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Freedom must be taught
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
― Ronald Reagan
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Strategic Planning
Lewis Carroll in “Alice in Wonderland” makes a good case for it: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” said Alice. “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where…,” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat
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Men and women really are different:
Solitude may help a man towards achievement. But it destroys a woman. –Medical Wit & Wisdom
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman. –Honoré de Balzac
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Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom
Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. –Ben Franklin
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” ―Bernard M. Baruch
When it comes to your health, I recommend frequent doses of that rare commodity among Americans—common sense. –Vincent Askey
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. –Publilius Syrus
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. –Thomas Dekker
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Equality by Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) A San Francisco longshoreman—turned—author who achieved immediate fame for his book True Believers (1951), in which he described the underlying logic of mass movements, such as Nazism and Communism, and the characteristics of their followers.
A 1956 profile in Look magazine identified Hoffer as “Ike’s Favorite Author,” elevating this blue-collar workingman to the level of President Eisenhower’s bedside table. It wasn’t just Eisenhower who appreciated Hoffer’s intelligence and wit. Public figures, ranging from the author and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to the philosopher and social critic Bertrand Russell, praised his work. Since September 11, 2001, some commentators have noted that Hoffer’s analysis of “the true believer” and mass movements in general—although written with Hitler’s and Stalin’s followers in mind—applied equally well to Islamic fundamentalists.
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We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.
We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.
There can be no freedom without the freedom to fail.
I doubt if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power—the power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.
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By Henry Ford
“Coming together is a beginning, Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” –Henry Ford
Whether you say, “I can” or “I can’t”, either way you are always right. –Henry Ford
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. –Henry Ford
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. –Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. –Henry Ford
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. –Henry Ford
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. –Henry Ford
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. –Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. –Henry Ford
Henry Ford was one of American foremost industrialist, a business magnate, inventor of the Ford Model T car, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants, so long as it is black.” The Model T only came in black because the production line required compromise so that efficiency and improved quality could be achieved.
Born: July 30, 1863, Greenfield Township, Michigan; Died at Home: April 7, 1947, Dearborn, MI
Did you know: Henry Ford is the fifth-wealthiest figure of the modern period (net worth of $188–199 billion). wikipedia.org
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The Skill in Growing Old
I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either. –Jack Benny
No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Aphorisms
Attributing overweight to overeating is hardly more illuminating than ascribing alcoholism to alcohol.
—Jean Mayer
All that running, and exercise can do for you is make you healthy. —Denny McClain
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. —Paul Dudley White
Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise. —Thomas Jefferson
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Gathering Knowledge faster than Gathering Wisdom.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. –Isaac Asimov
“Wealth flows from energy and ideas.” ~ William Feather
The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of Medicine. –Walter Martin
The great American tabernacle, the medicine cabinet. –Peter Fasoline
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever-beset mankind. –Thomas Carlyle
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Life is unfair
In
response to 21-year-old FT intern Niamh Ní Hoireabhaird’s moving op-ed on the
difficulty of navigating life as a disabled person, commenter Frag shared some personal advice:
https://www.ft.com/content/4e212b28-0214-11e9-99df-6183d3002ee1
I have been on a wheelchair for 25 years now (I am 55) and I would suggest to you the following: (more…)
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Freedom at the University
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear—George Orwell
A college is its faculty. If you tell students that they are number one, then they will run the place. They are not number one. They are guests, subsidized by the state, and lucky to spend time with faculty like you—Dr. Howard Gensler, Saddleback College (more…)
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Hindsight/Foresight
Steve Jobs: “I didn’t see it see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.” (more…)
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Words of Wisdom Never Heeded
From the March 8, 2019 WSJ Mary Anastasia O’Grady
Venezuela’s Long Road to Ruin: “Rent control in Venezuela dates to 1939 but was not enforced until August 1960 by Betancourt when he passed a new rent-control law with prohibitions on eviction. Since then ‘not one apartment building has been built.’” Swedish economist Carl Assar Lindbeck famously stated: “Next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient technique so far known for destroying cities.” (more…)
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Medical Wit & Wisdom – Compiled by Jess M Brallier
Money giving is a very good criterion . . . of a person’s mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
–Karl A. Menninger,
Founder of the Menninger Psychoanalytic institute.
Health care is being converted from a social service to an economic commodity, sold in the marketplace and distributed on the basis of who can afford to pay for it. (more…)
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If you don’t know where you’re going, you may end up somewhere else
He who moves not forward goes backward. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth. –Eleanor Roosevelt
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. –Henry Kissinger
It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy. –Steve Jobs
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. –Oscar Wilde
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To Err is Human
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. —Chinese proverb
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. –Samuel Johnson
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. –Marie Curie
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. –Bill Bradley (more…)
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Medical Specialties
A Specialist is one who knows more and more about less and less. –William J. Mayo.
A Medical Chest specialist is long-winded about the short winded.
If you have more surgeons, you’ll get more surgery. If you have more internists, you’ll get more lab tests. –John Wennberg.
Dermatologist make rash judgments. –Patricia Majewski.
A males gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. —Carrie Snow.
I have so little sex appeal that my gynecologist calls me “sir.”—Joan Rivers
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Women
Definition: adult female humans; the distaff side; formerly the weaker sex; the ladies; the first improvement on man; the female of the species; “the last thing civilized by man (George Meredith); the eternal feminine.
Quotations: . . . Can’t live with them, or without them. Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 411 B.C.
A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Civilization, 1870. (more…)
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Words of Truths
Although Abraham Lincoln and Nikita Khrushchev’s beliefs on liberty, religion, and economics were radically different, on one important issue they offered similarly prophetic statements.
“We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.” –Nikita Khrushchev
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” –Abraham Lincoln
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Humanae Vitae by Paul VI
The Controversial Text That Saved Me
I’m a Catholic thanks to ‘Humanae Vitae.’ It’s about a lot more than birth control.
By Ashley McGuire, Author of “Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female”
WSJ | July 26, 2018
I first read “Humanae Vitae”—which Pope Paul VI published 50 years ago July 29—when I was 21. As a senior at Tufts University, hardly a bastion of Christian belief, sheer curiosity brought me to the controversial papal encyclical. I knew only that it banned contraception. How could a billion people around the world embrace such a backward religion?
Two years later, I was baptized and received into the Catholic Church. “Humanae Vitae” was my gateway. Disillusioned with a culture that habitually objectifies women, I found the document stirring—as did countless other converts—with its call to safeguard “the reverence due to a woman.” (more…)
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Time is free, but it’s priceless.
“We live in a country where, yes, there are injustices that can happen. We are blessed to be in a country where injustice can also be rectified.” “The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.”
~ Ben Stein
“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.” ~ Marianne Williamson“To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.” ~ Stephen Covey
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” – Anthony Robbins“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” ~ Les Brown“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it…” – Harvey MacKay Nightingale-Conant Logo
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Happiness
One joy scatters a hundred griefs. –Chinese proverb
Happiness is a mystery like religion and should never be rationalized. —G. K. Chesterton 1874
If you haven’t been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it’s much harder. You need more luck. –Simone de Beauvoir (more…)
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Money, Health, Sickness, Wealth
God heals and the Doctor takes the Fees. –Benjamin Franklin
Money-giving is a very good criterion . . . of a person’s mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people. —Karl A Menninger, Co-Founder of the Menninger Clinic of Psychoanalysis.
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but . . . the richest would gladly part with all their money for health. –C. C. Colton (1780-1832). Addressed to Those Who Think, l.225. 1823.
Health is better than wealth. –John Ray (1628-1705). A Collection of English Proverbs. p. 153, 1678.
Having good health is very different from only being not sick. –Seneca the Younger, (5? B.C.—A. D. 65 Preface (1.6) to Natural Questions. Tr. Thomas A. Corcoran, 1921.
Bill Murray’s rumored to have said: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 350,000 times — you’re a weatherman.”My Doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn’t afford an operation, he touched up the x-rays. –Jerry Bishop.A physician who heals for nothing is worth nothing. –The Talmud
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Liberty
The doors of wisdom are never shut. –Benjamin Franklin
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. –George Washington
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there is purpose and worth to each and every life. –Ronald Reagan (more…)
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Limitations in Life
We are more powerful, more knowledgeable, better prepared than we think we ever are –Joe Navarro
Life has no limitations except the ones you make—Les Brown (more…)
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Time is Precious
“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it…” –Harvey MacKay“The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out WHY” ~ Mark Twain (more…)
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When to begin?
The toughest part of being on a diet is shutting up about it—Gerald Nachman
He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches—Robert Louis Stevenson (more…)
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Freedom is the last, best hope on earth—Abraham Lincoln
Remember, if you are not part of the solution then you are an administrator.
In this world there are only two tragedies: One is not getting what one wants, and the second is getting it. –Oscar Wilde (more…)
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Talking at Luther’s Table
“In Luther’s household the day began at sunrise, and the principal meal of the day was eaten about ten o’clock in the morning. About five o’clock in the afternoon supper was served, and this meal was often shared by exiled clergymen, escaped nuns, government officials, visitors from abroad, and colleagues of Luther in the university who frequently stopped in, men like Philip Melanchthon, John Bugenhagen, and Justus Jonas. The relaxed atmosphere of the hospitable home was conducive to spirited conversation (more…)
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Time
The more you learn, the more you earn, as Warren Buffett famously says.
Time is free, but it’s priceless.
You can’t own it, but you can use it.
You can’t keep it, but you can spend it.
Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back. —Harvey MacKay
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national Debt—Herbert Hoover
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Opportunity in Difficulty
A Pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity: An Optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. –Abraham Lincoln (more…)
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How to create a long Curriculum Vitae
It is wise to have a data base to start.
Never write one paper when you can write two: Split your data base and refer to each as a study.
In addition to local journals, publish each study in at least three foreign publications.
Change the title and submit each study to another journal. (more…)
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From those that should know
Albert Einstein: There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (more…)
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Views on Death and Dying
Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused—Sydney Smith
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible—Henry Fielding
On his deathbed, British surgeon Joseph Henry Green behaved very coolly. “Congestion,”: he observed, and then took his own pulse. “Stopped,” he said, and died. (more…)
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Aphorism
Government is in an endless pursuit of new ways to tax.
It’s tough enough to pay taxes but making out the income tax forms seems to make it worse.
They use to say that the only thing the government didn’t tax was taxes. Then President Johnson invented the surtax.
. . , the power to tax involves the power to destroy . . . Chief Justice John Marshall, Supreme Court Decision in McCulloch v. Maryland, March 6, 1819. (more…)
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Change the World
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot changed their minds cannot change anything. ~ George Bernard Shaw
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Buckminster Fuller
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” ~ C. S. Lewis
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” ~ Proverbs 27:17)
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Truman, Ford, Lowell, St. Matthew
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. –James Russell Lowell, 1970
If you can’t stand the heat you better get out of the kitchen. –President Harry S. Truman, in speech Dec 17, 1932
If you say you can or if you say you can’t, either way you’re right. –Henry Ford
Those who do well like criticism; those who do not do well, resent it. –Anonymous
Judge not, that ye be not judged. –Matthew 7:1
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Washington, D.C.
The capital city of the United States; “a city of Southern efficiency and Northern Charm” –John F Kennedy.
Washington is no place to a civilized man to spend the summer. –President James Buchanan.
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone has been too long away from home. –President Dwight D Eisenhower.
Washington, D.C. was named for the only President who didn’t have to live there.
Facts:
War is mankind’s oldest weakness. No civilization yet created has been able to abolish it. In this Century alone the United States has been involved in four major wars—World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam—plus various military confrontations. In that same period, the world has tried to abolish war through non-aggression compacts, United Nations sessions, disarmament and arms limitation agreements, peaceful sanctions against aggressors, etc. But military preparedness continues to be reflected around the world in mounting armament sales and the increasing sophistication of equipment. The war against war is being waged at great cost.
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From Our Presidents
Abraham Lincoln: As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
George Washington: Happiness and moral duty are inseparable connected. (more…)
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William Osler (1849-1919) Canadian Physician
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” —William Osler, physician
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessing of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest, and not inferior to either in her mission. —William Osler, physician
Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose. —William Osler, physician
There are only two sorts of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice with their tongues. —William Osler, physician. (more…)
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Anonymous Aphorisms: Science
Science is the ascertainment of facts and the refusal to regard facts as permanent.
To err is human; to try to prevent recurrence of error is science.
Science is forever rewriting itself.
Every science thinks it is the science.
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Economics
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a “dismal science.” But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. —Murray Rothbard
Economic ignorance comes in different forms, and some types of economic ignorance are less excusable than others. But the most important implication of Rothbard’s point is that the worst sort of economic ignorance is ignorance about your economic ignorance.—Steven Horwitz. Read more at FEE.org/Horwitz
Aphorisms:
Education has moved from three R’s to six: remedial reading, remedial ‘riting, and remedial ‘rithmetic.
The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.
It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks and easy to teach a new dog old tricks.
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CHURCHILL ON ISLAM
He was a brave young soldier, a brilliant journalist, an extraordinary politician and statesman, a great war leader and British Prime Minister
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensual-ism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
—Winston Churchill, 1899.
(Check Wikipedia – The River War). The above was checked as true byhttp://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/churchillislam.asp
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Rights Are Abstract And Not Amenable To Reason By Evidence
Do not use “rights” in arguments or disputes. Though they feel like a trump card, rights are abstract and not amenable to reason by evidence. – Joshua Greene
Democracy is all very well as a political device. It must not intrude into the spiritual, or even the aesthetic world. – C. S. Lewis
The rebellious slogan “All for Love” is really love’s death warrant (with the date of execution, for the moment left blank _________.) – C. S. Lewis
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