I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

-H. L. Mencken

Freedom | Iconoclast | knowledge | Slavery | truth

I don’t believe in the no win scenario… I don’t like to lose.

-Admiral James T. Kirk

You never, almost never have a major brokerage house say the game’s over, guys duck. It doesn’t happen. The commercial imperative is overwhelming to stay bullish. That’s how you make money.

-Jeremy Grantham of GMO Investment “Bloomburg 1/6/22”

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”