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A quotation from Bill Watterson

HOBBES: A new decade is coming up.

CALVIN: Yeah, big deal! Hmph. Where are the flying cars? Where are the Moon colonies? Where are the personal robots and the zero gravity boots, huh? You call this a new decade?! You call this the future?? Ha! Where are the rocket packs? Where are the disintegration rays? Where are the floating cities?

HOBBES: Frankly, I’m not sure people have the brains to manage the technology they’ve got.

CALVIN: I mean, look at this! We still have the weather?! Give me a break!

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1989-12-30)

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A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him. If a man has not this quality, he will feel that majority opinion, or governmental opinion, is to be treated as infallible, and such a way of feeling, if it is general, makes both moral and intellectual progress impossible.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Authority and the Individual, Lecture 4 (1949)

#quote #quotes #quotation #confidence #selfconfidence #righteousness #belief #progress #minority
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Authority and the Individual, Lecture 4 (1949) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him. If a man has not this quality, he will feel that majority opinion, or...

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https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/our-crisis-competence

We've reached the epitome with #Bidenomics:

Relatively straightforward infrastructure projects now face years or even a decade of #delays / zero real-world #progress. I can name several projects in my county where the environmental impact studies and various governmental reports have consumed six years, during which the harbor remains closed, the roads are unpaved gravel, the park is closed and the bridge is awaiting repairs.
When the public rightly complains of years of inaction and foot-dragging, local officials throw up their hands in frustration as all the necessary approvals and funding must wind their way through the impenetrable thickets of state and #federal agencies, a leisurely process over which they have no control.

#bureaucracy #BigGov #2024-06 #fail

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A quotation from Billings, Josh

The best way I kno ov tew repent of enny thing is tew do better next time.

[The best way I know of to repent of anything is to do better next time.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 139 “Affurisms: Hooks & Eyes” (1874)

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Everybody's Friend, Or; Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 139 "Affurisms: Hooks & Eyes" (1874) - Billings, Josh | WIST Quotations

The best way I kno ov tew repent of enny thing is tew do better next time. [The best way I know of to repent of anything is to do better next time.] Variant: The best way I know to REPENT of anything is not to do it again and…

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