…without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!
John Paul Jones
Capt. John Paul Jones, 16 November 1778, in a letter to Robert Morris.
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Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter …
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice – and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man – by choice; he has to hold his life as a value – by choice; he has to learn to sustain it – by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues – by choice. Ayn Rand
‘Galt’s Speech,’ Atlas Shrugged
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success …
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. George W. Bush
January 20, 2005
The war started right here on Sept. 11, 2001. Gov. George Pataki …
The war started right here on Sept. 11, 2001.
Gov. George Pataki
New York Governor, April 10, 2003, at ‘ground zero’
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the …
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas. Justice William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice, 1953
There is nothing more terrifying than ignorance in action. Goethe …
There is nothing more terrifying than ignorance in action.
Goethe
A Frenchman’s home is where another man’s wife is. There …
A Frenchman’s home is where another man’s wife is. There is nothing lower than the human race except the French. Mark Twain
1878-1879 Journal entry
“Maintain structural integrity” “expand exponentially” “timely fashion” “near future” and surfside condo collapse
If you hear the phrase “expand exponentially” that means it is not linear. It means it will be expanding very rapidly (depending on the exponent of course, but in this usage the exponent would cause it means quickly).
“Maintain structural integrity” means that if you don’t fix something, the something will fall apart.
The phrases “timely fashion” and “near future” don’t mean years, they means weeks or months.
So everyone looking to blame someone else about the Surfside condo collapsing needs to understand what was written in the report 2.5 years earlier.
For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly …
For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. Matthew
(Matthew 6:14-15)
Government should be weak, amateurish, and ridiculous. At present, it fufills only …
Government should be weak, amateurish, and ridiculous. At present, it fufills only a third of the role. Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey (1927-1989)