When goods don’t cross borders, Soldiers will.
-Frédéric Bastiat
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
-Thomas Sowell
Is that progress from Stonehenge to the Supertalls (skyscrapers) … Is that a net positive for us as a people?
-Kai Ryssdal on APM’s Marketplace 4/11/22 20mins
Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.
-Mike Jeffries (former CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch)
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies
-Winston Churchill
I am the heart of the city and its people; the marker that defines Emaar’s ambition and Dubai’s shining dream.
-Exerpt from the Burj Khalifa buildings foundation poem.
History is a tragedy, not a morality tale
– I. F. Stone
Looking backward fucks with your neck
-Gary Vaynerchuk
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
No piece in a World Chess Champion set is harder to make than the knight, that alone takes 2 hours to hand carve each time.
-Business Insider