Tag: quote
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Words to Ponder #12
“There is no time in history where the people who were censoring speech were the good guys.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. There are a number of reasons why one might want another person’s speech to be censored. Ultimately, though, it is most often for the reason that one cannot defend their own ideas against that…
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Words to Ponder #11
“History books as kids get older are all about facts, they’re all about punching holes in things, in showing how the heroes of the past were all racists and hypocrites.” Ryan Holiday – from the “Daily Dad” email July 17, 2023 This one strikes me, given how so much of today’s world seems to focus…
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Words to Ponder #10
“Ever tried. Ever failed. matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett This happens to be one of my favorite quotes, and one that I have a lot of trouble actually following. Failure is such a scary thing, even when it has little in the way of down-sides. We don’t like failing, and often…
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Words to Ponder #9
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe. For the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them. Turkish Proverb I am not 100% certain if this is a true proverb from Turkey or if the verbiage is exact,…
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Words to Ponder #8
“It was, Stern thought, a classic real-world scientific problem. Weighing risks, weighing uncertainties. Most people never understood that the majority of scientific problems took this form. Acid rain, global warming, environmental cleanup, cancer risks—these complex questions were always a balancing act, a judgement call. How good was the research? How trustworthy were the scientists who…
Jeremy C Kester 