The Public would sell every right they have for the spectre of magic beans let alone real ones. They don’t believe in anything substantively other than comfort.

–Private author about US Politics

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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled

-Mark Twain

In Geopolitics the phrase exists: “Doing so would be an international crime; but even worse than illegal, is ineffective.”

-Christopher Hudgens

Style is the stuff you get wrong.

-Neil Gaiman

Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes… They must continue to expand if they are not to collapse.

-Paul Kriwaczek

No man who opposes the unrighteousness of the state lives long if he is in a public position.

-Socrates, while at trial

The best thing about the future is, that it comes only one day at a time.

-Abraham Lincoln

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

-Jim Rohn

I never knew where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do with my voice, but I just wanted to do it so bad.

-Neko Case

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies

-Schopenhauer