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Maxims, axioms, postulates, whatever. Probably not to be funny, but strictly concise.

The Revolver Law

Wed, 2009-02-25 22:54 — The Conductor

On any given day, the world is exactly six bullets away from being saved.

Quoted from: Vanderleun

Topic: 
Philosophy
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Unlearn

Thu, 2009-02-19 12:08 — The Conductor

Higher education is remedial education, and the affliction it remedies is an American upbringing.

Quoted from: William Voegeli

Via: Maggie’s Farm

Topic: 
Culture
Politics
Places: 
U.S.A.
Organizations: 
Big Ed
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Doomed Compromise

Sat, 2009-02-14 01:56 — The Conductor

Truth is not the halfway point between two untruths.

Quoted from: Ludwig von Mises

Topic: 
Economics
Philosophy
Post Style: 
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Know Your Enemy

Wed, 2009-02-04 19:31 — The Conductor

The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx.

Quoted from: Jospeh Goebbels

Topic: 
Philosophy
Politics
Post Style: 
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Benevolent Dictators

Wed, 2009-01-28 11:58 — The Conductor

We are not grabbing power here in Washington, we are just relieving [the States] of the burden of governing themselves.

Quoted from: Coyote

Topic: 
Politics
Places: 
U.S.A.
Post Style: 
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Forewarned is Forearmed

Fri, 2009-01-23 10:48 — The Conductor

Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

Quoted from: Saul Alinsky

Topic: 
Culture
Philosophy
Politics
Post Style: 
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Compassion Requires Suffering

Mon, 2009-01-19 12:39 — The Conductor

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.

Quoted from: Jim Brown

Via: Newmark’s Door

Topic: 
Philosophy
Politics
Post Style: 
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Language Trap

Fri, 2009-01-02 13:21 — The Conductor

Inconsistencies which appear at the verbal level turn out to be illusory when you progress to the actual science.

Quoted from: Blake Stacey

Via: Maggie’s Farm

Topic: 
Philosophy
Post Style: 
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Know the Field You Hoe

Sat, 2008-12-27 19:14 — The Conductor

What things cost under earlier conditions is history; what the supply and demand are today is economics.

Quoted from: Thomas Sowell in Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

Topic: 
Economics
Post Style: 
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Conscience

Wed, 2008-12-10 12:47 — The Conductor

Everybody's guilty of something, and they know it.

Quoted from: The Barrister at Maggie’s Farm

Topic: 
Culture
Law
Politics
Post Style: 
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Running Backward

Thu, 2008-11-13 14:36 — The Conductor

You have to concede that the West is in a race to abdicate everything that made it great.
 
Quoted from: Roissy in DC.

Topic: 
Culture
Politics
Post Style: 
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Hayek’s Serenity Prayer

Wed, 2008-10-01 22:42 — The Conductor

God, please grant me the ability to learn the things I don't know, the serenity to accept that there are things I can't know, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Quoted from: Art Carden at Division of Labor

Topic: 
Economics
Post Style: 
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Mirroring Futility

Fri, 2008-09-26 00:25 — The Conductor

Accounting should not drive economic activity, it should reflect it.

Topic: 
Economics
Post Style: 
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Time Horizons

Tue, 2008-09-16 15:44 — The Conductor

Scarcity today, tomorrow abundance.

Topic: 
Economics
Post Style: 
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Not the Sinners

Tue, 2008-09-09 13:57 — The Conductor

It's not the sinners the world is afraid of— it's the saints.

Topic: 
Culture
Philosophy
Post Style: 
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Conflating Government with Society

Wed, 2008-07-09 00:33 — The Conductor

The Government is not the same as Our Society.

Topic: 
Philosophy
Politics
Post Style: 
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