Quote of the Day: 28 February 2021 #QotD

“Though difficulties may arise and reverses may come, in our prayers we can find reassurance as the Lord speaks peace to our souls.” -L. Tom Perry
 

Quote of the Day: 27 February 2021 #QotD

“To pour both thought and expense into a single gift is to waste either thinking or money.” -Patrick F. McManus
[I have a good friend with a birthday today, prompting some thoughts.]

Quote of the Day: 26 February 2021 #QotD

“In both races, those who lived within the redneck culture lagged far behind those who did not.” -Thomas Sowell
[Mr. Sowell is referring here to blacks and whites of the Southern United States. But, it is true of anyone who adopts those cultural hallmarks.]

Quote of the Day: 25 February 2021 #QotD

“In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise.” -Jordan Peterson
[Or at least, one of the things that makes it paradise. I suspect there may be others.]

Quote of the Day: 24 February 2021 #QotD

“To be clear, it’s totally okay to feed garbage to a pig. It is America, after all. And who doesn’t love the idea of garbage-fed pork? But we get many of our laws from people doing dumb, gross, and dangerous things. So the feds were forced to make it a federal crime to feed garbage to swine unless it has been cooked to a boil first.” -Mike Chase
[I cannot fathom the series of events that led to this becoming a federal crime. I can certainly see how it would be beneficial to go pruning the law (at least at the federal level) to reduce inanity.]

Quote of the Day: 23 February 2021 #QotD

“Let children have their own preferences.” -Pamela Paul & Maria Russo
[If they don't begin at a young age to exercise their own agency, how can we trust them to do so when they become adults? We expect people to practice every other skill, but seem to want to impose our own desires on our children.]

Quote of the Day; 22 February 2021 #QotD

“Stories are the vehicles for imparting the most important truths we know.” -Sarah Mackenzie

[And, because humans are story seeking beings, they will imprint on our consciousness in ways that other methods of conveying information do not. For good or ill, and with truth or falsity.]

Quote of the Day: 21 February 2021 #QotD

“The Lord does not expect us to do more than we can do, but He does expect us to do what we can do, when we can do it.” -W. Christopher Waddell

Quote of the Day: 20 February 2021 #QotD

“When you solve problems at the results level, you only solve them temporarily. In order to improve for good, you need to solve problems at the systems level.” -James Clear
[It is somewhat surprising to me, but probably shouldn't be, that leftist are so vocal about systemic problems, and yet want to address with with results level 'solutions'.]

Quote of the Day: 19 February 2021 #QotD

“Live a life that is yours. Don’t seek the approval of the doubters.” -Brenden Burchard
[This is proving to be more difficult for me than I would like to admit to myself. But I will press forward trying to ignore what others think of me.]

Quote of the Day: 18 February 2021 #QotD

“The number of people who stand ready to consume one’s time, to no purpose, is almost countless.” -Booker T. Washington
[I find that these people are often oblivious to the fact that they are time wasters. They truly believe their concerns are your own.]

Quote of the Day: 17 February 2021 #QotD

“If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they will construct their own, which may not be so positive and constructive.” -Leonard Sax
[And yet, the most vocal group insistent on changing how boys are raised are concerned with destroying what they call toxic masculinity (which seems to be all masculinity) rather than on emphasizing virtuous masculinity.]

Quote of the Day: 16 February 2021 #QotD

“You can't stop someone from wanting to be mad.” -@politicalmath
[I've experienced this. Even with people I agreed with. It caused hurt feelings, and nasty remarks that served to useful purpose. The wounds inflicted appear to still be sore spots today.]

Quote of the Day: 15 February 2021 #QotD

“The government has no business telling you how many people can be in your home.” -@TRHLofficial
[It seems the pandemic is more an excuse to exercise control rather than the genuine emergency we have been, and continue to be, told it is.]

Bonus Quote of the Day: 14 February 2021 #QotD

“You can’t reason with romance. It defies logic.” -Scott Meyer
[Happy Valentine's Day!]

Quote of the Day: 14 February 2021 #QotD

“The war is for the souls of men. The battle lines have been drawn since Adam: evil versus righteousness.” -Durrel A. Woolsey

Quote of the Day: 13 February 2021 #QotD

“Safety starts with knowing that your intuition about people is a brilliant guardian.” -Gavin de Becker
[The penalty for not trusting your intuition when it is correct is far greater than the penalty for trusting it when it is not.]

Quote of the Day: 12 February 2021 #QotD

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” -Terry Pratchett

[I'm returning home from possibly the longest vacation I've ever been on today, and certainly the longest in the past two decades. It will be very nice to get home.]

 

Quote of the Day: 11 February 2021 #QotD

“It is so easy to be solemn; it is so hard to be frivolous.” -G. K. Chesterton
[I think this is only partially true, but only because our standards for frivolity have fallen.]

Quote of the Day: 10 February 2021 #QotD

“[T]he brain is such an enormous mass of interconnecting wires and nerves that it probably cannot be analyzed in a straightforward manner.” -Richard Feynman
[I think our knowledge of the brain has progressed to the point that we know this to be true rather than just supposing it is.]

Quote of the Day: 9 February 2021 #QotD

“Sooner or later—and perhaps sooner than many of us expect—an ever bigger government would destroy both the prosperity that we owe to the free market and the human freedom proclaimed so eloquently in the Declaration of Independence.” -Milton Friedman
[We will lose everything that makes us unique in the world to more we embrace collectivism and large government.]

Quote of the Day: 8 February 2021 #QotD

“The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.” -Honoré de Balzac
[I'm not sure which part of this applies to the "win" of the presidency by Biden, not being able to account for it or the crime having been properly executed.]

Quote of the Day: 7 February 2021 #QotD

“Truly, for those with faithful hearts and eyes to see, the Lord’s tender mercies are manifest amidst life’s challenges.” -Gerrit W. Gong
 

Quote of the Day: 6 February 2021 #QotD

“We have progressively abandoned that freedom in economic affairs without which personal and political freedom has never existed in the past.” -F. A. Hayek
[And even more so in the intervening years. One hopes we can step back from the precipice.]

Quote of the Day: 5 February 2021 #QotD

“If we don’t want our president acting like a king we need to start taking back the legislative powers that allow him to do so.” -Mike Lee

[This was originally written when Trump was president, and it is even more necessary now that Biden has assumed the office.]

Quote of the Day: 4 February 2021 #QotD

“You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself.” -Jordan Peterson
[Please do. We are headed for hard times, but you are worthy of those times.]

Quote of the Day: 3 February 2021 #QotD

“Not everyone can be a lady. That takes some work.” -Melissa Mackenzie
[I had one of these about men last week, so here's one about women and ladies today.]

Quote of the Day: 2 February 2021 #QotD

“What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?” -Phil, Groundhog Day

[Happy Groundhog Day!

With things the way they are currently we can all relate.]

Quote of the Day: 1 February 2021 #QotD

“[S]ystematic international studies of corruption have found that most of the countries rated as most corrupt were among the poorest countries, even when they had rich natural resources.” -Thomas Sowell

[So, what can we do to reduce corruption? I wish I knew.]