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'The secret of success is constancy to purpose.' Disraeli
'Karl Popper, foremost philosopher of science, once stated that “the growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement,” yet disagreement with a growing number of orthodoxies is becoming increasingly dangerous.' Hans Peter Dietz
'Karl Popper, foremost philosopher of science, once stated that “the growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement,” yet disagreement with a growing number of orthodoxies is becoming increasingly dangerous.' Hans Peter Dietz
“An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.”
ReplyDeleteJoe Sobran
“Atheism is, I suppose, the supreme example of a simple faith.”
G.K. Chesterton, Where All Roads Lead
“No Orthodox people have supported the Holy Mount more than the Romanians.”
Porphyrii Uspenskii, Istoriia Afona [The History of Mount Athos], 3 vols. (Kiev, 1871–77), 3:334.
“The E.U. has a flag no one salutes, an anthem no one sings, a president no one can name, a parliament whose powers subtract from those of national legislatures, a bureaucracy no one admires or controls, and rules of fiscal rectitude that no member is penalized for ignoring.”
George F. Will
‘If your time ain’t come, not even a doctor can kill you’
Anon
“For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.”
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
Frederic Bastiat
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. “
Winston Churchill
“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
William Howard Taft