Daily Learning

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. - Bill Vaughan 


Oh oh, the old farts' secret is out.


(Other posts on Learning) 

Don't Put Garbage In

Beware of the "Black Swan" fallacy. Deductive logic is tautological; there is no way to get a new truth out of it, and it manipulates false statements as readily as true ones. If you fail to remember this, it can trip you - with perfect logic. The designers of the earliest computers called this the "Gigo Law." i.e., "Garbage in, garbage out." Inductive logic is much more difficult - but can produce new truths. - Robert Heinlein 


For everyday living this is like picking the nits off a gnats nuts but for life you aught to know what he is talking about. (By the way - he's got it wrong.)


(Other posts on Logic) 

Reject Objections

An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information. - Bo Bennet



At least it should be taken that way.


(Other posts on Persuasion) 

Unusual Risk

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. - Jim Rohn 


No pain, no gain.


(Other posts on Achievement) 

Redistribution of Honesty

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. - Robert Green Ingersoll 


Consider the implications of this in the redistributing of wealth by the government.


(Other posts on Government) 

Voting Results

 We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

 Very often the majority are those who hope to be the recipient of the spoils.


(Other posts on Politicians)

Trying On Faces

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. - Logan Pearsall Smith 


(This does not apply if they are running for office.)


(Other posts on Politicians) 

No Statues

Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic! - Jean Sibelius 


Why has putting up statues of great people gone out of style?


(Other posts on Art) 

Taken Money

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else. - Jesse Ventura 


Remember, especially when you vote. Remember as well that the dollar may be coming from you some day.


(Other posts on Government) 

Incremental Loss

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. - Robert Green Ingersoll 

My greatest fear is that through the incremental loss of liberty mankind will end up living in a blurred, gasping, depressed state without fulfillment or joy. Individuals need to know the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat."

(Other posts on Liberty)