Previous greats quote threads:
Feb=Black History month quotes
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Started by metmike - Feb. 1, 2021, 1:17 a.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/65056/
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Quote of the Day
11 responses |
Started by joj - Jan. 19, 2021, 11:57 a.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/64439/
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Quote of the day November/December 2020+Jan 2021
41 responses |
Started by metmike - Nov. 4, 2020, 8:27 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/60823/
March 2, 2021
“You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on
your way.”
Dr. Seuss
Author/Poet
But wait............now we find out that Dr. Seuss was racist and some of his books will no longer be published!
https://apnews.com/article/dr-seuss-books-racist-images-d8ed18335c03319d72f443594c174513
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa, Activist
“People go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
– Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852)
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth" Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's "Walden" still has much to say today, if we are willing to listen.
Less remembered, however, is that while living at Walden Pond, he gave an 1848 lecture on “Resistance to Civil Government”— since published as Civil Disobedience—which had much farther reaching effects. The book helped inspire the World War II resistance, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, those struggling against apartheid, and others. And it still has much to say today, if we will listen.
“I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — 'That government is best which governs not at all'"
Stop hanging out with people that tell you what you want to hear. Hang out with people who tell you the truth. Eric Thomas
Yet, being loud doesn’t increase the value or validity of their opinion. In fact, often by the very nature of being the loudest, those opinions are typically the furthest from reality.......Mark Homer, Uncommon sense
education
Started by mcfarm - March 16, 2021, 7:09 a.m.
We are having a climate optimum, NOT a climate crisis!
Climate Reality discussions
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Started by metmike - April 15, 2019, 4:10 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/67004/#67011
metmike: To me, this just reinforces an indisputable method for using schemes to affect human behavior. They do this all the time with tv commercials or political ads that most of us know are total bs........but somehow, it's worth spending many billions of $ on.
You can completely overcome the lack of truth or lack of evidence/empirical data or lack of validity of your position or product/service. Simply manufacture a "subjective reality" based "alternate facts" and repeat it over and over and over. Despite this representing a false narrative and science fiction much of the time, the key element to success is REPETITION.
If you repeat a lie often enough and people hear it for 3 decades, for instance, they accept it as the truth.
Once that you accept something as the truth. It can take 20 times more information to change your mind and often that isn't enough, even if your mind believes a complete lie.
Cognitive bias!
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling. Thomas Sowell
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. Thomas Sowell
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The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' Thomas Sowell
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. Thomas Sowell
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This guy has made more profound statements than anybody I've read!
The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' Thomas Sowell
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metmike:This quote is bound to be a hit with several regular posters at MarketForum!
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. Thomas Sowell
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell
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"The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department."Thomas Sowell
This man has almost as many great, on the money quotes as MLK....only he's a black REAL WORLD conservative!!! Ok, not quite as many but enough to last for months!!
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/68141/#68230
Figure 2 gives a picture of how the broad liberal arts fields compare with respect to political affiliation. The professional field has the least extreme (but still unbalanced) D:R ratio while ideologically rooted interdisciplinary studies has the most extreme. The hard sciences are more balanced than the social sciences and the humanities.
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help. Thomas Sowell
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Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens. Thomas Sowell
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/thomas-sowell-quotes
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
metmike: This is one of the wisest people on the planet!!!
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. Thomas Sowell
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The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. Thomas Sowell
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The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. Thomas Sowell
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Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions. Thomas Sowell
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