Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

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Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks.

D-Day Never Forget

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Life Lessons from a Pro Bowler. When I read "pro bowler" I thought football.

- From the archives: Four levels of reading.

- A far-sighted warning from 1961. Fear many may not even remember Eisenhower never mind his warnings.

- Inside the latest bill to "save" college sports.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

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Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

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D-Day: Never Forget

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President Eisenhower's Farewell Address

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Eisenhower's Warning

"...in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become captive of a scientific-technological elite." - President Dwight Eisenhower during his Farewell Address.

Ike's warning of a "military-industrial complex" is much more famous but given our current state of things - I think the above warning which was also in his Farewell Address may be more apt. 

Dangers from "scientific-technological elite" may be among the top dangers facing this nation. 

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Master the best of what other people have already figured out. This is how you turn the hindsight of others into your foresight." - Shane Parrish

"Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being." - May Sarton

"But Clive knew nothing of unfairness because he knew nothing of its opposite." - John le Carre

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"In holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite." - Dwight Eisenhower

"Anyone who mocks people for changing their minds is inadvertently telling us something very damning about themselves." - Paul Graham

"The most important trick to being happy is to realize happiness is a skill you develop and a choice you make. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it." - Naval Ravikant

"Patience is a competitive advantage. In a surprising number of fields, you can find success if you are simply willing to do the reasonable thing longer than most people." - James Clear

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Scientists observe the creation of matter from light.  

- Some thoughts on China and the fiat monetary system.

- Agreed - President Eisenhower's Farewell Address is one of the most import political speeches in our history.

- Sports betting is the "new Oxycontin." It's true - so many more people are now betting and on more and more exotic bets. And like drug dealers - the first online bet is usually on the house.

Eisenhower's Military-Industrial Complex Speech

 

Interesting. Ike was a very underrated President.

Quotes for Today

 Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.

"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." - Ronald Reagan

"Republic... it means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose." - John Wayne

"All free men remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." - Sherlock Holmes

Eisenhower's Warning

"...in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become captive of a scientific-technological elite." - President Dwight Eisenhower during his Farewell Address.

Ike's warning of a "military-industrial complex" is much more famous but given our current state of things - I think the above warning which was also in his Farewell Address may be more apt. 

Dangers from "scientific-technological elite" may be among the top dangers facing this nation. 

But for all their differences, the Democrats had a certain glue. They won, and in victory there was patronage and power, a combination that transcended ideology. For the Republicans there was only the taste of ashes. They had been out of office since 1932. The shadow of the Depression still hung over them, and the Democrats were still running against Herbert Hoover, portraying the Republicans as the party of cold uncaring bankers. - David Halberstam The Fifties

You can see certain similarities to today. Back 70-years ago the Democratic Party was divided into Northern liberals and Southern Jim Crow wings, yet they still voted en-bloc. The previous unsuccessful Republican candidate was viewed as a traitor to his own party for being too nice and accommodating to the Democrats (back then it was Thomas Dewey while today its Mitt Romney). And the previous Republican President was viewed as the boogey man threatening the very fabric of our Republic (back then it was Hoover while today it's Trump). 

A political outsider was needed back then to put the country back on the right course and the nation was lucky that Dwight Eisenhower was available to serve that role. Who might be our outsider today?