George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
The wisdom of the wise. the experience of the ages, are perpetuated by quotations.
Disraeli
This is Volume 2 of Golden Moments, the condensed wisdom and folly of humankind from around the world and over the centuries. There are many illustrations among the 100 quotations, and a few funny fillers to give your brain a rest.
Each golden moment is an essence, a completeness, and great brain food. Read them in order if you like, or go Zen---quickly look at the possibilities and pick what grabs you. The interconnections emerge organically.
I’ve carefully mined these golden moments over my long life. If your judgment, taste, sense of humor, and belief systems are similar to mine you will love them. If not, read them anyway and expand what you can think, feel, become. I’m a cynical, free speech libertarian who laughs a lot and is a little crazy.
Old Man and a Young Woman wish to remain anonymous: He has lived a full life and tried hard to be honest and open-minded. Sometimes he succeeded. He’s not much for political correctness, or the warm, self-righteous comfort of a Noble Cause. Too many Noble Lies. She is a super-smart, foul-mouthed brat and a student at UC Berkeley majoring in philosophy and psychology. She says what she thinks and couldn’t care less if that bothers you.
WISDOM AND FOLLY
1 Booker T. Washington (1911)
There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
2 Young Woman
I wonder what the politically correct name for little people is these days. People of slight stature seems a bit long. How about LP for little people, which I hope does not offend anyone tall or short. Oops, I mean of diminutive size. To hell with it, dwarf is my choice. If that offends you, tough shit! Get over your self-righteous, victim-loving, hyper-sensitivity. Or maybe you’re one of those shrill, bullying, grievance grifters, pumping fear, guilt and anger to make a nice living and give meaning to your sorry life.
3 Thomas Sowell
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.
4 Charles Hurt
These self-proclaimed Robin Hoods and do-gooders have issued open and unashamed invitations to the most vulnerable in society to become completely dependent upon government for everything from food to cell phones to home heating oil. Left in the wake is the utter annihilation of families and the destruction of cohesive neighborhoods.
Complete dependency comes at such a high and bitter cost. All in return for what really amounts to a sad pittance of welfare payments. It is a twisted mockery of the American dream. All the while, urban hucksters skim off their take and politicians — drunk off their own florid false promises — clap one another on the back and congratulate one another for their “compassion” for the poor.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
The wisdom of the wise. the experience of the ages, are perpetuated by quotations.
Disraeli
This is Volume 2 of Golden Moments, the condensed wisdom and folly of humankind from around the world and over the centuries. There are many illustrations among the 100 quotations, and a few funny fillers to give your brain a rest.
Each golden moment is an essence, a completeness, and great brain food. Read them in order if you like, or go Zen---quickly look at the possibilities and pick what grabs you. The interconnections emerge organically.
I’ve carefully mined these golden moments over my long life. If your judgment, taste, sense of humor, and belief systems are similar to mine you will love them. If not, read them anyway and expand what you can think, feel, become. I’m a cynical, free speech libertarian who laughs a lot and is a little crazy.
Old Man and a Young Woman wish to remain anonymous: He has lived a full life and tried hard to be honest and open-minded. Sometimes he succeeded. He’s not much for political correctness, or the warm, self-righteous comfort of a Noble Cause. Too many Noble Lies. She is a super-smart, foul-mouthed brat and a student at UC Berkeley majoring in philosophy and psychology. She says what she thinks and couldn’t care less if that bothers you.
WISDOM AND FOLLY
1 Booker T. Washington (1911)
There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
2 Young Woman
I wonder what the politically correct name for little people is these days. People of slight stature seems a bit long. How about LP for little people, which I hope does not offend anyone tall or short. Oops, I mean of diminutive size. To hell with it, dwarf is my choice. If that offends you, tough shit! Get over your self-righteous, victim-loving, hyper-sensitivity. Or maybe you’re one of those shrill, bullying, grievance grifters, pumping fear, guilt and anger to make a nice living and give meaning to your sorry life.
3 Thomas Sowell
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.
4 Charles Hurt
These self-proclaimed Robin Hoods and do-gooders have issued open and unashamed invitations to the most vulnerable in society to become completely dependent upon government for everything from food to cell phones to home heating oil. Left in the wake is the utter annihilation of families and the destruction of cohesive neighborhoods.
Complete dependency comes at such a high and bitter cost. All in return for what really amounts to a sad pittance of welfare payments. It is a twisted mockery of the American dream. All the while, urban hucksters skim off their take and politicians — drunk off their own florid false promises — clap one another on the back and congratulate one another for their “compassion” for the poor.
