Quote of the Day: 9 March 2025 #QotD

“Through the Savior’s redemptive sacrifice, each of us can repent and seek forgiveness and become clean. Repentance, a foundational principle of the gospel, is essential for our spiritual development and resilience as we navigate life’s challenges.” -D. Martin Goury

Quote of the Day: 8 March 2025 #QotD

“[B]elieve you me, everyone can be equally wrong.” -Harry Dresden, Cold Days
[Well, perhaps not equally. But that doesn't mean that it's not possible for everyone to be wrong at the same time.]

Quote of the Day: 7 March 2025 #QotD

“Take any group that represents a giant swath of the country and there’s going to be every possible type of jerk, malcontent, and doofus represented in that sample.” -Larry Correia
[This means that you have people who are nominally on your side who are damaging other people's perception of whatever group you are a part of. It also means that your perception of other people is affected by those people in whatever group you are thinking about.]

Quote of the Day: 6 March 2025 #QotD

“You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!” -Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
[Worrying about someone's blood purity status is almost always an indicator that you've gone off track somewhere or other.]

Quote of the Day: 5 March 2025 #QotD

“[W]hatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket!” -Bernardo de la Paz, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
[We've got to learn to respect the past, while still being willing to take novel approaches to failed positions.]

“[H]indsight was always negative because you rarely looked back to reconsider things that had gone right.” -Jack Ryan (thought), Debt of Honor
[Usually only doing so when compelled by some policy or another. That is why you learn more from failures than from successes as well.]

Quote of the Day: 3 March 2025 #QtoD

“Today, as always, there is much support for tariffs—euphemistically labeled ‘protection,’ a good label for a bad cause.” -Milton Friedman
[The threat of tariffs has recently been used effectively. But that doesn't make them a good thing. They are largely a tax on the citizenry of the country levying the tariffs, and hit in unexpected ways. We would be better off economically by eliminating tariffs.]

Quote of the Day: 2 March 2025 #QotD

“The sentiment is clear: the Savior numbers each of us and watches over us. This watchcare is not trivial or insignificant. Rather, it is exalting, elevating, and eternal.” -David L. Buckner

Quote of the Day: 1 March 2025 #QotD

“I performed accidental exploratory surgery on the inside of my palm with a drill bit and it turns out there’s just a lot of blood and pain in there.” -Mike Chase
[Ooh! Ouch. Glad it wasn't me.]