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Charles Baudelaire On Agreement Through Misunderstanding — August 28, 2024
“It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.” – Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire On Agreement Through Misunderstanding
“It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.” – Charles Baudelaire
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Miguel de Cervantes on Preparation and Victory
“Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.” – Miguel de Cervantes
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Howard Aiken On Overcoming Resistance To Innovation
“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.” – Howard Aiken
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Yogi Berra On The Folly Of Prediction
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” – Yogi Berra
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Matsuo Bashō On Finding Home In The Journey
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” – 17th century haiku master Matsuo Bashō
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James Clear On Moving Forward With Purpose
“Move towards the next thing, not away from the last thing. Same direction. Completely different energy.” – James Clear
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Albert Camus On Cowardice And Philosophical Rationalization
“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” – Albert Camus
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Purposeful Advocacy
“Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Calvin Coolidge On The Irreplaceable Power Of Persistence
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not…
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If You Have So Many Disagreeable Ideas, Why Write About Them?
In response to either a personal email or something I wrote in this blog (as you know, I have no memory these days), AS sent me the following four quotes about writers and writing, saying “The one by Kingsley…
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From AS: “Some fodder for your war on liberals
AS is an old friend, independent thinker, and liberal-to-moderate on most issues, which makes these quips doubly appreciated. I thought it was particularly interesting that the great comedic philosophers Lenny…
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Peter Ustinov On Comedy's Serious Purpose
“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.” – Peter Ustinov
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James Clear on Finding Happiness
“You will never find one answer to what makes you happy. There are many answers, and they change based on your current state. People need to relax, but if all you do is sit on the beach, it gets old. People…
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Warren Buffett On Making Wrong Decisions Work
“Wrong decisions are part of life. Being able to make them work anyway is one of the abilities of those who are successful.” – Warren Buffett
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I would rather…
The April 26 issue of Letters of Note presented a list of memorable quotations that began with, “I would rather…” These are my favorites: “I would rather fight a guy who had a knife and no talent with same…
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Finding Meaning in Life
A five-minute search on the internet will give you hundreds of quotations about the meaning of life. Here are ten I recently came across that I liked enough to share with you. 1. “The purpose of life is a life…
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James Clear on Feeling Resistance
“If you feel resistance before you begin, it’s usually procrastination and you need to get started. If you feel resistance after you begin, it’s usually feedback and you need to make adjustments.”
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Bill Bonner on the Two Important Ways Government Spends Our Money
“There are only two key issues in government – how it raises and spends its money… and against whom it goes to war. Everything else is a footnote. But on the two important issues, American voters have almost…
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Entropy: The Hidden Force that Complicates Life
“Entropy applies to every part of our lives. It is inescapable, and even if we try to ignore it, the result is a collapse of some sort. Understanding entropy leads to a radical change in the way we see the…
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Let it go!
“YOU fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin’ to be done about it, it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.” – Cormac McCarthy in No Country for Old Men
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Just One Sip and No More!
From James Clear, a master of pithy advice: “It is not worth it to be greedy over a single transaction. Even if you’re not going to work with the person again. Even if you think word won’t get out. Even if you…
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From Mark Twain
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”
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From James Clear
“You should always be rooting for the people you know. Not only because you may need their support tomorrow, but also because it feels good to celebrate something. Celebration can rescue your day – even if it…
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Jimmy Buffett On Life As A Scavenger Hunt
“Searching is half the fun: Life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.” – Jimmy Buffett
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General Patton On The Danger Of Groupthink
“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – Gen. George S. Patton
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James Madison On Gradual Power Encroachment
“There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” – James Madison
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Taylor Swift On The Fear Of Mediocrity
“I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.” – Taylor Swift
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Charles Bukowski on Writing
* “Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.” * “If I stop writing, then I am dead. And that’s the only way I’ll stop: dead.” * “It’s better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.”
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John Adams, in a letter to his wife, Abigail, after signing the Declaration of Independence
“I am apt to believe that it [the signing] will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns…
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Ray Bradbury On The Dangers Of Illiteracy
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” – Ray Bradbury
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Salman Rushdie On Poetry's Revolutionary Power
“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.” – Salmon Rushdie
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Richard Feynman On Self-Deception And Scientific Integrity
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.” – Richard Feynman
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Another Big Retail Store Bites the Dust!
From Nellie Bowles (The Free Press) on crime in Portland: “REI, the do-good outdoor recreation chain, the store where I buy most of my clothes (whoever says they don’t carry black tie clothes isn’t trying hard…
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Bill Bonner On America's Declining Global Standing
“America is a victim of its own flim-flam. The peak of it… probably came when Madeleine Albright, the US Secretary of State, announced that the US was ‘indispensable’… and that ‘we stand taller… and ‘see…
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James Clear On Breaking Free From Imitation
“Many people won’t attempt something unless they can find an example of someone else who is already doing it. Rely on this type of thinking too much and you’ll never do anything interesting.” – James Clear
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Language Control As A Tool Of Tyranny
“If you can mandate or ban words, you can control thought. If you can control thought, you can control behavior. If you can control behavior, you have created a self-sustaining tyranny.” – Michael Masterson
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Mark Twain On The Persistence Of Deception
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” – Mark Twain
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About the Tangled Web of War in Ukraine
“Involved on the side of the rulers in Kyiv are all the 30 governments of NATO, led by Biden. On Moscow’s side are the five other governments of CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Russian…
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On America’s Intelligence Capabilities
In 1957, following an attempt to assassinate Indonesia’s president, James Burnham wrote this in the National Review: “Last week’s attempted assassination of Indonesia President Sukhano had all the hallmarks of…
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A lot of very smart people believe some very stupid things. Why?
“While unintelligent people are more easily misled by other people, intelligent people are more easily misled by themselves. (Intelligent people) are better at convincing themselves of things they want to…
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Bill Bonner on the Nord Stream Pipeline Attack
“It’s not every day that the US commits an act of war – against two of the most powerful nations in the world. It’s not every day that the US attacks its own allies, either... blowing up the Baltic pipeline…
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Bill Bonner on Biden’s State of the Union Speech
An excerpt from the Feb. 8 issue of Bonner Private Research… “The tattered coat managed to stand up and deliver a long, pointless speech. It was another triumph of politics… over common sense. And a triumph…
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Michael Masterson On Language Control And Human Freedom
“When you police words, you regulate language. When you regulate language, you control thought. When you control thought, you rule behavior. When you rule behavior, you destroy freedom. When you destroy…
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Paul Newman On Growth Through Solitude
“You only grow when you are alone.” – Paul Newman
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Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
In 1897, eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s now-defunct newsletter, The Sun. Photo of Virginia O’Hanlon from the 1890s “Some of my little friends say there is no Santa…
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The Grinch On Christmas Beyond Consumerism
“Maybe Christmas, [the Grinch] thought… doesn’t come from a store / Maybe Christmas, perhaps… means a little bit more.”
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Benjamin Franklin On Freedom Of Thought And Speech
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Ancient Philosophers on Gratitude and Appreciation
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” – Voltaire…
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George Orwell On Socialism's Credibility Problem
“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents.” – George Orwell
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