By posting these here, I am not stating that I agree or support the views contained in these statements.

 

Bible

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"Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple."

--1 Corinthians 3:16-17

 

"but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength;they shall mount up with wings like eagles;they shall run and not be weary;they shall walk and not faint."

--Isaiah 40:31

 

 

Economics

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"There are many socialists who have never come to grips in any way with the problems of economics, and who have made no attempt at all to form for themselves any clear conception of the conditions which determine the character of human society. There are others, who have probed deeply into the economic history of the past and present, and striven, on this basis, to construct a theory of economics of the "bourgeois" society. They have criticized freely enough the economic structure of "free" society, but have consistently neglected to apply to the economics of the disputed socialist state the same caustic acumen, which they have revealed elsewhere, not always with success. Economics, as such, figures all too sparsely in the glamorous pictures painted by the Utopians. They invariably explain how, in the cloud-cuckoo lands of their fancy, roast pigeons will in some way fly into the mouths of the comrades, but they omit to show how this miracle is to take place."

--Ludwig von Mises (Economic Calculation In The Socialist Commonwealth)

 

"It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by copybooks and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."

--Alfraid North Whitehead

 

"It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy...What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage."

--Adam Smith

 

"I never characterize myself as a conservative economist.  As I understand the English language, 'conservative' means conserving--keeping things as they are.  I don't want to keep things as they are.  The true conservatives today are the people who are in favor of ever bigger government.  The people who call themselves liberals today--the New-Dealers--they are the true conservatives because they want to keep going on the same path we are going on.  I would like to dismantle that.  I call myself a liberal in the true sense of liberal--in the sense that it means of and pertaining to freedom."

--Milton Friedman

 

"The minimum wage law is most properly described as a law saying, 'Employers MUST DISCRIMINATE against people who have low skills."

--Milton Friedman

 

"Some of the economic policies which led to counterproductive or even catastrophic consequences in various countries and in various periods of history might suggest that there is unbelievable stupidity on the part of those making these decisions, which, in democratic countries, might also imply unbelievable stupidity on the part of those who voted for them, but this is not so.  While the economic analysis required to understand these issues may not be particularly difficult to grasp, one must first stop and think about them in an economic framework.  When people do not stop and think through certain issues, it does not matter whether those people are geniuses or morons, because the quality of the thinking that they would have done is a moot point."

--Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics

 

"the oppressive plenitude of economic potentialities..."

--Ludwig von Mises, Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth

 

 

Education

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"I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's Word becomes corrupt... I greatly fear that the [schools], unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students are wide gates to Hell."

--Martin Luther

 

"Actually, I really took courses in the school of communication because I was busily involved in anti-war activities and the easiest major I could find was in the RTF department where you could see a lot of movies and television and write papers about that.  So, my first degree was really based on finding something that I could really do in order to take up as little time as possible."

--Rick Roderick

 

 

Philosophy, Religion, and Freedom

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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying. Take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

--Robert Heinlein

 

"If you want to know what neo-anything means, just strike out the 'e.'"

--John Gerstner

 

"For the purposes of this monograph, hate crimes, or bias-motivated crimes, are defined as offenses motivated by hatred against a victim based on his or her race, religion, sexual orientation, handicap, ethnicity, or national origin. While such a definition may make identifying a hate crime seem like a simple task, criminal acts motivated by bias can easily be confused with forms of expression protected by the U.S. Constitution."

--A Policymaker's Guide to Hate Crimes (March 1997)

 

"Only the government can stop the cycle that are crippling our country."

--Barack Obama

 

"Why should crimes motivated by hatred be punished more severely than crimes motivated by cold indifference?"

--Grek Koukl

 

"from the point of view of fundamental human liberties there is little to choose from between communism, socialism, and national socialism.  They are all examples of the collectivist or totalitarian state...in its essentials not only is completed socialism the same as communism but it hardly differs from fascism."

--Ivor Thomas (in The Socialist Tragedy)

 

"It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."

--Horace Greeley

 

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

--Francis Bacon

 

"If you want to help the poor, help them feel uncomfortable in their poverty."

--Ben Franklin

 

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords."

--Ben Franklin

 

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence."

--George

 

"No free man shall ever be disbarred the use of arms."

--Thomas

 

"The internet has exploded with [the Climategate emails].  Two days later, president Obama announces, "Oh, I'm going to go to Copenhagen!  We've got to save the planet!"  What planet is he trying to save?  It was saved 2000 years ago and it certainly doesn't need to be saved today by president Obama."

--Lord Christopher Monkton

 

"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide."

--Ayn Rand

 

"There is nothing older than the idea that 'this is new'."

--Thomas Sowell

 

"Let it be stated emphatically that the worst course of action possible among Christians would be to sink all our differences under a misguided belief that unity is the most important thing of all. Unity without truth is a unity under the headship of Satan, not of Christ. Whatever the supposed evils of division among believers, they are a thousand times more to be desired than indifference to doctrine. Truth is sacred. It is more precious than life. Its claims are greater than all other claims.

"A man must die, if necessary, in defence of the truth. But it would hardly be his duty to die for unity. To lose unity among Christians in this life is inconvenient and may, in some circumstances, be sinful. But to lose truth is to lose God, heaven and the gospel itself. If truth is lost, all that matters is lost. If unity is lost, it is lost only for a time. It will be restored to God's people eventually, either here or hereafter."

--Rev. Maurice Roberts

 

"I accept the definition of patriotism as that effort to resist oppressive state power."

--Ron Paul

 

 

Science

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"there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change."

--700 Scientists - http://tinyurl.com/man-declaration

 

"Where are they all today, those bed-wetting moaning Minnies of the Apocalyptic Traffic-Light Tendency--those Greens too yellow to admit they’re really Reds?"

--Lord Christopher Monckton

 

"Show me a code that does not come from a mind."

--Perry Marshall

 

Miscellaneous

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"I don't understand why you need verbal trickery to ensnare a temporary mate.  Are you not attracted to each other by what you are?" - Tochee

"The Puritans joined Facebook."

"I am an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone." - Inception

 

 

Things I've heard

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"Active Directory does not have Group Policy, so we use Novell." --Dordt Computer Services

"I live for sushi" --Pastor Jones 

"Where is your brother? Did you kill him?" --Pastor Jones (to me, during a sermon on Cain and Abel) 

"As I was saying, I can't remember what I'm trying to say." --Amse 

"The government is going to take over the country! Wait... they already have!" --Nathan 

"I will bring jumping drive." --JaeSeung

 

 

My own sayings

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"When ideas are weighed in the marketplace of debate, truth is crowned king."

"You have heard it said that if men were angles, no government would be necessary; but I say that unless men become like the angles, they should not govern."

"It is information if and only if it is digital."

 

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