Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"I do not suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it." - Edgar Allen Poe
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." - Aristotle
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain." - John F. Kennedy
"Your real education begins when you realize it wasn't school." - Shane Parrish
"No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers." - Robert Heinlein
"Early in life, I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper." - George Orwell
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Every time you choose to perform a bad habit, it's a vote for that identity." - James Clear
"He's very popular, Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude." - Grace Wheelberg
"The ones who thrive long term are those who understand the real world is a neverending chain of absurdity, confusions, messy relationships, and imperfect people." - Morgan Housel
"To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers." - Nassim Taleb
Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.
"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of disciple or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons." - Jim Rohn
"Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion." - Steve Jobs
"Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or building upon the steel frame of understanding." - Naval Ravikant
"Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backwards - reversing cause and effect. I call these the 'wet street cause rain' stories. Paper's full of them." - Michael Crichton
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser each day." - Charlie Munger
"Science is interesting. If you disagree, you can fuck off." - Richard Dawkins
"I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die." - Serena Williams
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson
"To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers." Nicolas Nassim Taleb
And I feel better. Way, way better. It feels like a war that used to be fought in my backyard is now being fought on Neptune instead. I feel relieved of my duty to keep track of the whole world, and now I realize I never had that duty in the first place. My brain got quieter and I started hearing myself think instead of hearing myself worry.
Read the whole thing - some interesting research. Makes me wonder what's worse for American society - all the sugar we consume in our diet - or all the news we consume?
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." - Aristotle
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
"Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly." - Cicero
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"And it is also true that, like orange juice and Listerine, the [Cleveland] Browns and high expectations simply don't go well together." - Football Outsiders Almanac 2021
"Dogs are intrinsically motivated to run after the scent that excites them the most. Be like a dog." - Andrew Kirby
"The people who have lied to you every single day for the past several years are now confused that you don't trust them." - Zuby
"The war against the virus is going as well as the war on drugs and the war in Afghanistan." - Scott Adams
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X
"Don't be overheard complaining... not even to yourself." - Marcus Aurelius
Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.
"One of the mysteries of the ages is why the political left has, for centuries, lavished so much attention on the well-being of criminals and paid so little attention to their victims." - Thomas Sowell
"Sir, your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves." - Samuel Johnson
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I wish to change myself." - Rumi
"You have to lower your ideals of freedom if you want to suck on the warm teat of China." - South Park
"Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered discrimination." - Thomas Sowell
"The conscience is that part of the psyche which is soluble in alcohol." - William Ober
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson
Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.
Inflation may actually help the newspaper industry are people start buying papers again just for the coupons to stretch their now shrinking buying power. Just like in the 1970's... CDC investigating reports of 'mild' heart problems in adolescents and teens after Covid vaccine. "The preliminary report by a committee tasked with monitoring vaccine side effects found 62 cases of myocarditis, including two deaths, in people who received the Pfizer vaccine." What would you rather risk - getting a disease which is almost 100% non-fatal to teens and adolescents or risking permanent heart damage? The CDC paused the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for less... God bless Jordan Petersen... A while ago I predicted some would look for "dating" apps to require vaccination status. That seems to be coming true. I also predicted the next step would be proof of STD and HIV testing. Next up - mandatory 23andMe tests... Adam Vinatieri announced his retirement yesterday. As amazing as his game winning kicks were the thing that stands out for me is the time he freaking ran down Hershel Walker...
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Optimists are dismissed as fools, pessimists as sages, by a media that likes to be spoon-fed on scary press releases." - Matt Ridley
"[O]f course God exists. Even if God turns out to be just science in fancy pyjamas." - Ian Martin
"Early in life, I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper." - George Orwell
"If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it." - Elon Musk
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus
"It's encouraging that thanks to the J&J stoppage people suddenly see the absurdity in shutting things down on the basis of miniscule risk." - Clifton Duncan
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way." - Ernest Hemingway
Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.
"The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants." - Albert Camus
"If you see fraud and don't say fraud, you are a fraud." - Nassim Taleb
"Collecting airline miles is coupon-clipping for the middle class." - Naval Ravikant
"Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses." - Vaclav Havel
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." - Aristotle
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson
"Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly." - Cicero
The above quote is from author Michael Crichton and his words really hit home with me. I've been quoted in newspaper stories a number of times and not once have my words or the story been accurate. And my subject matter isn't exactly rocket science.“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
