...................obituaries like this one. Zesty.
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Above all........................
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
Lurking.............................
In every adult there lurks a child—an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the human personality which wants to develop and become whole.
Pick your neighbors carefully...................
The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are that they should be living for.
Monday, December 20, 2021
Ideal..........................
The American ideal is about your liberty, not their power.
It's no longer Republican versus Democrat. It's not about good government or bad government. It's not even "liberal" versus "conservative." It's about limiting the government's monopoly on force and unleashing our freedom to try, to choose, to take responsibility, and to make things better. It is about the political elites and the insiders they collude with versus America.
-Matte Kibbe, Don't Hurt People And Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto
Not so much......................
If only disasters were predictable, how much less perplexing life would be!
-Niall Ferguson, Doom: The Politics Of Catastrophe
Worth repeating..............................
"As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expence, but by vigorous exertions in time of Peace to discharge the Debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear."
-George Washington, as excerpted from his Farewell AddressSunday, December 19, 2021
As my Sweetie likes to say..............
............................about the worst thing that ever happened to television, and this country, is the 24-hours news channel.
'Tis the season...........................
August Burns Red...........................Carol of the Bells
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