Quotations - Revision history

Eric Rasmusen: /* Mahler Gustav */

2026-05-29T18:05:29Z

‎Mahler Gustav

Eric Rasmusen: /* The Bible */

2026-05-25T13:11:10Z

‎The Bible

Eric Rasmusen: /* Anonymous */

2026-05-13T13:18:39Z

‎Anonymous

Eric Rasmusen: /* Adams, John */

2026-05-07T11:47:51Z

‎Adams, John

Eric Rasmusen: /* Anonymous */

2026-04-29T21:08:37Z

‎Anonymous

Eric Rasmusen: /* KRONECKER, Leopold */

2026-04-23T11:42:50Z

‎KRONECKER, Leopold

Eric Rasmusen: /* Anonymous */

2026-04-14T17:01:39Z

‎Anonymous

Eric Rasmusen: /* Hamblin, Jacob */

2026-03-26T20:48:18Z

‎Hamblin, Jacob

Eric Rasmusen: /* Burke, Edmund */

2026-03-07T13:31:23Z

‎Burke, Edmund

Eric Rasmusen: /* Esolen, Anthony */

2026-02-28T19:26:52Z

‎Esolen, Anthony

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	That's different and better enough for me to award the credit to Mahler. Mr. Krieghofer might show me to be wrong, though; I don't speak German.		That's different and better enough for me to award the credit to Mahler. Mr. Krieghofer might show me to be wrong, though; I don't speak German.
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		+	==Maitland==
		+	"F.W. Maitland’s famous epitaph for the British landed gentry when their magistracies were abolished and replaced with elected city councils: “As a governor he is doomed; but there has been no accusation. He is cheap, he is pure, he is capable, but he is doomed. He is to be sacrificed to a theory, on the altar of the spirit of the age.”"

	==David MAMET==		==David MAMET==

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	*"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9.		*"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9.
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		+	==Bismarck, Otto==
		+	“With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.”

	==Boghossian, Peter==		==Boghossian, Peter==

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	==Anonymous==		==Anonymous==
		+	*"They used to say the organic chemistry requirement saved more lives than penicillin."
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	*"Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less."		*"Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less."

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 ==Adams, John==
 *"It is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State."   [https://buff.ly/3rFhAzP "From John Adams to James Sullivan"] (26 May 1776).
 ==Adams, Scott==

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	==Anonymous==		==Anonymous==
		+	*"Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less."
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	*"If you had invested $10,000 in the first public company to ever exist back in 1602, today you would be dead."		*"If you had invested $10,000 in the first public company to ever exist back in 1602, today you would be dead."

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	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)		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)

		+	==Kuyper, Abraham==
		+	*“Religion withdrew to its own arena, lost the relationship in which it stood with the other sciences, and appointed itself as the great master whose task it was to impede the unwelcome progress that the other sciences were making. All too often it forgot that our beautiful confession says that we know God from two books: the book of Scripture, as well as the book of Nature in which the majesty of the Lord of lords is revealed to us in golden letters.”
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	==Anonymous==		==Anonymous==
		+	*"If you had invested $10,000 in the first public company to ever exist back in 1602, today you would be dead."
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	*"Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (“Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched”) The motto of the University of Chicago.		*"Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (“Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched”) The motto of the University of Chicago.

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	8. I never submit to any unjust demands or submit to coercion under any circumstances, thereby showing them that I govern and am governed by the rule of right not by might.		8. I never submit to any unjust demands or submit to coercion under any circumstances, thereby showing them that I govern and am governed by the rule of right not by might.
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		+	==Hamming, Richard==
		+	"In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it."
		+	- Richard Hamming in The Art of Doing Science & Engineering, 1997 /v @sfiscience

	==Hanson, Robin==		==Hanson, Robin==

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

	==Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)==		==Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)==

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-*"Bee as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves, says the Lord.
+*"Be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves, says the Lord.
 :The converse is what we have now in our elites, in Church, State, education, etc.: People in charge who are as dopey as pigeons, and as malignant as snakes." (Twitter, 2024)