The Stories and Novels By Derek Ward
From my experience let me say this: in today’s world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of a scientific background. And not only politicians. Those who work in industry, in commerce, in investment. Indeed, so important has it become that I believe we are right to make science a compulsory subject for all schoolchildren.
Margaret Thatcher
Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God’s approval and reward or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That’s not morality, that’s just sucking up.
Richard Dawkins
Why do you do what you do?
I must not fear
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear from Frank Herbert’s Dune.
Thought this would be a good one on Friday the 13th.
A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by.
John Wayne
There’s a world of difference between “Never Again” and “It Can’t Happen Here.”
Kathy Jackson, firearms instructor and author
Think on that for a long moment and ask yourself which side of that quote you are on.
We do not move forward by curtailing people’s liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Would someone please remind the progressives of this?
I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is held up as fact.
Phil Plait
Or where emotion is held up as proof.
The problem with gun people is not getting them to tell you information, most of the time it’s getting them to shut up.
Sean Sorrentino, on episode 20 of the Gun Blog Variety Cast
I may have been guilty of this.
Remember, there is a careful balance of knowledge transfer when dealing with people new to guns and shooting. Worse, it’s going to be different for each new shooter.
First quote of the new year, and I’m sure many of us have made resolutions to be better humans.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Alexis Carrel
This is not to discourage you, but to reinforce how sweet victory is.
For the last Friday Quote of the year, I give you a quote of hope for the future:
It is now feasible to take care of everyone on Earth at a higher standard of living than have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting high technology from weaponry to livingry.
R. Buckminster Fuller
I don’t think we, as a species, have quite reached this point. Still, I have hope that one day humanity will reach it.