Quote of the Day: 31 August 2021 #QotD

“Tacos are the antithesis of evil.” -Owen Z. Pitt, Monster Hunter Bloodlines
[I ate my tacos a couple days ago, but most people are familiar with the concept of 'Taco Tuesday.']

Quote of the Day: 30 August 2021 #QotD

“We’re seeing a startling politicization of medicine and science, which is symptomatic of a larger woke corruption of American society.” -Abigail Shrier
[The more people that wake up to this realization, the better.]

Quote of the Day: 29 August 2021 #QotD

“If you know of anyone who is alone, reach out—even if you feel alone too! ... each precious child of God needs to know that he or she is not alone!” -Russell M. Nelson

Quote of the Day: 28 August 2021 #QotD

“It’s almost impossible just to ‘go through the motions’ when you have clear and compelling intentions.” -Brenden Burchard
[It's easy to let your motivation slip. Remind yourself of your meaning, and respark your fire.]

Quote of the Day: 27 August 2021 #QotD

“I didn’t mind going to a piano lesson so much while school was on, because my day had already been ruined.” -Patrick F. McManus
[I am grateful now for the lessons I endured (and forced my teachers to endure due to my poor practice habits) as a youngster. But they sometimes seemed a torture at the time.]

Quote of the Day: 26 August 2021 #QotD

“The general rule is that government undertakes an activity that seems desirable at the time. Once the activity begins, whether it proves desirable or not, people in both the government and the private sector acquire a vested interest in it. If the initial reason for undertaking the activity disappears, they have a strong incentive to find another justification for its continued existence.” -Milton Friedman
[Hmm. Certainly food for thought.]

Quote of the Day: 25 August 2021 #QotD

“The capable communicator who can elicit and assert information is far less likely to be a victim than is the wallflower.” -Gavin de Becker
[I don't know that I'll have to worry about this with either The pup or The babydoll, as they both seem intent on talking to everyone they encounter. But we do try to get them pointed in the right direction.]

Quote of the Day: 24 August 2021 #QotD

“Until self-chopping vegetables become a thing, we are basically stuck with knives.” -You Suck at Cooking
[Happy National Knife Day!]

Quote of the Day: 23 August 2021 #QotD

“When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law—two evils of equal magnitude, between which it would be difficult to choose.” -Frédéric Bastiat
[I'm afraid that this may be the desired result at this point.]

Quote of the Day: 22 August 2021 #QotD

“Our Savior feels and knows our temptations, our struggles, our heartaches, and our sufferings, for He willingly experienced them all as part of His Atonement.” -Dallin H. Oaks

Quote of the Day: 21 August 2021 #QotD

“It is Art because it is alive.” -E. E. Cummings
[Some things that others consider art seem dead to me. Are they then not art to me? I do not know. But I do think that art is immensely subjective.]

Quote of the Day: 20 August 2021 #QotD

“[T]he trouble is, see, that he thinks everyone else’s like him. People like that are bad news, kid.” -Maurice, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
[Projection. It messes with your brain. Significantly.]

Quote of the Day: 19 August 2021 #QotD

“I am begging journalists to stop using the phrase ‘a little-known law’ because this fairly describes 99.99% of all law.” -Mike Chase
[And it is likely that this is intentional.]

Quote of the Day: 18 August 2021 #QotD

“In general, people sort themselves out in all kinds of groups, within races as well as between races, and in all sorts of countries around the world.” -Thomas Sowell
[Guess we'll have to either admit that discrimination is not always evil, or bury our heads in the sand and apply double (triple, or higher) standards.]

Quote of the Day: 17 August 2021 #QotD

“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.” -Gildor, The Fellowship of the Ring

[Isolationism is a false choice.]

Quote of the Day: 16 August 2021 #QotD

“[A]ssistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and ... oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.” -Booker T. Washington
[I presume that he intends it as actual assistance, and not merely assistance towards an objective that is ultimately destructive.]

Quote of the Day: 15 August 2021 #QotD

“[T]he exhilarations of discipleship exceed its burdens.” -Neal A. Maxwell

Quote of the Day: 14 August 2021 #QotD

“Everything is trainable. No matter what skill you want to learn, with enough training and practice and intention, you can become more proficient at it.” -Brenden Burchard
[And you have to make the time to do so. It's not going to just come to you without effort and prioritization.]

Quote of the Day: 13 August 2021 #QotD

“The idea that an expanding economy implies that all industries must be simultaneously expanding is a profound error.” -Henry Hazlitt
[And one the current resident of the White House appears to adhere to.]

Quote of the Day: 12 August 2021 #QotD

“Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.” -James Clear
[Assuming the machine is well ordered.]

Quote of the Day: 11 August 2021 #QotD

“[N]o republic is safe that tolerates a privileged class, or denies to any of its citizens equal rights and equal means to maintain them.” -Frederick Douglass
[This applies to classes divided by immutable characteristics, or by individuals making unpopular decisions. Such as deciding to remain unvaccinated, say.]

Quote of the Day: 10 August 2021 #QotD

“We are born to bond with and stay close to our parents and our family, and if all goes well that bond forms and is a very positive influence on our social relationships for the rest of our lives.” -John Bargh

[Although I love my friends, and value my relationships with them, my family provides so much more for me.]

Quote of the Day: 9 August 2021 #QotD

“I’m really bad at being arrested. Or killed.” -Waldo Butters, Dead Beat
[This risks being a bit too topical or provocative. I'm doing it anyway because it's funny. And if we can't laugh, there's little point to living.]

Quote of the Day: 8 August 2021 #QotD

“Have you ever thought of loving yourself as a commandment? Can we truly love God and love His children if we don’t love ourselves?” -S. Gifford Nielsen

Quote of the Day: 7 August 2021 #QotD

“Love is a thing individual humans do. It doesn't scale.” -Robert Kroese
[It's also not transferrable. You have to do it for yourself, you can't outsource or delegate it to anyone else.]

Quote of the Day: 06 August 2021 #QotD

“He’d rather not be cool than be cold.” -Terry Pratchett
[I think I'll have to concur. Survival exceeds public perception in my estimation.]

Quote of the Day: 5 August 2021 #QotD

“Constitutional limits are meaningless if we ignore them whenever we like the policy outcome.” -Justin Amash
[Apropos considering the current occupant of the White House's disdain for the constitution and rule of law.]

Quote of the Day: 4 August 2021 #QotD

“Property rights create self-monitoring, which tends to be both more effective and less costly than third-party monitoring.” -Thomas Sowell 

[Having a direct stake in the results of something will certainly generate more care for the results than will an abstract and far removed interest.]

Quote of the Day: 3 August 2021 #QotD

“When Liberty goes out of a place it is not the first to go, nor the second or third to go, It waits for all the rest to go, it is the last.” -Walt Whitman
[I'm not sure what he means here. I'm afraid it is unlikely to be thoroughly true.]

Quote of the Day: 2 August 2021 #QotD

“Overall, doing an imperfect something is better than doing a perfect nothing.” -Toby Hemenway
[Another way of stating that action beats inaction, or that analysis in search of perfection can cause paralysis.]

Quote of the Day: 1 August 2021 #QotD

“Satan seeks to discredit the Savior and divine authority, to nullify the effects of the Atonement, to counterfeit revelation, to lead people away from the truth, to contradict individual accountability, to confuse gender, to undermine marriage, and to discourage childbearing (especially by parents who will raise children in righteousness).” -Dallin H. Oaks