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last updated: November 28, 2023

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow,
-- Dick Armey

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No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.
-- David Josiah Brewer

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“A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers”
“We are human behind and this part of our human nature that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands. In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, and that time I realized that education is very important, and education is the power for women. And that's why the terrorists are afraid of education. They do not want women to get education because then women will become more powerful.”
“Confidence is seen, not heard.”
“Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.”
“I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one.”
“I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.”
“Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as â€˜beauty,â€™ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artistâ€™s experience that are the first importance in art.”
“Let us be elegant or die! --Amy”
“The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".”

Source : Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.289, Simon and Schuster
“The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The second thing he must do is to make the utmost possible use of the knowledge he has and not waste his energy crying for the moon. The third thing he must do is try and see clearly where his knowledge ends and his ignorance begins.”