Daily quotes

[Kat Kanning]

I love that story.

I'm impressed, Lloyd.

[free55]

"You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours."
  - Ilka Chase

[free55]

"Open-minded people look at the world around them and try to find the
lessons there that apply to their own lives, while narrow-minded people
look at the lessons their own life has brought them and try to apply
these to the world at large."
  - M. Elizabeth Hunter , 6 Jul 1995

[Tunga]

"There is now future, there is only now." - Good Ol Days - David Marley

[Caleb]

From a t-shirt I saw today ... A photo of George HW Bush with a caption underneath that said:

"I should have pulled out" 

[Kat Kanning]

That's a good one!

[free55]

"When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent.
When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun.
Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet."
  - Myhr Lyle , email signature file, 1995.

[Russell Kanning]

"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service."

  -Albert Einstein

[Kat Kanning]

'...in a 1989 survey by the National Endowment for the Humanities, nearly one quarter of college seniors thought the words "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" were found in the U.S. Constitution!'

From __Why the state took control of "education" Government schools are not there to serve children__ by Sheldon Richman

[Kat Kanning]

Acta Non Verba.
Deeds, Not Words.

[KBCraig]

Thought someone might use this in the "economic rent" threads. I can't, since I'm ignoring the proponent. 

"They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter, with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it, from whom?"
-- Ayn Rand

[KBCraig]

1. Love creative work.
2. Do not seek domination over others.
3. Avoid intimacy with the ruling authorities.
-- Pirke Avot 1:10, one of the Talmudic texts

Alternate translations:
"Love work; despise public office; and do not be intimate with the ruling authorities."
"Love work, despise high position, and do not become too close to the authorities."

[Lloyd Danforth]

Captain Benjimen L. Willard, 'Apocolypse Now'

"They were gonna make me a major for this, and I wasn't even in their fuckin' army anymore."

[Kat Kanning]

Good one, Scott.

[Kat Kanning]

 Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
? George Washington