Entitlement
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
Source: – Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Faith Sustains
Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we cannot continue, that the whole of our whole lives is without meaning.
Source: – Brother Alwyn in “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars” episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s Babylon 5 Series. 1994.
Get Out
I was not a drop out; I was a get out.
Source: – Dr. Gary North
Good Sense
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Source: – Livy (59BC-17AD)
Heroism Never Futile
Heroism is never futile, for it is a thing of the soul, demonstrating that man is more than just another animal. This is a truth that needs emphasis in the dingy modern era, when the race’s most basic values are under attack. Honor is, at last, all we can take with us.
Source: – COL Jeff Cooper, USMC (Ret)
Keynesian Haircut
Here is the Keynesian rule: Always ask the barber if you need a haircut.
Source: – Dr. Gary North
Landscape
Deirdre: “I see you’re working on our problem.”
Sam: “Well, either your part of the problem, or you’re part of the solution, or you’re just part of the landscape.”
Source: John Frankenheimer’s Ronin, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists
Long Habits
A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT.
Source: – Thomas Paine
Moral System
The free market is a moral system, not because it makes men moral, but because it rewards those who serve others efficiently and penalizes those who don’t.
Source: – Dr. Gary North
Morale
General of the Army George Catlett Marshall one said, “Morale is a state of mine. It is steadfastness and courage and hope…confidence and zeal and loyalty…élan, esprit de corps, and determination.” Morale, he said, “is staying power, the spirit which endures to the end—the will to win.”
Source: About Face, page 38. By David Hackworth. Touchstone Books, Simon & Shuster. 1989.
No Errors
Nature commits no errors; right and wrong are human categories.
Source: — Pardot Kynes, Arrakis Lectures
No Harm
Each fancies that no harm will come to his neglect.
Source: – Thucydides
No Whinning
Spence: “What do you use, weapons-wise?”
Sam: “Hmm?”
Spence: “Weapons. I’m a…I’m a weapons man.”
Sam: “Weapons man?”
Spence: “Yeah.”
Sam: “Great.”
Spence: “They tend to settle the argument. So what do you favor?”
Sam: “Oh you know, it’s a toolbox. I don’t care. You put the tools in for the job.”
Spence: “What?”
Sam: “You know, I actually favor the old 1911.”
Spence: “Forty-five? Old gun.”
Sam: [Nodding] “It served my country well, a long time.”
Spence: [Scoffs] “Your country. Not done too well, have you, last few wars?”
Sam: “Perhaps not, but at least we don’t go around whining about it.”
Source: John Frankenheimer’s Ronan, United Artists Pictures, 1997.
No Winners
There are no winners in an interrogation; only degrees of loss.
Source: – Intelligence community maxim.
Nothing Personal…
Nothing personal, and no hard feelings…
Source: – Buck Brannaman talking to a colt he was “starting” as he put significant pressure on the colt to motivate its compliance.
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