Stuff…

Well, Dragon Crew 10 is on their way to the ISS, so the marooned astronauts will FINALLY get to come home from their 8 day voyage, NINE months later…

Now some quotes-

The fatal fallacy of gun control laws in general is the assumption that such laws actually control guns. Criminals who disobey other laws are not likely to be stopped by gun-control laws. What such laws actually do is increase the number of disarmed and defenseless victims. [Thomas Sowell]

When immigration is done by single individuals, it is immigration. When done by groups, it is invasion.” [Nassim Taleb]

But test and prove all things until you can recognize what is good; to that hold fast. [1 Thessalonians 5:21]

I would sooner be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the faculty of Harvard. [William F. Buckley Jr]

In politics, never assume that because something is insane, it will not be done. [Thomas Sowell]

If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s. [Carl Jung]

Brains never yet moved the masses, but emotion and earnestness will not only move the masses, but they will remove mountains. [Admiral of the Fleet (British) John A. Fisher]

You should never forget that the airplanes don’t fly, the tanks don’t run, the ships don’t sail, the missiles don’t fire unless the sons and daughters of America make them do it. [General Norman Schwarzkopf]

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. [Arthur Schopenhauer]

There is one phrase in the Bible repeated 365 times. 365 is no coincidence. Be not afraid. [Richard Grenell]

Even the smallest things ought to be directed toward a goal. [Marcus Aurelius]

When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. [John Muir]

I got nothin’ against mankind. It’s people I can’t stand. [Archie Bunker]

Carry On: Verbal order which means, resume doing nothing. [Murphy’s Laws of Combat, Marion F. Sturkey]

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to lying! [Falstaff, in Shakespeare’s Henry IV]

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. [Clarence Darrow]

If it’s worth doing it’s worth doing with class. [Bob Fiegel]

If every Jewish and anti-Nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic. [Aaron Zelman]

Remember that the people that hid Anne Frank were breaking the law and the people that took her to the camps were enforcing it. [Your conscience]

The weak grow strong by effrontery. The strong grow weak through inhibition. [Henry Kissinger]

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. [Mortimer Adler]

Those whom God would destroy, He first makes mad. [Sophocles’ Antigone]

The Second Amendment makes more women equal than the entire feminist movement. [unknown]

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. [Aristotle]

If at first you dont succeed, call in an air strike. [Unknown]

Turns out the guy who made a boatload of money investing in Apple was guilty of in cider trading. [No one Will Claimit]

I am a soldier. I fight where I am told and I win where I fight. [George S. Patton, Jr.]

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. [Robert E. Lee]

I don’t make jokes… I just watch the government and report the facts. [Will Rogers]

The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal: a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. [Ronald Reagan]

A lion uses all its might in attacking a rabbit. [Chinese proverb]

The cause doesn’t have to be righteous and battle doesn’t have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive. [Sebastiab Junger, author]

When in a position of power I felt I had to pass the daily truth to the mirror test — Am I doing it for myself, or am I doing it for the enlisted corps I am responsible for? [Bob Fiegel]

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. [Ezra Pound]

America is a great playpen of civilization filled with toddler adults who have never experienced the violent brutality of life outside the safe confines of our political borders. [George Strong]

And I hope everyone came through last night’s weather okay! It was windy/dusty/as hell all day here, but never got over 65 kts of wind (that I know of).

Comments

Stuff… — 2 Comments

  1. Great collection. Tiny typo in the Lee quote. Maybe you’re testing us?