Who is it about, what do they want, why can’t they get it, what do they do about that, why doesn’t that work, & how does it end.
– Glenn Gers 6 essential questions of storytelling
Rule #1: Don’t Lose Money
– Warren Buffett
Cops and Soldiers don’t mix, Cops keep the peace, Armed troops make the peace by killing everyone who’s not peaceful.
-Tom Clancy NSA speech October 1986
We have all the time in the world…
-Ian Fleming
Great Britain is a republic with a hereditary president, while the United States is a monarchy with an elective king.
-Knoxville Journal 1896
If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.
-Marcus Aurelius
History is a slaughter bench, upon which the happiness of nations, the wisdom of states, and the virtues of individuals are sacrificed
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel “Paraphrased”
Science hasn’t yet figured out how to solve obesity.
-USA Today 08/2022
A Hideous Hermaphroditical Character which has neither the Force and Firmness of a Man, Not the Gentleness and Sensibility of a Woman
-Written by Thomas Jefferson about John Adams who paid journalist James Thomson Callender to publish it
General Jackson’s mother was a common prostitute, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterwards married a mulatto man, with whom she had several children, of which number General Jackson is one!
-The Cincinnati Gazette 1828 on General Jackson
