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"WE MUST BUILD A NEW WORLD, A BETTER WORLD--
ONE IN WHICH THE ETERNAL DIGNITY OF MAN IS
RESPECTED."
Harry S. Truman radio address
4-23-1945
opening seession of the United Nations conference
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"MONEY ALONE SETS
ALL THE WORLD
IN MOTION."
Publius
1st century BC
"TELL US NOT THAT THE WORLD
IS GOVERNED BY UNIVERSAL LAW; THE NEWS IS
NOT COMFORTABLE,
BUT SIMPLY HORRIBLE,
UNLESS YOU CAN TELL US...
THAT THERE IS A LOVING GIVER,
AND A JUST ADMINISTRATOR OF THE LAW."
Charles Kingsley
1866
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"LIFE IS AN INSTINCT FOR GROWTH,
FOR SURVIVAL,
FOR THE ACCUMULATION OF FORCES,
FOR POWER."
F. W. Nietzsche
The Antichrist
1888
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LISTEN PLEASE!
"Toleration is a good thing in its place; but you cannot
tolerate what will not tolerate you, and is trying to cut
your throat."
--Froude
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ANYTHING TOO HOT TO HANDLE?
"THE RIGHT HONORABLE GENTLEMAN TELLS US
TO GO BACK TO TO PRECEDENT; WITH HIM A
GREAT MEASURE IS ALWAYS FOUNDED ON A
SMALL PRECEDENT. HE TRACES THE STEAM
ENGINE ALWAYS BACK TO THE TEA-KETTLE."
a Disraeli speech
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"THE WAY TO BE SAFE IS TO
NEVER BE SECURE."
Logan 1732
WHAT WILL IT TAKE?
"I distrust profoundly the positive intervention of Government--particularly party Government--in the delicateand intricate world wide operations of trade. They do not understand."
Winston S. Churchill
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"I WILL FEAR NO EVIL."
"It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail."
Robert Heinlein I Will Fear No Evil 1970
(Has anyone made offers to other nations to chip in will us on our space program?)
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TWIDDLING OUR THUMBS
"If the nations ofthe earth work together to solve eht enormous challenge of a workable space art, lasting world peace would be a probable result. The required creativity and competition would absorb human erergies normally reserved for war."
ARE YOU SURE?
Willeam Sauber The Fourth Kingdom 1975
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HOW DO WE LOVE?
"Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.
Both your religion and policy must be based it.
Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven;
poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over
the day and over the night."
John Ruskin
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HOW DO YOU KNOW?
"Measured by historical standards, the world
today is stunningly free of friction between
the mightiest nations."
Newsweek "The Secrets of Stability"
by Fareed Zakaria
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"DOES IT WORK?"
"Why do we fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?" Look, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to strike with a wicked fist. Such fasting as you do today will not make your voice heard on high...Is not this the fast that I choose: toloose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed fo free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin?"
Isaiah 58:3-4,6-7
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NONSENSE
The ideas many may have that it is their necks of the line and risks at this time can be avoided is poppycock. If you are in the ship you had better do your part to keep it maintained and cared for. Any thoughts that small businesses will make it by ducking heads and riding the waves will see a decline in their ability to kick off as things get better.
It appears the road is steering us on a path toward accountability to each other, but where will the pitfall be in that? Blame the frustrations of the past year toward a variety of people--bankers, the Fed, Congress and on and on; however, any single person’s decisions did not bring this about.
Large or small, everyone has their responsibilities.
Still, "don’t strip the moral dimension away from the people making the big decisions." *
* "The Dark Side of Incentives" BusinessWeek by Barry Schwartz
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IN EIGHT YEARS HOW MANY
TIMES HAVE WE TALKED TO OUR FOE?
"BEFORE A WAR MITILARY SCIENCE SEEMS A REAL
SCIENCE, LIKE ASTRONOMY; BUT AFTER A WAR
IT SEEMS MORE LIKE ASTROLOGY."
Rebecca West
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"IT IS PART OF THE CURE TO WISH TO BE CURED"
Seneca
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MAKE IT "ANY" SYSTEM
"IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT FREEDOM IS MERELY THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SELF-DISCIPLINE; WHEN RESTAINT IS GONE, SO IS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM."
Waging Peace by Dwight D. Eisenhower Page 589
**This would certainly include reining in the use of the Treasury’s
checkbook--especially to get reelected; curbing the poison of
partisanship; reserve to the authorities what is their jurisdiction;
and returning the ranting to a more civil atmosphere.
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"The end of the fight is a tombstone white,
with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph read: "A fool lies here,
who tried to hustle the East."
--Kipling
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"YOU CAN ONLY BECOME WHAT THE DOMINATING
THOUGHTS IN YOUR MIND TELL YOU TO BECOME;
SO ONLY FEED YOUR MIND WITH PURE, POWERFUL
AND POSITIVE INFORMATION."
Train Like You Fight by Terry Johnson
p.32
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WHO CAN ARGUE?
"Migration is the dynamic undertow of population change...
It is; as it has always been, the great adventure of human life.
Migration helped create life, drove us to conquer the planet,
shaped our societies, and promise to reshape them again."
Michael Parfit, Human Migration
Natioanl Geographic October, 1998
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NO DUALISM, NO DUEL?
"...although he (Einstein) rejected the churches he had
a Spiinoza-like belief in a cosmic religious force. He
regarded this as an eternal spiritual being that communicates
small details os itself to our weak and inadequate minds.
As he once declared, "This deep intuitive conviction of the
existence of the existence of a higher power of thought which
manifests itself in the inscrutalbe universe represents the content
of my definition of God." In other words, he had no more use
for the shallow materialism that is the most widely accepted
philosophy of scientists and others today than for the authoritar-
ian views of the churches that once were so powerful."
G. J. Whitrow, Einstein: The Man and His Achievement
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Figure this one out
and win a milkshake
"The only work that Spinoza published under his own name was Rene’ Descartes" principles of Philosophy (1663), and althouh the book was mainly expository, he could not forbear pointing out that Descartes’s errors resulted form his inalbility to follow out the metaphysical implications of the logic of rationalism, especially with respect to the notion of substance."
Encyclopedia of World Biography
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"TEXANS ARE PROUD OF THEIR OWN."
Ann Richards
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WELL SAID
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs
by opening our minds to the unexplained worlds
occupied by the needs of others."
Barbara Bush
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HAS THIS CHANGED TOO?
"FEW ARE PREPARED TO ABANDON CHERISHED
ASSUMPTIONS FOR ADMITTED RISKS."
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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"RESPECT the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours--to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world." Savitri Devi
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WHO STILL DEPENDS ON ROTARY PHONES?
"Just before he retired as secretary of state, Dean Acheson was speaking to a prominent European. "Looking back," he said, "the greatest problem I had to deal with was how to steer, it this atomic age, the foreign policy of a world power saddled with the constitution of a small, eighteenth-century farmers’ republic."
The American Hour
by OS Guinness
page 25
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"INEQUALITES ARE SOLVED IN ALMOST
THE SAME WAY
AS EQUATIONS."
math maxim
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SOMEONE HAS TO BE IN CHARGE
"Napolean Bonaparte was one of those rare individuals who preferred
duty to dalliance."
THE RISE OF NAPOLEAN BONAPARTE
by Robert Asprey
p.288
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A DAY A WEEK A YEAR
It is often said that, "Rome was not built in a day."
We should ask, "Could it have been?" Or, could it have been built a day, a week or a year sooner?
We must decide that we are not held back by what happened in the past.
"One has to do extraordinary things at extraordinary moments."
Jackie Chio, Hong Kong fund manager
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Compare these statements:
Otto von Bismark said, "Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."
We say, "Any banker who has ever cared to watch and try to understand the daily financial struggles of most families would never allow charging exor |
