circuits==
*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=8612008443084507203&q=e+Speech+First,+Inc.+v.+Fenves,++979+F.3d+319+(5th+Cir.+2020)&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Fenves], 979 F.3d 319 (5th Cir. 2020), as revised. University of Texas. Texas loses.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=7243654800301460019&q=Speech+First++v.+Schlissel&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Schlissel, ] 939 F.3d 756 (6th Cir. 2019). University of Michigan. Michigan loses.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=10230691587447196906&q=Speech+First++v.+Killeen&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Killeen, 968 F.3d 628], (7th Circuit). University of Illinois. Illinois wins.

*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=3995909965112615021&q=Speech+First++v.+Cartwright,&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Cartwright,] 32 F.4th 1110 (11th Cir. 2022). University of Central Florida. Central Florida loses.

SpeechFirst University Database cases

2023-07-25T01:28:39Z

Manson Lilian: /* Other Circuits */

==Introduction==

==The 4th Circuit Virginia Tech Case==
===The District Court===
*[ The District Court opinion] by Judge Urbanski

*[ The Complaint] by SpeechFirst.

===The Appellate Court===
*[ The 4th Circuit Court Opinion], with dissent by Judge Wilkinson.

*[ The SpeechFirst Main Brief] and [ Reply Brief]

*[ Virginia Tech's response brief]

====Amici, Pro-SpeechFirst====
*[ The Alliance Defending Freedom]

*[ FIRE]

*[ The Southeastern Legal Foundation]

*[ Cato,] counsel Ilya Solmin.

====Amici, Pro-Virginia Tech====

==Other Circuits==
*[https://scholar-google-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/scholar_case?case=8612008443084507203&q=e+Speech+First,+Inc.+v.+Fenves,++979+F.3d+319+(5th+Cir.+2020)&hl=en&as_sdt=800006 Speech First v. Fenves], 979 F.3d 319 (5th Cir. 2020), as revised. University of Texas.

*[ Speech First v. Schlissel, ] 939 F.3d 756 (6th Cir. 2019).

*[ Killeen, 968 F.3d at 628], (7th Circuit).

*[Speech First. v. Cartwright,] 32 F.4th 1110 (11th Cir. 2022).

SpeechFirst University Database cases

2023-07-25T01:22:57Z

Manson Lilian: /* The 4th Circuit Virginia Tech Case */

==Introduction==

==The 4th Circuit Virginia Tech Case==
===The District Court===
*[ The District Court opinion] by Judge Urbanski

*[ The Complaint] by SpeechFirst.

===The Appellate Court===
*[ The 4th Circuit Court Opinion], with dissent by Judge Wilkinson.

*[ The SpeechFirst Main Brief] and [ Reply Brief]

*[ Virginia Tech's response brief]

====Amici, Pro-SpeechFirst====
*[ The Alliance Defending Freedom]

*[ FIRE]

*[ The Southeastern Legal Foundation]

*[ Cato,] counsel Ilya Solmin.

====Amici, Pro-Virginia Tech====

==Other Circuits==

SpeechFirst University Database cases

2023-07-25T01:19:06Z

Manson Lilian: /* The Appellate Court */

==Introduction==

==The 4th Circuit Virginia Tech Case==
===The District Court===

===The Appellate Court===

::====Amici, Pro-SpeechFirst====

::====Amici, Pro-Virginia Tech====

==Other Circuits==

SpeechFirst University Database cases

2023-07-25T01:18:42Z

Manson Lilian: /* =The District Court */

==Introduction==

==The 4th Circuit Virginia Tech Case==
===The District Court===

===The Appellate Court===

====Amici, Pro-SpeechFirst====

====Amici, Pro-Virginia Tech====

==Other Circuits==

SpeechFirst University Database cases

2023-07-25T01:18:24Z

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2023-07-25T01:16:15Z

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*[[Ecclesiology]] and [[Ethics]] and [[Evangelism]]
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*[[Faith versus Works]] and [[Forgiveness versus Justice]] and [[Fundamentalism]]
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*[[Good Churches in Various Towns across America]] and [[The Good Shepherd]]
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*[[Head Coverings]] and [[Holidays]] and [[Hymns]]
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*[[Immortality]] and [[Inerrancy]]
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*[[Judaism]]
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*[[The Law As an Expression of God's Character]] and [[Legalism]] and [[Leviticus]]
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*[[Making your own Christmas cards folding 8x11 paper]]
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*[[The Name of God]] and [[The National Anthem as Idolatry]]
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*[[Pastors]] and [[Peter's Denial]] and [[Polls: Religion]] and [[Political Economy in the Bible]] and [[Pontius Pilate As Politician]] and [[Prayer]]
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*[[Religion in America]] and [[The Rites Controversy in China]] and [[Roman Catholicism]]
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*[[Theology]] and [[The twelve days of Christmas]]
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==Research==
*[[Bad Supreme Court Writing As Exemplified in ''Ford v. Montana'' (2021)]]
*[[Bankruptcy--Casey and Macey on Hertz and Absolute Priority]]
*[[Bankruptcy--Skeel on Christian Bankruptcy]]
*[[Equity-- Why Not Have Enough?]] and [[Euclid]] and [[Evaluation in Organizations]]
*[[Graveyard Bonds]]
*[[Heteroskedasticity]] and [[Hundred Flowers Bloom Model]]
*[[The Indiana Litigation Trust]] (formerly named [[The Indiana Legal Trust]])
*[[Nondisclosure Clauses]]
*[[An Old Man's Stories]] and [[Ostracism in Japan]] and [[Outliers]]
*[[Regulation Book]]
*[[Research Fraud]]
*[[Riker Book]]
*[[Shrinkage]]
*[[Specific versus General Jurisdiction for Corporations]]

*[[Talks: Polarization and Splitting a Pie (January 19, 2021)]]
*[[Notes for My Book-in-Progress on Writing, Talking, Listening and Thinking]]
*[[1933 Germany]]


==Science==
*[[Animals]]
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*[[Cicadas]] and [[Covid-19]]
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*[[Depression]] and [[DNA History]]
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*[[The FDA]]
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*[[Geology]] and [[Global Warming]]
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*[[IQ]]
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*[[Math]] and [[Medicine]] and [[Mushrooms]]
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*[[Nuclear Power]]
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*[[Plants]] and [[Pollution]]
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*[[Scholarly Misconduct]] and [[Short Circuits]]
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*[[Trees]]
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*[[Zeno's Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise]]
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==Thinking==
*[[Notes on Thinking]]
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*[[ Authority]]
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*[[Bayes's Rule]] and [[Bias]] and [[Bias in Research]] and [[Boasting]] and [[Books for My Children To Read]] and [[Books I Find Myself Reading Over and Over]]
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*[[Chess]] and [[Comments]] on the Internet, and [[C. P. Snow, Good Judgement and Winston Churchill]] and [[Critical Thinking]]
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*[[Definitions]]
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*[[Ethics]] and [[The Exception That Proves the Rule]] and [[Experts]]
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*[[Feeling versus Thinking]] and [[Francis Bacon's Four Idols]] and [[Freedom of Speech]]
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*[[Innovation]] and [[Intelligence]]
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*[[Man and Woman]] and [[Models and Heuristics]]
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[[Nietzsche]]
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*[[Personality]] and [[Persuasion]] and [[Psychology]]
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*[[Randomness]] and [[Reading]] and [[Remembering to Think]]
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*[[Self-Esteem]] and [[Selfishness]]
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*[[Three Kinds of Concluding: Logic, Intuition, Authority]]
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*[[K-12 Writing]]
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*[[Listening]]
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*[[Math Writing]] and [[Mockery and Name-Calling]]
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*[[Names]] and [[Novels I Like]]
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*[[Orthography]]
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*[[Quotation style]]
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*[[Songs]] and [[Stories]]
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*[[Talking]] and [[Teaching Writing]] and [[Twitter]]
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*[[Using foreign names of people and countries]]
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*[[Valedictions]]
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*[[Wikipedia]] and [[Writing]] and [[Writing Style in the Internet Age]]

==Miscellaneous==
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*[[Deaths, Mysterious]] and [[Despised Ethnic Groups]]
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*[[Farming]]
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*[[History]] and [[Homosexuality]]
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*[[Knots]] and [[Korean Dialects]] and [[Korean Customs]]
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*[[Machiavelli, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Their Friends]] and [[Maps]]
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*[[Photos]] and [[Places]] and [[Profit Opportunities]]

*[[Sex]]

*[[Uni High]]

*[[To Do]]



==Administrative and Wikimedia Help==
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==Politics==
*[[Notes on Politics]]
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*[[Abortion]]
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*[[Biden Administration]] and [[Bureaucracy]]
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*[[Cancellings]] and [[The CIA]] and [[The Common Carrier Theory of Facebook]] and [[Communists]] and [[Conservatives]] and [[Corporate Wokeness]] and [[Corruption]] and [[Countries]] and [[Covid-19]]
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==Religion==
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*[[The Bible]] and [[Bible Translations]] and [[Useful Bible Verses]] and [[Bloomington Churches]] and [[Books]]
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*[[Deificatio]] and [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] and [[Donations]]
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*[[Ecclesiology]] and [[Ethics]] and [[Evangelism]]
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*[[Faith versus Works]] and [[Forgiveness versus Justice]] and [[Fundamentalism]]
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*[[Good Churches in Various Towns across America]] and [[The Good Shepherd]]
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*[[Head Coverings]] and [[Holidays]] and [[Hymns]]
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*[[Immortality]] and [[Inerrancy]]
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*[[Judaism]]
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*[[The Law As an Expression of God's Character]] and [[Legalism]] and [[Leviticus]]
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*[[Making your own Christmas cards folding 8x11 paper]]
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*[[The Name of God]] and [[The National Anthem as Idolatry]]
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*[[Pastors]] and [[Peter's Denial]] and [[Polls: Religion]] and [[Political Economy in the Bible]] and [[Pontius Pilate As Politician]] and [[Prayer]]
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*[[Religion in America]] and [[The Rites Controversy in China]] and [[Roman Catholicism]]
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*[[Theology]] and [[The twelve days of Christmas]]
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==Research==
*[[Bad Supreme Court Writing As Exemplified in ''Ford v. Montana'' (2021)]]
*[[Bankruptcy--Casey and Macey on Hertz and Absolute Priority]]
*[[Bankruptcy--Skeel on Christian Bankruptcy]]
*[[Equity-- Why Not Have Enough?]] and [[Euclid]] and [[Evaluation in Organizations]]
*[[Graveyard Bonds]]
*[[Heteroskedasticity]] and [[Hundred Flowers Bloom Model]]
*[[The Indiana Litigation Trust]] (formerly named [[The Indiana Legal Trust]])
*[[Nondisclosure Clauses]]
*[[An Old Man's Stories]] and [[Ostracism in Japan]] and [[Outliers]]
*[[Regulation Book]]
*[[Research Fraud]]
*[[Riker Book]]
*[[Shrinkage]]
*[[Specific versus General Jurisdiction for Corporations]]

*[[Talks: Polarization and Splitting a Pie (January 19, 2021)]]
*[[Notes for My Book-in-Progress on Writing, Talking, Listening and Thinking]]
*[[1933 Germany]]


==Science==
*[[Animals]]
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*[[Cicadas]] and [[Covid-19]]
----
*[[Depression]] and [[DNA History]]
----
*[[The FDA]]
----
*[[Geology]] and [[Global Warming]]
----
*[[IQ]]
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*[[Math]] and [[Medicine]] and [[Mushrooms]]
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*[[Nuclear Power]]
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*[[Plants]] and [[Pollution]]
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*[[Scholarly Misconduct]] and [[Short Circuits]]
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*[[Trees]]
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*[[Zeno's Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise]]
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==Thinking==
*[[Notes on Thinking]]
----
*[[ Authority]]
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*[[Bayes's Rule]] and [[Bias]] and [[Bias in Research]] and [[Boasting]] and [[Books for My Children To Read]] and [[Books I Find Myself Reading Over and Over]]
----
*[[Chess]] and [[Comments]] on the Internet, and [[C. P. Snow, Good Judgement and Winston Churchill]] and [[Critical Thinking]]
----
*[[Definitions]]
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*[[Ethics]] and [[The Exception That Proves the Rule]] and [[Experts]]
----
*[[Feeling versus Thinking]] and [[Francis Bacon's Four Idols]] and [[Freedom of Speech]]
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*[[Innovation]] and [[Intelligence]]
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*[[Man and Woman]] and [[Models and Heuristics]]
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[[Nietzsche]]
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*[[Personality]] and [[Persuasion]] and [[Psychology]]
----
*[[Randomness]] and [[Reading]] and [[Remembering to Think]]
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*[[Self-Esteem]] and [[Selfishness]]
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*[[Three Kinds of Concluding: Logic, Intuition, Authority]]
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*[[Wokefolk]]
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==Writing==
*[[Notes for My Book-in-Progress on Writing, Talking, Listening and Thinking]]. See also [[Coding]] and [[Tables of Numbers]] and [[Figures and Diagrams]] and [[Social media]] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/c-p-snow-good-judgement-and-winston-churchill/ C. P. Snow, Good Judgement and Winston Churchill ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/indefinite-pronouns/ Indefinite Pronouns ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/writing-right-right-away/ Writing Right Right Now. ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/style-manual/ Writing Style. ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/rewriting-abstracts/ Rewriting Abstracts ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/diagrams/ Diagrams. ] and [[Careful Writing Requires Work]].
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*[[Bad Language]] and [[Bad Supreme Court Writing As Exemplified in ''Ford v. Montana'' (2021)]] and [[Big Picture Overview Writing]] and [[Big Words]] and [[Book reviews: Curiosity, by F.H. Buckley]]
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*[[Candidates for Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2021]] and [[Citation]] and getting [[Comments]] and [[Conferences]] and [[Cover Pages]]
----
*[[Examples of Rewriting Abstracts]] and [[Examples of Seminar Handouts]]
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*[[Fallacies]] and [[Fiction Links]] and [[Footnotes]]
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*[[Grammar]]
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*[[Handouts]] and [[Handwriting]] and [[How to Run Online Talks]] and [[Hyperlinks and the List of Authorities in Legal Briefs]]
----
*[["Impact" As a Verb]]
----
*[[Journals]] and [[Journalism]]
----
*[[K-12 Writing]]
----
*[[Listening]]
----
*[[Math Writing]] and [[Mockery and Name-Calling]]
----
*[[Names]] and [[Novels I Like]]
----
*[[Orthography]]
----
*[[PhD students]] and [[Phrases]] and [[Poems]] and [[Procrastination]] and [[The Publishing Business]] and [[Punctuation]]
----
*[[Quotation style]]
----
*[[Reading]] as an activity and [[Books to Read]] and [[Rejection]] and [[Rhetorical Phrases]]
----
*[[Songs]] and [[Stories]]
----
*[[Talking]] and [[Teaching Writing]] and [[Twitter]]
----
*[[Using foreign names of people and countries]]
----
*[[Valedictions]]
----
*[[Wikipedia]] and [[Writing]] and [[Writing Style in the Internet Age]]

==Miscellaneous==
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*[[Deaths, Mysterious]] and [[Despised Ethnic Groups]]
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*[[Farming]]
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*[[History]] and [[Homosexuality]]
----
*[[Knots]] and [[Korean Dialects]] and [[Korean Customs]]
----
*[[Machiavelli, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Their Friends]] and [[Maps]]
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*[[Photos]] and [[Places]] and [[Profit Opportunities]]

*[[Sex]]

*[[Uni High]]

*[[To Do]]



==Administrative and Wikimedia Help==
*[[Twitter Tweets]]
*[[Using MediaWiki for organizing your personal website]] and [[Wikimedia commands]]
*[[Rasmapedia administration]]
*[[Notes on various things]]
*[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting Help:Formatting]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Editeur24/sandbox&redirect=no My Wikipedia useful command page].

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==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==
*"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])

*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.”

*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*"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".

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"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/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand 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. "

*"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 "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to 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."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their 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.}}

{{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."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==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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==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)

==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)

==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.” ― Isaac Asimov

==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}}

== ==
==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.”

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==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)}}

==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.}}

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

==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."]

==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 “Mending Wall.” }}

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

*"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."

*{{Quotation|
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.}}

*{{Quotation|
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.

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== 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.”

==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]}}

== ==

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

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

==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."

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==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."

==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)

== ==

==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.}}

==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.}}

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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.}}

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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."

==Glantz, David (reported by)==
“Germans needed to reduce their casualties “if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.”
― David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, p. 73.

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==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==
*"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 Paul Graham (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)
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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.}}

==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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== 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."

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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.]
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==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.' "

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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.”

==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).]

==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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==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.”

==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.==
* 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.”

==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."

==Russell Long (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/]

==Lovecraft, H.P.==
" The organic things --Italo-Semitico-Mongoloid-- inhabiting that awful cesspool could not by any stretch of the imagination be call’d human. They were monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and amoebal; vaguely moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out of windows and doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea unnamabilities. They—- or the degenerate gelatinous fermentations of which they were composed—seem’d to ooze, seep and trickle thro’ the gaping cracks in the horrible houses … and I thought of some avenue of Cyclopean and unwholesome vats, crammed to the vomiting point with gangrenous vileness, and about to burst and inundate the world in one leprous cataclysm of semi-fluid rottenness." (from [https://twitter.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1671175712265388035 a letter] and [https://areomagazine.com/2019/03/05/lovecrafts-otherworldly-xenophobia/ a magazine article about it.]

==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}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
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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==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.

==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?}}

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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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==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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==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.

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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).

==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.

==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/

==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."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"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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==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.''

==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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==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==
*"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."

==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.

==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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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{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
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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.” 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?

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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.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==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."
}}

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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.}}

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==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.

==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.}}

*[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."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
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
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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}}

==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

== ==
==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/

==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

2023-07-24T16:37:39Z

Manson Lilian: /* Wang, 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==
*"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])

*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.”

*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*"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".

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"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/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand 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. "

*"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 "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to 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."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their 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.}}

{{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."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==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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==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)

==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)

==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.” ― Isaac Asimov

==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}}

== ==
==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.”

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==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)}}

==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.}}

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

==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."]

==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 “Mending Wall.” }}

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

*"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."

*{{Quotation|
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.}}

*{{Quotation|
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.

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== 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.”

==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]}}

== ==

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

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

==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."

==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)

== ==

==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.}}

==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.}}

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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.}}

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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."

==Glantz, David (reported by)==
“Germans needed to reduce their casualties “if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.”
― David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, p. 73.

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==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==
*"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 Paul Graham (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)
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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.}}

==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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== 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."

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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.]
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==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.' "

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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.”

==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).]

==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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==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.”

==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.==
* 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.”

==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."

==Russell Long (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/]

==Lovecraft, H.P.==
" The organic things --Italo-Semitico-Mongoloid-- inhabiting that awful cesspool could not by any stretch of the imagination be call’d human. They were monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and amoebal; vaguely moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out of windows and doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea unnamabilities. They—- or the degenerate gelatinous fermentations of which they were composed—seem’d to ooze, seep and trickle thro’ the gaping cracks in the horrible houses … and I thought of some avenue of Cyclopean and unwholesome vats, crammed to the vomiting point with gangrenous vileness, and about to burst and inundate the world in one leprous cataclysm of semi-fluid rottenness." (from [https://twitter.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1671175712265388035 a letter] and [https://areomagazine.com/2019/03/05/lovecrafts-otherworldly-xenophobia/ a magazine article about it.]

==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}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
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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==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.

==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?}}

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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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==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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==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.

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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).

==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.

==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/

==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."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"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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==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.''

==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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==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==
*"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."

==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.

==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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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{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
''

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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.” 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?

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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.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==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."
}}

== ==

==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.

==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.}}

*[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."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
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
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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."

==Tatson, 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}}

==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

== ==
==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/

==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.

*************************** -->

Quotations

2023-07-24T12:29:49Z

Manson Lilian: /* 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==
*"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])

*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.”

*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*"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".

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"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/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand 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. "

*"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 "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to 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."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their 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.}}

{{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."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==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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==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)

==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)

==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.” ― Isaac Asimov

==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}}

== ==
==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.”

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==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)}}

==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.}}

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

==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."]

==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 “Mending Wall.” }}

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

*"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."

*{{Quotation|
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.}}

*{{Quotation|
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.

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== 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.”

==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]}}

== ==

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

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

==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."

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==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."

==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)

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==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.}}

==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.}}

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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.}}

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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."

==Glantz, David (reported by)==
“Germans needed to reduce their casualties “if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.”
― David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, p. 73.

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==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==
*"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 Paul Graham (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)
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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.}}

==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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== 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."

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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.]
== ==

== ==

==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.' "

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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.”

==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).]

==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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==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.”

==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.==
* 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.”

==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."

==Russell Long (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/]

==Lovecraft, H.P.==
" The organic things --Italo-Semitico-Mongoloid-- inhabiting that awful cesspool could not by any stretch of the imagination be call’d human. They were monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and amoebal; vaguely moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out of windows and doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea unnamabilities. They—- or the degenerate gelatinous fermentations of which they were composed—seem’d to ooze, seep and trickle thro’ the gaping cracks in the horrible houses … and I thought of some avenue of Cyclopean and unwholesome vats, crammed to the vomiting point with gangrenous vileness, and about to burst and inundate the world in one leprous cataclysm of semi-fluid rottenness." (from [https://twitter.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1671175712265388035 a letter] and [https://areomagazine.com/2019/03/05/lovecrafts-otherworldly-xenophobia/ a magazine article about it.]

==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}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
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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==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.

==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?}}

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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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==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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==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.

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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).

==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.

==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/

==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."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"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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==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.''

==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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==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==
*"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."

==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.

==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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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{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
''

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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.” 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?

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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.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==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."
}}

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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.

==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.}}

*[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."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
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
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==Wang, John==
@j0hnwang

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."

==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}}

==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

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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/

==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

2023-07-23T04:00:05Z

Manson Lilian: /* Domingos, Pedro */

==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==
*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.”

*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*"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".

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"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/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand 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. "

*"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 "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to 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."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their 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.}}

{{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."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==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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==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)

==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)

==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.” ― Isaac Asimov

==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}}

== ==
==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.”

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==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)}}

==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.}}

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

==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."]

==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 “Mending Wall.” }}

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

*"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."

*{{Quotation|
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.}}

*{{Quotation|
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.

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== 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.”

==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]}}

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

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

==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."

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==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."

==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)

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==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.}}

==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.}}

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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.}}

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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."

==Glantz, David (reported by)==
“Germans needed to reduce their casualties “if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.”
― David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, p. 73.

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==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==
*"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 Paul Graham (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)
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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.}}

==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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== 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."

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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.]
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==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.' "

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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.”

==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).]

==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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==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.”

==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.==
* 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.”

==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."

==Russell Long (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/]

==Lovecraft, H.P.==
" The organic things --Italo-Semitico-Mongoloid-- inhabiting that awful cesspool could not by any stretch of the imagination be call’d human. They were monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and amoebal; vaguely moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out of windows and doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea unnamabilities. They—- or the degenerate gelatinous fermentations of which they were composed—seem’d to ooze, seep and trickle thro’ the gaping cracks in the horrible houses … and I thought of some avenue of Cyclopean and unwholesome vats, crammed to the vomiting point with gangrenous vileness, and about to burst and inundate the world in one leprous cataclysm of semi-fluid rottenness." (from [https://twitter.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1671175712265388035 a letter] and [https://areomagazine.com/2019/03/05/lovecrafts-otherworldly-xenophobia/ a magazine article about it.]

==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}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
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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==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.

==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?}}

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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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==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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==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.

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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).

==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.

==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/

==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."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"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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==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.''

==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.” }}

== ==

==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==
*"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."

==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.

==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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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{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
''

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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.” 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?

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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.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==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."
}}

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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.

==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.}}

*[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."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
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
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== ==

==Wang, John==
@j0hnwang

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."

==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}}

==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

== ==
==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/

==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

2023-07-23T03:59:27Z

Manson Lilian: /* Domingos, Pedro */

==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==
*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.”

*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*"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".

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"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/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand 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. "

*"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 "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to 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."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their 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.}}

{{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."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==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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==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)

==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)

==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.” ― Isaac Asimov

==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}}

== ==
==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.”

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==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)}}

==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.}}

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

==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."]

==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 “Mending Wall.” }}

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

*"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."

*{{Quotation|
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.}}

*{{Quotation|
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.

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== 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.”

==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]}}

== ==

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

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

==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."

==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)

== ==

==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.}}

==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.}}

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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.}}

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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."

==Glantz, David (reported by)==
“Germans needed to reduce their casualties “if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.”
― David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, p. 73.

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==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==
*"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 Paul Graham (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)
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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.}}

==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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== 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."

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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.]
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==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.' "

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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.”

==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).]

==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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==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.”

==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.==
* 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.”

==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."

==Russell Long (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/]

==Lovecraft, H.P.==
" The organic things --Italo-Semitico-Mongoloid-- inhabiting that awful cesspool could not by any stretch of the imagination be call’d human. They were monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and amoebal; vaguely moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out of windows and doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea unnamabilities. They—- or the degenerate gelatinous fermentations of which they were composed—seem’d to ooze, seep and trickle thro’ the gaping cracks in the horrible houses … and I thought of some avenue of Cyclopean and unwholesome vats, crammed to the vomiting point with gangrenous vileness, and about to burst and inundate the world in one leprous cataclysm of semi-fluid rottenness." (from [https://twitter.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1671175712265388035 a letter] and [https://areomagazine.com/2019/03/05/lovecrafts-otherworldly-xenophobia/ a magazine article about it.]

==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}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
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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==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.

==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?}}

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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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==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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==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.

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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).

==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.

==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/

==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."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"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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==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.''

==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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==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==
*"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."

==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.

==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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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{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
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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.” 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?

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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.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==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."
}}

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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.}}

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==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.

==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.}}

*[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."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
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
----

== ==

==Wang, John==
@j0hnwang

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."

==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}}

==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

== ==
==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/

==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}}
----
*************************** -->
==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.

*************************** -->

Movies

2023-07-23T03:38:08Z

Manson Lilian: /* 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==
*Sweeney TOdd.
*Days of WIne and Roses

*[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)

*The Death of Stalin.

*''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

*2001: A Space Odyssey

===Cape Fear===
1962 version.(not on Amazon Prime)

==Documentaries==
=== The Battle of the Somme===
Official documentary. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BlbdNq1UCE On You-Tube].

==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)

==The Goodies==
(not on Amazon Prime)

==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)

==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\

----

==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.
----

==The Producers==
(not on Amazon Prime)(not on You-Tube)

----
==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)
----

==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

2023-07-23T03:36:13Z

Manson Lilian: /* Movies Seen */

==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==
*Sweeney TOdd.
*Days of WIne and Roses

*[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)

*THe Death of Stalin.

*''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).

*Hacksaw Ridge
*ALl QUite on the Western Fron t(1930)

===Cape Fear===
1962 version.(not on Amazon Prime)

==Documentaries==
=== The Battle of the Somme===
Official documentary. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BlbdNq1UCE On You-Tube].

==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)

==The Goodies==
(not on Amazon Prime)

==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)

==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\

----

==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.
----

==The Producers==
(not on Amazon Prime)(not on You-Tube)

----
==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)
----

==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)

Quotations

2023-07-22T23:24:43Z

Manson Lilian: /* Roche, Christopher */

==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==
*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.”

*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*"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".

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"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/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand 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. "

*"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 "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to 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."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their 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.}}

{{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."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==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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==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)

==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)

==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.” ― Isaac Asimov

==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}}

== ==
==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.”

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==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)}}

==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.}}

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

==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."]

==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 “Mending Wall.” }}

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

*"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."

*{{Quotation|
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.}}

*{{Quotation|
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.

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== 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.”

==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]}}

== ==

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

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

==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."

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

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==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."

==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)

== ==

==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.}}

==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.}}

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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.}}

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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."

==Glantz, David (reported by)==
“Germans needed to reduce their casualties “if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.”
― David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, p. 73.

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==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==
*"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 Paul Graham (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)
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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.}}

==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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== 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."

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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.]
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==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.' "

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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.”

==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).]

==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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==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.”

==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.==
* 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.”

==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."

==Russell Long (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/]

==Lovecraft, H.P.==
" The organic things --Italo-Semitico-Mongoloid-- inhabiting that awful cesspool could not by any stretch of the imagination be call’d human. They were monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and amoebal; vaguely moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out of windows and doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea unnamabilities. They—- or the degenerate gelatinous fermentations of which they were composed—seem’d to ooze, seep and trickle thro’ the gaping cracks in the horrible houses … and I thought of some avenue of Cyclopean and unwholesome vats, crammed to the vomiting point with gangrenous vileness, and about to burst and inundate the world in one leprous cataclysm of semi-fluid rottenness." (from [https://twitter.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1671175712265388035 a letter] and [https://areomagazine.com/2019/03/05/lovecrafts-otherworldly-xenophobia/ a magazine article about it.]

==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}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
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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==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.

==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?}}

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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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==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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==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.

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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).

==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.

==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/

==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."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"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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==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.''

==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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==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==
*"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."

==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.

==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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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{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
''

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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.” 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?

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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.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==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."
}}

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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.

==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.}}

*[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."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
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
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==Wang, John==
@j0hnwang

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."

==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}}

==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

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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/

==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

2023-07-22T23:20:37Z

Manson Lilian: /* Mencken */

==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==
*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.”

*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*"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".

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"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/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand 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. "

*"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 "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to 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."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their 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.}}

{{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."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==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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==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)

==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)

==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.” ― Isaac Asimov

==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}}

== ==
==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.”

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==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)}}

==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.}}

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

==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."]

==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 “Mending Wall.” }}

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

*"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."

*{{Quotation|
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.}}

*{{Quotation|
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.

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== 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.”

==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]}}

== ==

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

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

==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."

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

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==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."

==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)

== ==

==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.}}

==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.}}

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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.}}

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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."

==Glantz, David (reported by)==
“Germans needed to reduce their casualties “if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.”
― David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, p. 73.

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==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==
*"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 Paul Graham (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)
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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.}}

==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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== 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."

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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.]
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==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.' "

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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.”

==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).]

==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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==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.”

==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.==
* 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.”

==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."

==Russell Long (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/]

==Lovecraft, H.P.==
" The organic things --Italo-Semitico-Mongoloid-- inhabiting that awful cesspool could not by any stretch of the imagination be call’d human. They were monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and amoebal; vaguely moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out of windows and doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea unnamabilities. They—- or the degenerate gelatinous fermentations of which they were composed—seem’d to ooze, seep and trickle thro’ the gaping cracks in the horrible houses … and I thought of some avenue of Cyclopean and unwholesome vats, crammed to the vomiting point with gangrenous vileness, and about to burst and inundate the world in one leprous cataclysm of semi-fluid rottenness." (from [https://twitter.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1671175712265388035 a letter] and [https://areomagazine.com/2019/03/05/lovecrafts-otherworldly-xenophobia/ a magazine article about it.]

==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}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
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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==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.

==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?}}

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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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==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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==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.

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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).

==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.

==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/

==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."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"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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==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!

==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.''

==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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==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==
*"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."

==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.

==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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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{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
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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.” 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?

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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.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==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."
}}

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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.}}

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==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.

==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.}}

*[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."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
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
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==Wang, John==
@j0hnwang

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."

==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}}

==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

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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/

==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

2023-07-20T13:59:40Z

Manson Lilian: /* MAYER, LAUREN */

==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.

==[[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].

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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 (no ads) 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/617285536 Waldstein Sonata] (op. 53) in too fast a performance on Vimeo. 9 minutes

== 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.

==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.

==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. ]

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

==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://vimeo.com/494564768 Nelson Mass], Vimeo.

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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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==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]

== 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=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://vimeo.com/553754818 Symphony 41] (Jupiter, Vimeo).

*[https://vimeo.com/240369823 Requiem], from Vimeo (Bergen Philharmonic)

*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.''

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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>

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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>

==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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==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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==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==
[https://youtu.be/ZyURjdnYQaU Preludes and Fugues, Op 87], piano pieces in classical style.

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

==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>

==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.}}

==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. ]

Cancellings

2023-07-19T20:20:46Z

Manson Lilian: /* Carl, Noah (Cambridge Psychology, fired 2019) */

See also [[Nondisclosure Clauses]].

*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9487849/China-launches-app-citizens-report-mistaken-opinions.html China launches app for citizens to report anyone who has 'mistaken opinions' or 'denies the excellence of socialist culture' The app and hotline has been released ahead of party's 100th anniversary ..."] (2021).

*[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/ "THE NEW PURITANS",] Atlantic (2021) by Ann Applebaum is a good survey with lots of specifics about cancellings and the various effects on its victims.

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==Introduction==
These actually aren't all cancellings. I use this to keep track of the various people persecuted by university administrators,for various reasons. A cancelling proper is where the wokefolk on Twitter, etc. mob someone and try to ruin their reputation.

*[https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/09/trans-ideology-is-destroying-the-university/ Spiked-online 2023 article] on English academics persecuted by transtrash.

==Indiana==
I live in Indiana and I am Chair of Committee A (Academic Freedom) of the Indiana Conference of the American Association of University Professors (the AAUP), so it is convenient for me to list Indiana separately.

===Donnelly, Harold (Purdue Math, 2023)===
Not a political case. The Purdue Math head reduced this tenured professor's pay by 100% by fiat with claims his teaching was poor. 80% of the department's full professors voted No Confidence in her.

*[https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_fba484e4-cc5e-590e-939d-10b895a69ee0.html "‘A festering wound’: After lowering professor’s pay to $0, math dept. head loses confidence vote,"] MARCO LUNA ( Apr 2, 2023)

*[https://web.math.princeton.edu/~cf/DonnellyNarrative.pdf Princeton narrative] of events at Purdue.

*[https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202302/rnoti-p196.pdf?adat=February%202023 American Math Society letter] and Purdue reply.

*[https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/04/tenured-professor-has-salary-reduced-to-zero.html#comment-160607328 Marginal Revolution] blog post by Tyler Cowen. Note how reflexively pro-Administration the comments are. Tenure really is needed, or the public will call for professors to be fired for low student ratings.

===[[John Kluge]] (Indiana schoolteacher)===
I plan to set up a special [[John Kluge]] page, but have not done so yet.

*[https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20200109d01 District Court motion to dismiss decision] and [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11400471111218599768&q=kluge+john&hl=en&as_sdt=800006&as_ylo=2019 District Court summary judgement decision] and his [https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/21-2475/21-2475-2023-04-07.html 2023 loss in the 7th Circuit decision (Rovner, J.)]

*Kluge's [https://rasmusen.org/special/Cancellings/KlugeEnBancPetition(FILED).pdf En Banc Petition] to the 7th Circuit, May 2023.

*[https://nypost.com/2023/04/09/court-backs-teachers-firing-over-transgender-students-name-policy/ New York Post] 2023 article.

*[https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/13/teacher-who-refused-to-use-transgender-students-chosen-names-loses-lawsuit/ Some other teachers also objected], but weren't willing to be fired and backed down.

*[https://adflegal.org/press-release/indiana-music-teacher-forced-resign-over-pronoun-usage-asks-court-uphold-religious The Alliance Defending Freedom] is helping Kluge.

===Zhihao Kong (Purdue student, Chinese government harassment)===
*[https://www.propublica.org/article/even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out "even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out,"] ''Pro Publica'', Sebastian Rotella (Nov. 2021).

===McPhail, Mark (Indiana U.--Northwest, Gary, 2022)===
[[McPhail, Mark]] has his own page.
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===Purdue students===
*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/purdue-has-students-criminally-charged-for-posters-criticizing-administrator/ Purdue brings criminal vandalism charges against students] for putting up posters criticizing an administrator for going soft on rape.

===Rasmusen, Eric (Indiana Bus. econ, 2003, 2019)===
*[https://hxstem.substack.com/p/lessons-for-the-cancelled "Lessons for the Cancelled,"] Eric Rasmusen, ''Heterodox Stem'' Substack (2023).

*[https://t.co/xxe44vtI4M "The professor is canceled. Now what? An ‘intolerant’ professor is higher ed’s toughest subject,"]Jack Stripling,''Washington Post'' (June 21, 2023).

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/2019kerfuffle/ "Eric Rasmusen Twitter Cancelling Page"]

===Sanders, Steve (Indiana Law, 2021)===
*[https://www.thefire.org/did-indiana-university-foia-its-own-professor/ FIRE writeup] of the situation, around Dec. 15.

===Moore, Julie (Taylor, Writing, 2023)===
Julie Moore was not cancelled, but she was fired improperly. After 6 or so years of routine renewals of her one-year untenured contract, she was suddenly told she would not be renewed but could get 6 weeks severance pay if she signed a nondisparagement agreement.

*[https://bethallisonbarr.substack.com/p/following-the-evidence/comments A good summary,] by Beth Barr at her substack (May 10, 2023).

*[https://julielmoore.com/ Julielmoore.com], her poetry website.

*[https://gofund.me/061997b2 Gofundme] site for Julie Moore.

*[https://www.change.org/p/taylor-university-julie-moore-fired-for-teaching-racial-justice?redirect=false Change.org petition]

*Blogs and Substacks
::[https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/shaken-and-heartsick-another-professor Tisby Substack] and [https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/taylor-university-president-calls another Tisby Substack] [https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/racial-justice-and-academic-freedom?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf Kristin DuMez] on Substack, May 4, 2023.

::[https://bethallisonbarr.substack.com/p/following-the-evidence/comments A good summary,] by Beth Barr at her substack (May 10, 2023).

*Media Coverage
::[https://julieroys.com/taylor-university-professor-julie-moore-loses-job-citing-jemar-tisby-syllabus/ Roys Report article] by Bob Smietana with documents and a secret recording of Moore's conversation with her provost.

::[https://religionnews.com/2023/05/03/taylor-english-professor-julie-moore-cited-jemar-tisby-on-her-syllabus-then-she-lost-her-job/?fbclid=IwAR0rKS3Ycg6moNTOlQafLezdP1Wws-XneokDCC5P8xfxeYAqMte9Zorjcjk religionNewscom article] (May 3, 2023) and the [https://indianapublicradio.org/news/2023/05/taylor-university-professor-says-she-was-fired-for-using-racial-justice-sources/ Indiana Public Radio aricle] of May 2023.

::[https://www.axios.com/local/indianapolis/2023/05/04/taylor-university-julie-moore-christian-college article] in Axios.com, May 4, 2023.

===Spiegel, James (Taylor philosophy)===
Not a cancelling, just a Christian college firing a conservative tenured professor for being too Christian.
*[https://jimspiegel.com/ Jimspiegel.com], his website, with his vitae.

*[https://julieroys.com/podcast/fired-taylor-professor-tells-his-story/ "Fired Taylor Professor Tells His Story ,"] Roys Report, Julies Roys, podcast with transcript (Sept. 17, 2020). This has the background-- the Pence invitation and the Starbucks controversy and the underground newspaper, and also the alumni response.

::The song: "There’s a little Hitler inside of you. There’s a little Hitler inside of me, yes there is. There’s a brutal killer within everyone. The hatred grows inside us naturally. I may seem as civilized as any man, and acts of heroism might even give me a rush. But if you cross me once or twice, you’ll find I’m really not that nice. I’m tempted to do things that would make Jeffrey Dahmer blush. Because there’s a little Hitler inside . . ."

::“Several Taylor faculty have made posts on social media expressing their support for Black Lives Matter for defunding police and other leftist stances. And several faculty and staff attend a gay affirming church and encourage students to do the same. But the Taylor administrators permit these things.”

::"At the first meeting, we had I was told there had been a complaint. I was not told that there was a formal harassment complaint. It was not until the termination meeting that I learned that there was a formal harassment complaint."

*[https://dailynous.com/2020/09/05/philosophy-professor-fired-posting-song-youtube/ "Philosophy Professor Fired After Posting Song on YouTube,"] ''Daily Nous'' (2020).

*[https://wisdomandfollyblog.com/ "Wisdom and Folly,"] Spiegel's blog ( ).

*[https://religionunplugged.com/news/2020/9/15/taylor-university-may-not-have-followed-its-own-process-in-dismissal-of-professor "Taylor University May Not Have Followed Its Own Process In Dismissal Of Professor,"] Warren Smith, ''Religion Unplugged'' (September 5, 2020 ).

*[https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/appeal-to-philosophers-t-come-to-the-aid-of-fired-professor-jim-spiegel/ "appeal-to-philosophers-t-come-to-the-aid-of-fired-professor jim spiegel,"] Eric Rasmusen's blog (Sept. 11, 2020 ).

*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/defending-little-hitler-jim-spiegel-taylor-university/ "Defending ‘Little Hitler’: Popular Christian professor performs song satirizing man's capacity for evil. Christian college fires him,"] Rod Dreher, ''The American Conservative'' (Sept. 7, 2020).

*[https://www.theechonews.com/article/2023/02/james-spiegel-lands-teaching-and-research-job-at-hillsdale-college "James Spiegel lands teaching and research job at Hillsdale College: Former TU professor moving to new role,"] Echo student newspaper, Will Riddell (Feb. 22, 2023).

*[https://www.theechonews.com/article/2020/09/itrg2whvihfkooc "Spiegel employment terminated: Tenured professor fired from university,"] The Echo, (September 4, 2020).

*[https://religionnews.com/2020/09/04/jim-spiegel-taylor-university-professor-little-hitler-song-video/ "Longtime professor Jim Spiegel out at Taylor University after ‘Little Hitler’ video: James Spiegel, a longtime professor at Taylor University, is out — reportedly after posting a video of a song he’d written titled ‘Little Hitler’ on YouTube,"] Religion News Service (September 4, 2020).
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==Individual's Pages==
*[[Gordon Klein]] and [[Joshua Katz]] and [[Mark McPhail]] pages

==How to Resist==
*[https://quillette.com/2021/01/27/beating-back-cancel-culture-a-case-study-from-the-field-of-artificial-intelligence/ Pedro Domingos], ''Quillette'' (2021)

*[https://quillette.com/2021/02/05/more-weight-an-academics-guide-to-surviving-campus-witch-hunts/ Dorian Abbot], ''Quillette'' (2021).

*[https://hxstem.substack.com/p/lessons-for-the-cancelled "Lessons for the Cancelled,"] Eric Rasmusen, ''Heterodox Stem Substack'' (2023).

==Cancellers==
*[https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/oliver-d-smith-gets-his-day-in-city?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web&nthPub=401 "Oliver-d-smith-gets-his-day-in-city,"] ''Emil Kirkegaard's Substack'' (2023).

*([https://www.city-journal.org/article/an-online-campaign-against-intelligence-research "The Cancel-Culture Troll with a Neo-Nazi Past: A surreal tale of one man’s campaign against an academic field,"] David Zimmerman, ''City Journal'' (2023).

*[https://www.karlstack.com/p/23-more-academic-scandals?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=353444&post_id=127140572&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email "23 More Academic Scandals,"] CHRISTOPHER BRUNET, Karlstack (July 12, 2023).

==Miscellaneous==
*[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/what-princeton-professors-really-think-about-defining-racism/614911/ "what-princeton-professors-really-think-about-defining-racism,"] ''The Atlantic,'' Conor Friedersdorf.

*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/cancel-culture-database/?gv_search=indiana&filter_4=&filter_6=&filter_7=&mode=all College Fix Cancel Culture Database] and the [https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/tracking-cancel-culture-in-higher-education#caseslist NAS higher education cancel list]

*[https://www.unz.com/mmalkin/why-airbnb-banned-me-and-my-hubby-too/ Michelle Malkin banned from AirBnB], February 2022.

*“Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you—-better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.” Proverbs 27:10

*[https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-is-cancelled The Party is Cancelled,"] Emma Green, ''The New Yorker,'' Pamela Paresky's Gathering of the Thought Criminals (2023).

*[https://sapirjournal.org/social-justice/2021/05/critical-race-theory-and-the-hyper-white-jew/ "Critical Race Theory and the ‘Hyper-White’ Jew,"] Sapir, Pamela Paresky (2021).

==Girondins==
*Diane Klein
*Mark McPhail
*Julie Moore

==Commentary on Cancellings Generally==
*[https://twitter.com/JonathanShedler/status/1667950409787527168?t=1BdV1j7LPsV-9UA_MyWJyQ&s=03 working paper on cancelling as motivated by sadism] (2023)

*[https://reason.com/2021/12/13/the-second-great-age-of-political-correctness/ "The-second-great-age-of-political-correctness"] ''Reason'' (Dec.2021).

*Level 2 and 3 Witch Hunts
2021 and 2019, [https://twitter.com/search?q=ensure%20that%20even%20those%20most%20carefully%20orthodox%20in%20their%20opinions%20would%20have%20said%20something%20that%20later%20became%20heretical.&src=typed_query Paul Graham]:

"We can classify witch hunts by how long such paths can be. E.g. in a level 3 witch hunt, you can be targeted for defending someone who defended someone who was targeted. I saw that happen in 2020. I don't think I've seen 4 hops yet though.

It happened to me. A mob came after me when I tweeted this because they thought I was defending Stallman for defending Minsky. (Actually I wasn't. Stallman just happened to be one of two people getting cancelled then.)"

Sep 17, 2019

"If we extended human lifespans sufficiently, everyone would be cancelled. The drift in moral fashion would ensure that even those most carefully orthodox in their opinions would have said something that later became heretical."

2019 had 245 comments and 105 quote retweets and 2K Likes.

*[https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/twitter-is-now-cancelling-wooldridge/page/2 Wooldridge cancelling, power v. authority]

*[https://skepticalinquirer.org/2023/06/the-ideological-subversion-of-biology/ "The ideological-subversion-of-biology,"], The Skeptical Inquirer, Coyne and Maroja (2023).

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==Dorian Abbot (MIT, 2021)==
*[https://freespeech.mit.edu/signatories "Campaign to endorse the Chicago Principles on freedom of expression,"] list of MIT faculty who signed.

*[https://www.mitfreespeech.org/ The MIT Free Speech Alliance], an alumni group formed in response to the Abbot cancellation.

*[https://www.thefire.org/mit-community-rallies-behind-chicago-statement-after-dorian-abbot-disinvitation/ mit-community-rallies-behind-chicago-statement-after-dorian-abbot-disinvitation/,"] FIRE (November 2021).

*[https://twitter.com/haralduhlig/status/1457018887514505219 Harald Uhlig Tweet] on Ivan Werning not signing.

*The [[MIT Free Speech]] page.

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==Babak Babakinejad(MIT, Media Lab, 2019)==
Babak wasn't cancelled at all, but I am sympathetic to him. He is a whistleblower at MIT who has sued MIT.

*[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/business/media/mit-media-lab-food-computer.html "M.I.T. Media Lab, Already Rattled by... ,"] ''The New York Times'' (2019).

*[https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/four-stories-illustrate-why-whistleblowers-need-more-protection "Four stories that illustrate why whistleblowers need more protection,"] ''Times Higher Education'', May 24, 2023, Mark Geoghegan.
: "Babak Babakinejad was the research lead on the now disbanded OpenAg (Open Agriculture) project at MIT’s Media Lab (formerly sponsored by Jeffrey Epstein). The project was an open-source food computer meant to revolutionise the hydroponic growth of food, and MIT claimed (falsely) that it was deployed in a refugee camp. Babak queried the legitimacy of the claims and alleged that waste containing many times the legal limit of nitrogen was being dumped into groundwater, potentially contaminating private wells. For Babak, the worst low was when, while on medical leave after suffering panic attacks, his attorney reported that the MIT lawyer told him, “Good luck to his career if he decides to sue MIT”."

*[https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2023/02/08/judge-in-whistleblower-lawsuit-against-mit-hears-d.html "Judge in whistleblower lawsuit against MIT hears pre-trial arguments,"] Boston Business Journal, Don Seiffert (Feb. 7, 2023).

==Boudreau (Central Michigan, 2021)==
*A FOIA request got the [https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/boudreau-settlement-agreement.pdf settlement agreement]. See [https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/08/recent-developments-in-controversies-about-quoting-slurs-from-court-cases/#more-8115395 Volokh Conspiracy.]
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Prof. Boudreau, who was represented by a lawyer from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, withdrew any claims he might have against CMU, retired from CMU (he was apparently eligible for retirement), and in exchange received 10 months' salary and benefits (from Sept. 1, 2020 when he had been fired, to June 30, 2021, the end of this academic year).
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<blockquote style="color:gray">
5. Dr. Boudreau shall be paid in a lump sum, less normal withholding taxes the value of pay and CMU's contribution to benefits through June 30, 2021 within thirty (30) days of this settlement. A W-2 will be issued for this payment.

15. Dr. Boudreau agrees that the terms of this Release, including the payment made hereunder, are confidential and shall not be divulged to any third party except his spouse, tax advisor, CPA, wealth manager, and/or his attorneys who shall be advised of this confidentiality provision. Dr. Boudreau shall not be held liable for breach of this confidentiality clause in the event he is compelled via subpoena to under oath in court of law regarding details or terms of his severance and/or settlement agreement provided that he gives prompt notice to the CMU's General Counsel so CMU has the opportunity to object to the subpoena.

16. In the event that Dr. Boudreau violates any aspect of this Agreement, he acknowledges that said breach shall cause damage to CMU. The parties understand that CMU may have to reveal the terms pursuant to FOIA unrelated to any request by the Union or Dr. Boudreau, who agree not to make, encourage, or otherwise participate in such request.

19. Dr. Boudreau shall not, by oral or written expression or any other act of communication to any third party, by name, disparage, criticize, or impugn the reputation or character of CMU's curent or former Board of Trustees members, Board of Trustees, administrators, directors, other employees,eagents and representatives, both individually and in their official capacities (Releas6s). This provision shall not be construed to prohibit Dr. Boudreau from communicating his disagreement with CMU's decision to terminate his employment for the way he spoke various words including the "n-word", his criticism of CMU's decision and generally his beliefs and opinion on the efficacy of his teaching methods. Dr. Boudreau further agrees that this provision concerning non-disparagement is a material condition ofthe consideration contained herein, that this provision is an essential part of this Agreement, and that any violation ofthe terms ofthis paragraph shall be deemed a material breach of the entire Agreement.

21. Dr. Boudreau agrees that this Agreement shall be binding and inure to the benefit of his successors, executors, administrators, personal representatives and assigns, and to the benefit of the predecessors, successors, and assigns of the Releasees, and further agrees and acknowledges that this Agreement contains and comprises the entire agreement and understandings of the parties, and that there are no additional promises or terms of this Agreement, other than those contained within this document and the documents referenced herein.

23. If any provision of this Agreement shall for any reason be held invalid, illegal, unenforceable, or in conflict with any law governing this Agreement, the validity of the remaining portions of this Agreement shall not be affected but shall continue in full legal force and effect to the fullest extent allowed by law.
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Observations:
* (1) He can talk about the incident he was fired for.
*(2) He can disparage the University, just not the various individuals who are to blame for any university scandals he may reveal.
*(3) The University and its officials are free to disparage him however much they want.
*(4) No damages are specified for breach of the clause. He is paid his settlement money within 30 days, and there are no liquidated damages. Presumably the damages would be the default of expectation damages, which in this case would be like defamation damages except he would be liable for harm caused even by truthful statements about public figures.
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==Sara Braasch (Leftwing Yale Graduate Student who called the police when she found a strange black woman sleeping outside her dorm room, 2018)==
*[https://sarahjbraasch.com/2021/10/30/so-you-want-to-talk-about-ijeoma-oluo-who-repeatedly-tried-to-drive-me-to-suicide-on-twitter-because-i-am-the-proof-that-she-is-an-evil-lying-bigot-and-fraud-part-i/ Braasch's blog, screenshots of the Left's attempt to harass her and drive her to suicide] (2021)
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==Butler, Josh (Pastor of Redemption Tempe, fired 2023)==
*[https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/newsletter-76-a-critical-shortfall?nthPub=421 "A Critical Shortfall"] Aaron Renn (2023).

== ==
== Carl, Noah (Cambridge Psychology, fired 2019) ==
*[https://www.city-journal.org/article/an-online-campaign-against-intelligence-research "An-online-campaign-against-intelligence-research,"] City Journal (2023).

== [[Amy Chua]] (Yale Law). See the [[Amy Chua]] page. ==

== [[Trent Colbert]]: The Trap House Party (Yale Law). See the [[Trent Colbert]] page.==

==Jed DeVaro ( Cal State-East Bay econ)==
<html><img src="https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/mgmt/jed-devaro.jpg" height= 120 align=left></html>

*[https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/mgmt/devarojed.html Jed DeVaro faculty profile] and his [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KnFonD0AAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar Citation page].

*[https://thepioneeronline.com/42499/features/professors-not-immune-to-gender-inequality/ "Professors not immune to gender inequality: Jung Sook You, CSUEB,"] ''The Pioneer,'' November 30, 2020).

==DePiero,Zack==
*[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/diversity-equity/2023/06/26/white-professor-resigns-alleges-reverse# "White Professor Resigns, Alleges Reverse Discrimination: A now-former Pennsylvania State University system professor says a series of trainings and the campus’s approach to grading discriminated based on race,"] Ryan Quinn, Inside Higher Education (June 26, 2023).

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==Roland Fryer (Harvard econ, 2019)==
*[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/01/27/harvard_the_new_york_times_and_the_metoo_takedown_of_a_black_academic_star.html "Harvard, the NY Times and the #MeToo Takedown of a Black Academic Star,"] Stuart Taylor Jr., ''RealClearInvestigations,'' January 29, 2019.

*[https://karlstack.substack.com/p/the-lynching-of-roland-fryer "The Lynching of Roland Fryer," ] ''Substack'' (2021).
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==Scott Gerber (Law, Ohio Northern, 2023) ==
*[https://www.wsj.com/articles/dei-brings-kafka-to-my-law-school-ohio-tenure-collegiality-viewpoint-discipline-102d62b8 "DEI Brings Kafka to My Law School: Ohio Northern University is trying to banish me for lack of ‘collegiality’ but won’t say what I’ve done,"] Scott Gerber, ''Wall Street Journal.''

*[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/protesting-a-universitys-egregious-abuse-of-a-law-professor/ ''National Review'']

*[https://www.gofundme.com/f/professor-scott-d-gerber-legal-fund?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter GoFundMe]

*[https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/letter-in-defense-of-professor-scott-gerber Peter Wood open letter]

*[https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/the-scott-gerber-case-revisited?utm_source=NAS+Email+General&utm_campaign=4078d36bf1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_06_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4176f19131-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D NAS article] (June 2023).

*[https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/law-school-under-fire-suspending-dei-critic-without-pay-allegedly-defaming-his Article], J''ustthenews.com'' (June 2023).

==Abbas Ghassemi (UC-Merced, "teaching professor" of engineering)==
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/06/21/college-professors-fired-cancel-culture/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjE4MTkzMzAyIiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4NzMyMDAwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY4ODYxNTk5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjg3MzIwMDAwLCJqdGkiOiJiZjllYTdmOS1lYzg3LTRkMmQtOWFiYy1jMTYxMjc3NWFkNDgiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vZWR1Y2F0aW9uLzIwMjMvMDYvMjEvY29sbGVnZS1wcm9mZXNzb3JzLWZpcmVkLWNhbmNlbC1jdWx0dXJlLyJ9.aDela2FGGWb1P4ICJ9dHf4h0Ntsiv03_r8yXKfItIAg "The professor is canceled. Now what? An ‘intolerant’ professor is higher ed’s toughest subject,"] Jack Stripling, Washington Post (June 21, 2023).

==University of Iowa ==
*[https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18597 "University ordered to pay almost $2 million after students win religious freedom lawsuit:The University of Iowa was recently ordered to pay $1.9 million after two student groups sued the school.]
The lawsuits were filed originally in 2017 and 2018."

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==[[Timothy Jackson]], North Texas, Musicology==
See the [[Timothy Jackson]] page.

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==Katz, Joshua (Princeton Classics, 2022)==
See the [[Joshua Katz]] page.

==Kilborn, Jason==
*[https://campusreform.org/article?id=16754 "Law prof says he was forced to undergo lengthy mental examination & drug test after exam question caused students ‘distress’,"] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Kilborn told Campus Reform that his classes “were cancelled for the entire semester on the very first day of class. He said he also had to undergo “an agonizing several-week period of ‘administrative leave,’” during which he was “barred from campus and prevented from participating in normal faculty communications and activities, including my elected position on the university promotion and tenure committee.”

Kilborn said he was compelled to submit to three hours of mental examination and a drug test by university doctors and a social worker, broken into two segments spanning the course of a week.}}
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==Chad KIMBALL (Broadway actor, 2021)==
*[https://nypost.com/2021/11/05/tony-nominee-i-was-fired-from-broadway-for-being-christian/ "Tony nominee Chad Kimball: I was fired from Broadway for being Christian,"] ''New York Post.''

==Brian KLATTMAN (Lehigh, 2021)==
*[https://thebrownandwhite.com/2021/11/09/math-professor-removed-from-the-classroom/ "Visiting math professor removed from the classroom following social media posts brought to university’s attention ,"] GABRIELLE FALK,NOVEMBER 9, 2021, ''The Brown and White.''
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==Diane Klein (LaVerne, Chapman)==
*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/law-professor-says-university-fired-her-by-racializing-criticism-of-black-colleagues-performance/ "Law professor says university fired her by ‘racializing’ criticism of black colleague’s performance," ] CHRISTIAN LUBKE (AUGUST 26, 2020).
{{Quotation|
In a meeting on the future of the law school last fall, Klein told colleagues that they must decide “whether we are willing to assassinate” Assistant Dean Jendayi Saada, who runs the Center for Academic and Bar Readiness.}}

*[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/02/17/la-verne-seeks-terminate-gadfly-professor-allegedly-threatening-assassinate Insider Higher Education] article.

*[https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/concerned-la-verne-faculty-for-the-restoration-of#scrollTo--undefined Petition] from Laverne faculty in support of KLein.

*[https://www.coursicle.com/chapman/professors/Diane+Klein/ Chapman Law] teaching schedule.

*[http://www.caaaup.org/about-ca-aaup.html AAUP State of California Vice President for Private Universities] (2020-2022).
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==[[Gordon Klein]], UCLA, Anderson School, Accounting (2020). See the [[Gordon Klein]] page.==

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==Walter Lewin (MIT)==
This is an odd one. I haven't figure it out yet.
*[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/23/complainant-unprecedented-walter-lewin-sexual-harassment-case-comes-forward walter-lewin-sexual-harassment-case].

[https://thetech.com/2014/12/09/walterlewin-v134-n60 "MIT cuts ties with Walter Lewin after online harassment probe
Institute revokes emeritus title, removes online courses of popular physics professor who starred in viral videos"] The Tech (2014).

==Jamie Lund (St. Mary's Law) (2013)==
*[https://abovethelaw.com/2013/05/sources-and-dr-phil-offer-insights-author-of-confessions-of-a-sociopath-who-might-be-this-law-professor/ Above the Law] guessing as to the true identity of a "sociopath". It looks like she was mistreated.

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==John MacAdams (Marquette, 2018)==
[https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2021/04/15/marquette-political-science-professor-john-mcadams-dies/7246026002/ "John McAdams, political science professor who took Marquette to the state Supreme Court, dies,"] Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 15, 2021.

==Meriwether (Ohio, gender pronouns)==
See [[Meriwether Case of Administration Persecution]]. Not a cancelling case, really, if I remember right; a wokeness case, though.

==Morris, Evan (2022)==
*[https://spectator.org/treatment-for-the-cancel-culture-virus-a-fantastic-voyage "Treatment for the Cancel Culture Virus? A Fantastic Voyage|To slow the spread of the epidemic on campus, one perhaps should take “The Raquel Welch Rapid Test”,"] ''American Spectator''. Morris is a MFSA member.

==Richard Paxton (Pacific U., 2021, fired)==
*[https://www.opb.org/article/2021/08/26/pacific-university-professor-richard-paxton-fired-oregon-education-universities/ OPB.org on his firing].

==Pesta, Bryan (Cleveland State Management, 2022)==
*[https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/a-bschool-professor-fired-for-research-on-race-and-iq-asks-for-financial-help EJMR thread] that talks about the grad student who got him fired.

*[https://www.givesendgo.com/G9END Give Send Go] appeal for him.

*[https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/10/14/some-people-finally-noticed-bryan-pesta/ Paryngula blogpost supporting his firing].

*[https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8611/1/1/34 The MDPI paper] that got Pesta fired.

*[https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ohio/ohndce/1:2023cv00546/295763 Docket] for Pesta v. Cleveland State.

*[https://www.takimag.com/article/a-matter-of-tone/ "A Matter of Tone,"] by
Steve Sailer, Taki's Magazine (Aug 25, 2021). On skin tone and IQ.

*[https://www.unz.com/isteve/tenured-professor-bryan-j-pesta-sues-for-being-fired-for-his-breakthrough-study-of-the-causes-of-the-racial-gap-in-average-iq/ "Tenured Professor Bryan J. Pesta Sues for Being Fired for His Breakthrough Study of the Causes of the Racial Gap in Average IQ,"] Unz Review, Sailer Blog, Steve Sailer (March 16, 2023). This excerpts a lot of the Complaint.

==Joseph Petry (Illinois)==
*[https://www.docdroid.net/24J86No/20-448releaseable-pdf Feb. 28, 2020 University Report] online.

*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/petry.pdf June 11, 2020 News Release] by Thies-Webber.

*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/petry-1.pdf January 27, 2021 News Release] by Thies-Webber after winning on the motion to dismiss, with the Complaint and Motion to Dismiss and Objection to the Motion to Dismiss and Decision. This is the key document.

*Jan 28, 2021 [https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/university-illinois/ex-professors-breach-of-contract-suit-against-ui-can-proceed-judge-decides/article_b9ee510e-8ff7-5ebd-bfc1-7f4cca3725e1.html "Ex-professor's breach-of-contract suit against UI can proceed, judge decides,"] Ben Zigterman bzigterman@news-gazette.com,.

*FEBRUARY 9, 2021, [https://www.thecollegefix.com/judge-approves-professors-lawsuit-against-university-for-baseless-grades-for-sex-investigation/ "Judge approves professor’s lawsuit against university for baseless grades-for-sex investigation,"] HENRY KOKKELER - WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY. This is a very informative article.

==Stephen Porter (NC State, 2021)==
[https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/10/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-professor-files-lawsuit-against-nc-state-university/ "“Death by a Thousand Cuts”: Professor Files Lawsuit Against NC State University,"] Inside Higher Education, Oct. 11, 2021, Shannon Watkins.

==Judge Pryor (2021)==
*[http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2021/10/judge-bill-pryor-and-law-clerk-cancel.html?m=1 Attack on him by Dorf on Law] for hiring a clerk who sent an anti-black tweet once a few years ago.

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== J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law, 2020). See the [[J. Mark Ramseyer]] page. ==

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==Schulz, Gregory (Concordia-Wisconsin, 2022)==
*[https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/16/christian-university-still-hasnt-reinstated-professor-it-kicked-out-after-he-criticized-identity-politics/ Suspended] from a Missouri Lutheran, supposedly conservative denominational college for criticizing wokeism. On the web is a [https://gunnerq.com/2022/03/14/heres-the-real-reason-they-canceled-concordias-greg-schultz/ confused set of notes by someone] with valuable background information]

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==Steven Shaviro (Wayne State English)==
The Shaviro case is interesting because it's a "Man Bites Dog" case: a cancellation of a leftwing professor (self-described as a "Kitsch Marxist" by rightwingers. See also Loomis at U. of Rhode Island (https://nypost.com/2020/09/11/michael-reinoehl-justified-in-shooting-of-trump-supporter-professor/).

*Shaviro's [https://people.wayne.edu/profile/av1179/1578/vita.pdf?_gl=1*7nz80j*_ga*Mzk2NTUxNjguMTY4MTMzNTYyNw..*_ga_ZYEBRZJFL1*MTY4MTQ4NDkxOS4yLjAuMTY4MTQ4NDkxOS4wLjAuMA.. vitae.]

*Shaviro's [https://www.yaf.org/news/wayne-state-professor-calls-for-murder-of-those-who-express-opinions-he-disagrees-with/ Facebook post]: “I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic, or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down.” He said that shouting them down is moralistic self-indulgence that just helps the victim.

*[https://reason.com/volokh/2023/03/27/professor-suggests-murder-as-alternative-to-shouting-down-speakers/ Volokh Conspiracy] (March 27, 2023). Comments are not worth reading.

*[https://popehat.substack.com/p/wayne-state-professor-steven-shaviro Popehat support Shaviro] in a good Substack. A lot of good comments, as well as a lot of stupid ones.

*Eric Rasmusen's [https://ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-professors-who-want "In Defense of Professors Who Want To Kill People], Ras-Stack (2023).

==Shaw, Jodi (Smith librarian)==
*[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ac03e14ec4eb74c10016931/t/61bcbb8de3cfe174add26ed7/1639758778264/2021-12-16+Shaw+Complaint.pdf Her lawsuit complaint] (2021).

==SKIDMORE, Mark (Michigan State, economist, 2023)==
*Skidmore's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Skidmore_(economist) Wikipedia page,] his [http://econ.msu.edu/faculty/skidmore/ Michigan State page] (with vitae), and his [https://mark-skidmore.com/ personal website.]

*[https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-023-07998-3 The retracted covid vaccination article]

*[https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2021.1878109 "Retraction of scientific papers: the case of vaccine research,"] Ety Elisha, Josh Guetzkow, Yaffa Shir-Raz & Natti Ronel, ''Critical Public Health'' (2021)

*[https://mark-skidmore.com/research/economics-of-climate-and-disasters/ Skidmore's page] with the BJMR questions about his paper and his replies, reply-to-referee style; questions from a Chronicle of Higher Ed reporter with his replies, and six pages of "Responses to Additional Criticisms".

*[https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/msu-economists-covid-research-under-investigation EJMR discussion]

*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11960667/Hugely-contentious-study-claimed-Covid-jabs-killed-280-000-people-gets-pulled.html "Hugely contentious study that claimed Covid jabs have killed 280,000 people in the US gets pulled... three months after flaws were raised," ] Daily Mail.

*[https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2023/01/25/economist-mark-skidmore-publishes-antivax-propaganda-disguised-as-a-survey/ David Gorski's aggressive attack] on Skidmore's article.

==Stock, Kathleen (Sussex, resigned under fire, 2021)==
*[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/16/free-speech-oxford-university-trans-row-kathleen-stock/ "Free speech in peril as trans row engulfs Oxford University: In a letter to The Telegraph, dons warn against cancelling appearance by feminist Kathleen Stock over her gender-critical views,"] The Telegraph,Louisa Clarence-Smith,Education Editor (16 May 2023). The
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1myWcqaU0E4Yokw6NavfNwgxuXwJ_Fad5zsiwZt8fl4Y/edit anti-Stock letter] signed by 100 or so Oxford faculty] (2023).

*[https://news.sky.com/story/kathleen-stock-professor-who-resigned-over-trans-rights-witch-hunt-joins-new-us-university-12464140 "Kathleen Stock: Professor who resigned over trans rights 'witch-hunt' joins new US university: Professor Kathleen Stock says she is "delighted" to be joining the University of Austin after Sussex students ran a campaign demanding her removal,"] News.sky.com, Andy Hayes, news reporter (8 November 2021).

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==Harald UHLIG (Chicago Econ, 2020)==
*[https://www.dropbox.com/s/45hnqjjki12529m/uhlig_petition_public.pdf?dl=0 Petition calling for the resignation of Harald Uhlig as editor of JPE]:
{{Quotation|
To: The Coeditors of the Journal of Political Economy and Director of The University of Chicago
Press

We, the undersigned, call for the resignation of Harald Uhlig, the Bruce Allen and Barbara
Ritzenthaler Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, '''as the Lead Editor of the Journal
of Political Economy.''' Prof. Uhlig's comments published on his blog (https://bit.ly/3cN0L97)
and Twitter posts dated June 8th, '''trivializing the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement''' and drawing
parallels between the BLM movement and the Ku Klux Klan, are outrageous and unacceptable. They hurt and marginalize people of color and their allies in the economics profession; c'''all into question his impartiality''' in assessing academic work on this and related topics; and damage the standing of the economics discipline in society. '''We do not question the right of Prof. Uhlig to make such comments,''' but we are strongly opposed to him holding a position of power as the editor of a prominent journal in our discipline. }}

::Signed by Richard Tol, Oliver Jehiel, Sharon Oster, Shelly Lundberg, Ivan Werning, David Cutler, Chris Blattman, Paul Goldsmith, Severin Borenstein, Arthur Silve, Andrew Atkeson, Scott Imberman, Jennifer Doleac, Justin Wolfers, Judith Chevalier,

*[https://twitter.com/erasmuse/status/1459537303894900741 Uhlig tweet with Rasmusen comments] on the MIT Free Speech petition, its signers, and its nonsigners.

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==Allyn Walker (Old Dominion, 2021)==
*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10210713/Trans-professor-placed-leave-controversially-defending-pedophiles.html ''Daily Mail'' article,] October 21, 2021.
{{Quotation|
A transgender university professor in Virginia has been placed on leave after defending pedophiles as 'Minor Attracted People' and saying they shouldn't be ostracized because they can't help their natural urges....Walker has written a book that tries to destigmatize pedophilia. It encourages people to refer to pedophiles as 'Minor Attracted People' and says they shouldn't be ostracized for their urges, which they can't help.... said that the online backlash had led to concerns for Walker's safety and that of the campus, and placing them on leave was the best course of action. }}

==Wang,Norman (Pitt, Cardiology, 2020)==
Wang published an article in 2020 on racial preferences in medicine which was attacked and retracted. He was then persecuted by his employer.
*[https://anishkokamd.substack.com/p/affirmative-action-in-medicine-a?r=6chj5&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post&s=03 "Affirmative action in Medicine : A forbidden debate?"], Dr. Anish Koka's Newsletter (2023).

*[https://www.cir-usa.org/case/norman-wang-v-university-of-pittsburgh/ Wang lawsuit page], very good, Center for Individual Rights, which has links to opinion pieces and key legal documents.

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==Amy Wax (Penn Law)==
*[https://newcriterion.com/issues/2018/4/fahrenheit-451-updated 2018 ''New Criterion'' article]

*[https://www.newsweek.com/free-speech-under-threat-top-law-schools-opinion-1794224 "Free Speech Is Under Threat at Top Law Schools | Opinion,"] ''Newsweek,'' Paul Levy and Michael Poliakoff (2023).

*[https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/19-Sept.-2019-Recording-Ruger.mp3 As early as 2019, Dean Ruger had announced his desire to see Wax gone, using language one ordinarily does not associate with a law school dean: "Her presence here...makes me angry, it makes me pissed off" and that "she still works here...sucks." ]

*[https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/14369-a-statement-from-dean-ruger-in-response-to-recent "A statement from Dean Ruger in response to recent comments made by Professor Wax,"] (January 3, 2022). He calls her (collecting epithets), "thoroughly anti-intellectual, racist, perpetuating stereotypes placing differential burdens on Asian students, faculty, and staff xenophobic, white supremacist, and sexist." But he really likes to support people in his community and to include them: "This reality sharpens and deepens our commitment to support our community as we continue to work to advance equity and inclusion." What an idiot! [https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/11414-cvtruger.pdf His field is con law,] naturally.

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==Weingard, Bo (Marietta Psychology, fired 2019)==
*[https://www.city-journal.org/article/an-online-campaign-against-intelligence-research "An-online-campaign-against-intelligence-research,"] City Journal (2023).

== Weiss, Elizabeth (San Jose State Anthropology, bones)==
"One victim of this mindset is physical anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss of San Jose State, who studies 500–3,000 year old bones from California. For simply studying those remains, Weiss was demoted by her university and banned from studying her department’s collection of bones. But it’s even worse: she’s not allowed to study X-rays of the remains or even show a photograph of the boxes in which they are kept." [https://skepticalinquirer.org/2023/06/the-ideological-subversion-of-biology/ an article] in the Skeptical Inquirer by Jerry Coyne.
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==Zimmerman, James (Nashville clarinet, 2021)==
*[https://freebeacon.com/culture/how-racial-anxiety-conquered-an-orchestra-and-crushed-a-career/ " How Racial Anxiety Conquered an Orchestra and Crushed a Career"] Aaron Sibarium, Washington Free Beacon. A black oboeist on temp status because of his musicial weakness was hired by breaking the rules and not having fellow musicians vote on him. A clarinetist, James Zimmerman, who had advocated for his temporary trial and gotten him the job, was assigned to help him. He resented that, and with another musician, accused Zimmerman of stalking them and got Zimmerman fired. The Board boasted about it, and the Union refused to support him.

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*[[Lawyers]] and [[Legalism]] in religion and [[Leviticus]] and [[Litigation Finance]]
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*[[Meriwether Case of Administration Persecution]] and [[Morality Laws]]
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*[[Natural Law]] and [[Nondisclosure Clauses]]
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*[[Opium War Arsenic Poisoning]] and [[Oral Argument]]
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*[[Pardons]] and and [[Parler company]] and [[Patents]] and [[Poison Pills]] and [[Police Shootings]] and [[Police Tactics]] and and [[Precedent]] and [[Preliminary Injunctions]] and [[Product Law: Fraud, Trademark, Copyright, Patent]] and [[Property Law]]
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*[[Ranking Law Schools]]
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*[[Settlements]] and [[Settlement That Hurt the Public]] and [[Specific versus General Jurisdiction for Corporations]] and the [[Supreme Court]]
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*[[Tax Law]] and [[Title IX Law]] and [[Torts]] and [[Transition Rules in Administrative Law]] and [[Trent Colbert]]
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*[[The undergraduate law major]] and [[University Governance]]
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*[[What Is the Law?]]
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*Yale Law School's [[Amy Chua]] and [[Trent Colbert]].
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==Living==
*[[Notes on Living]]
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*[[Advice]] and [[Air Travel]] and [[Architecture]] and [[Art]]
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*'''[[Badly Designed Products]]''' and [[Beauty]] and [[Best Things of 2020]] and [[Best Things of 2021]] and [[Best Things of 2022]] and [[Best Things of 2023]] and [[Best Articles of 2023]] and [[Candidates for Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2021]] and [[Bloomington Employers]] and [[Best Dozen Articles of 2022]] and [[Bloomington Life]]
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*[[Card games]] and [[Social Class|Class]] and [[Computers]] and [[Conversation]] and [[Courage]]
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*[[Death]] and [[Design]] and [[Dry Ice]] and [[Drinks]]
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*[[Experts]]
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*[[Farming]] and [[Fasteners]] and [[Fireworks]] and [[Fishing]] and [[Food]] and [[Friends]]
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*[[Games]] and [[Gardening]] and [[Gifts]] and [[Guns]]
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*[[Happiness]] and [[Hardware]] and [[Holidays]] and [[Humor]] and [[Hunting]]
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*[[Inventions]]
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*[[Job Advice]] and [[Job Interviews]]
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*[[Knives]] and [[Knots]]
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*[[Marriage]] and [[Movies]] and [[Musical Instruments]]
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*[[Names]]
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*[[Obesity]] and [[Obituaries]] and [[An Old Man's Stories]] and [[Organization]]
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*[[Parenting]] and [[Parties]] and [[Places]] and [[Places to Go]] and [[Presents]]
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*[[Rugs]]
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*[[Search engines]] and [[Shopping]] and [[Sickness]] and [[Smoking]] and and [[Social Class]] and [[Stories]]
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*[[Tools]] and [[TV]]
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*[[Units of Measurement]]
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==Politics==
*[[Notes on Politics]]
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*[[Abortion]]
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*[[Biden Administration]] and [[Bureaucracy]]
----
*[[Cancellings]] and [[The CIA]] and [[The Common Carrier Theory of Facebook]] and [[Communists]] and [[Conservatives]] and [[Corporate Wokeness]] and [[Corruption]] and [[Countries]] and [[Covid-19]]
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*[[The Deep State]] and [[Dictators]] and [[Diplomats]]
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*[[Elections]]
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*[[Filibusters]] and [[Fraud in Government Programs]] and [[Free Speech]]
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*[[Government Design]] (constitutions, civil service, etc.)
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*[[Hate hoaxes]] and [[History and Political Tactics for Our Time]]
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*[[Identity Politics/Tribalism]] and [[Immigration]] and [[Impeachment]] and [[The Imperial Presidency]] and [[Indiana Politics]] and [[Inequality]] and [[Israel]]
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*The January 6 incident: [[2020 Capitol Crowd]] and [[Judges]]
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*[[Kamala Harris As Prostitute]]
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*[[Liberals]] and [[Letter to People Who Might Vote for Biden]] and [[Liberals and Beauty]] and [[Luxury Beliefs]]
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*[[The Media]] and [[Military Spending]]
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*[[The Nation]] and [[Nixon]] and [[Nuclear power]]
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*[[Personality and Politics]] and [[Political philosophy]] and [[Political Prisoners in the US]] and [[Politicians]] and [[Politics generally]] and [[Politics]] and [[Polls]] and [[Pontius Pilate As Politician]]
*[[Practical Tips on Woke Mobbing]] and [[Presidents]]
*[[The Press as an arm of the Democratic Party]]
*[[Public Intellectuals]]
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*[[Race]] and [[Redistricting]] and [[Richard II, Rebellion, and Right]] and [[Riker Book]]
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*[[Social Policy]] and the [[Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)]] and [[Spies and Spying]] and [[Subversion]]
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*[[Tactics to Fight Cancelling]] and [["This Land Is My Land"]] and [[Transexuals]]
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*[[U.K. Politics]] and the [[Ukraine]]
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*[[Vote Fraud]] and [[Voting]]
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*[[War]] and [[Wikipedia]] and [[Wokefolk]]
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==Religion==
*[[Notes on Religion]]
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*[[Abortion]] and [[Anti-Semitism]]
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*[[The Bible]] and [[Bible Translations]] and [[Useful Bible Verses]] and [[Bloomington Churches]] and [[Books]]
----
*[[Christian Business]] and [[Christian Colleges]] and [[Christmas]] and [[Church Buildings]] and [[Church Discpline]] and [[Conversion Stories]]
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*[[Deificatio]] and [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] and [[Donations]]
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*[[Ecclesiology]] and [[Ethics]] and [[Evangelism]]
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*[[Faith versus Works]] and [[Forgiveness versus Justice]] and [[Fundamentalism]]
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*[[Good Churches in Various Towns across America]] and [[The Good Shepherd]]
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*[[Head Coverings]] and [[Holidays]] and [[Hymns]]
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*[[Immortality]] and [[Inerrancy]]
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*[[Judaism]]
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*[[The Law As an Expression of God's Character]] and [[Legalism]] and [[Leviticus]]
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*[[Making your own Christmas cards folding 8x11 paper]]
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*[[The Name of God]] and [[The National Anthem as Idolatry]]
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*[[Pastors]] and [[Peter's Denial]] and [[Polls: Religion]] and [[Political Economy in the Bible]] and [[Pontius Pilate As Politician]] and [[Prayer]]
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*[[Religion in America]] and [[The Rites Controversy in China]] and [[Roman Catholicism]]
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*[[Theology]] and [[The twelve days of Christmas]]
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==Research==
*[[Bad Supreme Court Writing As Exemplified in ''Ford v. Montana'' (2021)]]
*[[Bankruptcy--Casey and Macey on Hertz and Absolute Priority]]
*[[Bankruptcy--Skeel on Christian Bankruptcy]]
*[[Equity-- Why Not Have Enough?]] and [[Euclid]] and [[Evaluation in Organizations]]
*[[Graveyard Bonds]]
*[[Heteroskedasticity]] and [[Hundred Flowers Bloom Model]]
*[[The Indiana Litigation Trust]] (formerly named [[The Indiana Legal Trust]])
*[[Nondisclosure Clauses]]
*[[An Old Man's Stories]] and [[Ostracism in Japan]] and [[Outliers]]
*[[Regulation Book]]
*[[Research Fraud]]
*[[Riker Book]]
*[[Shrinkage]]
*[[Specific versus General Jurisdiction for Corporations]]

*[[Talks: Polarization and Splitting a Pie (January 19, 2021)]]
*[[Notes for My Book-in-Progress on Writing, Talking, Listening and Thinking]]
*[[1933 Germany]]


==Science==
*[[Animals]]
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*[[Cicadas]] and [[Covid-19]]
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*[[Depression]] and [[DNA History]]
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*[[The FDA]]
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*[[Geology]] and [[Global Warming]]
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*[[IQ]]
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*[[Math]] and [[Medicine]] and [[Mushrooms]]
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*[[Nuclear Power]]
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*[[Plants]] and [[Pollution]]
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*[[Scholarly Misconduct]] and [[Short Circuits]]
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*[[Trees]]
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*[[Zeno's Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise]]
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==Thinking==
*[[Notes on Thinking]]
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*[[ Authority]]
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*[[Bayes's Rule]] and [[Bias]] and [[Bias in Research]] and [[Boasting]] and [[Books for My Children To Read]] and [[Books I Find Myself Reading Over and Over]]
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*[[Chess]] and [[Comments]] on the Internet, and [[C. P. Snow, Good Judgement and Winston Churchill]] and [[Critical Thinking]]
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*[[Definitions]]
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*[[Ethics]] and [[The Exception That Proves the Rule]] and [[Experts]]
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*[[Feeling versus Thinking]] and [[Francis Bacon's Four Idols]] and [[Freedom of Speech]]
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*[[Innovation]] and [[Intelligence]]
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*[[Man and Woman]] and [[Models and Heuristics]]
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[[Nietzsche]]
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*[[Personality]] and [[Persuasion]] and [[Psychology]]
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*[[Randomness]] and [[Reading]] and [[Remembering to Think]]
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*[[Self-Esteem]] and [[Selfishness]]
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*[[Three Kinds of Concluding: Logic, Intuition, Authority]]
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*[[Wokefolk]]
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==Writing==
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*[[Daily Themes]]
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*[[Examples of Rewriting Abstracts]] and [[Ambiguity]] and [[Anonymity]] and [[Articles on Writing]] and [[Audience]]
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*[[Bad Language]] and [[Bad Supreme Court Writing As Exemplified in ''Ford v. Montana'' (2021)]] and [[Big Picture Overview Writing]] and [[Big Words]] and [[Book reviews: Curiosity, by F.H. Buckley]]
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*[[Candidates for Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2021]] and [[Citation]] and getting [[Comments]] and [[Conferences]] and [[Cover Pages]]
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*[[Examples of Rewriting Abstracts]] and [[Examples of Seminar Handouts]]
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*[[Fallacies]] and [[Fiction Links]] and [[Footnotes]]
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*[[Grammar]]
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*[[Handouts]] and [[Handwriting]] and [[How to Run Online Talks]] and [[Hyperlinks and the List of Authorities in Legal Briefs]]
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*[["Impact" As a Verb]]
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*[[Journals]] and [[Journalism]]
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*[[K-12 Writing]]
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*[[Listening]]
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*[[Math Writing]] and [[Mockery and Name-Calling]]
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*[[Names]] and [[Novels I Like]]
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*[[Orthography]]
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*[[PhD students]] and [[Phrases]] and [[Poems]] and [[Procrastination]] and [[The Publishing Business]] and [[Punctuation]]
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*[[Quotation style]]
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*[[Reading]] as an activity and [[Books to Read]] and [[Rejection]] and [[Rhetorical Phrases]]
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*[[Songs]] and [[Stories]]
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*[[Talking]] and [[Teaching Writing]] and [[Twitter]]
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*[[Using foreign names of people and countries]]
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*[[Valedictions]]
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*[[Wikipedia]] and [[Writing]] and [[Writing Style in the Internet Age]]

==Miscellaneous==
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*[[Deaths, Mysterious]] and [[Despised Ethnic Groups]]
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*[[Farming]]
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*[[History]] and [[Homosexuality]]
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*[[Knots]] and [[Korean Dialects]] and [[Korean Customs]]
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*[[Machiavelli, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Their Friends]] and [[Maps]]
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*[[Photos]] and [[Places]] and [[Profit Opportunities]]

*[[Sex]]

*[[Uni High]]

*[[To Do]]



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*[[Twitter Tweets]]
*[[Using MediaWiki for organizing your personal website]] and [[Wikimedia commands]]
*[[Rasmapedia administration]]
*[[Notes on various things]]
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Editeur24/sandbox&redirect=no My Wikipedia useful command page].

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==Covid==
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*[[Asymptomatic Spread]] and [[Attacks on covid dissenters]]
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*[[Covid Blunders]]
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*[[Civil Rights and Rule by Decree]] and [[covid]] and [[Covid Gear and Precautions]] and [[Covid Origins]] and [[Covid Party Line Flip Flops]] a
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*[[Epidemiology]] and [[Epidemiologists]]
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*[[Ivermectin]]
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*[[Covid: Law]] and [[Long Covid]]
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*[[Masks]]
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*[[Covid op-eds]]
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*[[Pandemic Policy]] and [[Covid: Policy]] and [[Polls]] and [[Pulse Oximeters]]
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*[[Covid Statistics]]
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*[[Covid: Testing]] and [[Covid: treatments]]
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*[[Vaccination]] and [[Ventilation]] and [[Vitamin D]]


==Economics==
*[[Notes on Economics]]
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*[[Articles to Read]]
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*[[Business]]
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*[[Coase Theorem Examples]] and [[The Common Carrier Theory of Facebook]] and [[Conferences]] and [[Contracts]] and [[Convertible Indexed Consols]]
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*[[Data]] and [[Diseconomies of Scale]]
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*[[The economics profession]] and [[Economistical Arrogance]] and [[Economists--Current]] and [[EJMR]] and [[Entrepreneurs]] and [[Externalities]]
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*[[Finance]] and [[Free Trade]]
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*[[Game Theory]] and [[Getting a PhD in Economics]] and [[Government Debt]] and [[Government Failure]] and [[Graveyard Bonds]]
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*[[History of Economic Thought]]
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*[[IQ Research]] and [[Inflation]] and [[Insurance]] and [[The Internet and Its Regulation]]
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*[[Macro]] (macroeconmics) and [[Management]] and [[Mathematics]] and and [[Mechanism Design]] and [[Minimum Wage]] (Card-Krueger New Jersey study) and [[Money]] and [[Mortages]]
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*[[Paper Notes]] and [[Parler v. Amazon]] and [[Paternalism]] and [[Personal investing]] and [[Poverty]] and [[The economics profession]] and [[The Prosperity of Ching China]]
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*[[Recycling]] and [[Refereeing]] and [[Regulation]]
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*[[Sam Bankman-Fried]] and [[Scholarly Misconduct]] and [[Schumpeter]] and [[Seminar Notes]] and [[Socialism]] and [[Social Regulation]] and [[Statistics]]
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*[[Talks: Polarization and Splitting a Pie (January 19, 2021)]]
*[[Taxation in China 1650-1911]]
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*[[Vice]]
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*[[The 2021 Texas Snowfall Electricity Crisis]]


==Education==
*[[Notes on Education]]
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*[[Academia]]
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*[[Bloomington Schools]] and [[Boarding Schools]]
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*[[Cancellings]] and [[Childrearing]] and [[Christian Colleges]] and [[College]] and [[College Majors]] and [[Colleges]]
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*[[DEI]] bureaucrats
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*[[Education]]
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*[[Failure]]
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*[[Good Teachers]] and [[Grading]]
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*[[Indiana Free Speech Survey]] and [[IU Trustees]]
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*[[MIT]]
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*[[Private Schools]] and [[Proofs-- Bad Ones]]
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*[[SAT Test]] and [[School Discipline]] and [[Sexual Abuse by Teachers]] and [[Student Newspapers]]
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*[[Teaching]] and [[Test Prep]] and [[Test Scores]]
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*[[The undergraduate law major]] and [[Uni High]] and [[Unionized Schools]] and [[Universities]] and [[University Reform]]

==Law==
*[[Notes on Law]]
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*[[Abortion]] and [[Amy Chua]]
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*[[Bad Supreme Court Writing As Exemplified in ''Ford v. Montana'' (2021)]]
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*[[Clothing]] and [[The Common Carrier Theory of Facebook]] and [[Con Law]] and [[Contracts]] and [[Copyright]] and [[Crime]]
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*[[Defamation]] and [[Department of Justice]] and [[Disbarring]] evil lawyers
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*[[Embargo]] Contracts for News
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*[[False Accusations]] and the [[FBI]] and [[FOIA]] and [[Free Speech Law]]
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*[[Graveyard Bonds]]
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*[[Hunter Biden's Admission to Yale Law School]] and [[Hyperlink in Briefs]]
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*[[Impeachment]] and [[The Indiana Legal Trust]] and [[Injustice]] and [[Injunctions--National]] and the [[IU Trustees]] and [[Intellectual property]] and [[International Law]]
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*[[Judges]]
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*[[Lawyers]] and [[Legalism]] in religion and [[Leviticus]] and [[Litigation Finance]]
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*[[Meriwether Case of Administration Persecution]] and [[Morality Laws]]
----
*[[Natural Law]] and [[Nondisclosure Clauses]]
----
*[[Opium War Arsenic Poisoning]] and [[Oral Argument]]
----
*[[Pardons]] and and [[Parler company]] and [[Patents]] and [[Poison Pills]] and [[Police Shootings]] and [[Police Tactics]] and and [[Precedent]] and [[Preliminary Injunctions]] and [[Product Law: Fraud, Trademark, Copyright, Patent]] and [[Property Law]]
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*[[Ranking Law Schools]]
----
*[[Settlements]] and [[Settlement That Hurt the Public]] and [[Specific versus General Jurisdiction for Corporations]] and the [[Supreme Court]]
----
*[[Tax Law]] and [[Title IX Law]] and [[Torts]] and [[Transition Rules in Administrative Law]] and [[Trent Colbert]]
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*[[The undergraduate law major]] and [[University Governance]]
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*[[What Is the Law?]]
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*Yale Law School's [[Amy Chua]] and [[Trent Colbert]].
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==Living==
*[[Notes on Living]]
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*[[Advice]] and [[Air Travel]] and [[Architecture]] and [[Art]]
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*'''[[Badly Designed Products]]''' and [[Beauty]] and [[Best Things of 2020]] and [[Best Things of 2021]] and [[Best Things of 2022]] and [[Best Things of 2023]] and [[Best Articles of 2023]] and [[Candidates for Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2021]] and [[Bloomington Employers]] and [[Best Dozen Articles of 2022]] and [[Bloomington Life]]
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*[[Card games]] and [[Social Class|Class]] and [[Computers]] and [[Conversation]]
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*[[Death]] and [[Design]] and [[Dry Ice]] and [[Drinks]]
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*[[Experts]]
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*[[Farming]] and [[Fasteners]] and [[Fireworks]] and [[Fishing]] and [[Food]] and [[Friends]]
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*[[Games]] and [[Gardening]] and [[Gifts]] and [[Guns]]
----
*[[Happiness]] and [[Hardware]] and [[Holidays]] and [[Humor]] and [[Hunting]]
----
*[[Inventions]]
----
*[[Job Advice]] and [[Job Interviews]]
----
*[[Knives]] and [[Knots]]
----
*[[Marriage]] and [[Movies]] and [[Musical Instruments]]
----
*[[Names]]
----
*[[Obesity]] and [[Obituaries]] and [[An Old Man's Stories]] and [[Organization]]
----
*[[Parenting]] and [[Parties]] and [[Places]] and [[Places to Go]] and [[Presents]]
----
*[[Rugs]]
----
*[[Search engines]] and [[Shopping]] and [[Sickness]] and [[Smoking]] and and [[Social Class]] and [[Stories]]
----
*[[Tools]] and [[TV]]
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*[[Units of Measurement]]
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==Politics==
*[[Notes on Politics]]
----
*[[Abortion]]
----
*[[Biden Administration]] and [[Bureaucracy]]
----
*[[Cancellings]] and [[The CIA]] and [[The Common Carrier Theory of Facebook]] and [[Communists]] and [[Conservatives]] and [[Corporate Wokeness]] and [[Corruption]] and [[Countries]] and [[Covid-19]]
----
*[[The Deep State]] and [[Dictators]] and [[Diplomats]]
----
*[[Elections]]
----
*[[Filibusters]] and [[Fraud in Government Programs]] and [[Free Speech]]
----
*[[Government Design]] (constitutions, civil service, etc.)
----
*[[Hate hoaxes]] and [[History and Political Tactics for Our Time]]
----
*[[Identity Politics/Tribalism]] and [[Immigration]] and [[Impeachment]] and [[The Imperial Presidency]] and [[Indiana Politics]] and [[Inequality]] and [[Israel]]
----
*The January 6 incident: [[2020 Capitol Crowd]] and [[Judges]]
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*[[Kamala Harris As Prostitute]]
----
*[[Liberals]] and [[Letter to People Who Might Vote for Biden]] and [[Liberals and Beauty]] and [[Luxury Beliefs]]
----
*[[The Media]] and [[Military Spending]]
----
*[[The Nation]] and [[Nixon]] and [[Nuclear power]]
----
*[[Personality and Politics]] and [[Political philosophy]] and [[Political Prisoners in the US]] and [[Politicians]] and [[Politics generally]] and [[Politics]] and [[Polls]] and [[Pontius Pilate As Politician]]
*[[Practical Tips on Woke Mobbing]] and [[Presidents]]
*[[The Press as an arm of the Democratic Party]]
*[[Public Intellectuals]]
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*[[Race]] and [[Redistricting]] and [[Richard II, Rebellion, and Right]] and [[Riker Book]]
----
*[[Social Policy]] and the [[Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)]] and [[Spies and Spying]] and [[Subversion]]
----
*[[Tactics to Fight Cancelling]] and [["This Land Is My Land"]] and [[Transexuals]]
----
*[[U.K. Politics]] and the [[Ukraine]]
----
*[[Vote Fraud]] and [[Voting]]
----
*[[War]] and [[Wikipedia]] and [[Wokefolk]]
----



==Religion==
*[[Notes on Religion]]
----
*[[Abortion]] and [[Anti-Semitism]]
----
*[[The Bible]] and [[Bible Translations]] and [[Useful Bible Verses]] and [[Bloomington Churches]] and [[Books]]
----
*[[Christian Business]] and [[Christian Colleges]] and [[Christmas]] and [[Church Buildings]] and [[Church Discpline]] and [[Conversion Stories]]
----
*[[Deificatio]] and [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] and [[Donations]]
----
*[[Ecclesiology]] and [[Ethics]] and [[Evangelism]]
----
*[[Faith versus Works]] and [[Forgiveness versus Justice]] and [[Fundamentalism]]
----
*[[Good Churches in Various Towns across America]] and [[The Good Shepherd]]
----
*[[Head Coverings]] and [[Holidays]] and [[Hymns]]
----
*[[Immortality]] and [[Inerrancy]]
----
*[[Judaism]]
----
*[[The Law As an Expression of God's Character]] and [[Legalism]] and [[Leviticus]]
----
*[[Making your own Christmas cards folding 8x11 paper]]
----
*[[The Name of God]] and [[The National Anthem as Idolatry]]
----
*[[Pastors]] and [[Peter's Denial]] and [[Polls: Religion]] and [[Political Economy in the Bible]] and [[Pontius Pilate As Politician]] and [[Prayer]]
----
*[[Religion in America]] and [[The Rites Controversy in China]] and [[Roman Catholicism]]
----
*[[Theology]] and [[The twelve days of Christmas]]
----


==Research==
*[[Bad Supreme Court Writing As Exemplified in ''Ford v. Montana'' (2021)]]
*[[Bankruptcy--Casey and Macey on Hertz and Absolute Priority]]
*[[Bankruptcy--Skeel on Christian Bankruptcy]]
*[[Equity-- Why Not Have Enough?]] and [[Euclid]] and [[Evaluation in Organizations]]
*[[Graveyard Bonds]]
*[[Heteroskedasticity]] and [[Hundred Flowers Bloom Model]]
*[[The Indiana Litigation Trust]] (formerly named [[The Indiana Legal Trust]])
*[[Nondisclosure Clauses]]
*[[An Old Man's Stories]] and [[Ostracism in Japan]] and [[Outliers]]
*[[Regulation Book]]
*[[Research Fraud]]
*[[Riker Book]]
*[[Shrinkage]]
*[[Specific versus General Jurisdiction for Corporations]]

*[[Talks: Polarization and Splitting a Pie (January 19, 2021)]]
*[[Notes for My Book-in-Progress on Writing, Talking, Listening and Thinking]]
*[[1933 Germany]]


==Science==
*[[Animals]]
----
*[[Cicadas]] and [[Covid-19]]
----
*[[Depression]] and [[DNA History]]
----
*[[The FDA]]
----
*[[Geology]] and [[Global Warming]]
----
*[[IQ]]
----
*[[Math]] and [[Medicine]] and [[Mushrooms]]
----
*[[Nuclear Power]]
----
*[[Plants]] and [[Pollution]]
----
*[[Scholarly Misconduct]] and [[Short Circuits]]
----
*[[Trees]]
----
*[[Zeno's Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise]]
----

==Thinking==
*[[Notes on Thinking]]
----
*[[ Authority]]
----
*[[Bayes's Rule]] and [[Bias]] and [[Bias in Research]] and [[Boasting]] and [[Books for My Children To Read]] and [[Books I Find Myself Reading Over and Over]]
----
*[[Chess]] and [[Comments]] on the Internet, and [[C. P. Snow, Good Judgement and Winston Churchill]] and [[Critical Thinking]]
----
*[[Definitions]]
----
*[[Ethics]] and [[The Exception That Proves the Rule]] and [[Experts]]
----
*[[Feeling versus Thinking]] and [[Francis Bacon's Four Idols]] and [[Freedom of Speech]]
----
*[[Innovation]] and [[Intelligence]]
----
*[[Man and Woman]] and [[Models and Heuristics]]
----
[[Nietzsche]]
----
*[[Personality]] and [[Persuasion]] and [[Psychology]]
----
*[[Randomness]] and [[Reading]] and [[Remembering to Think]]
----
*[[Self-Esteem]] and [[Selfishness]]
----
*[[Three Kinds of Concluding: Logic, Intuition, Authority]]
----
*[[Wokefolk]]
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Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2023

2023-07-19T01:50:36Z

Manson Lilian:

Subscript text

This will contain candidates for good articles.

*[https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-demons-by-fyodor-dostoevsky?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "REVIEW: Demons, by Fyodor Dostoevsky,"] JOHN PSMITH ''Substack'' (JUL 17, 2023).

*[http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/10/whose-nature-which-law.html "Whose Nature? Which Law?"] Edward Feser blog (OCTOBER 12, 2012). About what "natural law" means.

*[https://kaijaeger.substack.com/p/why-i-gave-up-my-professorship "Why-i-gave-up-my-professorship,"] Kai Jaeger, ''Substack'' (2023).

*[https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/02/07/uncivil-society-1989-and-the-implosion-of-the-communist-establishment-stephen-kotkin/ "Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Stephen Kotkin)"] (1922) and [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/05/18/book-review-power-powerless-vaclav-havel/ "The Power of the Powerless (Václav Havel)"], Charles Haywood. Related to each other.

*[https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm "Scott and Scurvy,"] ''Idleworlds.com'' blog (3.06.2010). "But here was a Royal Navy surgeon in 1911 apparently ignorant of what caused the disease, or how to cure it. Somehow a highly-trained group of scientists at the start of the 20th century knew less about scurvy than the average sea captain in Napoleonic times. Scott left a base abundantly stocked with fresh meat, fruits, apples, and lime juice, and headed out on the ice for five months with no protection against scurvy, all the while confident he was not at risk. What happened?"

*[https://wartranslated.com/pravda-com-ua-interview-ukrainian-colonel-oleh-shevchuk/ "Interview: Ukrainian colonel Oleh,"] ''Pravda.com.ua'' (1 March 2023). Excellent interview-- very honest, mostly about the nitty gritty of how Ukrainia used heavy artillery in 2022.

*[https://collateralglobal.org/article/lockdown-harms-and-the-silence-of-economists/ Economists and Covid], Jay Bhattacharya.

*[https://bigserge.substack.com/p/soviet-operational-art-troubled-beginnings Soviet army ], ''Big Serge Substack'' (2023).

*[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/scroll/scrollcodex.html Books and Scrolls,"]

*[https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/december-january-2023/elon-musk-worse-than-hitler/ "elon-musk-worse-than-hitler,"] Titania McGrath, ''The Critic'' (2023).

*[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2000/10/grim-tales "Grim Tales,"] Kari Gold, ''First Things'' (2000).

*[https://edwest.substack.com/p/the-british-colonial-mindset "The British Colonial Mindset,"] Ed West, ''Substack'' (2023).

*[https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/10-myths-told-by-covid-experts-now-debunked/ "10-myths-told-by-covid-experts-now-debunked/"] ''NY Post'' (2023).

*[https://martincitytelegraph.com/2020/01/19/who-was-the-real-sarah-rector-the-richest-black-girl-in-america/ "WHO WAS THE REAL SARAH RECTOR, “THE RICHEST BLACK GIRL IN AMERICA?”"] ''Martin City Telegraph'' (January 19, 2020).

*[https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/louisville-bank-killers-manifesto-details-mental-illness-and-anti-gun-motive-deadly"Louisville bank killer's manifesto details mental illness, anti-gun motive for deadly shooting: The killer worked at the Old National Bank where the incident took place."] "There were three main points in the manifesto, which included how easy it was to purchase a gun, to highlight the mental health crisis in the U.S. and to commit suicide, according to the Daily Mail."

*[https://rootsofprogress.org/isambard-brunel-on-engineering-standards "The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements: A letter of note from Isambard K. Brunel, civil engineer,"] Jason Crawford blog. (April 21, 2023). A good article on the danger of regulation. Good for my book. If people follow rules, they will do so blindly, so they'll still be dangerous, plus they will block innovation.

*[https://lithub.com/why-the-culture-of-the-so-called-great-books-is-hostile-to-trans-people/ "Why the Culture of the So-Called Great Books is Hostile to Trans People: Naomi Kanakia on the Intellectual Cult of the Transphobic Rationalist,"]

*[https://www.takimag.com/article/are-we-what-we-watch/ "Fiddling America Away,"] Victor Hanson (2023).

*[https://www.takimag.com/article/are-we-what-we-watch/ "We Are What We Watch,"], Steve Sailer.

*[https://americanreformer.org/2023/04/the-impossible-bronze-age-mindset/#fn-6655-1 "The Impossible Bronze Age Mindset,"] American Reformer (2023).

*[https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/remembering-edward-shils/ "Remembering Edward Shils,"] Commentary, Joseph Epstein. Absolutely first rate.

*[https://www.historydefined.net/most-famous-pirates-of-all-time/ "most-famous-pirates-of-all-time/ "]

*[https://betonit.substack.com/p/lawsuits-are-the-deep-state?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=820634&post_id=110696657&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email Lawsuits as a way around Civil rights laws], Bryan Kaplan blog post on the Texas abortion law and the Civil Rights Act.

* [https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/thinner-on-paper "Thinner on Paper,"] Peter Hitchens on being fat and on the old newspaper business in London (2022).

*[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/multiple-concussions-may-have-sped-hemingways-demise-psychiatrist-argues-180963021/ "/multiple-concussions-may-have-sped-hemingways-demise-psychiatrist-argues,"] ''Smithsonian'' (2017).

*[https://quillette.com/2023/04/05/why-the-english-department-died/ "why-the-english-department-died"] ''QUillette'' (2023).

*[https://rufo.substack.com/p/the-great-feminization-of-the-american?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "The Great Feminization of the American University:A response to Heather Mac Donald’s provocative new essay on the “mass nervous breakdown on campus,”] Christopher F. Rufo

*[https://www.parentdata.org/p/why-i-look-at-data-differently?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "Why I Look at Data Differently:A lesson on residual confounding"] by Emily Oster. Describes a study on breastfeeding and IQ which shows how the correlation shrinks and vanishes moving from no control variables to demographics to demographics and parental IQ to looking just at siblings.

*[https://www.newsweek.com/who-do-you-trust-opinion-1787783 "W.H.O. Do You Trust?"] Scott Atlas on WHO and on the Fauci-Collins conspiracy to hide the origins of covid.

*[https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/27/how-hard-work-destroys-character/ "How Hard Work Destroys Character: The case against making talented young people do menial labor," ] American Greatness, Josiah Lippincott (March 27, 2023).

*[https://www.wsj.com/articles/2022-gmc-hummer-ev-edition-1-pickup-review-a-truck-with-moves-like-a-porsche-62796087 "2022 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1 Pickup: A Truck With Moves Like a Porsche GM’s all-electric revival of the Hummer brand weighs more than 9,000 pounds and does 0 to 60 in about 3 seconds."] ''WSJ'' Dan.

*[https://twitter.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1642421942807306240 "An Apologia for English Food,"] Stone Age Herbalist, ''Twitter.'' THe comments too. 2023.

*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/classical-educations-woke-co-morbidity/ "Classical Education’s Woke Co-Morbidity,"] Matthew Freeman, ''The AMerican Conservative.'' On how the CLassical Learning test's organization has been infected by wokeness. (2023).

*[https://americanreformer.org/2023/04/are-there-trustworthy-protestant-universities/ are-there-trustworthy-protestant-universities/ ] (2023).

*[https://compactmag.com/article/how-the-deep-state-took-down-nixon how-the-deep-state-took-down-nixon ] (2023).

Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2023

2023-07-19T01:46:39Z

Manson Lilian:

Subscript text

This will contain candidates for good articles.

*[https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-demons-by-fyodor-dostoevsky?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "REVIEW: Demons, by Fyodor Dostoevsky,"] JOHN PSMITH ''Substack'' (JUL 17, 2023).

*[http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/10/whose-nature-which-law.html "Whose Nature? Which Law?"] Edward Feser blog (OCTOBER 12, 2012). About what "natural law" means.

*[https://kaijaeger.substack.com/p/why-i-gave-up-my-professorship "Why-i-gave-up-my-professorship,"] Kai Jaeger, ''Substack'' (2023).

*[https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/02/07/uncivil-society-1989-and-the-implosion-of-the-communist-establishment-stephen-kotkin/ "Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Stephen Kotkin)"] (1922) and [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/05/18/book-review-power-powerless-vaclav-havel/ "The Power of the Powerless (Václav Havel)"], Charles Haywood. Related to each other.

*[https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm "Scott and Scurvy,"] ''Idleworlds.com'' blog (3.06.2010). "But here was a Royal Navy surgeon in 1911 apparently ignorant of what caused the disease, or how to cure it. Somehow a highly-trained group of scientists at the start of the 20th century knew less about scurvy than the average sea captain in Napoleonic times. Scott left a base abundantly stocked with fresh meat, fruits, apples, and lime juice, and headed out on the ice for five months with no protection against scurvy, all the while confident he was not at risk. What happened?"

*[https://wartranslated.com/pravda-com-ua-interview-ukrainian-colonel-oleh-shevchuk/ "https://wartranslated.com/pravda-com-ua-interview-ukrainian-colonel-oleh-shevchuk/ "Interview: Ukrainian colonel Oleh,"] Pravda.com.ua (1 March 2023). Excellent interview-- very honest, mostly about the nitty gritty of how Ukrainia used heavy artillery in 2022.

*[https://collateralglobal.org/article/lockdown-harms-and-the-silence-of-economists/ Economists and Covid], Jay Bhattacharya.

*[https://bigserge.substack.com/p/soviet-operational-art-troubled-beginnings Soviet army ], ''Big Serge Substack'' (2023).

*[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/scroll/scrollcodex.html Books and Scrolls,"]

*[https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/december-january-2023/elon-musk-worse-than-hitler/ "elon-musk-worse-than-hitler,"] Titania McGrath, ''The Critic'' (2023).

*[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2000/10/grim-tales "Grim Tales,"] Kari Gold, ''First Things'' (2000).

*[https://edwest.substack.com/p/the-british-colonial-mindset "The British Colonial Mindset,"] Ed West, ''Substack'' (2023).

*[https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/10-myths-told-by-covid-experts-now-debunked/ "10-myths-told-by-covid-experts-now-debunked/"] ''NY Post'' (2023).

*[https://martincitytelegraph.com/2020/01/19/who-was-the-real-sarah-rector-the-richest-black-girl-in-america/ "WHO WAS THE REAL SARAH RECTOR, “THE RICHEST BLACK GIRL IN AMERICA?”"] ''Martin City Telegraph'' (January 19, 2020).

*[https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/louisville-bank-killers-manifesto-details-mental-illness-and-anti-gun-motive-deadly"Louisville bank killer's manifesto details mental illness, anti-gun motive for deadly shooting: The killer worked at the Old National Bank where the incident took place."] "There were three main points in the manifesto, which included how easy it was to purchase a gun, to highlight the mental health crisis in the U.S. and to commit suicide, according to the Daily Mail."

*[https://rootsofprogress.org/isambard-brunel-on-engineering-standards "The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements: A letter of note from Isambard K. Brunel, civil engineer,"] Jason Crawford blog. (April 21, 2023). A good article on the danger of regulation. Good for my book. If people follow rules, they will do so blindly, so they'll still be dangerous, plus they will block innovation.

*[https://lithub.com/why-the-culture-of-the-so-called-great-books-is-hostile-to-trans-people/ "Why the Culture of the So-Called Great Books is Hostile to Trans People: Naomi Kanakia on the Intellectual Cult of the Transphobic Rationalist,"]

*[https://www.takimag.com/article/are-we-what-we-watch/ "Fiddling America Away,"] Victor Hanson (2023).

*[ https://www.takimag.com/article/are-we-what-we-watch/ "We Are What We Watch,"], Steve Sailer.

*[https://americanreformer.org/2023/04/the-impossible-bronze-age-mindset/#fn-6655-1 "The Impossible Bronze Age Mindset,"] American Reformer (2023).

*[https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/remembering-edward-shils/ "Remembering Edward Shils,"] Commentary, Joseph Epstein. Absolutely first rate.

*[https://www.historydefined.net/most-famous-pirates-of-all-time/ "most-famous-pirates-of-all-time/ "]

*[https://betonit.substack.com/p/lawsuits-are-the-deep-state?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=820634&post_id=110696657&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email Lawsuits as a way around Civil rights laws], Bryan Kaplan blog post on the Texas abortion law and the Civil Rights Act.

* [https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/thinner-on-paper "Thinner on Paper,"] Peter Hitchens on being fat and on the old newspaper business in London (2022).

*[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/multiple-concussions-may-have-sped-hemingways-demise-psychiatrist-argues-180963021/ "/multiple-concussions-may-have-sped-hemingways-demise-psychiatrist-argues,"] ''Smithsonian'' (2017).

*[https://quillette.com/2023/04/05/why-the-english-department-died/ "why-the-english-department-died"] ''QUillette'' (2023).

*[https://rufo.substack.com/p/the-great-feminization-of-the-american?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "The Great Feminization of the American University:A response to Heather Mac Donald’s provocative new essay on the “mass nervous breakdown on campus,”] Christopher F. Rufo

*[https://www.parentdata.org/p/why-i-look-at-data-differently?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "Why I Look at Data Differently:A lesson on residual confounding"] by Emily Oster. Describes a study on breastfeeding and IQ which shows how the correlation shrinks and vanishes moving from no control variables to demographics to demographics and parental IQ to looking just at siblings.

*[https://www.newsweek.com/who-do-you-trust-opinion-1787783 "W.H.O. Do You Trust? | Opinion,"] Scott Atlas on WHO and on the Fauci-Collins conspiracy to hide the origins of covid.

*[https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/27/how-hard-work-destroys-character/ "How Hard Work Destroys Character: The case against making talented young people do menial labor," ] American Greatness, Josiah Lippincott (March 27, 2023).

*[https://www.wsj.com/articles/2022-gmc-hummer-ev-edition-1-pickup-review-a-truck-with-moves-like-a-porsche-62796087 "2022 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1 Pickup: A Truck With Moves Like a Porsche GM’s all-electric revival of the Hummer brand weighs more than 9,000 pounds and does 0 to 60 in about 3 seconds."] ''WSJ'' Dan.

*[https://twitter.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1642421942807306240 "An Apologia for English Food,"] Stone Age Herbalist, ''Twitter.'' THe comments too. 2023.

*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/classical-educations-woke-co-morbidity/ "Classical Education’s Woke Co-Morbidity,"] Matthew Freeman, ''The AMerican Conservative.'' On how the CLassical Learning test's organization has been infected by wokeness. (2023).

*[https://americanreformer.org/2023/04/are-there-trustworthy-protestant-universities/ are-there-trustworthy-protestant-universities/ ] (2023).

*[https://compactmag.com/article/how-the-deep-state-took-down-nixon how-the-deep-state-took-down-nixon ] (2023).

Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2023

2023-07-19T01:46:17Z

Manson Lilian:

Subscript text

This will contain candidates for good articles.

*[https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-demons-by-fyodor-dostoevsky?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "REVIEW: Demons, by Fyodor Dostoevsky," JOHN PSMITH ''Substack'' (JUL 17, 2023).

*[http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/10/whose-nature-which-law.html "Whose Nature? Which Law?"] Edward Feser blog (OCTOBER 12, 2012). About what "natural law" means.

*[https://kaijaeger.substack.com/p/why-i-gave-up-my-professorship "Why-i-gave-up-my-professorship,"] Kai Jaeger, ''Substack'' (2023).

*[https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/02/07/uncivil-society-1989-and-the-implosion-of-the-communist-establishment-stephen-kotkin/ "Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Stephen Kotkin)"] (1922) and [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/05/18/book-review-power-powerless-vaclav-havel/ "The Power of the Powerless (Václav Havel)"], Charles Haywood. Related to each other.

*[https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm "Scott and Scurvy,"] ''Idleworlds.com'' blog (3.06.2010). "But here was a Royal Navy surgeon in 1911 apparently ignorant of what caused the disease, or how to cure it. Somehow a highly-trained group of scientists at the start of the 20th century knew less about scurvy than the average sea captain in Napoleonic times. Scott left a base abundantly stocked with fresh meat, fruits, apples, and lime juice, and headed out on the ice for five months with no protection against scurvy, all the while confident he was not at risk. What happened?"

*[https://wartranslated.com/pravda-com-ua-interview-ukrainian-colonel-oleh-shevchuk/ "https://wartranslated.com/pravda-com-ua-interview-ukrainian-colonel-oleh-shevchuk/ "Interview: Ukrainian colonel Oleh,"] Pravda.com.ua (1 March 2023). Excellent interview-- very honest, mostly about the nitty gritty of how Ukrainia used heavy artillery in 2022.

*[https://collateralglobal.org/article/lockdown-harms-and-the-silence-of-economists/ Economists and Covid], Jay Bhattacharya.

*[https://bigserge.substack.com/p/soviet-operational-art-troubled-beginnings Soviet army ], ''Big Serge Substack'' (2023).

*[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/scroll/scrollcodex.html Books and Scrolls,"]

*[https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/december-january-2023/elon-musk-worse-than-hitler/ "elon-musk-worse-than-hitler,"] Titania McGrath, ''The Critic'' (2023).

*[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2000/10/grim-tales "Grim Tales,"] Kari Gold, ''First Things'' (2000).

*[https://edwest.substack.com/p/the-british-colonial-mindset "The British Colonial Mindset,"] Ed West, ''Substack'' (2023).

*[https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/10-myths-told-by-covid-experts-now-debunked/ "10-myths-told-by-covid-experts-now-debunked/"] ''NY Post'' (2023).

*[https://martincitytelegraph.com/2020/01/19/who-was-the-real-sarah-rector-the-richest-black-girl-in-america/ "WHO WAS THE REAL SARAH RECTOR, “THE RICHEST BLACK GIRL IN AMERICA?”"] ''Martin City Telegraph'' (January 19, 2020).

*[https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/louisville-bank-killers-manifesto-details-mental-illness-and-anti-gun-motive-deadly"Louisville bank killer's manifesto details mental illness, anti-gun motive for deadly shooting: The killer worked at the Old National Bank where the incident took place."] "There were three main points in the manifesto, which included how easy it was to purchase a gun, to highlight the mental health crisis in the U.S. and to commit suicide, according to the Daily Mail."

*[https://rootsofprogress.org/isambard-brunel-on-engineering-standards "The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements: A letter of note from Isambard K. Brunel, civil engineer,"] Jason Crawford blog. (April 21, 2023). A good article on the danger of regulation. Good for my book. If people follow rules, they will do so blindly, so they'll still be dangerous, plus they will block innovation.

*[https://lithub.com/why-the-culture-of-the-so-called-great-books-is-hostile-to-trans-people/ "Why the Culture of the So-Called Great Books is Hostile to Trans People: Naomi Kanakia on the Intellectual Cult of the Transphobic Rationalist,"]

*[https://www.takimag.com/article/are-we-what-we-watch/ "Fiddling America Away,"] Victor Hanson (2023).

*[ https://www.takimag.com/article/are-we-what-we-watch/ "We Are What We Watch,"], Steve Sailer.

*[https://americanreformer.org/2023/04/the-impossible-bronze-age-mindset/#fn-6655-1 "The Impossible Bronze Age Mindset,"] American Reformer (2023).

*[https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/remembering-edward-shils/ "Remembering Edward Shils,"] Commentary, Joseph Epstein. Absolutely first rate.

*[https://www.historydefined.net/most-famous-pirates-of-all-time/ "most-famous-pirates-of-all-time/ "]

*[https://betonit.substack.com/p/lawsuits-are-the-deep-state?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=820634&post_id=110696657&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email Lawsuits as a way around Civil rights laws], Bryan Kaplan blog post on the Texas abortion law and the Civil Rights Act.

* [https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/thinner-on-paper "Thinner on Paper,"] Peter Hitchens on being fat and on the old newspaper business in London (2022).

*[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/multiple-concussions-may-have-sped-hemingways-demise-psychiatrist-argues-180963021/ "/multiple-concussions-may-have-sped-hemingways-demise-psychiatrist-argues,"] ''Smithsonian'' (2017).

*[https://quillette.com/2023/04/05/why-the-english-department-died/ "why-the-english-department-died"] ''QUillette'' (2023).

*[https://rufo.substack.com/p/the-great-feminization-of-the-american?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "The Great Feminization of the American University:A response to Heather Mac Donald’s provocative new essay on the “mass nervous breakdown on campus,”] Christopher F. Rufo

*[https://www.parentdata.org/p/why-i-look-at-data-differently?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "Why I Look at Data Differently:A lesson on residual confounding"] by Emily Oster. Describes a study on breastfeeding and IQ which shows how the correlation shrinks and vanishes moving from no control variables to demographics to demographics and parental IQ to looking just at siblings.

*[https://www.newsweek.com/who-do-you-trust-opinion-1787783 "W.H.O. Do You Trust? | Opinion,"] Scott Atlas on WHO and on the Fauci-Collins conspiracy to hide the origins of covid.

*[https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/27/how-hard-work-destroys-character/ "How Hard Work Destroys Character: The case against making talented young people do menial labor," ] American Greatness, Josiah Lippincott (March 27, 2023).

*[https://www.wsj.com/articles/2022-gmc-hummer-ev-edition-1-pickup-review-a-truck-with-moves-like-a-porsche-62796087 "2022 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1 Pickup: A Truck With Moves Like a Porsche GM’s all-electric revival of the Hummer brand weighs more than 9,000 pounds and does 0 to 60 in about 3 seconds."] ''WSJ'' Dan.

*[https://twitter.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1642421942807306240 "An Apologia for English Food,"] Stone Age Herbalist, ''Twitter.'' THe comments too. 2023.

*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/classical-educations-woke-co-morbidity/ "Classical Education’s Woke Co-Morbidity,"] Matthew Freeman, ''The AMerican Conservative.'' On how the CLassical Learning test's organization has been infected by wokeness. (2023).

*[https://americanreformer.org/2023/04/are-there-trustworthy-protestant-universities/ are-there-trustworthy-protestant-universities/ ] (2023).

*[https://compactmag.com/article/how-the-deep-state-took-down-nixon how-the-deep-state-took-down-nixon ] (2023).

Quotations

2023-07-19T00:34:41Z

Manson Lilian: /* Rob Henderson */

==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==
*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.”

*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*"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".

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"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/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand 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. "

*"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 "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to 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."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their 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.}}

{{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."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==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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==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)

==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)

==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.” ― Isaac Asimov

==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}}

== ==
==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.”

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==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)}}

==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.}}

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

==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."]

==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 “Mending Wall.” }}

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

*"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."

*{{Quotation|
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.}}

*{{Quotation|
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.

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== 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.”

==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]}}

== ==

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

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

==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."

==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."

==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)

== ==

==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.}}

==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.}}

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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.}}

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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."

==Glantz, David (reported by)==
“Germans needed to reduce their casualties “if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.”
― David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, p. 73.

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==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==
*"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 Paul Graham (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)
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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.}}

==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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== 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."

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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.]
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==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.' "

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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.”

==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).]

==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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==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.”

==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.==
* 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.”

==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."

==Russell Long (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/]

==Lovecraft, H.P.==
" The organic things --Italo-Semitico-Mongoloid-- inhabiting that awful cesspool could not by any stretch of the imagination be call’d human. They were monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and amoebal; vaguely moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out of windows and doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea unnamabilities. They—- or the degenerate gelatinous fermentations of which they were composed—seem’d to ooze, seep and trickle thro’ the gaping cracks in the horrible houses … and I thought of some avenue of Cyclopean and unwholesome vats, crammed to the vomiting point with gangrenous vileness, and about to burst and inundate the world in one leprous cataclysm of semi-fluid rottenness." (from [https://twitter.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1671175712265388035 a letter] and [https://areomagazine.com/2019/03/05/lovecrafts-otherworldly-xenophobia/ a magazine article about it.]

==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}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
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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==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.

==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?}}

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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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==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.

*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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==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.

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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).

==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.

==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/

==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."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"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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==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!

==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.''

==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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==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==
*"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."

==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.

==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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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{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
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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.” 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?

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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.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==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."
}}

== ==

==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.

==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.}}

*[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."

----

== ==
----
==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
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
----

== ==

==Wang, John==
@j0hnwang

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."

==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}}

==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

== ==
==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/

==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}}
----
*************************** -->
==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.

*************************** -->

Daily Themes

2023-07-18T17:27:37Z

Manson Lilian: /* One Week's Plan */

Daily Themes is a writing course that has been taught at Yale since about 1907.

==The Yale Course==
Back in 1979 I took Daily Themes at Yale with poet [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hollander John Hollander] (father of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Hollander Martha], Class of '80, like me). It is the oldest course on the books at Yale, going back to 1907. We had to write five one-page papers per week on assigned themes. A professor gave one lecture a week and we each had a session with a grad student in [https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/1962-i-this-i-is-ccl Machine City], the sterile, brutalist, underground coffee corridor of the library where he would go over our writing in detail.

*"I had never had the singular importance of something impressed upon me by so many people unexpectedly. The recent Yale graduate sitting next to me on the plane. My friends. Acquaintances. Classmates. Guest speakers. Professors. Nebulously, in the air, whispered in my ears by the lingering ghosts of Yale alumni. Constantly, in both distinct memories and vague recollections, I recalled Yalies telling me to take one class: Daily Themes. As an aspiring English major and someone who (only sometimes!) buckles under peer pressure to do something really cool, I decided to take the (literally) storied class this spring." [https://admissions.yale.edu/bulldogs-blogs/logan/2020/03/01/daily-themes Logan] (2020).

*[https://aarongertler.net/daily-themes/ Aaron Gertler's blogpost] with a link to a list of the year 2015 themes.

*[https://artieisaac.com/blog/2008/11/daily-themes/ Artie Isaac blogpost] (2008).

*[https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/3491-the-class-ill-i-never-i-forget-p-span-span A ''Yale Alumni Magazine'' article on "The Class I'll Never Forget"] I took Hollander's Daily Themes, Kakutani's Real Analysis (well, audited), and Scully's History of Art.

*[http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/96_07/writing_well.html "On Learning to Write Well,"] Yale Alumni Magazine (1996).

*[https://www.chronicle.com/article/yale-writing-course-is-focus-of-power-struggle/?sra=true&cid=gen_sign_in "Yale Writing Course is Focus of Power Struggle"] ''The Chronicle of Higher Ed''.

==My Summer Project with Faith==
I'm starting to work with my high school daughter, Faith, on writing. Here's how I envisage it:

Each weekday, you will write a 250-350-word piece on some theme I will give you. They will be non-fiction, I think. I attach part of my Substack as a 320-word length sample. The first two themes, for Thursday and Friday, are:

Thursday, July 13: An email requesting a recommendation letter from someone. (Faith chose an email to her cello teacher.)

Friday, July 14: How to make some sort of food, such as banana bread or ramen. Not a recipe--complete sentences only. (Faith chose pizza with home-made crust dough.)

Note that 350 words is a tight maximum. LibreOffice shows word count as you're writing.

Each weekday, I will meet with you and with anyone else on Zoom who wants to join for half an hour. We in 2810 Dale Court will have laptops open and we'll solve the audio feedback problem by having the sound turned off on one of them. You can come to these even if you haven't written the daily theme. You and I will work out how to schedule these and will tell everybody else. Currently the only one scheduled is

Wednesday July 12, 10:30pm Eastern. https://bit.ly/3IWyiPf, passcode: 1U9ygu.

Usually we'll go over the previous assignment, but the first two days we'll probably go over some of my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/reader/writing.pdf" "Aphorisms on Writing, Speaking, and Listening"] or talk about the Yale Daily Themes course. You don't need to read anything in advance.

===One Week's Plan===
'''July 17. 9pm'''
::Discuss: How to make banana bread.
::Turn in: Revision of Email asking for a recommendation letter

'''July 18. 9pm'''
::Discuss: Revision of Email asking for a recommendation letter
::Turn in: The meaning of the word "Experience".

'''July 19. 11am'''
::Discuss: The meaning of the word "Experience".
:: Turn in: A fraught memory.

'''July 20. 9pm'''
::Discuss: A fraught memory.
::Turn in: Revision of The meaning of the word "Experience".

'''July 21. 10am'''
::Discuss: Revision of The meaning of the word "Experience".
::Turn in: Queneau anecdote.

'''July 18.''' Write a theme about the word "experience". Do you like it as a word? You can discuss the sound, the meaning, the etymology. Perhaps describe a time you heard it or used it.(adapted from the Yale list)

'''July 19.''' Using plain, ordinary words, write a theme about a particularly fraught memory. Write the theme so that it brings such things to life for a reader but use as spare and as sparse a style as you can. In fact, don’t use any word more than one syllable in length. Explore the tension between strength (and possibly complexity) of feeling and simplicity of expression. You may, if you want, even describe the difficulty of trying to convey that intensity within the given constraints. Let particularity, precision, understatement, and implication convey emotional power. (adapted from the Yale list)

'''July 21.''' The French writer Raymond Queneau wrote a book entitled Exercises in Style in which he represented the same basic event in ninety-nine different ways. Here is the anecdote:

::"On the S bus, at rush hour. A chap of about 26, felt hat with a cord instead of a ribbon, neck too long, as if someone’s been having a tug-of-war with it. People getting off. The chap in question gets annoyed with one of the men standing next to him. He accuses him of jostling him every time anyone goes past. A sniveling tone which is meant to be aggressive. When he sees a vacant seat he throws himself on to it. Two hours later, I meet him in La Cour de Rome, in front of the Gare Saint-Lazare. He’s with a friend who’s saying: “You ought to get an extra button put on your overcoat.” He shows him where (at the lapels) and why."

Rewrite this anecdote in two different styles. You can even parody or emulate two different authors. How would Fitzgerald write it? How would Milton? See [http://monoskop.org/images/4/49/Queneau_Raymond_Exercises_in_Style_pp_1-26.pdf how Quneau did it] (you’ll need to skip the prefatory elements).

Or write an anecdote of your own in two extremely different ways/styles. Make one tragic, for instance, and one comic. Again, you can emulate or parody other styles.(adapted from the Yale list)

Daily Themes

2023-07-18T17:27:03Z

Manson Lilian: /* The Yale Course */

Daily Themes is a writing course that has been taught at Yale since about 1907.

==The Yale Course==
Back in 1979 I took Daily Themes at Yale with poet [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hollander John Hollander] (father of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Hollander Martha], Class of '80, like me). It is the oldest course on the books at Yale, going back to 1907. We had to write five one-page papers per week on assigned themes. A professor gave one lecture a week and we each had a session with a grad student in [https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/1962-i-this-i-is-ccl Machine City], the sterile, brutalist, underground coffee corridor of the library where he would go over our writing in detail.

*"I had never had the singular importance of something impressed upon me by so many people unexpectedly. The recent Yale graduate sitting next to me on the plane. My friends. Acquaintances. Classmates. Guest speakers. Professors. Nebulously, in the air, whispered in my ears by the lingering ghosts of Yale alumni. Constantly, in both distinct memories and vague recollections, I recalled Yalies telling me to take one class: Daily Themes. As an aspiring English major and someone who (only sometimes!) buckles under peer pressure to do something really cool, I decided to take the (literally) storied class this spring." [https://admissions.yale.edu/bulldogs-blogs/logan/2020/03/01/daily-themes Logan] (2020).

*[https://aarongertler.net/daily-themes/ Aaron Gertler's blogpost] with a link to a list of the year 2015 themes.

*[https://artieisaac.com/blog/2008/11/daily-themes/ Artie Isaac blogpost] (2008).

*[https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/3491-the-class-ill-i-never-i-forget-p-span-span A ''Yale Alumni Magazine'' article on "The Class I'll Never Forget"] I took Hollander's Daily Themes, Kakutani's Real Analysis (well, audited), and Scully's History of Art.

*[http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/96_07/writing_well.html "On Learning to Write Well,"] Yale Alumni Magazine (1996).

*[https://www.chronicle.com/article/yale-writing-course-is-focus-of-power-struggle/?sra=true&cid=gen_sign_in "Yale Writing Course is Focus of Power Struggle"] ''The Chronicle of Higher Ed''.

==My Summer Project with Faith==
I'm starting to work with my high school daughter, Faith, on writing. Here's how I envisage it:

Each weekday, you will write a 250-350-word piece on some theme I will give you. They will be non-fiction, I think. I attach part of my Substack as a 320-word length sample. The first two themes, for Thursday and Friday, are:

Thursday, July 13: An email requesting a recommendation letter from someone. (Faith chose an email to her cello teacher.)

Friday, July 14: How to make some sort of food, such as banana bread or ramen. Not a recipe--complete sentences only. (Faith chose pizza with home-made crust dough.)

Note that 350 words is a tight maximum. LibreOffice shows word count as you're writing.

Each weekday, I will meet with you and with anyone else on Zoom who wants to join for half an hour. We in 2810 Dale Court will have laptops open and we'll solve the audio feedback problem by having the sound turned off on one of them. You can come to these even if you haven't written the daily theme. You and I will work out how to schedule these and will tell everybody else. Currently the only one scheduled is

Wednesday July 12, 10:30pm Eastern. https://bit.ly/3IWyiPf, passcode: 1U9ygu.

Usually we'll go over the previous assignment, but the first two days we'll probably go over some of my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/reader/writing.pdf" "Aphorisms on Writing, Speaking, and Listening"] or talk about the Yale Daily Themes course. You don't need to read anything in advance.

==One Week's Plan==
'''July 17. 9pm'''
::Discuss: How to make banana bread.
::Turn in: Revision of Email asking for a recommendation letter

'''July 18. 9pm'''
::Discuss: Revision of Email asking for a recommendation letter
::Turn in: The meaning of the word "Experience".

'''July 19. 11am'''
::Discuss: The meaning of the word "Experience".
:: Turn in: A fraught memory.

'''July 20. 9pm'''
::Discuss: A fraught memory.
::Turn in: Revision of The meaning of the word "Experience".

'''July 21. 10am'''
::Discuss: Revision of The meaning of the word "Experience".
::Turn in: Queneau anecdote.

'''July 18.''' Write a theme about the word "experience". Do you like it as a word? You can discuss the sound, the meaning, the etymology. Perhaps describe a time you heard it or used it.(adapted from the Yale list)

'''July 19.''' Using plain, ordinary words, write a theme about a particularly fraught memory. Write the theme so that it brings such things to life for a reader but use as spare and as sparse a style as you can. In fact, don’t use any word more than one syllable in length. Explore the tension between strength (and possibly complexity) of feeling and simplicity of expression. You may, if you want, even describe the difficulty of trying to convey that intensity within the given constraints. Let particularity, precision, understatement, and implication convey emotional power. (adapted from the Yale list)

'''July 21.''' The French writer Raymond Queneau wrote a book entitled Exercises in Style in which he represented the same basic event in ninety-nine different ways. Here is the anecdote:

::"On the S bus, at rush hour. A chap of about 26, felt hat with a cord instead of a ribbon, neck too long, as if someone’s been having a tug-of-war with it. People getting off. The chap in question gets annoyed with one of the men standing next to him. He accuses him of jostling him every time anyone goes past. A sniveling tone which is meant to be aggressive. When he sees a vacant seat he throws himself on to it. Two hours later, I meet him in La Cour de Rome, in front of the Gare Saint-Lazare. He’s with a friend who’s saying: “You ought to get an extra button put on your overcoat.” He shows him where (at the lapels) and why."

Rewrite this anecdote in two different styles. You can even parody or emulate two different authors. How would Fitzgerald write it? How would Milton? See [http://monoskop.org/images/4/49/Queneau_Raymond_Exercises_in_Style_pp_1-26.pdf how Quneau did it] (you’ll need to skip the prefatory elements).

Or write an anecdote of your own in two extremely different ways/styles. Make one tragic, for instance, and one comic. Again, you can emulate or parody other styles.(adapted from the Yale list)

Daily Themes

2023-07-18T17:21:43Z

Manson Lilian: /* One Week's Plan */

Daily Themes is a writing course that has been taught at Yale since about 1907.

==The Yale Course==
Back in 1979 I took Daily Themes at Yale with poet [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hollander John Hollander] (father of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Hollander Martha], Class of '80 like me). It is the oldest course on the books at Yale, going back to 1907. We had to write five one-page papers per week on assigned themes. A professor gave one lecture a week and we each had a session with a grad student in [https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/1962-i-this-i-is-ccl Machine City], the sterile, brutalist, underground coffee corridor of the library where he would go over our writing in detail.

*"I had never had the singular importance of something impressed upon me by so many people unexpectedly. The recent Yale graduate sitting next to me on the plane. My friends. Acquaintances. Classmates. Guest speakers. Professors. Nebulously, in the air, whispered in my ears by the lingering ghosts of Yale alumni. Constantly, in both distinct memories and vague recollections, I recalled Yalies telling me to take one class: Daily Themes. As an aspiring English major and someone who (only sometimes!) buckles under peer pressure to do something really cool, I decided to take the (literally) storied class this spring." [https://admissions.yale.edu/bulldogs-blogs/logan/2020/03/01/daily-themes Logan] (2020).

*[https://aarongertler.net/daily-themes/ Aaron Gertler's blogpost with a link to a list of the year 2015 themes.

*[https://artieisaac.com/blog/2008/11/daily-themes/ Good.

*[https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/3491-the-class-ill-i-never-i-forget-p-span-span (I took Daily Themes, Kakutani's Real Analysis, and Scully's History of Art

*[http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/96_07/writing_well.html
https://www.chronicle.com/article/yale-writing-course-is-focus-of-power-struggle/?sra=true&cid=gen_sign_in

==My Summer Project with Faith==
I'm starting to work with my high school daughter, Faith, on writing. Here's how I envisage it:

Each weekday, you will write a 250-350-word piece on some theme I will give you. They will be non-fiction, I think. I attach part of my Substack as a 320-word length sample. The first two themes, for Thursday and Friday, are:

Thursday, July 13: An email requesting a recommendation letter from someone. (Faith chose an email to her cello teacher.)

Friday, July 14: How to make some sort of food, such as banana bread or ramen. Not a recipe--complete sentences only. (Faith chose pizza with home-made crust dough.)

Note that 350 words is a tight maximum. LibreOffice shows word count as you're writing.

Each weekday, I will meet with you and with anyone else on Zoom who wants to join for half an hour. We in 2810 Dale Court will have laptops open and we'll solve the audio feedback problem by having the sound turned off on one of them. You can come to these even if you haven't written the daily theme. You and I will work out how to schedule these and will tell everybody else. Currently the only one scheduled is

Wednesday July 12, 10:30pm Eastern. https://bit.ly/3IWyiPf, passcode: 1U9ygu.

Usually we'll go over the previous assignment, but the first two days we'll probably go over some of my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/reader/writing.pdf" "Aphorisms on Writing, Speaking, and Listening"] or talk about the Yale Daily Themes course. You don't need to read anything in advance.

==One Week's Plan==
'''July 17. 9pm'''
::Discuss: How to make banana bread.
::Turn in: Revision of Email asking for a recommendation letter

'''July 18. 9pm'''
::Discuss: Revision of Email asking for a recommendation letter
::Turn in: The meaning of the word "Experience".

'''July 19. 11am'''
::Discuss: The meaning of the word "Experience".
:: Turn in: A fraught memory.

'''July 20. 9pm'''
::Discuss: A fraught memory.
::Turn in: Revision of The meaning of the word "Experience".

'''July 21. 10am'''
::Discuss: Revision of The meaning of the word "Experience".
::Turn in: Queneau anecdote.

'''July 18.''' Write a theme about the word "experience". Do you like it as a word? You can discuss the sound, the meaning, the etymology. Perhaps describe a time you heard it or used it.(adapted from the Yale list)

'''July 19.''' Using plain, ordinary words, write a theme about a particularly fraught memory. Write the theme so that it brings such things to life for a reader but use as spare and as sparse a style as you can. In fact, don’t use any word more than one syllable in length. Explore the tension between strength (and possibly complexity) of feeling and simplicity of expression. You may, if you want, even describe the difficulty of trying to convey that intensity within the given constraints. Let particularity, precision, understatement, and implication convey emotional power. (adapted from the Yale list)

'''July 21.''' The French writer Raymond Queneau wrote a book entitled Exercises in Style in which he represented the same basic event in ninety-nine different ways. Here is the anecdote:

::"On the S bus, at rush hour. A chap of about 26, felt hat with a cord instead of a ribbon, neck too long, as if someone’s been having a tug-of-war with it. People getting off. The chap in question gets annoyed with one of the men standing next to him. He accuses him of jostling him every time anyone goes past. A sniveling tone which is meant to be aggressive. When he sees a vacant seat he throws himself on to it. Two hours later, I meet him in La Cour de Rome, in front of the Gare Saint-Lazare. He’s with a friend who’s saying: “You ought to get an extra button put on your overcoat.” He shows him where (at the lapels) and why."

Rewrite this anecdote in two different styles. You can even parody or emulate two different authors. How would Fitzgerald write it? How would Milton? See [http://monoskop.org/images/4/49/Queneau_Raymond_Exercises_in_Style_pp_1-26.pdf how Quneau did it] (you’ll need to skip the prefatory elements).

Or write an anecdote of your own in two extremely different ways/styles. Make one tragic, for instance, and one comic. Again, you can emulate or parody other styles.(adapted from the Yale list)

Daily Themes

2023-07-18T17:18:48Z

Manson Lilian: /* My Summer Project with Faith */

Daily Themes is a writing course that has been taught at Yale since about 1907.

==The Yale Course==
Back in 1979 I took Daily Themes at Yale with poet [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hollander John Hollander] (father of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Hollander Martha], Class of '80 like me). It is the oldest course on the books at Yale, going back to 1907. We had to write five one-page papers per week on assigned themes. A professor gave one lecture a week and we each had a session with a grad student in [https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/1962-i-this-i-is-ccl Machine City], the sterile, brutalist, underground coffee corridor of the library where he would go over our writing in detail.

*"I had never had the singular importance of something impressed upon me by so many people unexpectedly. The recent Yale graduate sitting next to me on the plane. My friends. Acquaintances. Classmates. Guest speakers. Professors. Nebulously, in the air, whispered in my ears by the lingering ghosts of Yale alumni. Constantly, in both distinct memories and vague recollections, I recalled Yalies telling me to take one class: Daily Themes. As an aspiring English major and someone who (only sometimes!) buckles under peer pressure to do something really cool, I decided to take the (literally) storied class this spring." [https://admissions.yale.edu/bulldogs-blogs/logan/2020/03/01/daily-themes Logan] (2020).

*[https://aarongertler.net/daily-themes/ Aaron Gertler's blogpost with a link to a list of the year 2015 themes.

*[https://artieisaac.com/blog/2008/11/daily-themes/ Good.

*[https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/3491-the-class-ill-i-never-i-forget-p-span-span (I took Daily Themes, Kakutani's Real Analysis, and Scully's History of Art

*[http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/96_07/writing_well.html
https://www.chronicle.com/article/yale-writing-course-is-focus-of-power-struggle/?sra=true&cid=gen_sign_in

==My Summer Project with Faith==
I'm starting to work with my high school daughter, Faith, on writing. Here's how I envisage it:

Each weekday, you will write a 250-350-word piece on some theme I will give you. They will be non-fiction, I think. I attach part of my Substack as a 320-word length sample. The first two themes, for Thursday and Friday, are:

Thursday, July 13: An email requesting a recommendation letter from someone. (Faith chose an email to her cello teacher.)

Friday, July 14: How to make some sort of food, such as banana bread or ramen. Not a recipe--complete sentences only. (Faith chose pizza with home-made crust dough.)

Note that 350 words is a tight maximum. LibreOffice shows word count as you're writing.

Each weekday, I will meet with you and with anyone else on Zoom who wants to join for half an hour. We in 2810 Dale Court will have laptops open and we'll solve the audio feedback problem by having the sound turned off on one of them. You can come to these even if you haven't written the daily theme. You and I will work out how to schedule these and will tell everybody else. Currently the only one scheduled is

Wednesday July 12, 10:30pm Eastern. https://bit.ly/3IWyiPf, passcode: 1U9ygu.

Usually we'll go over the previous assignment, but the first two days we'll probably go over some of my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/reader/writing.pdf" "Aphorisms on Writing, Speaking, and Listening"] or talk about the Yale Daily Themes course. You don't need to read anything in advance.

==One Week's Plan==
July 17. 9pm
::Discuss: How to make banana bread.
::Turn in: Revision of Email asking for a recommendation letter

July 18. 9pm
Discuss: Revision of Email asking for a recommendation letter
Turn in: The meaning of the word "Experience".

July 19. 11am
Discuss: The meaning of the word "Experience".
Turn in: A fraught memory.

July 20. 9pm
Discuss: A fraught memory.
Turn in: Revision of The meaning of the word "Experience".

July 21. 10am
:Discuss: Revision of The meaning of the word "Experience".
:Turn in: Queneau anecdote.

July 18. Write a theme about the word "experience". Do you like it as a word? You can discuss the sound, the meaning, the etymology. Perhaps describe a time you heard it or used it.

July 19. Using plain, ordinary words, write a theme about someone or something you love passionately or about a particularly fraught memory. Write the theme so that it brings such things to life for a reader but use as spare and as sparse a style as you can. In fact, don’t use any word more than one syllable in length. Explore the tension between strength (and possibly complexity) of feeling and simplicity of expression. You may, if you want, even describe the difficulty of trying to convey that intensity within the given constraints. Let particularity, precision, understatement, and implication convey emotional power.

July 21. The French writer Raymond Queneau wrote a book entitled Exercises in Style in which he represented the same basic event in ninety-nine different ways. Here is the anecdote:

"On the S bus, at rush hour. A chap of about 26, felt hat with a cord instead of a ribbon, neck too long, as if someone’s been having a tug-of-war with it. People getting off. The chap in question gets annoyed with one of the men standing next to him. He accuses him of jostling him every time anyone goes past. A sniveling tone which is meant to be aggressive. When he sees a vacant seat he throws himself on to it. Two hours later, I meet him in La Cour de Rome, in front of the Gare Saint-Lazare. He’s with a friend who’s saying: “You ought to get an extra button put on your overcoat.” He shows him where (at the lapels) and why."

Rewrite this anecdote in two different styles. You can even parody or emulate two different authors. How would Fitzgerald write it? How would Milton? See [http://monoskop.org/images/4/49/Queneau_Raymond_Exercises_in_Style_pp_1-26.pdf how Quneau did it] (you’ll need to skip the prefatory elements).

Or write an anecdote of your own in two extremely different ways/styles. Make one tragic, for instance, and one comic. Again, you can emulate or parody other styles.

Daily Themes

2023-07-18T17:16:04Z

Manson Lilian:

Daily Themes is a writing course that has been taught at Yale since about 1907.

==The Yale Course==
Back in 1979 I took Daily Themes at Yale with poet [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hollander John Hollander] (father of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Hollander Martha], Class of '80 like me). It is the oldest course on the books at Yale, going back to 1907. We had to write five one-page papers per week on assigned themes. A professor gave one lecture a week and we each had a session with a grad student in [https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/1962-i-this-i-is-ccl Machine City], the sterile, brutalist, underground coffee corridor of the library where he would go over our writing in detail.

*"I had never had the singular importance of something impressed upon me by so many people unexpectedly. The recent Yale graduate sitting next to me on the plane. My friends. Acquaintances. Classmates. Guest speakers. Professors. Nebulously, in the air, whispered in my ears by the lingering ghosts of Yale alumni. Constantly, in both distinct memories and vague recollections, I recalled Yalies telling me to take one class: Daily Themes. As an aspiring English major and someone who (only sometimes!) buckles under peer pressure to do something really cool, I decided to take the (literally) storied class this spring." [https://admissions.yale.edu/bulldogs-blogs/logan/2020/03/01/daily-themes Logan] (2020).

*[https://aarongertler.net/daily-themes/ Aaron Gertler's blogpost with a link to a list of the year 2015 themes.

*[https://artieisaac.com/blog/2008/11/daily-themes/ Good.

*[https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/3491-the-class-ill-i-never-i-forget-p-span-span (I took Daily Themes, Kakutani's Real Analysis, and Scully's History of Art

*[http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/96_07/writing_well.html
https://www.chronicle.com/article/yale-writing-course-is-focus-of-power-struggle/?sra=true&cid=gen_sign_in

==My Summer Project with Faith==
I'm starting to work with my high school daughter, Faith, on writing. Here's how I envisage it:

Each weekday, you will write a 250-350-word piece on some theme I will give you. They will be non-fiction, I think. I attach part of my Substack as a 320-word length sample. The first two themes, for Thursday and Friday, are:

Thursday, July 13: An email requesting a recommendation letter from someone. (Faith chose an email to her cello teacher.)

Friday, July 14: How to make some sort of food, such as banana bread or ramen. Not a recipe--complete sentences only. (Faith chose pizza with home-made crust dough.)

Note that 350 words is a tight maximum. LibreOffice shows word count as you're writing.

Each weekday, I will meet with you and with anyone else on Zoom who wants to join for half an hour. We in 2810 Dale Court will have laptops open and we'll solve the audio feedback problem by having the sound turned off on one of them. You can come to these even if you haven't written the daily theme. You and I will work out how to schedule these and will tell everybody else. Currently the only one scheduled is

Wednesday July 12, 10:30pm Eastern. https://bit.ly/3IWyiPf, passcode: 1U9ygu .

Usually we'll go over the previous assignment, but the first two days we'll probably go over some of my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/reader/writing.pdf" "Aphorisms on Writing, Speaking, and Listening"] or talk about the Yale Daily Themes course. You don't need to read anything in advance.
----
v July 17. 9pm: Discuss: How to make banana bread.
Turn in: Revision of Email asking for a recommendation letter

July 18. 9pm: Discuss: Revision of Email asking for a recommendation letter
Turn in: The meaning of the word "Experience".

July 19. 11am: Discuss: The meaning of the word "Experience".
Turn in: A fraught memory.

July 20. 9pm: Discuss: A fraught memory.
Turn in: Revision of The meaning of the word "Experience".

July 21. 10am
:Discuss: Revision of The meaning of the word "Experience".
:Turn in: Queneau anecdote.

July 18. Write a theme about the word "experience". Do you like it as a word? You can discuss the sound, the meaning, the etymology. Perhaps describe a time you heard it or used it.

July 19. Using plain, ordinary words, write a theme about someone or something you love passionately or about a particularly fraught memory. Write the theme so that it brings such things to life for a reader but use as spare and as sparse a style as you can. In fact, don’t use any word more than one syllable in length. Explore the tension between strength (and possibly complexity) of feeling and simplicity of expression. You may, if you want, even describe the difficulty of trying to convey that intensity within the given constraints. Let particularity, precision, understatement, and implication convey emotional power.

July 21. The French writer Raymond Queneau wrote a book entitled Exercises in Style in which he represented the same basic event in ninety-nine different ways. Here is the anecdote:

"On the S bus, at rush hour. A chap of about 26, felt hat with a cord instead of a ribbon, neck too long, as if someone’s been having a tug-of-war with it. People getting off. The chap in question gets annoyed with one of the men standing next to him. He accuses him of jostling him every time anyone goes past. A sniveling tone which is meant to be aggressive. When he sees a vacant seat he throws himself on to it. Two hours later, I meet him in La Cour de Rome, in front of the Gare Saint-Lazare. He’s with a friend who’s saying: “You ought to get an extra button put on your overcoat.” He shows him where (at the lapels) and why."

Rewrite this anecdote in two different styles. You can even parody or emulate two different authors. How would Fitzgerald write it? How would Milton? See [http://monoskop.org/images/4/49/Queneau_Raymond_Exercises_in_Style_pp_1-26.pdf how Quneau did it] (you’ll need to skip the prefatory elements).

Or write an anecdote of your own in two extremely different ways/styles. Make one tragic, for instance, and one comic. Again, you can emulate or parody other styles.

Daily Themes

2023-07-18T16:53:07Z

Manson Lilian:

Daily Themes is a writing course that has been taught at Yale since about 1907.

==My Summer Project with Faith==
I'm starting to work with my high school daughter, Faith, on writing. Here's how I envisage it:

Each weekday, you will write a 250-350-word piece on some theme I will give you. They will be non-fiction, I think. I attach part of my Substack as a 320-word length sample. The first two themes, for Thursday and Friday, are:

Thursday, July 13: An email requesting a recommendation letter from someone. (Faith chose an email to her cello teacher.)

Friday, July 14: How to make some sort of food, such as banana bread or ramen. Not a recipe--complete sentences only. (Faith chose pizza with home-made crust dough.)

Note that 350 words is a tight maximum. LibreOffice shows word count as you're writing.

Each weekday, I will meet with Faith, and with anyone else on Zoom who wants to join, for half an hour. We in 2810 Dale Court will have laptops open, and we'll solve the audio feedback problem by having the sound turned off on one of them. You can come to these even if you haven't written the daily theme. Faith and I will work out how to schedule these and will tell everybody else. Currently the only one scheduled is

Wednesday July 12, 10:30pm Eastern. https://bit.ly/3IWyiPf, passcode: 1U9ygu .

Usually we'll go over the previous assignment, but the first two days we'll probably go over some of https://rasmusen.org/GI/reader/writing.pdf or talk about the Yale Daily Themes course. You don't need to read it in advance.

Back in 1979 I took Daily Themes at Yale. It is the oldest course on the books there, going back to 1907. We had to write five one-page papers per week on an assigned theme. A professor gave one lecture a week, and we each had a session with a grad student in Machine City, the sterile underground coffee corridor of the library where he would go over our writing in detail.

"I had never had the singular importance of something impressed upon me by so many people unexpectedly. The recent Yale graduate sitting next to me on the plane. My friends. Acquaintances. Classmates. Guest speakers. Professors. Nebulously, in the air, whispered in my ears by the lingering ghosts of Yale alumni. Constantly, in both distinct memories and vague recollections, I recalled Yalies telling me to take one class: Daily Themes. As an aspiring English major and someone who (only sometimes!) buckles under peer pressure to do something really cool, I decided to take the (literally) storied class this spring." (https://admissions.yale.edu/bulldogs-blogs/logan/2020/03/01/daily-themes)

https://aarongertler.net/daily-themes/ Aaron Gertler's blogpost with a link to a list of the year 2015 themes.

https://artieisaac.com/blog/2008/11/daily-themes/ Good.

https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/3491-the-class-ill-i-never-i-forget-p-span-span (I took Daily Themes, Kakutani's Real Analysis, and Scully's History of Art

http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/96_07/writing_well.html
https://www.chronicle.com/article/yale-writing-course-is-focus-of-power-struggle/?sra=true&cid=gen_sign_in

EJMR

2023-07-18T16:46:52Z

Manson Lilian:

EJMR is Economics Job Market Rumors, a bulletin board on the Net that talks about the PhD Economics job market, academic scandals, plagiarism, life as a grad student, and lots of miscellaneous and off-topic stuff.

*[https://www.karlstack.com/p/david-card-blackpilled-an-entire-99d?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Karlstack on the Alice Wu attack on EJMR], including a list of scandals uncovered by EJMR.
:"Schiraldi (LSE) and Seiler (Stanford) false coauthors of AER publication

New "Family Ruptures" AER / NBER is rip-off of obscure paper

log(NAICS) is a scandal that everyone is simply ignoring

Lisa Cook presenting her AER P&P as an AER

Rogoff/Reinhart coding error -- ouch!!

WTF?? The Impact of MTV's 16 and Pregnant on Teen Childbearing

A new marketing / consumer research scandal on sight?

:None of these scandals have been discussed even once on #EconTwitter, nor have they been reported by the New York Times. Weird. So, EJMR is the only place where all the frauds in economics profession get exposed. Of course these people want to destroy it, then."

EJMR

2023-07-18T16:43:51Z

Manson Lilian: Created page with "EJMR is Economics Job Market Rumors, a bulletin board on the Net that talks about the PhD Economics job market, academic scandals, plagiarism, life as a grad student, and lot..."

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2023-07-18T16:41:26Z

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Quotations

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==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==
*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.”

*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*"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".

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"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/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand 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. "

*"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 "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to 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."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their 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.}}

{{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."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==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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==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)

==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)

==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.” ― Isaac Asimov

==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}}

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==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.”

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==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)}}

==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.}}

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

==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."]

==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 “Mending Wall.” }}

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

*"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."

*{{Quotation|
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.}}

*{{Quotation|
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.

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== 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.”

==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]}}

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

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

==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."

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

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==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."

==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)

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==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.}}

==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.}}

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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.}}

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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."

==Glantz, David (reported by)==
“Germans needed to reduce their casualties “if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.”
― David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, p. 73.

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==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==
*"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 Paul Graham (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)
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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.}}

==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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== 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/

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

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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."

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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.]
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==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.' "

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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.”

==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).]

==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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==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.”

==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.==
* 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.”

==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."

==Russell Long (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/]

==Lovecraft, H.P.==
" The organic things --Italo-Semitico-Mongoloid-- inhabiting that awful cesspool could not by any stretch of the imagination be call’d human. They were monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and amoebal; vaguely moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out of windows and doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea unnamabilities. They—- or the degenerate gelatinous fermentations of which they were composed—seem’d to ooze, seep and trickle thro’ the gaping cracks in the horrible houses … and I thought of some avenue of Cyclopean and unwholesome vats, crammed to the vomiting point with gangrenous vileness, and about to burst and inundate the world in one leprous cataclysm of semi-fluid rottenness." (from [https://twitter.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1671175712265388035 a letter] and [https://areomagazine.com/2019/03/05/lovecrafts-otherworldly-xenophobia/ a magazine article about it.]

==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}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
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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==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.

==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?}}

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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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==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.

*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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==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.

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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).

==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.

==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/

==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."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"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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==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!

==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.''

==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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==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==
*"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."

==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.

==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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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{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
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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.” 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?

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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.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==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."
}}

== ==

==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.

==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.}}

*[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."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
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
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== ==

==Wang, John==
@j0hnwang

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."

==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}}

==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

== ==
==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/

==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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Race

2023-07-17T20:15:19Z

Manson Lilian:

*https://www.manhattan-institute.org/social-construction-racism-united-states "he Social Construction of Racism in the United States,"]Eric Kaufmann April 7, 2021. Interesting article on a survey study of racism and how people think it is bad and getting worse.

*[https://quillette.com/2021/07/29/charles-murrays-facing-reality-a-review/ A 2021 Razib Khan review] of Murray's Facing Reality book in Quillette that soberly looks at the psychology of liberal denial of reality.

*[https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1451981139716018179 Cupid dating service tables of how men and women of 4 different ethnicities race each group]

*[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/state-of-the-union-1906.php Roosevelts 1906 State of the Union speech] on lynching and on public education for all races.

==Racial Preferences==
*[https://twitter.com/ProfDBernstein/status/1680977942065577985 David Berntstein tweet:] " When the U Mich Law faculty debated whether to include Cuban Americans for Hispanic preferences, "one professor objected on the grounds that Cubans were Republican." Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 US at 393."

Education

2023-07-17T20:14:21Z

Manson Lilian: /* College Admissions Mania */

==College Admissions Mania==
{{Quotation|
I had signed myself up to be locked in a small office, appointment after appointment, with hugely powerful parents and their mortified children as I delivered news so grimly received that I began to think of myself less as an administrator than as an oncologist. Along the way they said such crass things, such rude things, such greedy things, and such borderline-racist things that I began to hate them. They, in turn, began to hate me...

If the kid got in, it was because he was a genius; if he didn’t, it was because I screwed up. When a venture capitalist and his ageless wife storm into your boss’s office to get you fired because you failed to get their daughter (conscientious, but no atom splitter) into the prestigious school they wanted, you can really start to question whether it’s worth the 36K...

Worst of all, the helpless kid would be sitting right there, shrinking into the couch cushions as his parents all but said that his entire secondary education had been a giant waste of money. The parents would simmer down a bit, and the four of us would stew in misery.

I will now add as a very truthful disclaimer that the horrible parents constituted at most 25 percent of the total...

When I began the job, the SAT and the ACT offered extended-time testing to students with learning disabilities, provided that they had been diagnosed by a professional. However, an asterisk appeared next to extended-time scores, alerting the college that the student had taken the test without the usual time limit. But during my time at the school, this asterisk was found to violate the Americans With Disabilities Act, and the testing companies dropped it. Suddenly it was possible for everyone with enough money to get a diagnosis that would grant their kid two full days—instead of four hours—to take the SAT, and the colleges would never know. By 2006, according to Slate, “in places like Greenwich, Conn., and certain zip codes of New York City and Los Angeles, the percentage of untimed test-taking is said to be close to 50 percent.” Taking a test under normal time limits in one of these neighborhoods is a sucker’s game—you’ve voluntarily handicapped yourself.*

Legacy admissions have often been called affirmative action for white people, but the rich-kid sports—water polo, tennis, swimming, gymnastics, volleyball, and even (God help us all) sailing and actual polo—are the true affirmative action for the rich. I first became acquainted with this fact when I was preparing for a meeting with the parents of a girl who was a strong but not dazzling student; the list her parents had submitted, however, consisted almost exclusively of Ivy League colleges. I brought her file in to my boss for guidance. She looked it over and then, noticing something in the section on extracurricular activities and tapping it decisively with her pen, said, “Oh, she’ll get in—volleyball.”

Volleyball? Yale was going to let her in—above half a dozen much more academically qualified and many much more interesting kids on my roster—because she played volleyball? ...

Much of the discussion of this scandal has centered on the corruption in the college-admissions process. But think about the kinds of jobs that the indicted parents held. Four of them worked in private equity, a fifth in the field of “investments,” others in real-estate development and the most senior management of huge corporations. Together, they have handled billions of dollars’ worth of assets within heavily regulated fields—yet look how easily and how eagerly they allegedly embrace a crooked scheme, as quoted in the court documents.

[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/what-college-admissions-scandal-reveals/586468/ "They Had It Coming": The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs."], Flanagan (2019).}}

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[https://www.justice.gov/file/1142876/download Affidavit in the Singer College Admissions Indictment]
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{{Quotation|
All applicants to Harvard are ranked on a scale of one to six based on their academic qualifications, and athletes who scored a four were accepted at a rate of about 70 percent. Yet the admit rate for nonathletes with the same score was 0.076 percent—nearly 1,000 times lower. Similarly, 83 percent of athletes with a top academic score got an acceptance letter, compared with 16 percent of nonathletes. Legacy admissions policies get a lot of flak for privileging white applicants, but athletes have a much bigger effect on admissions, and make up a much bigger percentage of the class. And it’s not just Harvard—in 2002, James Schulman and former Princeton University President William Bowen looked at 30 selective colleges and found that athletes were given a 48 percent boost in admissions, compared with 25 percent for legacies and 18 percent for racial minorities...

According to the NCAA, at all but 20 colleges, athletics programs lose more money than they make. That raises a baffling question: Why are colleges willing to lower their admissions standards to recruit the best athletes when their expensive sports programs are unlikely to return the investment?

[https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/10/college-sports-benefits-white-students/573688/ "College Sports Are Affirmative Action for Rich White Students
Athletes are often held to a lower standard by admissions officers, and in the Ivy League, 65 percent of players are white."]
SAAHIL DESAI (2018).
}}

==Past Levels of Elite Education==

{{Quotation|
As a fun exercise, read through Wikipedia’s list of multilingual presidents of the United States. We start with entries like this one:

Thomas Jefferson read a number of different languages. In a letter to Philadelphia publisher Joseph Delaplaine on April 12, 1817, Jefferson claimed to read and write six languages: Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, and English. After his death, a number of other books, dictionaries, and grammar manuals in various languages were found in Jefferson’s library, suggesting that he studied additional languages beyond those he spoke and wrote well. Among these were books in Arabic, Gaelic, and Welsh.

and this one:

John Quincy Adams went to school in both France and the Netherlands, and spoke fluent French and conversational Dutch. Adams strove to improve his abilities in Dutch throughout his life, and at times translated a page of Dutch a day to help improve his mastery of the language. Official documents that he translated were sent to the Secretary of State of the United States, so that Adams’ studies would serve a useful purpose as well. When his father appointed him United States Ambassador to Prussia, Adams dedicated himself to becoming proficient in German in order to give him the tools to strengthen relations between the two countries. He improved his skills by translating articles from German to English, and his studies made his diplomatic efforts more successful. In addition to the two languages he spoke fluently, he also studied Italian, though he admitted to making little progress in it since he had no one with whom to practice speaking and hearing the language. Adams also read Latin very well, translated a page a day of Latin text, and studied classical Greek in his spare time.

eventually proceeding to entries more like this one:

George W. Bush speaks some amount of Spanish, and has delivered speeches in the language. His speeches in Spanish have been imperfect, with English dispersed throughout. Some pundits, like Molly Ivins, have pointedly questioned the extent to which he could speak the language, noting that he kept to similar phrasing in numerous appearances.

and this one:

Barack Obama himself claims to speak no foreign languages. However, according to the President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, during a telephone conversation Obama was able to deliver a basic four-word question in “fluent Indonesian”, as well as mention the names for a few Indonesian food items. He also knows some Spanish, but admits to only knowing “15 words” and having a poor knowledge of the language...

Today we have Wikipedia, the Internet, and as many cheap books as Amazon can supply us. Back in the old days they had to make do with whatever they could get from their local library. Even more troubling, today we start with a huge advantage – the Flynn Effect has made our average IQ 10 to 20 points higher than in 1900. Yet once again, even with our huge technological and biological head start, we are still doing worse than the Old Days, which suggest that here, too, the Old Days may have had some kind of social/political advantage. https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/}}

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==Teaching Critical Thinking==
I like "modern flashpoint". Students don't grasp that a professor would assign readings he thinks are totally wrong but good for discussion and showing how misguided or dishonest some people are. Contradictory readings distress them; what should they memorize for the test? See https://www.academia.edu/30590707/Religion_and_Power_in_Modern_South_Asia_Syllabus_Spring_2017

Articles to read

2023-07-17T16:29:03Z

Manson Lilian: /* BOOKS */

==Easy Reading==
*[https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/ivy-league-exodus "Ivy League Exodus"] of Jews.

*[https://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-us-minuteman-si-1473483587/amp?__twitter_impression=true "For-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-us-minuteman-siloes," ]

*[https://www-journals-uchicago edu.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/261900 Revisiting Ramseyer: The Chicago School of Law and Economics Comes to Japan] Jan 2021 Craig Freedman Luke R. Nottage

* "South side blues: An oral history of the Chicago school"
December 2010Journal of the History of Economic Thought 32(04):495-530
CRAIG FREEDMAN

*[https://www.thespiritlife.net/facets/devotional/61-motivated/motivated-publications/630-evangelism-through-networking "Evangleism Through Netowrking,"] Timothy Keller.

*[https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/library/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf "The Usefulness of Uselesss Research,"] Flexner (1939). GOOD read.

*[https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantcheva/files/How_to_run_surveys_Stantcheva.pdf Stancheva on surveys]

*[https://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html How to ask computer questions]

*[https://www.academia.edu/36129325/Silent_Sounds_Musical_Iconography_in_a_Fifteenth_Century_Hebrew_Prayer_Book_in_Susan_Boynton_and_Diane_J_Reilly_eds_Resounding_Images_Medieval_Intersections_of_Art_Music_and_Sound_Brepols_2015_ Suzie's medieval manuscript article]

*[https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1590130321076654080 MSNBC and Shostokovich.]

* https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1587171308755996672

* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X8bo1qQsdfxYccG-zNuC1akqSz5K1d7SXr7MAz58JGY/edit

* https://tocharus.substack.com/p/peku-and-the-worlds-first-coins

* https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/20/gambling-addiction-tennis-bet365-online-betting-hannah-jane-parkinson?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

* https://twitter.com/chancery_daily/status/1592155452569440258

* https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1585493134842204161

* https://twitter.com/AndyGrewal/status/1585077777438773248

* https://www.palladiummag.com/2021/10/11/the-triumph-and-terror-of-wang-huning/

* https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TDaMD41hXU3fxj8Yrmg1j2MEW29G6GP6/view

* https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/comment-page-4/#comment-660139

* https://twitter.com/monitoringbias/status/1590106995990089731

* https://thezvi.substack.com/p/whats-the-deal-with-elon-musk-and

* https://americanreformer.org/2022/11/polling-political-parties/

* https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/06/17/built-the-hidden-stories-behind-our-structures-roma-agrawal/

* https://www.newsweek.com/erecting-wall-separation-between-tech-state-opinion-1757891

* https://americanreformer.org/2022/11/polling-political-parties/

* https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/japan%E2%80%99s-tsunami-reaction-shows-lessons-learned-past-disasters

* https://www.alamy.com/everglades-national-park-florida-rock-reef-pass-elevation-3-feet-on-image67023473.html

* https://www.sciencenews.org/article/canaanite-comb-lice-israel-alphabet

*https://www.tabletmag.com/collections/wokeness-social-justice-cancel-culture

*https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/

* https://fa.bianp.net/blog/2022/russian-roulette/

*https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=400020126087064101115093084065127010096068026065069063076084017102112030127116101127028021100056061044043005100120097112093107049022017012058021014079124070125070030073087060026100076117127027031007113080068070124106007104025123103088084011095093017120&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE

*https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=420125003002077013091004082072112092096020034023025001122075003066081028031115006071005059060034023051016028107102122007071006046078006069052027072094015070016123075021018062084071122004023023075116108099092126001100026100070075122093025123114074126084&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE

*https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/

*https://twitter.com/Pennthusiast/status/1580902202494701569

*https://twitter.com/ProfEricTalley/status/1568094622726987776

*[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-contest-2022-winners Astralcodex book review contest winners]

*[https://www-cambridge-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/core/journals/macroeconomic-dynamics/article/an-interview-with-paul-a-samuelson/27D1B2FC3BDBD93E211E5210A2D911CD Samuelson on postwar economic history of thought] (2003 or so)

*[https://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article1842940/Warum-die-Sueddeutschen-besser-sind.html German article on south erus noth German farms and modern prosperity]

*[https://razib.substack.com/p/hungarians-as-the-ghost-of-the-magyar?s=w Rzib on Magyars]

*''Chessman v. Nainby,'' 93 Eng. Rep. 819, 821 (1726) (find it)

*[https://www.scribd.com/document/49102936/Leo-Strauss-Remarks-at-Farewell-to-E-C-Banfield-on-Departure-from-Chicago-1959 Strauss on Banfield (1959)]READ

*[https://reason.com/volokh/2022/01/21/will-the-en-banc-9th-circuit-extend-the-second-amendments-losing-streak-to-51-cases/ Gun control 9th Circuit faux en banc opinion]READ

*[https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Murray%20Intelligence.pdf Murray on going to college] (after his book was publisehd)

*[https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/how-to-save-marriage-in-america/283732/ Rich peopel get married] Atlatnic, (2022)

*[https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2022/03/17/unmasking-the-campaign-against-white-supremacy-culture-in-science/ "Unmasking the Campaign against “White Supremacy Culture” in Science"] (2022) Minding the Campus.

*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017.

*[https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/18/spygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump/ pygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump], Margot Cleveland, March 2022.

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4060431 Vischer on Christian Nationalism being opposed to the rule of law,] probably a stupid article worth reading to understand the liberal mindset.

*[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/21/literatures-most-controversial-nobel-laureate PeterHandke, literatures-most-controversial-nobel-laureate ] New Yorker (2022).

*[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.]

*[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-paleogenomics.html DNA in the South Pacific]

*[https://quillette.com/2020/01/04/build-your-own-intellectual-oasis/ Bill Frezza "Build Your Own Intellectual Oasis,"]

*[https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.4.121 Sandel JEP on altruisma and economics]

*Mann’s most important commentary on Wagner was an address to the Goethe Society of Munich in February 1933 on the fiftieth anniversary of the composer’s death. Entitled 'The Sufferings and Greatness of Richard Wagner',

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3908595 New Formalism], Paul Miller, Notre Dame.

*[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/afghanistan-military-officials-distracted-woke-issues?fbclid=IwAR1CNfgX_YU7tbty4qJVfzYlbTkXHItaF2fcWvsCWXB-vrPEsJdf3gU21ok Afghanistan-military-officials-distracted-woke-issues?]

*[https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-1392/185344/20210729162610813_Dobbs%20Amicus%20FINAL%20PDFA.pdf Jonathan Mitchell] amicus to SC on an abortion case in 2021]

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3839768 Salop on vertical merger guidelines.] Looks wrong; if so, needs refuting.

*[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/peer-review-request-depression Astral Codex Ten on Depression]

*[https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/boxplots.pdf Boxplots]

*[https://www.res.org.uk/resources-page/res2021-lunchtime-chat-the-state-of-economic-science.html Coyle and Tirole podcast] (2021)

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_languages_with_grammatical_gender#Hebrew "Gender_neutrality_in_languages_with_grammatical_gender,"]

*[https://www.irishtimes.com/news/zimbabwe-s-banana-left-legacy-of-disgrace-1.392631 "Zimbabwe's Banana left legacy of disgrace," Mark Steyn, Nov 17, 2003, and the [https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1395491031420915713 ''Economist'' obituary], and [https://nehandaradio.com/2020/11/18/canaan-bananas-son-michael-collapses-and-dies-in-the-uk/ his son], the fraudster.

* [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3714750 Sunstein's paper] on Hayek and pscyhology.

*[https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=261087081122066127114071098095108071052087053042027060078069091126091092081027009022019114028045009056121073013118004101000027098080071048000104079091115023106017109028073060091097102074117105122030115083106076023123064126091118031027092015115006071020&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE "UNDERSTANDING THE MISUNDERSTOOD: MAPPING THE SCOPE OF A DEITY’S RIGHTS IN INDIA ,"] Anujay Shrivastava & Yashowardhan Tiwari :
"It has been recognized that an idol of a Hindu Temple is a juridical person
or juristic entity18 and is often commonly referred to as a “deity”.19 The title
to properties and endowments can vest in deities such as a Hindu idol, who
has to act through a human agency (such as the Shebait).20 A Hindu idol not
only has the power of suing and being sued, but can be treated as an
“individual” who can be assessed for tax liability."

*[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-05/how-jeff-bezos-beat-the-tabloids-the-untold-story-of-money-sex-and-power "The Untold Story of How Jeff Bezos Beat the Tabloids: When a gossip rag went after the CEO, he retaliated with the brutal, brilliant efficiency he used to build his business empire. In an exclusive excerpt from the new book Amazon Unbound comes an unrivaled tale of money, sex, and power."] ''Bloomberg.''

*[https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-types-apologies-that-arent-apologies-at-all/ "6 Types of Apologies That Aren't Apologies at All,"] ''Cracked'' (2012).

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3836060 "The Islamic Waqf: Instrument of Unequal Security, Worldly and Otherworldly," 29 Apr 2021, Fatih Serkant Adiguzel and Timur Kuran.

*[https://www.connecticutmag.com/issues/features/how-the-coming-of-a-conservative-midwestern-college-divided-a-small-ct-town/article_3b86fb78-e3d6-11ea-8eda-53fc5dea576b.html "How the coming of a conservative Midwestern college divided a small CT town: S. Prestley Blake, the co-founder of the Friendly's restaurant chain, donated his Somers estate to Michigan's Hillsdale College. The school has grand plans to open an adult-learning center on the property, whose centerpiece is a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. But questions about the school's religious bona fides which pushed the deal through have left a bad taste in some residents' mouths,"] ''Connecticut Magazine,'' Christopher Hoffman Aug 26, 2020.

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1558729 "John W. Tukey: His Life and Professional Contributions," David R. Brillinger, ''The Annals of Statistics'' , Dec., 2002, Vol. 30, No. 6 (Dec., 2002), pp. 1535-1575.

*G. A. Cohen, [https://link-springer-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/content/pdf/10.1023/A:1009836317343.pdf "If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re so Rich?,"] ''Journal of Ethics'' 4, no. 1–2 (2000): 1–26.

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1147700 “Labor Racketeering: The Mafia and the Unions,” ]James B. Jacobs and Ellen Peters, ''Crime and Justice,'' 30 (2003), 229-282 (54 pages) .

*[https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/03/advice-on-writing/ "Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers: Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature."]

*[https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/A_Human%27s_Guide_to_Words "A Human's Guide to Words,"]

*Ramseyer, JM (1995). "Oko v. Sako: Kyogen and litigation in medieval Japan". Law in Japan (0458-8584), 25 , p. 135.

*Legarre, S. (2007). "The historical background of the police power. ''University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law,'' 9(3), 745-796.

*https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/

==Hard Reading==
*[http://pme-math.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/pme100problemspart2formatted4.pdf some math probelms] (2014)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/05/02/carl-morris-man-out-of-time-reflections-on-empirical-bayes-2/ Carl Morris, Gelman]

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2124768 Lucas review of Keyens book]

*[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0167223179900393 Lucas OECD article]
*[https://realpython.com/python-histograms/ Python histograms,"] RealPython.com.

*[https://outofmydepths.com/2020/12/31/a-divine-and-supernatural-light-by-jonathan-edwards/ Divine Light] sermon of Jonathan Edwards

*[https://osf.io/ygw8e/ Andrew Little on Persuasion] (2022)

*[https://www.fox.temple.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Efron-2020-JASA-wdiscussion.pdf Efron 2020 survey]

*[https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=167106127002030067067102022103008089022020095078034062005090091014029070004000025117052006044120112038124031097114016071023096041091082060074091011066016103123004006003112012121117083123004106024016066095085019066117021026127102002108097124002084&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE John Lott on 2020 election] and
[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/No-evidence-for-systematic-voter-fraud%3A-A-guide-to-Eggers-Garro/1fe01cea7962e678037725baa837c3dcbaa14d9c Eggers and Grimmer and somone] (2021) on the other side.

*[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.09328.pdf Bergstrom et al. on diamond plots vs. rectangle plots]

*[http://econphd.econwiki.com/notes.htm Lecture Notes Online] link page.

*[https://sites.duke.edu/collardwexler/files/2015/01/predation_sugar_industry.pdf "Predation and its rate of return: the sugar ndustry, 1887-1914], RAND Journal, David Genesove, Wallace P. Mullin .

*[https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=933078022002122097005123100109005112015082062038033030120099095096069090097009089085034019003061029120125092110013095020076065021059074001067096066002024126122071004052039021006022016108112118119031025081011067015075003014011088107102110110122020092025&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE "The Economic Geography of Global Warming,"] José Luis Cruz and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (OCTOBER 2021).

*[https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034731 "Executive Functions Predict the Success of Top-Soccer Players,] Torbjörn Vestberg,Roland Gustafson,Liselotte Maurex,Martin Ingvar,Predrag Petrovic , April 4, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034731.

*[https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7350252#page=11 "Usable Resistan.t/Robust Techniques of Analysis,"] John W. Tukey (1975).

*[https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance,"] ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', D. R. Cox (2020).

*Henry Kyburg, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30226172 "Subjective Probability: Criticisms, Reflections, and Problems"] .

*Henry Kyburg, "Are there Degrees of Belief?" ''Journal of Applied Logic,'' 1(3-4), 139-149, 2003.

*Henry Kyburg, "Keynes as Philosopher" ''History of Political Economy,'' 27 (Supplement): 7–32, 1995.

*Dostoevsky, [https://rvb.ru/dostoevski/01text/vol14/03journal_81/337.htm "II. ВОЗМОЖНО ЛЬ У НАС СПРАШИВАТЬ ЕВРОПЕЙСКИХ ФИНАНСОВ?"] probably use Google translate.

*[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973533.2020.1756817 "Student Evaluations of Teaching Encourages Poor Teaching and Contributes to Grade Inflation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis,"] Wolfgang Stroebe, ''Basic and Applied Social Psychology,'' 2020.

*[https://web.stanford.edu/~rehall/HallJones2007.pdf "THE VALUE OF LIFE AND THE RISE IN HEALTH SPENDING,"] ROBERT E. HALL AND CHARLES I. JONES (2007).

*[https://www-jstor-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/stable/pdf/43654017.pdf "How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression,"] GARY KING, JENNIFER PAN and MARGARET E. ROBERTS ''The American Political Science Review'', May 2013, Vol. 107, No. 2 (May 2013),326-343 .

*[https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA12675 "Sampling‐Based versus Design‐Based Uncertainty in Regression Analysis,"] Alberto Abadie Susan Athey Guido W. Imbens Jeffrey M. Wooldridge 05 February 2020 .

*[https://journals-sagepub-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00019.x "Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth After 35 Years Uncovering Antecedents for the Development of Math-Science Expertise,"] (2006) David Lubinski and Camilla Persson Benbow.

*[https://www.dropbox.com/s/o120sormtbw9w10/fraud_extended_public.pdf No Evidence for Voter Fraud: A Guide to Statistical Claims About the 2020 Election"] Andrew C. Eggersa, Haritz Garrob, and Justin GrimmercFebruary 3, 2021.

*[https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/02/recent-evidence-on-dysgenic-trends-february-2021/ "Recent evidence on dysgenic trends (February 2021) "]

*[http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/standardizing7.pdf "Scaling regression inputs by dividing by two standard deviations," ]STATISTICS IN MEDICINE Statist. Med. 2008; 27:2865–2873 Published online 24 October 2007 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/sim.3107. Andrew Gelman.

*[https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20170279 "Religion, Division of Labor, and Conflict: Anti-semitism in Germany over 600 Years"], Sascha O. Becker Luigi Pascali

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3757669| "If You Grant It, They Will Come: The Enduring Legal Legacy of Migratory Divorce"] 61 Pages 22 Jan 2021, Michael J. Higdon.

*Henry E. Smith, [http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/Smith_1051.pdf "Equity as Meta-Law, "] 12/2020; forthcoming in Yale Law Journal.
Abstract: With the merger of law and equity almost complete, the idea of equity as a special part of our legal system or a mode of decision-making has fallen out of view. This Article argues that much of equity is best understood as performing a vital function. Equity and related parts of the law solve complex and uncertain problems—including interdependent behavior and misuses of legal rules by opportunists—and do so in a characteristic fashion: as meta-law. From unconscionability to injunctions, equity makes reference to, supplements, and sometimes overrides the result that law would otherwise produce, while primary law operates without reference to equity. Equity operates on a domain of fraud, accident, and mistake, and employs triggers such as bad faith and disproportionate hardship to toggle into a “meta”-mode of more open-ended scrutiny. This Article provides a theoretical account of how a hybrid law, consisting of relatively simple and general primary-level law and relatively intense and directed second-order equity can regulate behavior better through these specialized modes than would homogeneous law alone. The Article tests this theory on the ostensibly most unpromising aspects of equity, the traditional equitable maxims, as well as equitable fraud, defenses, and remedies. Equity as meta-law sheds light on how the fusion of law and equity spawned multifactor balancing tests, polarized interpretation, and led to the confusion of equity with standards, discretion, purely public law, and “mere” remedies. Viewing equity as meta-law also improves on the tradeoff between formalism and contextualism and ultimately promotes the rule of law.

*[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e6033a4ea02d801f37e15bb/t/6008c722ea949843b4a024e4/1611188002639/nber_portfolio_keynote_paper.pdf COCHRANE: ] MUST READ

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2798802 "The Religious Commissions of the Bakongo,"] Wyatt MacGaffey ''Man'' , Mar., 1970, New Series, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Mar., 1970), pp. 27-38

*Fiva, J H, and D M Smith (2018), “Political dynasties and the incumbency advantage in party-centered environments”, ''American Political Science Review'' 112(3): 1–7.

*Folke, O, T Persson and J Rickne (2017), “Dynastic political rents? Economic benefits to relatives of top politicians”, ''Economic Journal'' 127(605): 495–517.

*Acemoglu, D, G De Feo, G D De Luca and G Russo (2020), “War, socialism and the rise of Fascism: An empirical exploration”, NBER Working Paper 27854.

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==Political Economy==
*[https://www-nber-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/papers/w11397 "Equilibrium Impotence: Why the States and Not the American National Government Financed Economic Development in the Antebellum Era,"] Wallis and Weingast.

*[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272714000929 "The cost of racial animus on a black candidate: Evidence using Google search data?"] Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, 2014, Pages 26-40, ''Journal of Public Economics.''

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/43669490 "The Faces of Judicial Independence: Democratic versus Bureaucratic Accountability in Judicial Selection, Training, and Promotion in South Korea and Taiwan,"] NEIL CHISHOLM ''The American Journal of Comparative Law'' , FALL 2014, Vol. 62, No. 4 (FALL 2014), pp. 893-949

*Cagé, J, A Dagorret, P Grosjean, and S Jha (2020b), [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3753869 “Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France,”] CEPR Discussion Paper no. 15613.

*Lacroix, J, P-G Méon and K Oosterlinck (2019), [https://www.eh.net/eha/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Oosterlinck.pdf “A positive effect of political dynasties: The case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act”,] CEPR Discussion Paper 13871.

*[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2019.03.002 "The Paradox of Power: Principal-agent problems and administrative capacity in Imperial China (and other absolutist regimes)"], Debin Ma Jared Rubin Journal of Comparative Economics Volume 47, Issue 2, June 2019, Pages 277-294 Journal of Comparative Economics.

==Good ArticlesRead Already==
*[https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-the-coming-of-conan-the-cimmerian/comments "review-the-coming-of-conan-the-cimmerian/,"] Jane Psmith, ''Substack'' (2023).

==BOOKS==
*''The Faraway Tree'', Enid Blyton.***

*Killing Crazy Horse., Bil LOReilly. Patrick Scott recommends.

*Walter Murphy's The Vicar of Christ (1979).

*How the Mountains Grew, John Dvorak. ***

*The Confessions of Anthony Burgess (''Little Wilson'', ''Big God'' and ''You've Had Your Time'').

*Lee Kwan Yew, ''From Third World to First
''
*''Miscellany'', autobiography of mathematician Littlewood.***

*''Machete Season,'' about Rwanda massacres

*''Always with Honor.'' General Wrangel's memoirs.

*Chicago Price Theory, Casey Mulligan.***

*Proofs: A Long_Form Textbook, Jay Cummings. BOUGHT

*Amaryllis Fox, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA, published by Knopf Doubleday in October 2019 ***

*Steve Sailer: John Updike's "The Coup" -- the memoirs of an African dictator with the prose style of John Updike -- is astonishing and massively informative about Africa. ***

*Steve Sailer: Anthony Burgess's "Napoleon Symphony" is intentionally too hard to be enjoyable unless you just took a class on Boney. ***

==Other==
*[https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1650852156973658114 Alechemist painting] (1680)

*Dal Bó, E, P Dal Bó and J Snyder (2009), “Political dynasties”, Review of Economic Studies 76(1): 115–42.

*Ma, D (2004). "Growth, institutions and knowledge: a review and reflection on the historiography of 18th–20th century China". Australian economic history review (0004-8992), 44 (3), p. 259.

*"From Divergence to Convergence: Reevaluating the History Behind China's Economic Boom," Loren Brandt, Debin Ma and Thomas G. Rawski, ''Journal of Economic Literature ,'' MARCH 2014, Vol. 52,
45-123. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24433858

*States and Development: Early Modern India, China, and the Great Divergence," Bishnupriya Gupta Debin Ma Tirthankar Roy20 September 2016.

*LAW AND ECONOMY IN
TRADITIONAL CHINA: A "LEGAL
ORIGIN" PERSPECTIVE ON THE GREAT DIVERGENCE,"
Debin Ma, https://personal.lse.ac.uk/MAD1/ma_pdf_files/DP8385.pdf.

"Foreign Education, Ideology, and the
Fall of Imperial China,"
James Kai-sing KUNG† Alina Yue WANG‡
https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2021conference/program/pdf/13683_paper_dhQ7DbF9.pdf?display. This paper is an example of one with links between text mentions of papers and the reference section. But not two-way.

"Millet, Rice, and Isolation:
Origins and Persistence of the World’s Most Enduring Mega-State,"
James Kai-sing Kung=, Omer ¨ Ozak , Louis Putterman§, and Shuang Shi¶December 20, 2020. https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2021conference/program/pdf/13681_paper_96AHSRfe.pdf?display . Covered in the Frieden Tuesday Lunch.
{{Quotation| We propose and empirically test a theory for the endogenous formation and persistence of large
states, using China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies and their distance to each other set off a race between autochthonous state-building
projects and the expansion of neighboring (proto-)states. Using a novel dataset on the Chinese
state’s historical presence, the timing of agricultural adoption, social complexity, climate, and geography across 1×1 degree grid cells in East Asia, we provide empirical support for this hypothesis.
Specifically, we find that on average, cells that adopted agriculture earlier or were close to the earliest archaic state in East Asia (Erlitou) remained longer under Sinitic control. In contrast, earlier
adoption of agriculture decreased the persistent control of the Chinese state in cells farther than
2.8 weeks of travel from Erlitou.}}
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Valedictions

2023-07-17T15:16:30Z

Manson Lilian:

We lack good conventions for salutations and valedictions in letters and emails.

Both are useful to have. The salutation shows where the message starts and to whom it is addressed. For letters, "Dear Mr. Smith," is completely conventional. For emails, that, or, less formally, "Hi, Joe," work.

Valedictions are more vexing. A valediction shows where the message ends and by whom it is sent. I have often used "Yours truly, Eric Rasmusen", as being both literally true and clearly convention-driven. But that is somewhat too corny. "Yours faithfully" is too false and pretentious. "Best wishes," "All the best," and "Cheers" all have merit but are often inappropriate.

One valediction I sometimes use is "I.H.S., Eric Rasmusen". For most people, the only meaning of IHS is "Here is where the letters ends", which is fine, since that's the main purpose of a valediction. Others may know its meaning, which I will now explain, and that's fine too.

The meaning of I.H.S. is "In His Service" or "Jesus". Professor Kenneth Elzinga, whom I greatly admire, says he signs his letters writing out the phrase in full, "In His Service". That strikes me as admirable in its Christian witness but too pompous. It makes a claim that the writer hopes is true but seems either overblown or self-aggrandizing: that the writer is trying to act on behalf of God. The Christian is supposed to be doing that always, but if the letter is merely telling someone that the seminar this week is in room CG2069, we smile at this being service to God. It is, but it makes us smile anyway.

I.H.S. has the same meaning, but stated quietly. It has the additional advantage of being a historic Christian code. In Greek, the first three letters of Jesus are Iota, Eta, Sigma, which in Roman letters become I H S. Thus, IHS is a nice nod to God and also identifies the writer's intent to other Christians. At the same time, it offers a witness to non-Christians, in the following way. They see the letters and do not know what they mean. They may then ask the writer or someone else what they mean, and at that point in time they learn, and a useful conversation may start.

IHS does not solve the valediction problem for nonbelievers, but for Christians it may be helpful.

A variant of it is "I hope IHS". That is a pun, meaning either "I hope in His service" or "I hope in Jesus". I like the pun, and I like the greater modesty, since whether I am doing something in God's service is sometimes dubious and since ordinarily what I am doing in the email is entirely mundane (though the Christian is supposed to do *all* things to God's glory, "Soli Deo Gloria", as Bach and Handel wrote on their manuscripts).

Another valediction I've been using, imitating Professor Christopher Connell, is "Shalom, Eric Rasmusen". I like the Hebrew word "shalom", because it is Biblical and encompasses a variety of English words--- completeness, prosperity, peace (think of the Arabic "salaam"). The downside is that it is used as a greeting (and farewell) in modern Hebrew, that many people think it means the same thing as "peace" in English, and that it sounds awkwardly Jewish when used by someone named "Rasmusen". Still another possibility is YT, short for Yours Truly. That has the advantage of being inobtrusive. I like the idea of admitting to people that I am proudly Christian with IHS, but it may too much like boasting. It is best to show one's allegiance to God naturally, without any hint of being forced. I'm still thinking. Comments are welcomed. Email me at erasmuse@indiana.edu. See also Wikipedia, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christogram"Christogram," and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom "Shalom".

Valedictions

2023-07-17T15:16:18Z

Manson Lilian:

Articles to read

2023-07-17T15:11:34Z

Manson Lilian: /* BOOKS */

==Easy Reading==
*[https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/ivy-league-exodus "Ivy League Exodus"] of Jews.

*[https://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-us-minuteman-si-1473483587/amp?__twitter_impression=true "For-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-us-minuteman-siloes," ]

*[https://www-journals-uchicago edu.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/261900 Revisiting Ramseyer: The Chicago School of Law and Economics Comes to Japan] Jan 2021 Craig Freedman Luke R. Nottage

* "South side blues: An oral history of the Chicago school"
December 2010Journal of the History of Economic Thought 32(04):495-530
CRAIG FREEDMAN

*[https://www.thespiritlife.net/facets/devotional/61-motivated/motivated-publications/630-evangelism-through-networking "Evangleism Through Netowrking,"] Timothy Keller.

*[https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/library/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf "The Usefulness of Uselesss Research,"] Flexner (1939). GOOD read.

*[https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantcheva/files/How_to_run_surveys_Stantcheva.pdf Stancheva on surveys]

*[https://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html How to ask computer questions]

*[https://www.academia.edu/36129325/Silent_Sounds_Musical_Iconography_in_a_Fifteenth_Century_Hebrew_Prayer_Book_in_Susan_Boynton_and_Diane_J_Reilly_eds_Resounding_Images_Medieval_Intersections_of_Art_Music_and_Sound_Brepols_2015_ Suzie's medieval manuscript article]

*[https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1590130321076654080 MSNBC and Shostokovich.]

* https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1587171308755996672

* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X8bo1qQsdfxYccG-zNuC1akqSz5K1d7SXr7MAz58JGY/edit

* https://tocharus.substack.com/p/peku-and-the-worlds-first-coins

* https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/20/gambling-addiction-tennis-bet365-online-betting-hannah-jane-parkinson?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

* https://twitter.com/chancery_daily/status/1592155452569440258

* https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1585493134842204161

* https://twitter.com/AndyGrewal/status/1585077777438773248

* https://www.palladiummag.com/2021/10/11/the-triumph-and-terror-of-wang-huning/

* https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TDaMD41hXU3fxj8Yrmg1j2MEW29G6GP6/view

* https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/comment-page-4/#comment-660139

* https://twitter.com/monitoringbias/status/1590106995990089731

* https://thezvi.substack.com/p/whats-the-deal-with-elon-musk-and

* https://americanreformer.org/2022/11/polling-political-parties/

* https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/06/17/built-the-hidden-stories-behind-our-structures-roma-agrawal/

* https://www.newsweek.com/erecting-wall-separation-between-tech-state-opinion-1757891

* https://americanreformer.org/2022/11/polling-political-parties/

* https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/japan%E2%80%99s-tsunami-reaction-shows-lessons-learned-past-disasters

* https://www.alamy.com/everglades-national-park-florida-rock-reef-pass-elevation-3-feet-on-image67023473.html

* https://www.sciencenews.org/article/canaanite-comb-lice-israel-alphabet

*https://www.tabletmag.com/collections/wokeness-social-justice-cancel-culture

*https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/

* https://fa.bianp.net/blog/2022/russian-roulette/

*https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=400020126087064101115093084065127010096068026065069063076084017102112030127116101127028021100056061044043005100120097112093107049022017012058021014079124070125070030073087060026100076117127027031007113080068070124106007104025123103088084011095093017120&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE

*https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=420125003002077013091004082072112092096020034023025001122075003066081028031115006071005059060034023051016028107102122007071006046078006069052027072094015070016123075021018062084071122004023023075116108099092126001100026100070075122093025123114074126084&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE

*https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/

*https://twitter.com/Pennthusiast/status/1580902202494701569

*https://twitter.com/ProfEricTalley/status/1568094622726987776

*[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-contest-2022-winners Astralcodex book review contest winners]

*[https://www-cambridge-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/core/journals/macroeconomic-dynamics/article/an-interview-with-paul-a-samuelson/27D1B2FC3BDBD93E211E5210A2D911CD Samuelson on postwar economic history of thought] (2003 or so)

*[https://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article1842940/Warum-die-Sueddeutschen-besser-sind.html German article on south erus noth German farms and modern prosperity]

*[https://razib.substack.com/p/hungarians-as-the-ghost-of-the-magyar?s=w Rzib on Magyars]

*''Chessman v. Nainby,'' 93 Eng. Rep. 819, 821 (1726) (find it)

*[https://www.scribd.com/document/49102936/Leo-Strauss-Remarks-at-Farewell-to-E-C-Banfield-on-Departure-from-Chicago-1959 Strauss on Banfield (1959)]READ

*[https://reason.com/volokh/2022/01/21/will-the-en-banc-9th-circuit-extend-the-second-amendments-losing-streak-to-51-cases/ Gun control 9th Circuit faux en banc opinion]READ

*[https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Murray%20Intelligence.pdf Murray on going to college] (after his book was publisehd)

*[https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/how-to-save-marriage-in-america/283732/ Rich peopel get married] Atlatnic, (2022)

*[https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2022/03/17/unmasking-the-campaign-against-white-supremacy-culture-in-science/ "Unmasking the Campaign against “White Supremacy Culture” in Science"] (2022) Minding the Campus.

*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017.

*[https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/18/spygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump/ pygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump], Margot Cleveland, March 2022.

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4060431 Vischer on Christian Nationalism being opposed to the rule of law,] probably a stupid article worth reading to understand the liberal mindset.

*[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/21/literatures-most-controversial-nobel-laureate PeterHandke, literatures-most-controversial-nobel-laureate ] New Yorker (2022).

*[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.]

*[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-paleogenomics.html DNA in the South Pacific]

*[https://quillette.com/2020/01/04/build-your-own-intellectual-oasis/ Bill Frezza "Build Your Own Intellectual Oasis,"]

*[https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.4.121 Sandel JEP on altruisma and economics]

*Mann’s most important commentary on Wagner was an address to the Goethe Society of Munich in February 1933 on the fiftieth anniversary of the composer’s death. Entitled 'The Sufferings and Greatness of Richard Wagner',

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3908595 New Formalism], Paul Miller, Notre Dame.

*[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/afghanistan-military-officials-distracted-woke-issues?fbclid=IwAR1CNfgX_YU7tbty4qJVfzYlbTkXHItaF2fcWvsCWXB-vrPEsJdf3gU21ok Afghanistan-military-officials-distracted-woke-issues?]

*[https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-1392/185344/20210729162610813_Dobbs%20Amicus%20FINAL%20PDFA.pdf Jonathan Mitchell] amicus to SC on an abortion case in 2021]

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3839768 Salop on vertical merger guidelines.] Looks wrong; if so, needs refuting.

*[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/peer-review-request-depression Astral Codex Ten on Depression]

*[https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/boxplots.pdf Boxplots]

*[https://www.res.org.uk/resources-page/res2021-lunchtime-chat-the-state-of-economic-science.html Coyle and Tirole podcast] (2021)

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_languages_with_grammatical_gender#Hebrew "Gender_neutrality_in_languages_with_grammatical_gender,"]

*[https://www.irishtimes.com/news/zimbabwe-s-banana-left-legacy-of-disgrace-1.392631 "Zimbabwe's Banana left legacy of disgrace," Mark Steyn, Nov 17, 2003, and the [https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1395491031420915713 ''Economist'' obituary], and [https://nehandaradio.com/2020/11/18/canaan-bananas-son-michael-collapses-and-dies-in-the-uk/ his son], the fraudster.

* [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3714750 Sunstein's paper] on Hayek and pscyhology.

*[https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=261087081122066127114071098095108071052087053042027060078069091126091092081027009022019114028045009056121073013118004101000027098080071048000104079091115023106017109028073060091097102074117105122030115083106076023123064126091118031027092015115006071020&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE "UNDERSTANDING THE MISUNDERSTOOD: MAPPING THE SCOPE OF A DEITY’S RIGHTS IN INDIA ,"] Anujay Shrivastava & Yashowardhan Tiwari :
"It has been recognized that an idol of a Hindu Temple is a juridical person
or juristic entity18 and is often commonly referred to as a “deity”.19 The title
to properties and endowments can vest in deities such as a Hindu idol, who
has to act through a human agency (such as the Shebait).20 A Hindu idol not
only has the power of suing and being sued, but can be treated as an
“individual” who can be assessed for tax liability."

*[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-05/how-jeff-bezos-beat-the-tabloids-the-untold-story-of-money-sex-and-power "The Untold Story of How Jeff Bezos Beat the Tabloids: When a gossip rag went after the CEO, he retaliated with the brutal, brilliant efficiency he used to build his business empire. In an exclusive excerpt from the new book Amazon Unbound comes an unrivaled tale of money, sex, and power."] ''Bloomberg.''

*[https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-types-apologies-that-arent-apologies-at-all/ "6 Types of Apologies That Aren't Apologies at All,"] ''Cracked'' (2012).

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3836060 "The Islamic Waqf: Instrument of Unequal Security, Worldly and Otherworldly," 29 Apr 2021, Fatih Serkant Adiguzel and Timur Kuran.

*[https://www.connecticutmag.com/issues/features/how-the-coming-of-a-conservative-midwestern-college-divided-a-small-ct-town/article_3b86fb78-e3d6-11ea-8eda-53fc5dea576b.html "How the coming of a conservative Midwestern college divided a small CT town: S. Prestley Blake, the co-founder of the Friendly's restaurant chain, donated his Somers estate to Michigan's Hillsdale College. The school has grand plans to open an adult-learning center on the property, whose centerpiece is a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. But questions about the school's religious bona fides which pushed the deal through have left a bad taste in some residents' mouths,"] ''Connecticut Magazine,'' Christopher Hoffman Aug 26, 2020.

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1558729 "John W. Tukey: His Life and Professional Contributions," David R. Brillinger, ''The Annals of Statistics'' , Dec., 2002, Vol. 30, No. 6 (Dec., 2002), pp. 1535-1575.

*G. A. Cohen, [https://link-springer-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/content/pdf/10.1023/A:1009836317343.pdf "If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re so Rich?,"] ''Journal of Ethics'' 4, no. 1–2 (2000): 1–26.

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1147700 “Labor Racketeering: The Mafia and the Unions,” ]James B. Jacobs and Ellen Peters, ''Crime and Justice,'' 30 (2003), 229-282 (54 pages) .

*[https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/03/advice-on-writing/ "Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers: Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature."]

*[https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/A_Human%27s_Guide_to_Words "A Human's Guide to Words,"]

*Ramseyer, JM (1995). "Oko v. Sako: Kyogen and litigation in medieval Japan". Law in Japan (0458-8584), 25 , p. 135.

*Legarre, S. (2007). "The historical background of the police power. ''University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law,'' 9(3), 745-796.

*https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/

==Hard Reading==
*[http://pme-math.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/pme100problemspart2formatted4.pdf some math probelms] (2014)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/05/02/carl-morris-man-out-of-time-reflections-on-empirical-bayes-2/ Carl Morris, Gelman]

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2124768 Lucas review of Keyens book]

*[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0167223179900393 Lucas OECD article]
*[https://realpython.com/python-histograms/ Python histograms,"] RealPython.com.

*[https://outofmydepths.com/2020/12/31/a-divine-and-supernatural-light-by-jonathan-edwards/ Divine Light] sermon of Jonathan Edwards

*[https://osf.io/ygw8e/ Andrew Little on Persuasion] (2022)

*[https://www.fox.temple.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Efron-2020-JASA-wdiscussion.pdf Efron 2020 survey]

*[https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=167106127002030067067102022103008089022020095078034062005090091014029070004000025117052006044120112038124031097114016071023096041091082060074091011066016103123004006003112012121117083123004106024016066095085019066117021026127102002108097124002084&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE John Lott on 2020 election] and
[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/No-evidence-for-systematic-voter-fraud%3A-A-guide-to-Eggers-Garro/1fe01cea7962e678037725baa837c3dcbaa14d9c Eggers and Grimmer and somone] (2021) on the other side.

*[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.09328.pdf Bergstrom et al. on diamond plots vs. rectangle plots]

*[http://econphd.econwiki.com/notes.htm Lecture Notes Online] link page.

*[https://sites.duke.edu/collardwexler/files/2015/01/predation_sugar_industry.pdf "Predation and its rate of return: the sugar ndustry, 1887-1914], RAND Journal, David Genesove, Wallace P. Mullin .

*[https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=933078022002122097005123100109005112015082062038033030120099095096069090097009089085034019003061029120125092110013095020076065021059074001067096066002024126122071004052039021006022016108112118119031025081011067015075003014011088107102110110122020092025&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE "The Economic Geography of Global Warming,"] José Luis Cruz and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (OCTOBER 2021).

*[https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034731 "Executive Functions Predict the Success of Top-Soccer Players,] Torbjörn Vestberg,Roland Gustafson,Liselotte Maurex,Martin Ingvar,Predrag Petrovic , April 4, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034731.

*[https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7350252#page=11 "Usable Resistan.t/Robust Techniques of Analysis,"] John W. Tukey (1975).

*[https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance,"] ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', D. R. Cox (2020).

*Henry Kyburg, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30226172 "Subjective Probability: Criticisms, Reflections, and Problems"] .

*Henry Kyburg, "Are there Degrees of Belief?" ''Journal of Applied Logic,'' 1(3-4), 139-149, 2003.

*Henry Kyburg, "Keynes as Philosopher" ''History of Political Economy,'' 27 (Supplement): 7–32, 1995.

*Dostoevsky, [https://rvb.ru/dostoevski/01text/vol14/03journal_81/337.htm "II. ВОЗМОЖНО ЛЬ У НАС СПРАШИВАТЬ ЕВРОПЕЙСКИХ ФИНАНСОВ?"] probably use Google translate.

*[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973533.2020.1756817 "Student Evaluations of Teaching Encourages Poor Teaching and Contributes to Grade Inflation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis,"] Wolfgang Stroebe, ''Basic and Applied Social Psychology,'' 2020.

*[https://web.stanford.edu/~rehall/HallJones2007.pdf "THE VALUE OF LIFE AND THE RISE IN HEALTH SPENDING,"] ROBERT E. HALL AND CHARLES I. JONES (2007).

*[https://www-jstor-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/stable/pdf/43654017.pdf "How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression,"] GARY KING, JENNIFER PAN and MARGARET E. ROBERTS ''The American Political Science Review'', May 2013, Vol. 107, No. 2 (May 2013),326-343 .

*[https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA12675 "Sampling‐Based versus Design‐Based Uncertainty in Regression Analysis,"] Alberto Abadie Susan Athey Guido W. Imbens Jeffrey M. Wooldridge 05 February 2020 .

*[https://journals-sagepub-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00019.x "Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth After 35 Years Uncovering Antecedents for the Development of Math-Science Expertise,"] (2006) David Lubinski and Camilla Persson Benbow.

*[https://www.dropbox.com/s/o120sormtbw9w10/fraud_extended_public.pdf No Evidence for Voter Fraud: A Guide to Statistical Claims About the 2020 Election"] Andrew C. Eggersa, Haritz Garrob, and Justin GrimmercFebruary 3, 2021.

*[https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/02/recent-evidence-on-dysgenic-trends-february-2021/ "Recent evidence on dysgenic trends (February 2021) "]

*[http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/standardizing7.pdf "Scaling regression inputs by dividing by two standard deviations," ]STATISTICS IN MEDICINE Statist. Med. 2008; 27:2865–2873 Published online 24 October 2007 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/sim.3107. Andrew Gelman.

*[https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20170279 "Religion, Division of Labor, and Conflict: Anti-semitism in Germany over 600 Years"], Sascha O. Becker Luigi Pascali

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3757669| "If You Grant It, They Will Come: The Enduring Legal Legacy of Migratory Divorce"] 61 Pages 22 Jan 2021, Michael J. Higdon.

*Henry E. Smith, [http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/Smith_1051.pdf "Equity as Meta-Law, "] 12/2020; forthcoming in Yale Law Journal.
Abstract: With the merger of law and equity almost complete, the idea of equity as a special part of our legal system or a mode of decision-making has fallen out of view. This Article argues that much of equity is best understood as performing a vital function. Equity and related parts of the law solve complex and uncertain problems—including interdependent behavior and misuses of legal rules by opportunists—and do so in a characteristic fashion: as meta-law. From unconscionability to injunctions, equity makes reference to, supplements, and sometimes overrides the result that law would otherwise produce, while primary law operates without reference to equity. Equity operates on a domain of fraud, accident, and mistake, and employs triggers such as bad faith and disproportionate hardship to toggle into a “meta”-mode of more open-ended scrutiny. This Article provides a theoretical account of how a hybrid law, consisting of relatively simple and general primary-level law and relatively intense and directed second-order equity can regulate behavior better through these specialized modes than would homogeneous law alone. The Article tests this theory on the ostensibly most unpromising aspects of equity, the traditional equitable maxims, as well as equitable fraud, defenses, and remedies. Equity as meta-law sheds light on how the fusion of law and equity spawned multifactor balancing tests, polarized interpretation, and led to the confusion of equity with standards, discretion, purely public law, and “mere” remedies. Viewing equity as meta-law also improves on the tradeoff between formalism and contextualism and ultimately promotes the rule of law.

*[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e6033a4ea02d801f37e15bb/t/6008c722ea949843b4a024e4/1611188002639/nber_portfolio_keynote_paper.pdf COCHRANE: ] MUST READ

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2798802 "The Religious Commissions of the Bakongo,"] Wyatt MacGaffey ''Man'' , Mar., 1970, New Series, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Mar., 1970), pp. 27-38

*Fiva, J H, and D M Smith (2018), “Political dynasties and the incumbency advantage in party-centered environments”, ''American Political Science Review'' 112(3): 1–7.

*Folke, O, T Persson and J Rickne (2017), “Dynastic political rents? Economic benefits to relatives of top politicians”, ''Economic Journal'' 127(605): 495–517.

*Acemoglu, D, G De Feo, G D De Luca and G Russo (2020), “War, socialism and the rise of Fascism: An empirical exploration”, NBER Working Paper 27854.

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==Political Economy==
*[https://www-nber-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/papers/w11397 "Equilibrium Impotence: Why the States and Not the American National Government Financed Economic Development in the Antebellum Era,"] Wallis and Weingast.

*[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272714000929 "The cost of racial animus on a black candidate: Evidence using Google search data?"] Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, 2014, Pages 26-40, ''Journal of Public Economics.''

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/43669490 "The Faces of Judicial Independence: Democratic versus Bureaucratic Accountability in Judicial Selection, Training, and Promotion in South Korea and Taiwan,"] NEIL CHISHOLM ''The American Journal of Comparative Law'' , FALL 2014, Vol. 62, No. 4 (FALL 2014), pp. 893-949

*Cagé, J, A Dagorret, P Grosjean, and S Jha (2020b), [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3753869 “Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France,”] CEPR Discussion Paper no. 15613.

*Lacroix, J, P-G Méon and K Oosterlinck (2019), [https://www.eh.net/eha/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Oosterlinck.pdf “A positive effect of political dynasties: The case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act”,] CEPR Discussion Paper 13871.

*[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2019.03.002 "The Paradox of Power: Principal-agent problems and administrative capacity in Imperial China (and other absolutist regimes)"], Debin Ma Jared Rubin Journal of Comparative Economics Volume 47, Issue 2, June 2019, Pages 277-294 Journal of Comparative Economics.

==Good ArticlesRead Already==
*[https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-the-coming-of-conan-the-cimmerian/comments "review-the-coming-of-conan-the-cimmerian/,"] Jane Psmith, ''Substack'' (2023).

==BOOKS==
*''The Faraway Tree'', Enid Blyton.***

*Walter Murphy's The Vicar of Christ (1979).

*How the Mountains Grew, John Dvorak. ***

*The Confessions of Anthony Burgess (''Little Wilson'', ''Big God'' and ''You've Had Your Time'').

*Lee Kwan Yew, ''From Third World to First
''
*''Miscellany'', autobiography of mathematician Littlewood.***

*''Machete Season,'' about Rwanda massacres

*''Always with Honor.'' General Wrangel's memoirs.

*Chicago Price Theory, Casey Mulligan.***

*Proofs: A Long_Form Textbook, Jay Cummings. BOUGHT

*Amaryllis Fox, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA, published by Knopf Doubleday in October 2019 ***

*Steve Sailer: John Updike's "The Coup" -- the memoirs of an African dictator with the prose style of John Updike -- is astonishing and massively informative about Africa. ***

*Steve Sailer: Anthony Burgess's "Napoleon Symphony" is intentionally too hard to be enjoyable unless you just took a class on Boney. ***

==Other==
*[https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1650852156973658114 Alechemist painting] (1680)

*Dal Bó, E, P Dal Bó and J Snyder (2009), “Political dynasties”, Review of Economic Studies 76(1): 115–42.

*Ma, D (2004). "Growth, institutions and knowledge: a review and reflection on the historiography of 18th–20th century China". Australian economic history review (0004-8992), 44 (3), p. 259.

*"From Divergence to Convergence: Reevaluating the History Behind China's Economic Boom," Loren Brandt, Debin Ma and Thomas G. Rawski, ''Journal of Economic Literature ,'' MARCH 2014, Vol. 52,
45-123. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24433858

*States and Development: Early Modern India, China, and the Great Divergence," Bishnupriya Gupta Debin Ma Tirthankar Roy20 September 2016.

*LAW AND ECONOMY IN
TRADITIONAL CHINA: A "LEGAL
ORIGIN" PERSPECTIVE ON THE GREAT DIVERGENCE,"
Debin Ma, https://personal.lse.ac.uk/MAD1/ma_pdf_files/DP8385.pdf.

"Foreign Education, Ideology, and the
Fall of Imperial China,"
James Kai-sing KUNG† Alina Yue WANG‡
https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2021conference/program/pdf/13683_paper_dhQ7DbF9.pdf?display. This paper is an example of one with links between text mentions of papers and the reference section. But not two-way.

"Millet, Rice, and Isolation:
Origins and Persistence of the World’s Most Enduring Mega-State,"
James Kai-sing Kung=, Omer ¨ Ozak , Louis Putterman§, and Shuang Shi¶December 20, 2020. https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2021conference/program/pdf/13681_paper_96AHSRfe.pdf?display . Covered in the Frieden Tuesday Lunch.
{{Quotation| We propose and empirically test a theory for the endogenous formation and persistence of large
states, using China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies and their distance to each other set off a race between autochthonous state-building
projects and the expansion of neighboring (proto-)states. Using a novel dataset on the Chinese
state’s historical presence, the timing of agricultural adoption, social complexity, climate, and geography across 1×1 degree grid cells in East Asia, we provide empirical support for this hypothesis.
Specifically, we find that on average, cells that adopted agriculture earlier or were close to the earliest archaic state in East Asia (Erlitou) remained longer under Sinitic control. In contrast, earlier
adoption of agriculture decreased the persistent control of the Chinese state in cells farther than
2.8 weeks of travel from Erlitou.}}
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Valedictions

2023-07-17T14:43:30Z

Manson Lilian: Created page with "We do not have good conventions for salutations and valedictions in letters and emails. Both are useful to have. The salutation shows where the message starts and to whom it i..."

We do not have good conventions for salutations and valedictions in letters and emails. Both are useful to have.
The salutation shows where the message starts and to whom it is addressed. For letters, "Dear Mr. Smith," is completely conventional for letters. For emails, either that, or, less formally, "Hi, Joe." works well. (Note the period in "Hi, Joe.".).

Valedictions are vexing. A valediction shows where the message ends and by whom it is sent. I have often used "Yours truly, Eric Rasmusen", as being both literally true and clearly convention-driven. But that is somewhat too corny. "Yours faithfully" is too false and pretentious. "Best wishes," "All the best," and "Cheers" all have merit but are often inappropriate.

One valediction I sometimes use is "I.H.S., Eric Rasmusen". For most people, the only meaning of IHS is "Here is where the letters ends", which is fine, since that's the main purpose of a valediction. Others may know its meaning, which I will now explain, and that's fine too.

The meaning of I.H.S. is "In His Service" or "Jesus". Professor Kenneth Elzinga, whom I greatly admire, says he signs his letters writing out the phrase in full, "In His Service". That strikes me as admirable in its Christian witness but too pompous. It makes a claim that the writer hopes is true but seems either overblown or self-aggrandizing: that the writer is trying to act on behalf of God. The Christian is supposed to be doing that always, but if the letter is merely telling someone that the seminar this week is in room CG2069, we smile at this being service to God. It is, but it makes us smile anyway.

I.H.S. has the same meaning, but stated quietly. It has the additional advantage of being a historic Christian code. In Greek, the first three letters of Jesus are Iota, Eta, Sigma, which in Roman letters become I H S. Thus, IHS is a nice nod to God and also identifies the writer's intent to other Christians. At the same time, it offers a witness to non-Christians, in the following way. They see the letters and do not know what they mean. They may then ask the writer or someone else what they mean, and at that point in time they learn, and a useful conversation may start.

IHS does not solve the valediction problem for nonbelievers, but for Christians it may be helpful.

A variant of it is "I hope IHS". That is a pun, meaning either "I hope in His service" or "I hope in Jesus". I like the pun, and I like the greater modesty, since whether I am doing something in God's service is sometimes dubious and since ordinarily what I am doing in the email is entirely mundane (though the Christian is supposed to do *all* things to God's glory, "Soli Deo Gloria", as Bach and Handel wrote on their manuscripts).

Another valediction I've been using, imitating Professor Christopher Connell, is "Shalom, Eric Rasmusen". I like the Hebrew word "shalom", because it is Biblical and encompasses a variety of English words--- completeness, prosperity, peace (think of the Arabic "salaam"). The downside is that it is used as a greeting (and farewell) in modern Hebrew, that many people think it means the same thing as "peace" in English, and that it sounds awkwardly Jewish when used by someone named "Rasmusen". Still another possibility is YT, short for Yours Truly. That has the advantage of being inobtrusive. I like the idea of admitting to people that I am proudly Christian with IHS, but it may too much like boasting. It is best to show one's allegiance to God naturally, without any hint of being forced. I'm still thinking. Comments are welcomed. Email me at erasmuse@indiana.edu. See also Wikipedia, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christogram"Christogram," and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom "Shalom".

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Manson Lilian: /* Fauci Song */

== Fauci Song==
*In https://rasmusen.org/special/Fauci_Song.pdf PDF] and [https://rasmusen.org/special/Fauci_Song.pdf Word]. Bill Frezza.

==Foreign Languages==
=== Latin===
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudeamus_igitur Gaudeamus Igitur], with [https://www.google.com/search?q=gaudeamus+igitur&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1012US1013&oq=gaudeamus+igitur&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIKCAYQLhjUAhiABDIKCAcQLhjUAhiABDIHCAgQABiABNIBCDYyMzhqMGo5qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:b4cdb663,vid:ha6pGK6ZnXE a good rendition outside by a Glasgow students' choir] in 2021.
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==Send in the Clowns, and Sondheim generally==
*https://www.steynonline.com/11936/send-in-the-clowns#.YadcBPGuLPs.twitter Mark Steyn's article] (2021).

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==I'm My Own Grandpa==
*Sung by Ray Stevens [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rALCtcMoMh8 in a video], but originally from the 1940's. THe lyrics of [https://genius.com/Grandpa-jones-im-my-own-grandpa-lyrics "I'm My Own Grandpa"]:
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Many, many years ago 
When I was twenty three 
I was married to a widow 
Who was pretty as can be

This widow had a grown-up daughter 
Who had hair of red 
My father fell in love with her 
And soon they too were wed
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==[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/merlehaggard/rainbowstew.html "Rainbow Stew"]==
Merle Haggard:
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When the world wide war is over and done 
And the dream of peace comes true 
We'll all be drinking that free bubble up 
And eating that rainbow stew.
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==[http://www.songlyrics.com/lionel-cartwright/i-watched-it-all-on-my-radio-lyrics/ "I Watched It All On My Radio," ] ==
Lionel Cartwright:
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And on Saturday night when the skies were all clear 
A station from Nashville sometimes would appear 
The steel guitars and soft southern twang 
The stars of the Grand Ole Opry would sing 

And I had a seat on the very front row 
And I watched it all on my radio 
I watched it all on my radio
}}