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Software

2022-06-30T15:45:27Z

Erasmuse: /* Organization and Filing */

Travis Dawry @tdawry
In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.



==Antiporn Software==
Qustodio is what we've used.

==Antivirus Software==
I am trying out the free version of Bitdefender on the HP. Norton has a cheap first year and then a very high second year.

==Design==
*Are computer scientists taught the basic principles?
** Transparency (being able to guess commands)
**Recoverability (being able to reverse mistaken commands)
**Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY. Don’t Repeat Yourself is the principle that any code in your program should only be written once, and never duplicated.
**Separation of Concerns. Separation of Concerns is when you separate your program into modules that each deal with one particular focus, or concern.
**Don’t Make Me Think. This principle was originally intended for web design, being the title of a book by Steve Krug. **Keep it Simple. Lastly, the classic KISS principle (keep it simple stupid) is no less relevant in coding than it is anywhere else.
**Make frequently used commands easy to do.
**Give most commonly desired outcomes as defaults; do not require options to be specified.

===Transparency===
*When people say an app is easy to use, they often mean it is easy for *them* to use. For example, maybe to send a message, you just press CTRL-ZA. The problem is, it's very hard to use unless you know the secret commands like that, and there's no manual, and HELP is useless.

==[[Discord]]==
See the [[Discord]] page.

==Email==
*[https://www.techradar.com/best/best-email-clients Tech Radar 2021 Picks for Email]

===Text Messages via Email===
*If the phone number is 123-456-7890, the email address would be 1234567890@vtext.com for Twigby

===Email Tracking===
CloudHQ is good.

===Gmail===
*[https://www.komando.com/tech-tips/inbox-full-heres-how-to-find-attachments-eating-up-all-your-storage/704299/ Searching for emails that are big or with attachments and emptying the trash can. ] In the email search, type : has:attachment larger:10MB To see how much storage is used, go to https://one.google.com/storage

* To create emails lists, open up the separate app GOOGLE CONTACTS. Then Choose CREATE LABEL. Create it. Then go to IMPORT. Check the box of the label you want to add emails too. Then choose CREATE MULTIPLE CONTACTS. Then cut and paste a list of email addresses into the window that opens up.

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==Google==
Google added an obnoxious "Related Searches" feature at the bottom of every search, which cuts out 1/4 of your searches on the page and gives you useless suggestions for different things to search for that are never relevant. To get your search screen real estate back, you can go to google.com, then to Settings at the bottom of the page, find Search Customization, I think it is, and then turn off the evil feature. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252374688

==Hard Disk Space Analyzers==
[https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921 Wiztree] is amazingly fast and good. It is free.

==Software for Writing==
*[https://mathpix.com/ MathPix] will turn pdf's into Latex and is very good.

==Music software==
[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good freeware.

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==Writing Apps==
===Tex===
https://www.mathcha.io/editor

===OCR, processing image into Text===
*[http://www.paperfile.net/download2.html FreeOCR] is quite acceptable. It loses paragraphing, but turns multi-page pdf into plain text. TechRadar has a [https://www.techradar.com/best/best-ocr-software good review] of OCR software, paid and then free at the end.

===Acrobat===
*[https://www.thepcinsider.com/best-free-pdf-readers-viewers-windows/#:~:text=5%20Best%20Free%20PDF%20Readers%20and%20Viewers%20for,4%20Sumatra%20PDF.%20...%205%20STDU%20Viewer.%20 5 Best Free PDF Readers and Viewers for Windows 10 in 2019]7th March 2019 by Manish Sahay is a good review. Adobe itself is an unpleasant company that writes bad software and has moved its pdf-writing software on line, probably to better rip off customers and harvest their information. Their reader is purposely limited and unsatisfactory and they write poor software anyway. I've tried Foxit and been disappointed for some reason, and PDF-XChange Editor was bad enough for some reason I forget that I decided it wasn't minimally satisfactory. Sumatra is very clean, but requires CTRL-mouse if you want to select text. So i have settled on STDU Viewer, at http://www.stdutility.com/stduviewer.html.

*NitroReader and MS Edge are treacherous when dealing with pdf forms, doing weird stuff to the contents.

*[https://opensource.com/alternatives/adobe-acrobat "Open source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for PDFs," ]
04 Feb 2020 Jason Baker (Red Hat) Feed Seth Kenlon (Red Hat)

*[https://www.libreoffice.org/ Libreoffice] seems to be good. It does a great job of printing *.docx files to *.pdf. It was easy to install and it's freeware, opensource.

*[https://pdfencrypt.net/#:~:text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open,free%2C%20without%20purchasing%20expensive%20software.&text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open%2Dsource%20utility%20to%20encrypt%20PDF,encrypted%2C%20its%20contents%20become%20unreadable. PDFEncrypt], a simple little opensource app to put a password on a pdf file.

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==Operating Systems==
===Linux===
*[https://www.ricksdailytips.com/replace-windows-with-linux/ Rickdailytips] on installing Linux.]

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==Organization and Filing==
I like Wikimedia. Aaron Laws writes: I use git for that. https://sourceforge.net/u/dartme https://sourceforge.net/p/dartme/gitrepo/ . I don't know what that means, though.

==[[Python]]==
[[Python]] has its own page.
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==Scheduling Meetings==
*I briefly found [https://www.when2meet.com/?13900361-e2A92 When2meet.com] good. It is, utterly simple and effective, but as of January 2022 it requires all users to download obnoxious software, so it is bad. Doodle is too hard to use too. For meetings of 4 to 6 people, simply emailing them all with a list of meeting times is best. All the software available seems to be Overfeatured.

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==Meeting Video Apps like Zoom==
*[https://www.softwarepundit.com/video-conferencing/zoom-competitors-alternatives Software pundit] has a good survey of 5 of them. Google Meet is easy to use and has an hour-long limit on the free plan. For a whiteboard, it uses something like Google Docs. Google Docs is a good alternative to the Zoom whiteboard too.

== QR Codes==
To make your own QR code with your name, phone number, email, website etc. taht will go right into Cellphone contacts, go to the free site: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/guides/how-to-create-a-qr-code/
This site makes it very easy. Another site is https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/#sms .
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==Social Media Apps==
===Buffer===
*Buffer is very good for posting to Twitter and, to a lesser extend, Facebook. It does other, picture, social media apps too.
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Buffer Stories Creator is not useful for me. It is for use with Instagram, etc. I guess it puts text into image format.

===Facebook===
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Facebook "stories" can be edited on a phone, in theory, but I couldn't find correct instructions fro doing it on a computer. I don't think Buffer will work posting to a "story", but I didn't try hard.

===Twitter===
*[https://www.allmytweets.net/ Finding all of someone's Twitter tweets or followers]

*http://fllwrs.com/ for tracing who has started and stopped following you.

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==Squarespace (website design)==
This is what MFSA uses.

==Statistics Apps==
===Which Stats App Should You Learn?===
I have learned a little R and don't like its style. It is free and opensource and can do lots of things, whcih is good, and statisticians use it most ofa nything. Economists use STATA most, which is better for regressions and more user-friendly for everything. It isn't open-source, but it has lots of user-programmed routines, so it isn't going to get competed out of busienss. What I would like to move to for everything is Python. It is free but isn't used as much for regression and deosn't have as fancy commands, but it is more pleasant to use than R. That is one advantage, but its biggest one is that Python is an all-purpose language like Fortran or Pascal or C++. You do simulations with it, or webscraping, or symbolic algebra (like Mathematica), of matrix operations (like Matlab), it is easy to install, and I can teach my 7th graders how to have fun with it, even the ones who can't convert Celsius to Fahrenheit.

==Video==
* Google Photos will crop video on the Iphone, but not on the laptop or Android, it seems.

*[https://moviemaker.minitool.com/moviemaker/windows-10-video-editor.html Windows 10 free video editors] web article.

===Converting from one video format to another===
*[https://www.videoconverterfactory.com/ HD Video Converter Factory], which only allow you 5 minute videos in the free version. But if it's conversion from phone video, that may be OK.

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===Windows===
*[https://www.minitool.com/news/how-to-activate-windows-10-cmd.html best] and [https://www.iseepassword.com/blog/activate-windows-10-without-a-product-key/ another article with keys] on activating Windows.

*The Downloads file is at c:/erasmuse-l/Downloads

*To refer to a file with spaces in its name in the command line, use double quotes, e.g. "My file is this.pdf", not My file is this.pdf.

*Large files need deleting via the command line, not in the usual file directory app. Type cmd into the upper right corner to get the black terminal box.

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==Worse Is Better==
I wish Android, Facebook, and Windows would realize that most of us like their product as it is, and any new feature is (a) almost surely undesirable, and (b) too distracting to be worth learning about evne if it had some slight positive value.
See "Worse is better" in Wikipedia.

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Sex

2022-06-28T23:21:03Z

Erasmuse: Created page with "*[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/06/what-sex-really-is "What Sex Really Is,"] First Things (2022) {{Quotation| Part of my desire for you includes a desire for you to..."

*[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/06/what-sex-really-is "What Sex Really Is,"] First Things (2022)
{{Quotation| Part of my desire for you includes a desire for you to want me. My desire for you also entails wanting you to delight in my desire for you, and for your experience of my desire to increase your desire for me.

If reciprocity is both a good and a morally necessary component of sex, then the importance of consent is rooted in something specific and positive about the nature of sex. But notably, the standard of reciprocity is higher than the standard of mere consent.}}

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*[[Notes for My Book-in-Progress on Writing, Talking, Listening and Thinking]]. See also [[Coding]] and [[Tables of Numbers]] and [[Figures and Diagrams]] and [[Social media]] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/c-p-snow-good-judgement-and-winston-churchill/ C. P. Snow, Good Judgement and Winston Churchill ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/indefinite-pronouns/ Indefinite Pronouns ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/writing-right-right-away/ Writing Right Right Now. ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/style-manual/ Writing Style. ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/rewriting-abstracts/ Rewriting Abstracts ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/diagrams/ Diagrams. ] and [[Careful Writing Requires Work]].
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Erasmuse: /* Chesterton, G. K. */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

*[https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089 "On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs' "], Jia Tolentino ( /23/16).

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==Anonymous==
*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan,"as quoted in ''A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own. "

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain".This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan.

It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.

Women will always and forever rely on men.}}

{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==Adams, Scott==
[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

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==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Andreessen, Mark==
"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.” ― Isaac Asimov

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

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==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
"“eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

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==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

==Bowles, Michael==
“Construction is a matter of backing yourself into a corner and then fighting your way out.”

==Burke, Edmund==
* “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770).

*"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Misattributed. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ Quote Investigator.]
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==CANNON, William.==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*"Chesterton's Fence", 1929 book, ''The Thing,'' “The Drift from Domesticity”:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:Chesterton is not alone in the observation. It is found throughout our literature and theatre. In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to famously challenge his reformist son-in-law. The poet Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in “Mending Wall.” Scripture is replete with its warning, beginning in Proverbs 22:28, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone that your fathers have placed.” }}

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*{{Quotation|
If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization.}}

*{{Quotation|
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
--Autobiography}}

*{{Quotation|
We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|
My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

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== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [--Twitter, 2021]}}

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==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in First THings, 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
{{Quotation|
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, The Information)}}

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

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==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

==Enzensbergert==
{{Quotation|
So we belong to a class that neither controls nor owns what matters, the famous means of production, and it does not produce what also matters, the famous surplus value (or perhaps produces it only indirectly and incidentally . . . ).}}

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==Faulkner, William==
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

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==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Glantz, David (reported by)==
“Germans needed to reduce their casualties “if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.”
― David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, p. 73.

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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== Rob Henderson==
“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/

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==Hippocrates==
"There are ticks in woods now." Why did God create ticks? Perhaps the tick will be justified some day like the flea, by a poem. Ars longa, vita brevis. With a zero discount rate, a good poem justifies even the Black Death. https://buff.ly/3dpjpHE
10:29 AM · Apr 18, 2021·Buffer

Professor Eric Rasmusen
Replying to
@erasmuse
I rightly used "Ars longa, vita brevis",to digress, but it has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."
Ars longa, vita brevis - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

Professor Eric Rasmusen
@erasmuse
The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
{{Quotation|
(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk” 
(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
}}
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
* The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

==Long, Earl (Senator from Louisiana)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan."

--Book IV of The Prince}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

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==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

*I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

*Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats

*An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup

*A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

==Prince Philip==
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

“It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

“If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

“It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

“It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/
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==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

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==Sailer, Steve==
*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*{{Quotation| How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general.}} [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world.’

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king.
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” To understand all is to forgive all. 
*[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

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==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html
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==Wang, John==
@j0hnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

== ==
==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

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==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

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Words

2022-06-21T14:16:58Z

Erasmuse: /* Pronunciamento */

https://twitter.com/BrilliantMaps/status/1449114106200535041

==NEW WORDS NEEDED==
*{{Quotation|I taught misrepresentation/fraud yesterday; and midway through our analysis of the famous case Vokes v. Arthur Murray dance studio, I realized that the gullible, pathetic, 2-left-footed widow in that case -- Audrey Vokes -- was younger than I am now. Confused }}

:{{Quotation|Replying to @ProfEricTalley}}
:{{Quotation|If I were the mainstream media, I would now report that Columbia University admits that it teaches misrepresentation and fraud. }}
:{{Quotation|(What is the word for that self-reflexive sentence?-someone who fraudulently accuses someone else of fraud? Useful term for Russiagate too.)}}

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==Acrid==
Unpleasantly sharp, pungent, or bitter.

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==Ad hominem==
{{Quotation| Yes...when JMac made a statement about the nature of the Son of God that was very, very off and he publicly acknowledged it before the entire world. Let's take a peak at your life and see what we can find. What are you hiding Dennis? Unbelievable. The level of hypocrisy is sick.

The sin of "Dennis Swanson" is a different subject, and not as interesting.
There should be a name for this.
"Ad hominem" doesn't quite fit.
Nor "ad hominem libellum"
Nor "ad hominem innuedum"More like "ad hominem conjecturum" But my grammar may be off.}}

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==Adiaphora==
The plural of adiaphoron, a thing that exists outside of moral law, neither condemned nor approved by morality; “indifferent things,” neither right nor wrong, spiritually neutral.

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==Anscombe's Quartet==
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet The Wikipedia article on it.]
<html><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Anscombe%27s_quartet_3.svg/850px-Anscombe%27s_quartet_3.svg.png" height= 120 align=left></html>

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== Antifaschistischer Schutzwall ==
"Anti-fascist protection dike" or "rampart", the Berlin Wall's official name in East Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall

==Arcsine(x)==
In the unit circle, "the arc whose sine is x" is the same as "the angle whose sine is x", because the length of the arc of the circle is a measure of the angle. In Mexico the functions was also called angsin, meaning "angle whose sine is..." https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/33175/etymology-of-arccos-arcsin-arctan

==Argumentum ad Verecundiam==
The fallacy of argument from inappropriate authority: an appeal to the testimony of an authority outside of the authority's special field of expertise. https://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/authority.html

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==[[Baizhuo]]==
{{Quotation| WIKIPEDIA: Baizuo (/ˈbaɪˌdzwɔː/, /baɪˈzwoʊ/; Chinese: 白左; pinyin: báizuǒ, Mandarin pronunciation: [pǎi.tswò], literally White Left)[1][2] is a Chinese neologism and political epithet used to refer to Western leftist ideologies primarily espoused by white leftists.[3] The term baizuo is related to the term shèngmǔ (圣母, 聖母, literally "Blessed Mother") or shèngmǔbiǎo (圣母婊, 聖母婊, literally "Blessed Mother of Bitch"), a sarcastic reference to those whose political opinions are perceived as being guided by emotions or a hypocritical show of selflessness and empathy.

The term baizuo was apparently coined in a 2010 article published on Renren Network by user Li Shuo, entitled The Fake Morality of the Western White Left and the Chinese Patriotic Scientists (西方白左和中国爱国科学家的伪道德), initially used as a general critique of certain socialist values in the American left.[3] No further use of the term is known until 2013, where on Chinese forum Zhihu through 2013–2015, the term evolved to criticize some people among the left who seemingly advocate for positive slogans like peace and equality to boast their sense of moral superiority, but are ignorant of real-world consequences, and utilize destructive behavior like political sacrifice and identity politics.

Substantial use in Chinese Internet culture began in early 2016, at first at MIT BBS, a bulletin board system used by many Chinese in the U.S., during the 2016 United States presidential election.}}

==Beautilicious==

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==Cadence==
{{Quotation| [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cadence#English From Wiktionary:] 
1. The act or state of declining or sinking. 
2. Balanced, rhythmic flow. 
3. The measure or beat of movement. 
4. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound. 
5. (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation. 
6. (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. 
7. (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.}}

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==Camel case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with capitals, as in FirstSecondThird. See also: pothole case, kebab case.

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==Chesterton's Fence==
{{Quotation| “In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”
Chesterton is not alone in the observation. It is found throughout our literature and theatre. In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to famously challenge his reformist son-in-law. The poet Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in “Mending Wall.” Scripture is replete with its warning, beginning in Proverbs 22:28, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone that your fathers have placed.” }}--[https://mailchi.mp/inpolicy/2022-and-chestertons-fence-488333?e=bda54c6080 "Chesterton's Fence"]

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==Combatativeness==
"Combativeness" is a word. So is "combatative".. : Is "combatativeness" an existing word? Should it be? Is it better than "combativeness"?

==CHYMPS==
{{Quotation| CHYMPS is the acronym for the top political science PhD programs in the United States. It is the political science PhD equivalent to HYS (Harvard, Yale, Stanford) for law schools and HSW (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton) for business schools. CHYMPS stands for: 
Cal-Berkeley 
Harvard 
Yale 
Michigan 
Princeton 
Stanford.

[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a443ef9dd190e688bf05648a48e463e7 image of network]

The acronym was originally Hypes-Bomb (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT) as a shorthand for the top political science departments (perhaps pejorative, as in overhyped but famous political science schools).

Hypes-Bomb then morphed to CHYMPS since it’s catchier.

CHYMPS then became the updated HYP as an acronym for the most prestigious schools in the US generally (see Urban Dictionary entry from 2009), though it’s causing some confusion among Columbia, Cornell, Caltech, and University of Chicago fans who feel that “C” should stand for them, not Cal-Berkeley (just a bias against public schools IMO, since Cal is clearly superior to the other “C” schools, at least at the graduate level). 
--https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-CHYMPS-Cal-Berkeley-Harvard-Yale-MIT-Princeton-and-Stanford }}

==Contradictorily==
"In selling stock, the filer is not ''contradictorily'' asserting it is solvent; the *buyers* are saying that."

== Crazytown==
"I feel like I'm in crazytown when I express distress about taxation - literally people forcibly taking away your property - and ppl act like I'm the crazy one." [https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1386021135112839171 A tweet] (2021).

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==[[Deificatio]]==
"Deificatio hominis" or just "deificatio" is the Latin term used in theology for the idea of a man trying to become more like God. It might be exactly the same idea as "sanctification"; I'm not sure. Often people say "deification", which is bad terminology. It already has a main meaning, and that main meaning is completely different, almost opposite, since it is to make something into an idol, treating it as God. The idea here is not to set yourself up falsely as God, but to make yourself slightly more like God and diminish your own contrary will. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosis_(Eastern_Christian_theology)#:~:text=Theosis%2C%20or%20deification%20(deification%20may,and%20the%20Byzantine%20Catholic%20Churches. Greek term “Theosis”] is better, maybe; I don’t grasp the Eastern Orthodox concept very well. “Sanctification” is good. “Divinization” is okay, but sounds too much like “divining”, as in fortune-telling.

==Degringolade==
A rapid decline or deterioration in a situation.

==Derangement==
From [https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1168597790127284224 Twitter]: "A permutation that leaves no element in-place is called a 'derangement'."

==Devolution==
Devolution can mean either the reverse of evolution or the devolving of power, two quite distinct meanings.

==Doctrine of Double Effect==
"The doctrine (or principle) of double effect is often invoked to explain the permissibility of an action that causes a serious harm, such as the death of a human being, as a side effect of promoting some good end. According to the principle of double effect, sometimes it is permissible to cause a harm as a side effect (or “double effect”) of bringing about a good result even though it would not be permissible to cause such a harm as a means to bringing about the same good end." [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-effect/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20principle%20of,about%20the%20same%20good%20end. "Doctrine of Double Effect,"] Stanford dictionary.

==Drafty Version of a Paper==
“Very drafty version”: I like that, and will use it myself. You eventually will insulate it from criticism. "Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of State
Formation in Europe, " Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University, August 31, 2020.

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==Enantiomer==
"Enantiomers, also known as optical isomers, are two stereoisomers that are related to each other by a reflection: they are mirror images of each other that are non-superposable. Human hands are a macroscopic analog of this." --[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoisomerism#:~:text=Enantiomers%2C%20also%20known%20as%20optical,opposite%20configuration%20in%20the%20other "Steroisomerism,"] ''Wikipedia.''

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==Enunciative and Enunciatory==
I think these mean "enunciating well", but I haven't been able to find out, googling.

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==Epiphany==
One meaning in Greek of ἐπιφάνεια is, from [https://www.studylight.org/lexicons/eng/greek/2015.html Liddel-Scott-Jones, ]
" in war, sudden appearance of an enemy, Aen.Tact. 31.8, Plb. 1.54.2, Ascl. Tact. 12.10(pl.), Onos. 22.3 (pl.)."

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==The Fallacy of Equivocation==
Using a term with one meaning in the premise, and another in the conclusion. [http://fallacyoftheweek.professorsykes.com/fallacy-types/equivocation/ From Professorsykes.com:] 
“Noisy children are a real pain. Two aspirin will make any pain go away. Therefore, two aspirin will make noisy children go away.”

==Eructation==
A belch.
A violent bursting forth or ejection of matter from the earth.

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==Fiat Abuse==
A debate team term. "Fiat abuse is where you try to prevent debate not only on whether you could actually enact a policy (that's what you can "fiat" into existence) but also the policy's workability. So, if you were debating Communism, you might be able to fiat a Communist revolution- "if the workers revolted, would it be good", but you can't fiat the moneyed classes giving up all their private property voluntarily. One of the problems with Communism is they'd resist!" Dilan Esper
@dilanesper

==Flatus==
Gas generated in or expelled from the digestive tract, especially the stomach or intestines.

==The Flypaper Effect==
"The flypaper effect is '''a concept from the field of public finance''' that suggests that a government grant to a recipient municipality increases the level of local public spending more than an increase in local income of an equivalent size. '''When a dollar of exogenous grants to a community leads to significantly greater public spending than an equivalent dollar of citizen income: money sticks where it hits, like a fly to flypaper'''. Grants to the government will stay in the hands of the government and income to individuals will stay with these individuals." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flypaper_effect

==Fugacity==
 
1. The noun for being fleeting, evanescent. 
2. A coefficient for a real-world gas which makes the ideal gas equation be true. The fugacity of an ideal gas is 1. The fugacity of real-world gases is between 0 and 1, e.g. the fugacity of nitrogen is about .93. 
This came up in Ben's Thermodynamics class. 
I would like there to be the word "Fugacitaceous" too, for the sound of it, but that's a neologism.

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==Googleability or Googlability==
A measure of how easy it is to find information about a person on the Web.
Which spelling is better?
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==Gluckschmerz==
Pain at seeing someone else's good fortune, analogous to Schadenfreude. But it's fake German. See this [https://twitter.com/TomVaid/status/1442500467158765574 twitter thread].
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==The Javert Paradox==
{{Quotation| The Javert Paradox: Suppose you find a problem with published work. If you just point it out once or twice, the authors of the work are likely to do nothing. But if you really pursue the problem, then you look like a Javert.
-- [https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2009/05/24/handy_statistic/ Andrew Gelman]}}
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==[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos '''Kairos.''']==
καιρός. "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved."

{{quotation| While chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative, permanent nature.<ref> [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkairo%2Fs1 Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon ]</ref> ''Kairos'' also means ''weather'' in Modern Greek... In weaving, kairos denotes the moment in which the shuttle could be passed through threads on the loom."<ref>Stephenson,Hunter W. (2005) "Forecasting Opportunity: Kairos, Production, and Writing, p.4. University Press of America: Oxford</ref> ..."Kairos" (used 86 times in the New Testament) refers to an opportune time, a "moment" or a "season" such as "harvest time," whereas "chronos" (used 54 times) refers to a specific amount of time, such as a day or an hour (e.g. Acts 13:18 and 27:9).}}

==Katz==
Short for "Kohen Tzedeq ("priest of justice"/"authentic priest") or Kohen Tzadok (meaning the name-bearer is of patrilineal descent of the Kohanim sons of Zadok)", Wikipedia says.

==Kebab case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with dashes, as in first-second-third. See also: camel case, pothole case.
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==Lunate epsilon==
The lunate epsilon (tex: $\epsilon$) is the moon-shaped one that I like to use for something very small because it looks smaller. The "reverse-3" form is the uglier squiggly one that has the advantage of one-stroke cursive writing on the blackboard. See the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon Wikipedia entry].

==To Lustrate==
To purify by expiatory sacrifice, ceremonial washing, or some other ritual action.
"a soul lustrated in the baptismal waters"

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==Mnemonic==
Mnemonic (plural mnemonics): Anything (especially in verbal form) used to help remember something.
:How do you spell mnemonic? 
:It's practically demonic. 
:You put an M before the N; 
:And then it's just phenomic.

==Mokita==
"Mokita is a Papua New Guinean term for something that everyone knows but no one talks about." https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/1439993770519445508?s=03. 
"Earl Hunt, the eminent psychometrician, invoked that word in his review of TBC many, many years ago."--Charles Murray, https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/1439993770519445508?s=03.

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==Nuisance parameter==
A nuisance parameter is any parameter which is not of immediate interest but must be accounted for in the analysis of the parameter of interest. The classic example is the variance of distribution when the mean is of primary interest. [https://buff.ly/2RVnaMH Wikipedia's article].

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==Obrazovanshchina==
"Obrazovanshchina (Russian: образованщина, 'educationdom', 'educaties',[1] 'smatterers') is a Russian ironical, derogatory term for a category of people with superficial education who lack the higher ethics of an educated person.[2] The term was introduced by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his 1974 essay "Obrazovanshchina" (translated as "The Smatterers") as a criticism of the transformation of the Russian intelligentsia, which, in his opinion had lost high ethical values." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obrazovanshchina

==On the Record==
{{Quotation|
AP's guidelines for "Off the record", "Background" and "Deep Background"
Published 2011-08-01

Not everyone understands “off the record” or “on background” to mean the same things. Before any interview in which any degree of anonymity is expected, there should be a discussion in which the ground rules are set explicitly.
These are the AP’s definitions:

On the record: The information can be used with no caveats, quoting the source by name.

Off the record: The information cannot be used for publication.

Background: The information can be published but only under conditions negotiated with the source. Generally, the sources do not want their names published but will agree to a description of their position. AP reporters should object vigorously when a source wants to brief a group of reporters on background and try to persuade the source to put the briefing on the record. These background briefings have become routine in many venues, especially with government officials.

Deep background: The information can be used but without attribution. The source does not want to be identified in any way, even on condition of anonymity.
https://blog.chrislkeller.com/aps-guidelines-for-off-the-record-background/}}

==Overfeatures==
I'd like to popularize the word "overfeatured" to mean software, cars, or any other product that has too many bells and whistles. These can either actively degrade usability, or make it too hard to figure out simple uses.

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==Per curiam==
A way for a court to sign a judicial opinion. "Traditionally, the per curiam was used to signal that a case was
uncontroversial, obvious, and did not require a substantial opinion... These early
opinions often comprised only a sentence or two, rarely more than a
paragraph, and never displayed disagreement among the Justices.
Beginning in 1909 with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose
strongly worded separate opinions earned him the moniker "the Great
Dissenter," per curiam opinions began to feature dissents... The per curiam
not only allowed the Court to quickly adjudicate these more
substantive cases but also to signify to the public that the issues in
them were easily resolved and required little explanation."
[https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/425/ "Hiding Behind the Cloak of Invisibility: The Supreme Court and Per Curiam Opinions,"]
Ira Robbins (2012).

==Pothole case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with underscores, as in first_second_third. See also: camel case, kebab case.

==Plaque==
1. an ornamental tablet,
2. A sticky bacterial deposit on teeth.

==Prevenient Grace==
"Free will is unable to begin or to perfect any true and spiritual good, without grace. …This grace [prævenit] goes before, accompanies, and follows; it excites, assists, operates that we will, and co operates lest we will in vain." Arminius [https://ccel.org/ccel/arminius/works2/works2.ix.vi.html "Grace and Free Will"]

==Pronunciamento==
{{Quotation| A pronunciamiento (Spanish: [pɾonunθjaˈmjento], Portuguese: pronunciamento [pɾunũsiɐˈmẽtu]; "proclamation , announcement or declaration") is a form of military rebellion or coup d'état particularly associated with Spain, Portugal and Latin America, especially in the 19th century.}}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciamiento

==Psephology==
The statistical study of elections and voting.

==PUMP AND DUMP==
1. The stock manipulation trick of using rumor or purchase to inflate a stock's purchase and then selling it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump. 2. The political dirty trick of getting a crowd so excited that it charges off to wreck a building or kill someone, so it gets in trouble and discredits the movement, and then quietly leaving before the arrests and shooting. 3. A Full Service Company Offering Residential & Commercial Septic Services. https://www.pumpndumpusa.com/.
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==RAREBIT==
Ambrose Bierce (1911): "Rarebit n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad in the hole is really not a toad, and that ris de veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker."
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==Spitster==
A double-cup invention for eating sunflower seeds, peanuts, or pistachios. https://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9254850.htm

==Steelmanning==
Presenting one's opponent's arguments as well as possible, even if that's not the way they presented them. Chicago's Professor [https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/12/steelmanning-and-interpretive-charity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Will Baude says,]
"Indeed, I now sometimes test a version of this skill on my exams, asking students to write up both sides of an argument, with the rule that their grade will be based on the quality of the worse of the two arguments."

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==Traumata==
An alternative to "traumas" as a plural for "trauma".

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==The Unpronounceable Case==
[https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-968_8nj9.pdf Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski], US Supreme Court (2020) may supplant whatever case has traditionally held this title.

==Unterschlepper==
Neologism from [https://stljewishlight.org/news/news-local/yiddish-word-of-the-week-schlep-or-schlepper/ "schlepper"].
{{Quotation| From Yiddish שלעפּן (“to drag”); from High German schleppen (“to drag”)– “to carry”- 
1) a servant who carries things 
2) a porter 
3) a pejorative insult for an individual who wanders aimlessly 
4) One who acts in a slovenly, lazy, or sloppy manner. Kind of like the modern idiom of “slacker”. 

Synonyms in academia are "assistant dean", "deanlet" and "deanlette".

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==Vatic==
Describing or predicting what will happen in the future.

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== Valley of the Clueles: Das Tal der Ahnungslosen==
The valley in East Germany that could not be reached by Voice of America radio. "regions in the northeast to Greifswald and in the southeast of the GDR in the former district of Dresden... about 15 % of the population of the GDR...The term is now used for local communities or areas in Germany with missing or poorly developed broadband Internet access," from [https://memim.com/tal-der-ahnungslosen.html Tal der Ahnungslosen].

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==Wokeschaltung==
The Woke pressure to bring everything in society into conformity or else crush it, by analogy to the Nazi gleichschaltung. Perhaps coined by Curtis Yarvin in [https://graymirror.substack.com/p/big-tech-has-no-power-at-all?s=r "Big tech has no power at all: The basics of tech censorship and the structure of the cathedral,"] (2021).

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==Zornhau==
A zornhau (wrath hew) is the diagonal cut sword cut from shoulder to opposite waist known as "kesa-giri" in Japan. It is said to be historically the most effective at killing people. See https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Diagonal_Cut and https://danielagnewauthor.com/2017/04/27/the-zornhau-ort-its-simpler-than-you-think/.

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*[[Bankruptcy--Casey and Macey on Hertz and Absolute Priority]]
*[[Bankruptcy--Skeel on Christian Bankruptcy]]
*[[Equity-- Why Not Have Enough?]] and [[Euclid]] and [[Evaluation in Organizations]]
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*[[Shrinkage]]
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*[[Bankruptcy--Skeel on Christian Bankruptcy]]
*[[Equity-- Why Not Have Enough?]] and [[Euclid]] and [[Evaluation in Organizations]]
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==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

*[https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089 "On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs' "], Jia Tolentino ( /23/16).

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==Anonymous==
*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan,"as quoted in ''A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own. "

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain".This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan.

It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.

Women will always and forever rely on men.}}

{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==Adams, Scott==
[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

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==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Andreessen, Mark==
"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.” ― Isaac Asimov

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

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==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
"“eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

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==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

==Bowles, Michael==
“Construction is a matter of backing yourself into a corner and then fighting your way out.”

==Burke, Edmund==
* “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770).

*"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Misattributed. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ Quote Investigator.]
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==CANNON, William.==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*[https://mailchi.mp/inpolicy/2022-and-chestertons-fence-488333?e=bda54c6080 "Chesterton's Fence" ]:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:Chesterton is not alone in the observation. It is found throughout our literature and theatre. In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to famously challenge his reformist son-in-law. The poet Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in “Mending Wall.” Scripture is replete with its warning, beginning in Proverbs 22:28, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone that your fathers have placed.” }}

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*{{Quotation|
If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization.}}

*{{Quotation|
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
--Autobiography}}

*{{Quotation|
We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|
My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

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== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [--Twitter, 2021]}}

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==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in First THings, 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
{{Quotation|
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, The Information)}}

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

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==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

==Enzensbergert==
{{Quotation|
So we belong to a class that neither controls nor owns what matters, the famous means of production, and it does not produce what also matters, the famous surplus value (or perhaps produces it only indirectly and incidentally . . . ).}}

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==Faulkner, William==
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

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==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Glantz, David (reported by)==
“Germans needed to reduce their casualties “if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.”
― David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, p. 73.

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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== Rob Henderson==
“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/

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==Hippocrates==
"There are ticks in woods now." Why did God create ticks? Perhaps the tick will be justified some day like the flea, by a poem. Ars longa, vita brevis. With a zero discount rate, a good poem justifies even the Black Death. https://buff.ly/3dpjpHE
10:29 AM · Apr 18, 2021·Buffer

Professor Eric Rasmusen
Replying to
@erasmuse
I rightly used "Ars longa, vita brevis",to digress, but it has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."
Ars longa, vita brevis - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

Professor Eric Rasmusen
@erasmuse
The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
{{Quotation|
(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk” 
(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
}}
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
* The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

==Long, Earl (Senator from Louisiana)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan."

--Book IV of The Prince}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

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==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

*I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

*Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats

*An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup

*A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

==Prince Philip==
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

“It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

“If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

“It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

“It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/
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==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

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==Sailer, Steve==
*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*{{Quotation| How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general.}} [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world.’

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king.
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” To understand all is to forgive all. 
*[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

== ==

==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html
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== ==

==Wang, John==
@j0hnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

== ==
==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

*************************** -->

Software

2022-06-17T15:51:41Z

Erasmuse: /* Statistics Apps */

Travis Dawry @tdawry
In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.



==Antiporn Software==
Qustodio is what we've used.

==Antivirus Software==
I am trying out the free version of Bitdefender on the HP. Norton has a cheap first year and then a very high second year.

==Design==
*Are computer scientists taught the basic principles?
** Transparency (being able to guess commands)
**Recoverability (being able to reverse mistaken commands)
**Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY. Don’t Repeat Yourself is the principle that any code in your program should only be written once, and never duplicated.
**Separation of Concerns. Separation of Concerns is when you separate your program into modules that each deal with one particular focus, or concern.
**Don’t Make Me Think. This principle was originally intended for web design, being the title of a book by Steve Krug. **Keep it Simple. Lastly, the classic KISS principle (keep it simple stupid) is no less relevant in coding than it is anywhere else.
**Make frequently used commands easy to do.
**Give most commonly desired outcomes as defaults; do not require options to be specified.

===Transparency===
*When people say an app is easy to use, they often mean it is easy for *them* to use. For example, maybe to send a message, you just press CTRL-ZA. The problem is, it's very hard to use unless you know the secret commands like that, and there's no manual, and HELP is useless.

==[[Discord]]==
See the [[Discord]] page.

==Email==
*[https://www.techradar.com/best/best-email-clients Tech Radar 2021 Picks for Email]

===Text Messages via Email===
*If the phone number is 123-456-7890, the email address would be 1234567890@vtext.com for Twigby

===Email Tracking===
CloudHQ is good.

===Gmail===
*[https://www.komando.com/tech-tips/inbox-full-heres-how-to-find-attachments-eating-up-all-your-storage/704299/ Searching for emails that are big or with attachments and emptying the trash can. ] In the email search, type : has:attachment larger:10MB To see how much storage is used, go to https://one.google.com/storage

* To create emails lists, open up the separate app GOOGLE CONTACTS. Then Choose CREATE LABEL. Create it. Then go to IMPORT. Check the box of the label you want to add emails too. Then choose CREATE MULTIPLE CONTACTS. Then cut and paste a list of email addresses into the window that opens up.

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==Google==
Google added an obnoxious "Related Searches" feature at the bottom of every search, which cuts out 1/4 of your searches on the page and gives you useless suggestions for different things to search for that are never relevant. To get your search screen real estate back, you can go to google.com, then to Settings at the bottom of the page, find Search Customization, I think it is, and then turn off the evil feature. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252374688

==Hard Disk Space Analyzers==
[https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921 Wiztree] is amazingly fast and good. It is free.

==Software for Writing==
*[https://mathpix.com/ MathPix] will turn pdf's into Latex and is very good.

==Music software==
[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good freeware.

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==Writing Apps==
===Tex===
https://www.mathcha.io/editor

===OCR, processing image into Text===
*[http://www.paperfile.net/download2.html FreeOCR] is quite acceptable. It loses paragraphing, but turns multi-page pdf into plain text. TechRadar has a [https://www.techradar.com/best/best-ocr-software good review] of OCR software, paid and then free at the end.

===Acrobat===
*[https://www.thepcinsider.com/best-free-pdf-readers-viewers-windows/#:~:text=5%20Best%20Free%20PDF%20Readers%20and%20Viewers%20for,4%20Sumatra%20PDF.%20...%205%20STDU%20Viewer.%20 5 Best Free PDF Readers and Viewers for Windows 10 in 2019]7th March 2019 by Manish Sahay is a good review. Adobe itself is an unpleasant company that writes bad software and has moved its pdf-writing software on line, probably to better rip off customers and harvest their information. Their reader is purposely limited and unsatisfactory and they write poor software anyway. I've tried Foxit and been disappointed for some reason, and PDF-XChange Editor was bad enough for some reason I forget that I decided it wasn't minimally satisfactory. Sumatra is very clean, but requires CTRL-mouse if you want to select text. So i have settled on STDU Viewer, at http://www.stdutility.com/stduviewer.html.

*NitroReader and MS Edge are treacherous when dealing with pdf forms, doing weird stuff to the contents.

*[https://opensource.com/alternatives/adobe-acrobat "Open source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for PDFs," ]
04 Feb 2020 Jason Baker (Red Hat) Feed Seth Kenlon (Red Hat)

*[https://www.libreoffice.org/ Libreoffice] seems to be good. It does a great job of printing *.docx files to *.pdf. It was easy to install and it's freeware, opensource.

*[https://pdfencrypt.net/#:~:text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open,free%2C%20without%20purchasing%20expensive%20software.&text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open%2Dsource%20utility%20to%20encrypt%20PDF,encrypted%2C%20its%20contents%20become%20unreadable. PDFEncrypt], a simple little opensource app to put a password on a pdf file.

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==Operating Systems==
===Linux===
*[https://www.ricksdailytips.com/replace-windows-with-linux/ Rickdailytips] on installing Linux.]

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==Organization and Filing==
I like Wikimedia. Aaron Laws writes: I use git for that. https://sourceforge.net/u/dartme https://sourceforge.net/p/dartme/gitrepo/ . I don't know what that means, though.

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==Scheduling Meetings==
*I briefly found [https://www.when2meet.com/?13900361-e2A92 When2meet.com] good. It is, utterly simple and effective, but as of January 2022 it requires all users to download obnoxious software, so it is bad. Doodle is too hard to use too. For meetings of 4 to 6 people, simply emailing them all with a list of meeting times is best. All the software available seems to be Overfeatured.

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==Meeting Video Apps like Zoom==
*[https://www.softwarepundit.com/video-conferencing/zoom-competitors-alternatives Software pundit] has a good survey of 5 of them. Google Meet is easy to use and has an hour-long limit on the free plan. For a whiteboard, it uses something like Google Docs. Google Docs is a good alternative to the Zoom whiteboard too.

== QR Codes==
To make your own QR code with your name, phone number, email, website etc. taht will go right into Cellphone contacts, go to the free site: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/guides/how-to-create-a-qr-code/
This site makes it very easy. Another site is https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/#sms .
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==Social Media Apps==
===Buffer===
*Buffer is very good for posting to Twitter and, to a lesser extend, Facebook. It does other, picture, social media apps too.
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Buffer Stories Creator is not useful for me. It is for use with Instagram, etc. I guess it puts text into image format.

===Facebook===
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Facebook "stories" can be edited on a phone, in theory, but I couldn't find correct instructions fro doing it on a computer. I don't think Buffer will work posting to a "story", but I didn't try hard.

===Twitter===
*[https://www.allmytweets.net/ Finding all of someone's Twitter tweets or followers]

*http://fllwrs.com/ for tracing who has started and stopped following you.

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==Squarespace (website design)==
This is what MFSA uses.

==Statistics Apps==
===Which Stats App Should You Learn?===
I have learned a little R and don't like its style. It is free and opensource and can do lots of things, whcih is good, and statisticians use it most ofa nything. Economists use STATA most, which is better for regressions and more user-friendly for everything. It isn't open-source, but it has lots of user-programmed routines, so it isn't going to get competed out of busienss. What I would like to move to for everything is Python. It is free but isn't used as much for regression and deosn't have as fancy commands, but it is more pleasant to use than R. That is one advantage, but its biggest one is that Python is an all-purpose language like Fortran or Pascal or C++. You do simulations with it, or webscraping, or symbolic algebra (like Mathematica), of matrix operations (like Matlab), it is easy to install, and I can teach my 7th graders how to have fun with it, even the ones who can't convert Celsius to Fahrenheit.

==Video==
* Google Photos will crop video on the Iphone, but not on the laptop or Android, it seems.

*[https://moviemaker.minitool.com/moviemaker/windows-10-video-editor.html Windows 10 free video editors] web article.

===Converting from one video format to another===
*[https://www.videoconverterfactory.com/ HD Video Converter Factory], which only allow you 5 minute videos in the free version. But if it's conversion from phone video, that may be OK.

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===Windows===
*[https://www.minitool.com/news/how-to-activate-windows-10-cmd.html best] and [https://www.iseepassword.com/blog/activate-windows-10-without-a-product-key/ another article with keys] on activating Windows.

*The Downloads file is at c:/erasmuse-l/Downloads

*To refer to a file with spaces in its name in the command line, use double quotes, e.g. "My file is this.pdf", not My file is this.pdf.

*Large files need deleting via the command line, not in the usual file directory app. Type cmd into the upper right corner to get the black terminal box.

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==Worse Is Better==
I wish Android, Facebook, and Windows would realize that most of us like their product as it is, and any new feature is (a) almost surely undesirable, and (b) too distracting to be worth learning about evne if it had some slight positive value.
See "Worse is better" in Wikipedia.

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Discord

2022-06-16T19:37:30Z

Erasmuse:

See [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UYGLtCtdcHznP7aY88A_LAOKmUUq-9iyBgz5xRYSNB8/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UYGLtCtdcHznP7aY88A_LAOKmUUq-9iyBgz5xRYSNB8/edit] for a better version of this.

==Why Use Discord?==
This is a natural question. Anybody over 30 hates-- and I really mean *hates*-- setting up new computer apps and learning how to use them, especially when it seems like they duplicate old ones. (People under 30 are worse at knowing how to avoid time sinks and fall for hype more easily.) We've got email. So why use Discord?

I was skeptical at first, but now I think it's worth it. It does install easily, and it seems pretty well-designed, like HTML, Python, and Latex (tho not as good as those three), and unlike MS-Word, Windows, and every email app I've ever seen. Its main fault is lack of transparency and dignity, e.g., using silly icons instead of words. Its advantage over email is that it helps you organize your emails, potentially saving lots of time--- but only if your correspondents also use it. (That's crucial.) Here's how it does that. It puts a single class of people you email to in in one place. It allows you, with "threads" to put single topics in one place--- and to have a thread of ephemera disappear after 1 hour, 24 hours, or never. It allows you to say who sees which threads, by allocating "roles".

==Getting Started: Downloading and Logging In==
This is the hardest part of any computer app. You need a Discord account, which will have a username and a password. It is free-- they make money by charging for extra features. Probably you go to [https://discord.com/ discord.com] for that.

There are three ways to use Discord. 
(1) Sign in via a web browser like Chrome at an address that looks sort of like this fake one:
https://discord.com/channels/95486344962679255555555555555 
(2) CLick the right spot in an email telling you have missed posts. 
(3) Download the Discord app to your computer from [https://discord.com/ discord.com]. 

When you open Discord, there will be a sort of monster symbol at the upper left corner, and under it a Greek man's head. Click on that Greek man's head to see MFSA and Friends, the place with all our posts.

After you see the messages, you'll see on the left, but not the farthest left, a column called Text Channels. Click one of them, such as #General, to see posts sent in that classification.

If you go down to the middle bottom, you will see where to type in your posts. Just type over the top of Message #General whatever you want to post. Hit return, and you will see your post appear. Your post cannot be more than 2,000 words. If you try to do more, Discord will upload it as a file instead, I think.

On the left of the posting input box is a Plus sign (+). Left-click on that to upload a file as part of your message. You then type in your text message to post with it.

If you right-click on a message, a menu will come up that allows you to choose a Thumbs-Up picture that will appear right after that person's message to show you're happy with it.

==Threads==

==More Advanced Stuff==
Discord has something called Threads, but I don't know what those mean.

You can change your "name" that appears, and your gif, but I forget where I found that.

There are ways to do things with Voice and Video. There is, I think, a way to send a private message to just one person. There is a way to assign people "roles", so that if you send a message it will go to just them.

Discord

2022-06-16T18:57:08Z

Erasmuse: /* Threads */

==Why Use Discord?==
This is a natural question. Anybody over 30 hates-- and I really mean *hates*-- setting up new computer apps and learning how to use them, especially when it seems like they duplicate old ones. (People under 30 are worse at knowing how to avoid time sinks and fall for hype more easily.) We've got email. So why use Discord?

I was skeptical at first, but now I think it's worth it. It does install easily, and it seems pretty well-designed, like HTML, Python, and Latex (tho not as good as those three), and unlike MS-Word, Windows, and every email app I've ever seen. Its main fault is lack of transparency and dignity, e.g., using silly icons instead of words. Its advantage over email is that it helps you organize your emails, potentially saving lots of time--- but only if your correspondents also use it. (That's crucial.) Here's how it does that. It puts a single class of people you email to in in one place. It allows you, with "threads" to put single topics in one place--- and to have a thread of ephemera disappear after 1 hour, 24 hours, or never. It allows you to say who sees which threads, by allocating "roles".

==Getting Started: Downloading and Logging In==
This is the hardest part of any computer app. You need a Discord account, which will have a username and a password. It is free-- they make money by charging for extra features. Probably you go to [https://discord.com/ discord.com] for that.

There are three ways to use Discord. 
(1) Sign in via a web browser like Chrome at an address that looks sort of like this fake one:
https://discord.com/channels/95486344962679255555555555555 
(2) CLick the right spot in an email telling you have missed posts. 
(3) Download the Discord app to your computer from [https://discord.com/ discord.com]. 

When you open Discord, there will be a sort of monster symbol at the upper left corner, and under it a Greek man's head. Click on that Greek man's head to see MFSA and Friends, the place with all our posts.

After you see the messages, you'll see on the left, but not the farthest left, a column called Text Channels. Click one of them, such as #General, to see posts sent in that classification.

If you go down to the middle bottom, you will see where to type in your posts. Just type over the top of Message #General whatever you want to post. Hit return, and you will see your post appear. Your post cannot be more than 2,000 words. If you try to do more, Discord will upload it as a file instead, I think.

On the left of the posting input box is a Plus sign (+). Left-click on that to upload a file as part of your message. You then type in your text message to post with it.

If you right-click on a message, a menu will come up that allows you to choose a Thumbs-Up picture that will appear right after that person's message to show you're happy with it.

==Threads==

==More Advanced Stuff==
Discord has something called Threads, but I don't know what those mean.

You can change your "name" that appears, and your gif, but I forget where I found that.

There are ways to do things with Voice and Video. There is, I think, a way to send a private message to just one person. There is a way to assign people "roles", so that if you send a message it will go to just them.

Discord

2022-06-16T16:56:20Z

Erasmuse:

Discord

2022-06-16T16:42:54Z

Erasmuse: /* Getting Started: Downloading and Logging In */

==Getting Started: Downloading and Logging In==

You need a Discord account, which will have a username and a password. Probably you go to [https://discord.com/ discord.com] for that.

This is the hardest part of any computer app. There are three ways to use Discord. 
(1) Sign in via a web browser like Chrome at an address that looks sort of like this fake one:
https://discord.com/channels/95486344962679255555555555555 
(2) CLick the right spot in an email telling you have missed posts. 
(3) Download the Discord app to your computer from [https://discord.com/ discord.com]. 

When you open Discord, there will be a sort of monster symbol at the upper left corner, and under it a Greek man's head. Click on that Greek man's head to see MFSA and Friends, the place with all our posts.

After you see the messages, you'll see on the left, but not the farthest left, a column called Text Channels. Click one of them, such as #General, to see posts sent in that classification.

If you go down to the middle bottom, you will see where to type in your posts. Just type over the top of Message #General whatever you want to post. Hit return, and you will see your post appear. Your post cannot be more than 2,000 words. If you try to do more, Discord will upload it as a file instead, I think.

On the left of the posting input box is a Plus sign (+). Left-click on that to upload a file as part of your message. You then type in your text message to post with it.

If you right-click on a message, a menu will come up that allows you to choose a Thumbs-Up picture that will appear right after that person's message to show you're happy with it.

==More Advanced Stuff==
Discord has something called Threads, but I don't know what those mean.

You can change your "name" that appears, and your gif, but I forget where I found that.

There are ways to do things with Voice and Video. There is, I think, a way to send a private message to just one person. There is a way to assign people "roles", so that if you send a message it will go to just them.

Software

2022-06-16T16:41:13Z

Erasmuse: /* Discord */

Travis Dawry @tdawry
In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.



==Antiporn Software==
Qustodio is what we've used.

==Antivirus Software==
I am trying out the free version of Bitdefender on the HP. Norton has a cheap first year and then a very high second year.

==Design==
*Are computer scientists taught the basic principles?
** Transparency (being able to guess commands)
**Recoverability (being able to reverse mistaken commands)
**Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY. Don’t Repeat Yourself is the principle that any code in your program should only be written once, and never duplicated.
**Separation of Concerns. Separation of Concerns is when you separate your program into modules that each deal with one particular focus, or concern.
**Don’t Make Me Think. This principle was originally intended for web design, being the title of a book by Steve Krug. **Keep it Simple. Lastly, the classic KISS principle (keep it simple stupid) is no less relevant in coding than it is anywhere else.
**Make frequently used commands easy to do.
**Give most commonly desired outcomes as defaults; do not require options to be specified.

===Transparency===
*When people say an app is easy to use, they often mean it is easy for *them* to use. For example, maybe to send a message, you just press CTRL-ZA. The problem is, it's very hard to use unless you know the secret commands like that, and there's no manual, and HELP is useless.

==[[Discord]]==
See the [[Discord]] page.

==Email==
*[https://www.techradar.com/best/best-email-clients Tech Radar 2021 Picks for Email]

===Text Messages via Email===
*If the phone number is 123-456-7890, the email address would be 1234567890@vtext.com for Twigby

===Email Tracking===
CloudHQ is good.

===Gmail===
*[https://www.komando.com/tech-tips/inbox-full-heres-how-to-find-attachments-eating-up-all-your-storage/704299/ Searching for emails that are big or with attachments and emptying the trash can. ] In the email search, type : has:attachment larger:10MB To see how much storage is used, go to https://one.google.com/storage

* To create emails lists, open up the separate app GOOGLE CONTACTS. Then Choose CREATE LABEL. Create it. Then go to IMPORT. Check the box of the label you want to add emails too. Then choose CREATE MULTIPLE CONTACTS. Then cut and paste a list of email addresses into the window that opens up.

----

==Google==
Google added an obnoxious "Related Searches" feature at the bottom of every search, which cuts out 1/4 of your searches on the page and gives you useless suggestions for different things to search for that are never relevant. To get your search screen real estate back, you can go to google.com, then to Settings at the bottom of the page, find Search Customization, I think it is, and then turn off the evil feature. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252374688

==Hard Disk Space Analyzers==
[https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921 Wiztree] is amazingly fast and good. It is free.

==Software for Writing==
*[https://mathpix.com/ MathPix] will turn pdf's into Latex and is very good.

==Music software==
[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good freeware.

----

==Writing Apps==
===Tex===
https://www.mathcha.io/editor

===OCR, processing image into Text===
*[http://www.paperfile.net/download2.html FreeOCR] is quite acceptable. It loses paragraphing, but turns multi-page pdf into plain text. TechRadar has a [https://www.techradar.com/best/best-ocr-software good review] of OCR software, paid and then free at the end.

===Acrobat===
*[https://www.thepcinsider.com/best-free-pdf-readers-viewers-windows/#:~:text=5%20Best%20Free%20PDF%20Readers%20and%20Viewers%20for,4%20Sumatra%20PDF.%20...%205%20STDU%20Viewer.%20 5 Best Free PDF Readers and Viewers for Windows 10 in 2019]7th March 2019 by Manish Sahay is a good review. Adobe itself is an unpleasant company that writes bad software and has moved its pdf-writing software on line, probably to better rip off customers and harvest their information. Their reader is purposely limited and unsatisfactory and they write poor software anyway. I've tried Foxit and been disappointed for some reason, and PDF-XChange Editor was bad enough for some reason I forget that I decided it wasn't minimally satisfactory. Sumatra is very clean, but requires CTRL-mouse if you want to select text. So i have settled on STDU Viewer, at http://www.stdutility.com/stduviewer.html.

*NitroReader and MS Edge are treacherous when dealing with pdf forms, doing weird stuff to the contents.

*[https://opensource.com/alternatives/adobe-acrobat "Open source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for PDFs," ]
04 Feb 2020 Jason Baker (Red Hat) Feed Seth Kenlon (Red Hat)

*[https://www.libreoffice.org/ Libreoffice] seems to be good. It does a great job of printing *.docx files to *.pdf. It was easy to install and it's freeware, opensource.

*[https://pdfencrypt.net/#:~:text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open,free%2C%20without%20purchasing%20expensive%20software.&text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open%2Dsource%20utility%20to%20encrypt%20PDF,encrypted%2C%20its%20contents%20become%20unreadable. PDFEncrypt], a simple little opensource app to put a password on a pdf file.

----

==Operating Systems==
===Linux===
*[https://www.ricksdailytips.com/replace-windows-with-linux/ Rickdailytips] on installing Linux.]

----
==Organization and Filing==
I like Wikimedia. Aaron Laws writes: I use git for that. https://sourceforge.net/u/dartme https://sourceforge.net/p/dartme/gitrepo/ . I don't know what that means, though.

----
==Scheduling Meetings==
*I briefly found [https://www.when2meet.com/?13900361-e2A92 When2meet.com] good. It is, utterly simple and effective, but as of January 2022 it requires all users to download obnoxious software, so it is bad. Doodle is too hard to use too. For meetings of 4 to 6 people, simply emailing them all with a list of meeting times is best. All the software available seems to be Overfeatured.

----
==Meeting Video Apps like Zoom==
*[https://www.softwarepundit.com/video-conferencing/zoom-competitors-alternatives Software pundit] has a good survey of 5 of them. Google Meet is easy to use and has an hour-long limit on the free plan. For a whiteboard, it uses something like Google Docs. Google Docs is a good alternative to the Zoom whiteboard too.

== QR Codes==
To make your own QR code with your name, phone number, email, website etc. taht will go right into Cellphone contacts, go to the free site: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/guides/how-to-create-a-qr-code/
This site makes it very easy. Another site is https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/#sms .
----

==Social Media Apps==
===Buffer===
*Buffer is very good for posting to Twitter and, to a lesser extend, Facebook. It does other, picture, social media apps too.
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Buffer Stories Creator is not useful for me. It is for use with Instagram, etc. I guess it puts text into image format.

===Facebook===
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Facebook "stories" can be edited on a phone, in theory, but I couldn't find correct instructions fro doing it on a computer. I don't think Buffer will work posting to a "story", but I didn't try hard.

===Twitter===
*[https://www.allmytweets.net/ Finding all of someone's Twitter tweets or followers]

*http://fllwrs.com/ for tracing who has started and stopped following you.

----

==Statistics Apps==
===Which Stats App Should You Learn?===
I have learned a little R and don't like its style. It is free and opensource and can do lots of things, whcih is good, and statisticians use it most ofa nything. Economists use STATA most, which is better for regressions and more user-friendly for everything. It isn't open-source, but it has lots of user-programmed routines, so it isn't going to get competed out of busienss. What I would like to move to for everything is Python. It is free but isn't used as much for regression and deosn't have as fancy commands, but it is more pleasant to use than R. That is one advantage, but its biggest one is that Python is an all-purpose language like Fortran or Pascal or C++. You do simulations with it, or webscraping, or symbolic algebra (like Mathematica), of matrix operations (like Matlab), it is easy to install, and I can teach my 7th graders how to have fun with it, even the ones who can't convert Celsius to Fahrenheit.

==Video==
* Google Photos will crop video on the Iphone, but not on the laptop or Android, it seems.

*[https://moviemaker.minitool.com/moviemaker/windows-10-video-editor.html Windows 10 free video editors] web article.

===Converting from one video format to another===
*[https://www.videoconverterfactory.com/ HD Video Converter Factory], which only allow you 5 minute videos in the free version. But if it's conversion from phone video, that may be OK.

----

===Windows===
*[https://www.minitool.com/news/how-to-activate-windows-10-cmd.html best] and [https://www.iseepassword.com/blog/activate-windows-10-without-a-product-key/ another article with keys] on activating Windows.

*The Downloads file is at c:/erasmuse-l/Downloads

*To refer to a file with spaces in its name in the command line, use double quotes, e.g. "My file is this.pdf", not My file is this.pdf.

*Large files need deleting via the command line, not in the usual file directory app. Type cmd into the upper right corner to get the black terminal box.

----

==Worse Is Better==
I wish Android, Facebook, and Windows would realize that most of us like their product as it is, and any new feature is (a) almost surely undesirable, and (b) too distracting to be worth learning about evne if it had some slight positive value.
See "Worse is better" in Wikipedia.

----

Discord

2022-06-16T16:40:29Z

Erasmuse: /* Getting Started: Downloading and Logging In */

==Getting Started: Downloading and Logging In==
This is the hardest part of any computer app. There are three ways to use Discord. 
(1) Sign in via a web browser like Chrome at an address that looks sort of like this fake one:
https://discord.com/channels/95486344962679255555555555555 
(2) CLick the right spot in an email telling you have missed posts. 
(3) Download the Discord app to your computer from discord. com. 

You need a Discord account, which will have a username and a password.

When you open Discord, there will be a sort of monster symbol at the upper left corner, and under it a Greek man's head. Click on that Greek man's head to see MFSA and Friends, the place with all our posts.

After you see the messages, you'll see on the left, but not the farthest left, a column called Text Channels. Click one of them, such as #General, to see posts sent in that classification.

If you go down to the middle bottom, you will see where to type in your posts. Just type over the top of Message #General whatever you want to post. Hit return, and you will see your post appear. Your post cannot be more than 2,000 words. If you try to do more, Discord will upload it as a file instead, I think.

On the left of the posting input box is a Plus sign (+). Left-click on that to upload a file as part of your message. You then type in your text message to post with it.

If you right-click on a message, a menu will come up that allows you to choose a Thumbs-Up picture that will appear right after that person's message to show you're happy with it.

==More Advanced Stuff==
Discord has something called Threads, but I don't know what those mean.

You can change your "name" that appears, and your gif, but I forget where I found that.

There are ways to do things with Voice and Video. There is, I think, a way to send a private message to just one person. There is a way to assign people "roles", so that if you send a message it will go to just them.

Discord

2022-06-16T16:40:06Z

Erasmuse: Created page with " ==Getting Started: Downloading and Logging In== This is the hardest part of any computer app. There are three ways to use Discord. (1) Sign in via a web browser like Ch..."

==Getting Started: Downloading and Logging In==
This is the hardest part of any computer app. There are three ways to use Discord. 
(1) Sign in via a web browser like Chrome at an address like
https://discord.com/channels/95486344962679255555555555555 
(2) CLick the right spot in an email telling you have missed posts. 
(3) Download the Discord app to your computer from discord. com. 

You need a Discord account, which will have a username and a password.

When you open Discord, there will be a sort of monster symbol at the upper left corner, and under it a Greek man's head. Click on that Greek man's head to see MFSA and Friends, the place with all our posts.

After you see the messages, you'll see on the left, but not the farthest left, a column called Text Channels. Click one of them, such as #General, to see posts sent in that classification.

If you go down to the middle bottom, you will see where to type in your posts. Just type over the top of Message #General whatever you want to post. Hit return, and you will see your post appear. Your post cannot be more than 2,000 words. If you try to do more, Discord will upload it as a file instead, I think.

On the left of the posting input box is a Plus sign (+). Left-click on that to upload a file as part of your message. You then type in your text message to post with it.

If you right-click on a message, a menu will come up that allows you to choose a Thumbs-Up picture that will appear right after that person's message to show you're happy with it.

==More Advanced Stuff==
Discord has something called Threads, but I don't know what those mean.

You can change your "name" that appears, and your gif, but I forget where I found that.

There are ways to do things with Voice and Video. There is, I think, a way to send a private message to just one person. There is a way to assign people "roles", so that if you send a message it will go to just them.

Software

2022-06-16T16:39:45Z

Erasmuse:

Travis Dawry @tdawry
In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.



==Antiporn Software==
Qustodio is what we've used.

==Antivirus Software==
I am trying out the free version of Bitdefender on the HP. Norton has a cheap first year and then a very high second year.

==Design==
*Are computer scientists taught the basic principles?
** Transparency (being able to guess commands)
**Recoverability (being able to reverse mistaken commands)
**Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY. Don’t Repeat Yourself is the principle that any code in your program should only be written once, and never duplicated.
**Separation of Concerns. Separation of Concerns is when you separate your program into modules that each deal with one particular focus, or concern.
**Don’t Make Me Think. This principle was originally intended for web design, being the title of a book by Steve Krug. **Keep it Simple. Lastly, the classic KISS principle (keep it simple stupid) is no less relevant in coding than it is anywhere else.
**Make frequently used commands easy to do.
**Give most commonly desired outcomes as defaults; do not require options to be specified.

===Transparency===
*When people say an app is easy to use, they often mean it is easy for *them* to use. For example, maybe to send a message, you just press CTRL-ZA. The problem is, it's very hard to use unless you know the secret commands like that, and there's no manual, and HELP is useless.

==[[Discord]]==
See the [[Discord]] page.

===Getting Started: Downloading and Logging In===
This is the hardest part of any computer app. There are three ways to use Discord. 
(1) Sign in via a web browser like Chrome at an address like
https://discord.com/channels/95486344962679255555555555555 
(2) CLick the right spot in an email telling you have missed posts. 
(3) Download the Discord app to your computer from discord. com. 

You need a Discord account, which will have a username and a password.

When you open Discord, there will be a sort of monster symbol at the upper left corner, and under it a Greek man's head. Click on that Greek man's head to see MFSA and Friends, the place with all our posts.

After you see the messages, you'll see on the left, but not the farthest left, a column called Text Channels. Click one of them, such as #General, to see posts sent in that classification.

If you go down to the middle bottom, you will see where to type in your posts. Just type over the top of Message #General whatever you want to post. Hit return, and you will see your post appear. Your post cannot be more than 2000 words. If you try, Discord will upload it as a file instead, I think.

On the left of the posting input box is a Plus sign (+). Left-click on that to upload a file as part of your message. You then type in your text message to post with it.

If you right-click on a message, a menu will come up that allows you to choose a Thumbs-Up picture that will appear rigth after that person's message to show you're happy with it.

Discord has something called Threads, but I don't know what those mean.

You can change your "name" that appears, and your gif, but I forget where I found that.

There are ways to do things with Voice and Video. There is, I think, a way to send a private message to just one person. There is a way to assign people "roles", so that if you send a message it will go to just them.

==Email==
*[https://www.techradar.com/best/best-email-clients Tech Radar 2021 Picks for Email]

===Text Messages via Email===
*If the phone number is 123-456-7890, the email address would be 1234567890@vtext.com for Twigby

===Email Tracking===
CloudHQ is good.

===Gmail===
*[https://www.komando.com/tech-tips/inbox-full-heres-how-to-find-attachments-eating-up-all-your-storage/704299/ Searching for emails that are big or with attachments and emptying the trash can. ] In the email search, type : has:attachment larger:10MB To see how much storage is used, go to https://one.google.com/storage

* To create emails lists, open up the separate app GOOGLE CONTACTS. Then Choose CREATE LABEL. Create it. Then go to IMPORT. Check the box of the label you want to add emails too. Then choose CREATE MULTIPLE CONTACTS. Then cut and paste a list of email addresses into the window that opens up.

----

==Google==
Google added an obnoxious "Related Searches" feature at the bottom of every search, which cuts out 1/4 of your searches on the page and gives you useless suggestions for different things to search for that are never relevant. To get your search screen real estate back, you can go to google.com, then to Settings at the bottom of the page, find Search Customization, I think it is, and then turn off the evil feature. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252374688

==Hard Disk Space Analyzers==
[https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921 Wiztree] is amazingly fast and good. It is free.

==Software for Writing==
*[https://mathpix.com/ MathPix] will turn pdf's into Latex and is very good.

==Music software==
[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good freeware.

----

==Writing Apps==
===Tex===
https://www.mathcha.io/editor

===OCR, processing image into Text===
*[http://www.paperfile.net/download2.html FreeOCR] is quite acceptable. It loses paragraphing, but turns multi-page pdf into plain text. TechRadar has a [https://www.techradar.com/best/best-ocr-software good review] of OCR software, paid and then free at the end.

===Acrobat===
*[https://www.thepcinsider.com/best-free-pdf-readers-viewers-windows/#:~:text=5%20Best%20Free%20PDF%20Readers%20and%20Viewers%20for,4%20Sumatra%20PDF.%20...%205%20STDU%20Viewer.%20 5 Best Free PDF Readers and Viewers for Windows 10 in 2019]7th March 2019 by Manish Sahay is a good review. Adobe itself is an unpleasant company that writes bad software and has moved its pdf-writing software on line, probably to better rip off customers and harvest their information. Their reader is purposely limited and unsatisfactory and they write poor software anyway. I've tried Foxit and been disappointed for some reason, and PDF-XChange Editor was bad enough for some reason I forget that I decided it wasn't minimally satisfactory. Sumatra is very clean, but requires CTRL-mouse if you want to select text. So i have settled on STDU Viewer, at http://www.stdutility.com/stduviewer.html.

*NitroReader and MS Edge are treacherous when dealing with pdf forms, doing weird stuff to the contents.

*[https://opensource.com/alternatives/adobe-acrobat "Open source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for PDFs," ]
04 Feb 2020 Jason Baker (Red Hat) Feed Seth Kenlon (Red Hat)

*[https://www.libreoffice.org/ Libreoffice] seems to be good. It does a great job of printing *.docx files to *.pdf. It was easy to install and it's freeware, opensource.

*[https://pdfencrypt.net/#:~:text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open,free%2C%20without%20purchasing%20expensive%20software.&text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open%2Dsource%20utility%20to%20encrypt%20PDF,encrypted%2C%20its%20contents%20become%20unreadable. PDFEncrypt], a simple little opensource app to put a password on a pdf file.

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==Operating Systems==
===Linux===
*[https://www.ricksdailytips.com/replace-windows-with-linux/ Rickdailytips] on installing Linux.]

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==Organization and Filing==
I like Wikimedia. Aaron Laws writes: I use git for that. https://sourceforge.net/u/dartme https://sourceforge.net/p/dartme/gitrepo/ . I don't know what that means, though.

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==Scheduling Meetings==
*I briefly found [https://www.when2meet.com/?13900361-e2A92 When2meet.com] good. It is, utterly simple and effective, but as of January 2022 it requires all users to download obnoxious software, so it is bad. Doodle is too hard to use too. For meetings of 4 to 6 people, simply emailing them all with a list of meeting times is best. All the software available seems to be Overfeatured.

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==Meeting Video Apps like Zoom==
*[https://www.softwarepundit.com/video-conferencing/zoom-competitors-alternatives Software pundit] has a good survey of 5 of them. Google Meet is easy to use and has an hour-long limit on the free plan. For a whiteboard, it uses something like Google Docs. Google Docs is a good alternative to the Zoom whiteboard too.

== QR Codes==
To make your own QR code with your name, phone number, email, website etc. taht will go right into Cellphone contacts, go to the free site: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/guides/how-to-create-a-qr-code/
This site makes it very easy. Another site is https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/#sms .
----

==Social Media Apps==
===Buffer===
*Buffer is very good for posting to Twitter and, to a lesser extend, Facebook. It does other, picture, social media apps too.
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Buffer Stories Creator is not useful for me. It is for use with Instagram, etc. I guess it puts text into image format.

===Facebook===
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Facebook "stories" can be edited on a phone, in theory, but I couldn't find correct instructions fro doing it on a computer. I don't think Buffer will work posting to a "story", but I didn't try hard.

===Twitter===
*[https://www.allmytweets.net/ Finding all of someone's Twitter tweets or followers]

*http://fllwrs.com/ for tracing who has started and stopped following you.

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==Statistics Apps==
===Which Stats App Should You Learn?===
I have learned a little R and don't like its style. It is free and opensource and can do lots of things, whcih is good, and statisticians use it most ofa nything. Economists use STATA most, which is better for regressions and more user-friendly for everything. It isn't open-source, but it has lots of user-programmed routines, so it isn't going to get competed out of busienss. What I would like to move to for everything is Python. It is free but isn't used as much for regression and deosn't have as fancy commands, but it is more pleasant to use than R. That is one advantage, but its biggest one is that Python is an all-purpose language like Fortran or Pascal or C++. You do simulations with it, or webscraping, or symbolic algebra (like Mathematica), of matrix operations (like Matlab), it is easy to install, and I can teach my 7th graders how to have fun with it, even the ones who can't convert Celsius to Fahrenheit.

==Video==
* Google Photos will crop video on the Iphone, but not on the laptop or Android, it seems.

*[https://moviemaker.minitool.com/moviemaker/windows-10-video-editor.html Windows 10 free video editors] web article.

===Converting from one video format to another===
*[https://www.videoconverterfactory.com/ HD Video Converter Factory], which only allow you 5 minute videos in the free version. But if it's conversion from phone video, that may be OK.

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===Windows===
*[https://www.minitool.com/news/how-to-activate-windows-10-cmd.html best] and [https://www.iseepassword.com/blog/activate-windows-10-without-a-product-key/ another article with keys] on activating Windows.

*The Downloads file is at c:/erasmuse-l/Downloads

*To refer to a file with spaces in its name in the command line, use double quotes, e.g. "My file is this.pdf", not My file is this.pdf.

*Large files need deleting via the command line, not in the usual file directory app. Type cmd into the upper right corner to get the black terminal box.

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==Worse Is Better==
I wish Android, Facebook, and Windows would realize that most of us like their product as it is, and any new feature is (a) almost surely undesirable, and (b) too distracting to be worth learning about evne if it had some slight positive value.
See "Worse is better" in Wikipedia.

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Software

2022-06-16T13:25:08Z

Erasmuse: /* Discord */

Travis Dawry @tdawry
In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.



==Antiporn Software==
Qustodio is what we've used.

==Antivirus Software==
I am trying out the free version of Bitdefender on the HP. Norton has a cheap first year and then a very high second year.

==Design==
*Are computer scientists taught the basic principles?
** Transparency (being able to guess commands)
**Recoverability (being able to reverse mistaken commands)
**Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY. Don’t Repeat Yourself is the principle that any code in your program should only be written once, and never duplicated.
**Separation of Concerns. Separation of Concerns is when you separate your program into modules that each deal with one particular focus, or concern.
**Don’t Make Me Think. This principle was originally intended for web design, being the title of a book by Steve Krug. **Keep it Simple. Lastly, the classic KISS principle (keep it simple stupid) is no less relevant in coding than it is anywhere else.
**Make frequently used commands easy to do.
**Give most commonly desired outcomes as defaults; do not require options to be specified.

===Transparency===
*When people say an app is easy to use, they often mean it is easy for *them* to use. For example, maybe to send a message, you just press CTRL-ZA. The problem is, it's very hard to use unless you know the secret commands like that, and there's no manual, and HELP is useless.

==Discord==
===Getting Started: Downloading and Logging In===
This is the hardest part of any computer app. There are three ways to use Discord. 
(1) Sign in via a web browser like Chrome at an address like
https://discord.com/channels/95486344962679255555555555555 
(2) CLick the right spot in an email telling you have missed posts. 
(3) Download the Discord app to your computer from discord. com. 

You need a Discord account, which will have a username and a password.

When you open Discord, there will be a sort of monster symbol at the upper left corner, and under it a Greek man's head. Click on that Greek man's head to see MFSA and Friends, the place with all our posts.

After you see the messages, you'll see on the left, but not the farthest left, a column called Text Channels. Click one of them, such as #General, to see posts sent in that classification.

If you go down to the middle bottom, you will see where to type in your posts. Just type over the top of Message #General whatever you want to post. Hit return, and you will see your post appear. Your post cannot be more than 2000 words. If you try, Discord will upload it as a file instead, I think.

On the left of the posting input box is a Plus sign (+). Left-click on that to upload a file as part of your message. You then type in your text message to post with it.

If you right-click on a message, a menu will come up that allows you to choose a Thumbs-Up picture that will appear rigth after that person's message to show you're happy with it.

Discord has something called Threads, but I don't know what those mean.

You can change your "name" that appears, and your gif, but I forget where I found that.

There are ways to do things with Voice and Video. There is, I think, a way to send a private message to just one person. There is a way to assign people "roles", so that if you send a message it will go to just them.

==Email==
*[https://www.techradar.com/best/best-email-clients Tech Radar 2021 Picks for Email]

===Text Messages via Email===
*If the phone number is 123-456-7890, the email address would be 1234567890@vtext.com for Twigby

===Email Tracking===
CloudHQ is good.

===Gmail===
*[https://www.komando.com/tech-tips/inbox-full-heres-how-to-find-attachments-eating-up-all-your-storage/704299/ Searching for emails that are big or with attachments and emptying the trash can. ] In the email search, type : has:attachment larger:10MB To see how much storage is used, go to https://one.google.com/storage

* To create emails lists, open up the separate app GOOGLE CONTACTS. Then Choose CREATE LABEL. Create it. Then go to IMPORT. Check the box of the label you want to add emails too. Then choose CREATE MULTIPLE CONTACTS. Then cut and paste a list of email addresses into the window that opens up.

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==Google==
Google added an obnoxious "Related Searches" feature at the bottom of every search, which cuts out 1/4 of your searches on the page and gives you useless suggestions for different things to search for that are never relevant. To get your search screen real estate back, you can go to google.com, then to Settings at the bottom of the page, find Search Customization, I think it is, and then turn off the evil feature. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252374688

==Hard Disk Space Analyzers==
[https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921 Wiztree] is amazingly fast and good. It is free.

==Software for Writing==
*[https://mathpix.com/ MathPix] will turn pdf's into Latex and is very good.

==Music software==
[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good freeware.

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==Writing Apps==
===Tex===
https://www.mathcha.io/editor

===OCR, processing image into Text===
*[http://www.paperfile.net/download2.html FreeOCR] is quite acceptable. It loses paragraphing, but turns multi-page pdf into plain text. TechRadar has a [https://www.techradar.com/best/best-ocr-software good review] of OCR software, paid and then free at the end.

===Acrobat===
*[https://www.thepcinsider.com/best-free-pdf-readers-viewers-windows/#:~:text=5%20Best%20Free%20PDF%20Readers%20and%20Viewers%20for,4%20Sumatra%20PDF.%20...%205%20STDU%20Viewer.%20 5 Best Free PDF Readers and Viewers for Windows 10 in 2019]7th March 2019 by Manish Sahay is a good review. Adobe itself is an unpleasant company that writes bad software and has moved its pdf-writing software on line, probably to better rip off customers and harvest their information. Their reader is purposely limited and unsatisfactory and they write poor software anyway. I've tried Foxit and been disappointed for some reason, and PDF-XChange Editor was bad enough for some reason I forget that I decided it wasn't minimally satisfactory. Sumatra is very clean, but requires CTRL-mouse if you want to select text. So i have settled on STDU Viewer, at http://www.stdutility.com/stduviewer.html.

*NitroReader and MS Edge are treacherous when dealing with pdf forms, doing weird stuff to the contents.

*[https://opensource.com/alternatives/adobe-acrobat "Open source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for PDFs," ]
04 Feb 2020 Jason Baker (Red Hat) Feed Seth Kenlon (Red Hat)

*[https://www.libreoffice.org/ Libreoffice] seems to be good. It does a great job of printing *.docx files to *.pdf. It was easy to install and it's freeware, opensource.

*[https://pdfencrypt.net/#:~:text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open,free%2C%20without%20purchasing%20expensive%20software.&text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open%2Dsource%20utility%20to%20encrypt%20PDF,encrypted%2C%20its%20contents%20become%20unreadable. PDFEncrypt], a simple little opensource app to put a password on a pdf file.

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==Operating Systems==
===Linux===
*[https://www.ricksdailytips.com/replace-windows-with-linux/ Rickdailytips] on installing Linux.]

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==Organization and Filing==
I like Wikimedia. Aaron Laws writes: I use git for that. https://sourceforge.net/u/dartme https://sourceforge.net/p/dartme/gitrepo/ . I don't know what that means, though.

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==Scheduling Meetings==
*I briefly found [https://www.when2meet.com/?13900361-e2A92 When2meet.com] good. It is, utterly simple and effective, but as of January 2022 it requires all users to download obnoxious software, so it is bad. Doodle is too hard to use too. For meetings of 4 to 6 people, simply emailing them all with a list of meeting times is best. All the software available seems to be Overfeatured.

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==Meeting Video Apps like Zoom==
*[https://www.softwarepundit.com/video-conferencing/zoom-competitors-alternatives Software pundit] has a good survey of 5 of them. Google Meet is easy to use and has an hour-long limit on the free plan. For a whiteboard, it uses something like Google Docs. Google Docs is a good alternative to the Zoom whiteboard too.

== QR Codes==
To make your own QR code with your name, phone number, email, website etc. taht will go right into Cellphone contacts, go to the free site: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/guides/how-to-create-a-qr-code/
This site makes it very easy. Another site is https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/#sms .
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==Social Media Apps==
===Buffer===
*Buffer is very good for posting to Twitter and, to a lesser extend, Facebook. It does other, picture, social media apps too.
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Buffer Stories Creator is not useful for me. It is for use with Instagram, etc. I guess it puts text into image format.

===Facebook===
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Facebook "stories" can be edited on a phone, in theory, but I couldn't find correct instructions fro doing it on a computer. I don't think Buffer will work posting to a "story", but I didn't try hard.

===Twitter===
*[https://www.allmytweets.net/ Finding all of someone's Twitter tweets or followers]

*http://fllwrs.com/ for tracing who has started and stopped following you.

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==Statistics Apps==
===Which Stats App Should You Learn?===
I have learned a little R and don't like its style. It is free and opensource and can do lots of things, whcih is good, and statisticians use it most ofa nything. Economists use STATA most, which is better for regressions and more user-friendly for everything. It isn't open-source, but it has lots of user-programmed routines, so it isn't going to get competed out of busienss. What I would like to move to for everything is Python. It is free but isn't used as much for regression and deosn't have as fancy commands, but it is more pleasant to use than R. That is one advantage, but its biggest one is that Python is an all-purpose language like Fortran or Pascal or C++. You do simulations with it, or webscraping, or symbolic algebra (like Mathematica), of matrix operations (like Matlab), it is easy to install, and I can teach my 7th graders how to have fun with it, even the ones who can't convert Celsius to Fahrenheit.

==Video==
* Google Photos will crop video on the Iphone, but not on the laptop or Android, it seems.

*[https://moviemaker.minitool.com/moviemaker/windows-10-video-editor.html Windows 10 free video editors] web article.

===Converting from one video format to another===
*[https://www.videoconverterfactory.com/ HD Video Converter Factory], which only allow you 5 minute videos in the free version. But if it's conversion from phone video, that may be OK.

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===Windows===
*[https://www.minitool.com/news/how-to-activate-windows-10-cmd.html best] and [https://www.iseepassword.com/blog/activate-windows-10-without-a-product-key/ another article with keys] on activating Windows.

*The Downloads file is at c:/erasmuse-l/Downloads

*To refer to a file with spaces in its name in the command line, use double quotes, e.g. "My file is this.pdf", not My file is this.pdf.

*Large files need deleting via the command line, not in the usual file directory app. Type cmd into the upper right corner to get the black terminal box.

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==Worse Is Better==
I wish Android, Facebook, and Windows would realize that most of us like their product as it is, and any new feature is (a) almost surely undesirable, and (b) too distracting to be worth learning about evne if it had some slight positive value.
See "Worse is better" in Wikipedia.

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Quotations

2022-06-15T20:06:05Z

Erasmuse: /* Glaeser, Edward */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

*[https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089 "On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs' "], Jia Tolentino ( /23/16).

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==Anonymous==
*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan,"as quoted in ''A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own. "

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain".This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan.

It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.

Women will always and forever rely on men.}}

{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==Adams, Scott==
[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

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==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Andreessen, Mark==
"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.” ― Isaac Asimov

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

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==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
"“eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

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==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

==Burke, Edmund==
* “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770).

*"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Misattributed. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ Quote Investigator.]
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==CANNON, William.==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*[https://mailchi.mp/inpolicy/2022-and-chestertons-fence-488333?e=bda54c6080 "Chesterton's Fence" ]:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:Chesterton is not alone in the observation. It is found throughout our literature and theatre. In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to famously challenge his reformist son-in-law. The poet Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in “Mending Wall.” Scripture is replete with its warning, beginning in Proverbs 22:28, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone that your fathers have placed.” }}

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*{{Quotation|
If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization.}}

*{{Quotation|
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
--Autobiography}}

*{{Quotation|
We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|
My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

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== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [--Twitter, 2021]}}

== ==

==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in First THings, 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
{{Quotation|
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, The Information)}}

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

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==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

==Enzensbergert==
{{Quotation|
So we belong to a class that neither controls nor owns what matters, the famous means of production, and it does not produce what also matters, the famous surplus value (or perhaps produces it only indirectly and incidentally . . . ).}}

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==Faulkner, William==
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

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==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Glantz, David (reported by)==
“Germans needed to reduce their casualties “if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.”
― David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, p. 73.

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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== Rob Henderson==
“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/

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==Hippocrates==
"There are ticks in woods now." Why did God create ticks? Perhaps the tick will be justified some day like the flea, by a poem. Ars longa, vita brevis. With a zero discount rate, a good poem justifies even the Black Death. https://buff.ly/3dpjpHE
10:29 AM · Apr 18, 2021·Buffer

Professor Eric Rasmusen
Replying to
@erasmuse
I rightly used "Ars longa, vita brevis",to digress, but it has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."
Ars longa, vita brevis - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

Professor Eric Rasmusen
@erasmuse
The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

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== ==
==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
{{Quotation|
(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk” 
(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
}}
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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== ==
==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
* The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

==Long, Earl (Senator from Louisiana)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan."

--Book IV of The Prince}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

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==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

*I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

*Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats

*An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup

*A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

==Prince Philip==
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

“It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

“If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

“It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

“It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/
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==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

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==Sailer, Steve==
*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*{{Quotation| How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general.}} [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world.’

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king.
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” To understand all is to forgive all. 
*[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
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==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

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==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html
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==Wang, John==
@j0hnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

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==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

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Videos

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== Nature==
*Aaron Hilliard, Musrhoom Wonderland

*If Women had Hubby Vision. It's a Southern Thing channel. You-Tube.

*[https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a809f9a-9ab6-4c43-a925-3283d6e455c3_600x307.jpeg Civil engineering with water and vibration]

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==Comedy==
*Saturday Night Live
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ THeodoric of York, Medieval Barber,"] (1978) with Jane Curtin, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, and Steve Martin.

*[https://twitter.com/i/status/1524524321472872448 Ultra-MAGA] parade (2022) and [https://twitter.com/i/status/1524799965326876673 warrior dance]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNzNeGw8Fmo Cobras and Panthers,] Saturday Night Live spoof on West Side Story.

*[https://youtu.be/TcnSXEvzULk Sinatra and Rickles at the Academy Awards, giving Best Screenplay to Mel Brooks] for The Producers.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1CZhGvHGIU Giuliani on Bad to the Bone] on the Masked Singer, with [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQEUFZbIb2g the Reveal]

*Weird Al Yankovich:
**[https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=1st+world+problem+al+yankovich&docid=608033259070836364&mid=10F32853360A3C2347E510F32853360A3C2347E5&view=detail&FORM=VIRE "First World Problems"] (Second best)
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=notKtAgfwDA "Just Like a Surgeon"] (third best)
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvUZijEuNDQ "I Lost on Jeopardy"] Good.
** Foil
**Handy
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos "All about the Pentiums"], ok+
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu6HJDYWf68 "Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch"] merely ok.
**Amish Paradise (best)
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcVFtu-ZmmM "I Love Rocky Road,"] pretty good.
**White and Nerdy (third best)
**Eat It
**I'm Fat (very good)
**Word crimes (very good)

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==Other==
*[https://www.youtube.com/c/NationalConservatism/videos Natcon II Orlando], (2021).

*[https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1509856053357432833/pu/img/zcOjw23OLgqDKw9I?format=jpg&name=medium Ukrainian curling], with antitank mines.

*Best new podcast: “Rise and Fall of Mars Hill.” Although this is ostensibly about a Seattle-based church, it’ll be equally fascinating to the religious and non-religious alike. It’s a gripping dive into group psychology and celebrity culture.

*Fall of Civilizations. Podcast. A whole series.

*[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy5H0uunC2qMk0iOF4SHKUw Why I Am a Christian (David Wood, Former Atheist's Conversion] (2015) You-tube.

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFZFjoX2cGg "Building the Perfect Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder"] (2020) . Mark Rober.

*[https://twitter.com/i/status/1383876663235121159 Prince Philip's coffin at Windsor with the band playing], very moving. A military pick-up truck.

*[https://twitter.com/malmesburyman/status/1472791903083151360 Long Eric Zenmour] debate, in French.

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==Movies==
*BIll Murray Scrooged Not worth rewatching.
* "Meet me in St. Louis." The 1944 Judy Garland film is a romantic musical comedy that focuses on four sisters, and it's rarely met a disapproving critic with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.

*"A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas"

*Chrstimas with the Kranks.

*T34 See that. With Ben

* 1941 Bill murray JohN Belushi comedy.

* The Munsters.

*The Duellists (1978) follows two rival French officers through the Napoleonic Wars. A minor insult sets off a decades-long series of duels between the men, neither willing to abandoned his honor.

*Excalibur (1981) condenses several Arthurian legends into a single spectacular epic. One of the most hypnotic and visionary films of all time.

*The Lady Eve (1941) an extremely funny romantic comedy about a beautiful card shark trying to seduce a bumbling millionaire.

*Russian Ark (2002) follows a ghost and his long-dead aristocrat companion through the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, bouncing through several hundred years of shared history and culture. Innovative and beautiful; shot in a single take

*Брат (Brother) follows a recently-discharged Russian conscript as he moves to the big city in Yeltsin-era Russia to follow his hitman brother.Брат 2 (2000) picks up immediately where the first film left off, with the conscript and his brother embarking on a twisted adventure to the South Side of Chicago.

*Maverick (1994) is a cocky western comedy starring Mel Gibson as a fast-talking and cowardly gambler trying to scrape together enough money to enter a once-in-a-lifetime poker tournament.

*Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) is about a good-hearted dockworker unable to fight in WW2 due to hayfever, but too ashamed to go home. He is befriended by a squad of recently-returned Marines, whose scheme to return him to his family without losing face quickly snowballs.

Unknown Soldier (2017) tells the largely-ignored story of the Continuation War, a massive conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1941-1944. Probably the most realistic depiction of WW2 era infantry combat ever filmed.

*In the Line of Fire (1993) is a thriller in which Clint Eastwood faces off against John Malkovich.
Eastwood plays the sole remaining agent from JFK's secret-service detail. He's tasked with stopping an ex-CIA agent from killing the President.

*The Counselor (2013) was Cormac McCarthy's first ever work for the screen.
It was universally panned by critics. I liked it so much I bought the screenplay.
One must judge the movie on its own terms, rather than expecting "No Country for Old Men 2." It is profound.
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Names

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Erasmuse:

*[https://reason.com/volokh/2022/06/13/the-ukraine-v-ukraine-kiev-v-kyiv-turkey-v-turkiye-moscow-v-moskva/?comments=true#comments Professor Eugene Volokh says] of Kiev:

** "In Russian, it's pronounced more or less "Kiev" ("Kee-ehv"), and written in a way that would normally be transliterated "Kiev" in English.
** In Ukrainian, it's pronounced more or less "Kyiv" (with the "y" sounding like the "y" in "crypt," though further back in the mouth), and written in a way that would normally be transliterated "Kyiv" in English.
** But in English, it has historically been pronounced more or less "Kiev," and written "Kiev," doubtless because it was borrowed into English from Russian.
** After all, in English we have our own names for many foreign places. We write and say "Moscow" and not "Moskva," "Russia" and not "Rossiya," "Ukraine" and not "Ookraina," "Florence" and not "Firenze," "Spain" and not "España." Indeed, sometimes our names are far indeed from the original: "Germany" and not "Deutschland," "Albania" and not "Shqiperia," "Georgia" and not "Sakartvelo."

I'd say the same about Turkey, which is the English name for the country that calls itself "Türkiye"—just as "İngiltere" is apparently the Turkish name for the country that calls itself "England." I don't think anyone should expect the Turks to change to saying England; why should we expect English speakers to change to saying "Türkiye"? (Greece, by the way, is apparently "Yunanistan" in Turkish, and "Ellada" or "Ellas" in Greek; again, I don't think either Turkish or English or Greek speakers need to change how they pronounce things.)"

Names

2022-06-14T14:23:52Z

Erasmuse: Created page with "*[https://reason.com/volokh/2022/06/13/the-ukraine-v-ukraine-kiev-v-kyiv-turkey-v-turkiye-moscow-v-moskva/?comments=true#comments Professor Eugene Volokh says] of Kiev: ** I..."

*[https://reason.com/volokh/2022/06/13/the-ukraine-v-ukraine-kiev-v-kyiv-turkey-v-turkiye-moscow-v-moskva/?comments=true#comments Professor Eugene Volokh says] of Kiev:

** In Russian, it's pronounced more or less "Kiev" ("Kee-ehv"), and written in a way that would normally be transliterated "Kiev" in English.
** In Ukrainian, it's pronounced more or less "Kyiv" (with the "y" sounding like the "y" in "crypt," though further back in the mouth), and written in a way that would normally be transliterated "Kyiv" in English.
** But in English, it has historically been pronounced more or less "Kiev," and written "Kiev," doubtless because it was borrowed into English from Russian.
** After all, in English we have our own names for many foreign places. We write and say "Moscow" and not "Moskva," "Russia" and not "Rossiya," "Ukraine" and not "Ookraina," "Florence" and not "Firenze," "Spain" and not "España." Indeed, sometimes our names are far indeed from the original: "Germany" and not "Deutschland," "Albania" and not "Shqiperia," "Georgia" and not "Sakartvelo."

I'd say the same about Turkey, which is the English name for the country that calls itself "Türkiye"—just as "İngiltere" is apparently the Turkish name for the country that calls itself "England." I don't think anyone should expect the Turks to change to saying England; why should we expect English speakers to change to saying "Türkiye"? (Greece, by the way, is apparently "Yunanistan" in Turkish, and "Ellada" or "Ellas" in Greek; again, I don't think either Turkish or English or Greek speakers need to change how they pronounce things.)

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==Math Jokes==
===Dear Algebra Teachers===
<pre>
Dear algebra teacher,

Please stop trying to make us find your x.

She's not coming back.

We don't know y either.

Sincerely,
Your Students.
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===Theorem: All Numbers Are Interesting===
Proof: Suppose not...

===The Pythagorean Theorem Joke===
First explain the Pythagorean Theorem: The square of the hypotenuse, the long side of a right triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, e.g., if other two sides are 3 and 4, so their squares sum to 9+16= 25, the square of the hypotenuse is 25 and the hypotenuse has length 5. Then tell the joke.

Once there was an Indian chief named Big Hunter, who had a younger brother named Little Hunter and three squaws. The first squaw slept on a bearskin, the second squaw slept on a buffalo hide, and the third Squaw, who was named Hippolita, slept on a hippopotamus hide. (Big Hunter got his name because he was the only Indian who ever killed hippopotamus, or even saw one for that matter.)

Alas, all of the squaws were barren and had no children. The first two squaws schemed to become the favorites, though, and jointly adopted a little baby boy. They boasted about that and shamed Hippolita for being inferior to them and their boy.

One day, the whole family, including the brother, were in a canoe crossing the lake, when the buffalo-hide squaw stood up, which you should never do in a canoe. The bear-hide squaw stood up too, to match her bravery, but the boat started to tip over. "Save the baby, Little Hunter!" shouted Big Hunter, as he swam to save Hippolita. So the baby and Hippolita were saved, though not the other two squaws.

The moral of the story: "The squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the son of the squaws of the other two hides."

=== Using Logs===
Adders need log to multiply.

===How many seconds are there in a year?===
Q: “How many seconds are there in a year?”
A: “Twelve… January second, February second, March second, …”

===Can a triangle fly?===
Riddle: Can a triangle fly? Yes, it's past the line and on a plane.

===Your Shoes Are Dirty===
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'''Woman to hillbilly as he comes into the store''': "Hey, wipe the mud off your shoes when you come in here." 
'''Hillbilly:''' "What shoes? I ain't got no shoes." 
(mnemonic for remembering that anybody but a hillbilly knows that two negatives make a positive) 
The version omitting "I ain't got no shoes" is better, but doesn't make that point.

===All Odd Numbers Are Prime (The Polya Conjecture)===
An engineer, a physicist, a mathematician, a psychologist, a sociologist, a law professor, and a grievance studies professor walk into a bar, and someone offers to buy a drink for whoever has the best proof that all numbers are prime.

The engineer says, "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, so all odd numbers are prime."

The physicist says: ‘1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9’s not a prime --hmmm, but let's go on---11's a prime, 13's a prime.. It must be that 9 was measurement error.

The mathematician says: "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime. Therefore, by induction, all odd numbers are prime."

The psychologist says: "I told my R.A. the result we wanted, and having rechecked his work, he now reports that 1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9's a prime, 11's a prime, 13's a prime, 15's a prime, and so is every other odd number."

The sociologist says: "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9's a prime,..."

The law professor says,"First of all, my billing rate is $400/hour, and it runs for every 15-minute increment..."

The grievance studies professor says: "What's a prime number?"

. 
THE END

. 
''Notes:'' 
1. A prime number is a number greater than 1 that is evenly divisible only by itself and 1. 
2. Engineers are known for being satisfied with equations and other mathematical conclusions that are only approximately true, not exactly true. Physicists are known for thinking a lot about how precisely their instruments measure things. Mathematicians are known for being very proud of how exact and rigorous they are, but for making mistakes sometimes anyway. Psychologists are known for publishing fraudulent results and for pressuring subordinates to make up data. Sociologists are known for lack of mathematical ability. Lawyers are known for their high fees. Grievance studies professors ar known for being even worse at math than sociologists. All of these are stereotypes; whether the stereotypes have any truth in them, you must judge. Someone is free to add my own field, "economics" to the joke. Accounting may have possibilities too.
 
3. The 1919 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3lya_conjecture Polya Conjecture], made by the author of the famous 1945 book, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It ''How To Solve It''], was that over half of the numbers less than any number N have an odd number of prime factors. For example there are eight numbers less than
N = 9. Of those eight numbers, the number 1 has an even number of prime factors--- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_of_zero 0 of them]. The number 2 has an odd number (1 of them), as do 3 (1 of them), 5 (1 of them), 7 (1 of them), and 8 (3 of them--- 2, 2, and 2, the 2's being counted three times for this conjecture). The number 4 has an even number (2 of them--- 2 and 2), as does 6 (2 of them--- 2 and 3). So over 50% of numbers less than 9--- five out of eight--- have an odd number of prime factors. Professor Connell wrote Mathematica code to check N = 10,000,000 and found that 5,000,421 of the numbers less than that have an odd number of prime factors, which is still more than half. But the Polya Conjecture is false. C. Brian Haselgrove disproved it in 1958. R. Sherman Lehman found the first explicit counterexample in 1960: N = 906,180,359. The smallest counterexample is N = 906,150,257, found by Minoru Tanaka in 1980.
 
4. See [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/Odd_number_script.pdf here ] for a script for performance of this joke by junior high kids.

==The Glass Is Half Empty== 
Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
 
Optimist: The glass is half full.
 
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 
--- Jens Foell, https://twitter.com/fMRI_guy/status/1449785982543409159 (2021)

==Transubstantiation== 
Question: What do you call it when the NCAAA has to decide whether a certain athlete is a man or a woman?
 
Answer: Trans-Substantiation.
 
Even better answer: Con-Substantiation.
 hat tip: Pastor TB

==The Black Sheep in Scotland==
A philosopher, a physicist, a mathematician and a computer scientist were travelling on a train through Scotland when they saw a black sheep through the window of the train. "Aha," says the philosopher, "I see that Scottish sheep are black." "Hmm," says the physicist, "You mean *some* Scottish sheep are black." "No," says the mathematician, "All we know is that there is *at least one* sheep in Scotland, and that *at least one side* of that sheep is black!"

==Packed Sports Stadiums and Covid==
Q. Why haven't packed sports stadiums caused massive covid outbreaks?

A. Because of all the fans.

==On Being Elected Senator ==
Day one:"Here I am at last. How is it that God has allowed me to even sit in the same room with these statesmen?" 
Day ninety: "What are these other 99 idiots doing here?"

==The Politics of the Value-Added Tax (attributed to Larry Summers)==
The reason the United States, unlike European countries and Canada, doesn't have a value-added tax is that the Democrats think it's regressive and the Republicans think it makes raising tax revenue easy. 
When *will* the United States get a value-added tax? Once the Republicans realize it's regressive and the Democrats realize it makes raising tax revenue easy.

==College Graduates without Practical Skills==
''Boss Father:'' Son, after you finish writing that compliance memo, will you sweep up the stock room?
. 
''Newly Hired Son:'' But Dad, I’m a college graduate.
. 
''Boss Father:'' Of course; I forgot. Bring me the broom, and I’ll show you how.

==The Hand of God Knocking off the Chair==
A college professor stood up on his chair and said, "If God really exists, then knock me off this chair". Nothing happened and he said, "See, I'll give it a couple more minutes". A MARINE vet stood up, punched the professor and knocked him off the chair, and then sat back down. The professor said, "What did you do that for?" The vet said, "GOD was busy protecting my buddies still fighting for your right to say and do stupid stuff like this, so HE SENT ME!

== Elephants Hiding in Trees==
"Elephants are really great in camouflage. They hide in the tops of trees!"

"That's ridiculous. I have NEVER seen an elephant in a tree!"

"EXACTLY! See how well they hide?"

==Why Are Corporations Like Vampires?==
Corporations and vampires have much in common: (i) immortality; (ii) personhood; and (iii) issues with stakeholders.
Is there a way to do something with veil-piercing? Certainly you have to design their bonds very carefully to restrain them from evil.

----
==Can you play the violin?==
Q. Can you play the violin? 
::A. I don't know. I've never tried.

==Transubstantiation==
 
Question: What do you call it when the NCAAA has to decide whether a certain athlete is a man or a woman?
 
Answer: Trans-Substantiation.
 
Even better answer: Con-Substantiation.
 hat tip: Pastor TB

----

==Should I give him a book?==
Joe: What should I get Tom for his birthday?
::Moe: How about a book?
:::Joe: No, he's already got a book.

----

==People with Negative Heights==
Via Dick Thaler at https://twitter.com/R_Thaler/status/1436472735723573249 
Q: If height is normally distributed, why aren't there people with negative heights? 
A: There are. We just can't see them.

==For the Work of a Lifetime==
John Ruskin: 'The labour of two days is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?'
Whistler: 'No. I ask it for the knowledge I have gained in the work of a lifetime.'
''Whistler v. Ruskin'' (1878)

==Two and Two Continue To Make Four==
"Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five." --''Whistler v. Ruskin'' (1878)

== Freedom of Speech in Russian Social Media==
A Russian meets up with an American.

"We have freedom of speech," the Russian says. "I can post that Russian elections are rigged on social media."

"What's the big deal?" asks the American. "I too can write that Russian elections are rigged on social media."

==Explosion in a Cheese Factory==
Did you hear about the explosion in the cheese factory? There was nothing left but debris.

I haven't laughed so hard since the suggestion that Joe and Kamala run off to Las Vegas and get inaugurated without telling anybody.

https://quillette.com/2021/01/07/the-death-of-political-cartooning-and-why-it-matters/

Those who study the moon are real optimists, they tend to look at the bright side.

==Eggs Benedict on a Hubcap==
Why should you eat eggs benedict on a hubcap for Christmas dinner? 
--because there's no plate like chrome for the hollandaise.

==The Glass Is Half Empty (Engineer)==
 
Pessimist: The glass is half empty. 
Optimist: The glass is half full. 
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
--- Jens Foell, https://twitter.com/fMRI_guy/status/ (2021)

==Husbands==
If your husband is standing alone in the forest and says something, is he still wrong?

==The Joke Convention==
(Here write my better version, the Joke Convention, with the jolly guy rolling on the floor who hadn't heard it before.)

George Stigler's version in "The Conference Handbook" Journal of Political Economv, 1977, vol. 85, no. 2, is
{{Quotation|
There is an ancient joke about the two traveling salesmen in the age of
the train. The younger drummer was being initiated into the social life
of the traveler by the older. They proceeded to the smoking parlor on the
train, where a group of drummers were congregated. One said, "87,"
and a wave of laughter went through the group. The older drummer
explained to the younger that they traveled together so often that they
had numbered their jokes. The younger drummer wished to participate
in the event and diffidently ventured to say, "36." He was greeted by
cool silence. The older drummer took him aside and explained that they
had already heard that joke. (In another version, the younger drummer
was told that he had told the joke badly.)
}}

Stigler published an economists' version. I've improved it here, in the spirit of joketelling:

<pre>
Introductory Remarks 
A. Here is what the author was trying to say. 
B. The paper admirably solves the problem which it sets for itself.
Unfortunately, this was the wrong problem. 
C. What a pity that the vast erudition and industry of the author were so
misdirected 

D. I am an amateur in this field so my remarks must be diffident and
tentative. However, even a novice must find much to quarrel with in
this piece.
E. I can be very sympathetic with the author; until 2 years ago I was
thinking along similar lines.
F. It is good to have a nonspecialist looking at our problem. There is
always a chance of a fresh viewpoint, although usually, as in this
case, the advantages of the division of labor are reaffirmed.
G. This paper contains much that is new and much that is good.
H. Although the paper was promised 3 weeks ago, I received it as I
entered this room.
Comments
1. Adam Smith said that.
2. Unfortunately, there is an identification problem which is not dealt
with adequately in the paper.
3. The residuals are clearly nonnormal and the specification of the
model is incorrect.
4. Theorizing is not fruitful at this stage: we need a series of case
studies.
5. Case studies are a clue, but no real progress can be made until a
model of the process is constructed.
6. The second-best consideration would of course vitiate the argument.
7. That is an index number problem (obs., except in Cambridge).
8. Have you tried two-stage least squares?
9. The conclusions change if you introduce uncertainty.
10. You didn't use probit analysis?
11. I proved the main results in a paper published years ago.
12. The analysis is marred by a failure to distinguish transitory and
permanent components.
13. The market cannot, of course, deal satisfactorily with that externality.
14. But what if transaction costs are not zero?
15. That follows from the Coase theorem.
16. Of course, if you allow for the investment in human capital, the
entire picture changes.
17. Of course the demand function is quite inelastic.
18. Of course the supply function is highly inelastic.
19. The author uses a sledgehammer to crack a peanut.
20. What empirical finding would contradict your theory?
21. The central argument is not only a tautology, it is false.
22. What happens when you extend the analysis to the later (or earlier)
period?
23. The motivation of the agents in this theory is so narrowly egotistic
that it cannot possibly explain the behavior of real people.
24. The flabby economic actor in this impressionistic model should be
replaced by the utility-maximizing individual.
25. Did you have any trouble in inverting the singular matrix?
2 6. It was unfortunate that the wrong choice was made between M1 and
M2.
27. That is alright in theory, but it doesn't work out in practice (use
sparingly).
28. The speaker apparently believes that there is still one free lunch.
29. The problem cannot be dealt with by partial equilibrium methods:
it requires a general equilibrium formulation.
30. The paper is rigidly confined by the paradigm of neoclassical
economics, so large parts of urgent reality are outside its comprehension.
31. The conclusion rests on the assumption of fixed tastes, but of course
tastes have surely changed.
32. The trouble with the present situation is that the property rights
have not been fully assigned.
</pre>
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== The Old Lady Looking from the Attic==
A bunch of boys were swimming in the river without swimming suits. An old lady who lived on the river called up the Sheriff to complain. He went down and told the boys to move down the river, out of sight. 
Then, the sheriff got another phone call. The old lady said she could still see the boys, if she was upstairs in her bedroom. so the Sheriff went down and told the boys to move a little further down. 
Then the sheriff got another phone call. The old lady said she could still see the boys, if she went up to her attic window and looked out with binoculars. 
This time the sheriff said he was busy.

==Proof that 10 + 10 = 11 + 11==
Alex Kontorovich

Claim: 10 + 10 = 11 + 11

Proof: 
10+10 = twenty 
11+11 = twenty too

== Curing the Common Cold==
 
Patient: Doctor, what should I do to get over my cold? 
Doctor: I'm afraid we have no cure for the common cold. 
Patient: Surely you can think of something! 
Doctor: Well, yes: take a shower and then go naked into your yard in the 20-degree weather for half an hour. 
Patient: But then I'll get pneumonia! 
Doctor: Right. And *that*, we can cure.

==Ridden Out of Town on a Rail==
President Lincoln one evening at the White House was asked "How does it feel to be President of the United States?" "You have heard," said Lincoln, "about the man tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail? A man in the crowd asked him how he liked it, and his reply was, 'If it wasn't for the honor of the thing, I would rather walk.'" I need to find a good source.

==Grad Students without Original Thoughts==
I'm really depressed. I just went to my Department Chairman and said, "I'm depressed. You know my PhD student, Sam Jones? He just told me my seminar presentation was the worst he'd ever heard". The Chairman's reply: "Don't worry about Jones, he doesn't have an original thought in his head, and I very much fear he'll never come up with a dissertation topic. He just repeats what he hears all the other people in the department saying."

I'm really depressed. I just went to my Department Chairman and said, "I'm depressed. You know my PhD student, Sam Jones? He gave his practice job talk today, and it was the worst I've ever heard". The Chairman's reply: "Yeah, I sympathize. Jone is very good at learning what he's taught, but he's totally unoriginal. He just copies what he sees."

Jokes

2022-05-30T18:27:18Z

Erasmuse: /* Proof that 10 + 10 = 11 + 11 */

This page should eventually be split into: [[Jokes to convey ideas]], [[Humor]], [[Satire]], and [[Cartoons]].

==Math Jokes==
===Dear Algebra Teachers===
<pre>
Dear algebra teacher,

Please stop trying to make us find your x.

She's not coming back.

We don't know y either.

Sincerely,
Your Students.
</pre>
----

===Theorem: All Numbers Are Interesting===
Proof: Suppose not...

===The Pythagorean Theorem Joke===
First explain the Pythagorean Theorem: The square of the hypotenuse, the long side of a right triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, e.g., if other two sides are 3 and 4, so their squares sum to 9+16= 25, the square of the hypotenuse is 25 and the hypotenuse has length 5. Then tell the joke.

Once there was an Indian chief named Big Hunter, who had a younger brother named Little Hunter and three squaws. The first squaw slept on a bearskin, the second squaw slept on a buffalo hide, and the third Squaw, who was named Hippolita, slept on a hippopotamus hide. (Big Hunter got his name because he was the only Indian who ever killed hippopotamus, or even saw one for that matter.)

Alas, all of the squaws were barren and had no children. The first two squaws schemed to become the favorites, though, and jointly adopted a little baby boy. They boasted about that and shamed Hippolita for being inferior to them and their boy.

One day, the whole family, including the brother, were in a canoe crossing the lake, when the buffalo-hide squaw stood up, which you should never do in a canoe. The bear-hide squaw stood up too, to match her bravery, but the boat started to tip over. "Save the baby, Little Hunter!" shouted Big Hunter, as he swam to save Hippolita. So the baby and Hippolita were saved, though not the other two squaws.

The moral of the story: "The squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the son of the squaws of the other two hides."

=== Using Logs===
Adders need log to multiply.

===How many seconds are there in a year?===
Q: “How many seconds are there in a year?”
A: “Twelve… January second, February second, March second, …”

===Can a triangle fly?===
Riddle: Can a triangle fly? Yes, it's past the line and on a plane.

===Your Shoes Are Dirty===
. 
'''Woman to hillbilly as he comes into the store''': "Hey, wipe the mud off your shoes when you come in here." 
'''Hillbilly:''' "What shoes? I ain't got no shoes." 
(mnemonic for remembering that anybody but a hillbilly knows that two negatives make a positive) 
The version omitting "I ain't got no shoes" is better, but doesn't make that point.

===All Odd Numbers Are Prime (The Polya Conjecture)===
An engineer, a physicist, a mathematician, a psychologist, a sociologist, a law professor, and a grievance studies professor walk into a bar, and someone offers to buy a drink for whoever has the best proof that all numbers are prime.

The engineer says, "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, so all odd numbers are prime."

The physicist says: ‘1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9’s not a prime --hmmm, but let's go on---11's a prime, 13's a prime.. It must be that 9 was measurement error.

The mathematician says: "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime. Therefore, by induction, all odd numbers are prime."

The psychologist says: "I told my R.A. the result we wanted, and having rechecked his work, he now reports that 1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9's a prime, 11's a prime, 13's a prime, 15's a prime, and so is every other odd number."

The sociologist says: "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9's a prime,..."

The law professor says,"First of all, my billing rate is $400/hour, and it runs for every 15-minute increment..."

The grievance studies professor says: "What's a prime number?"

. 
THE END

. 
''Notes:'' 
1. A prime number is a number greater than 1 that is evenly divisible only by itself and 1. 
2. Engineers are known for being satisfied with equations and other mathematical conclusions that are only approximately true, not exactly true. Physicists are known for thinking a lot about how precisely their instruments measure things. Mathematicians are known for being very proud of how exact and rigorous they are, but for making mistakes sometimes anyway. Psychologists are known for publishing fraudulent results and for pressuring subordinates to make up data. Sociologists are known for lack of mathematical ability. Lawyers are known for their high fees. Grievance studies professors ar known for being even worse at math than sociologists. All of these are stereotypes; whether the stereotypes have any truth in them, you must judge. Someone is free to add my own field, "economics" to the joke. Accounting may have possibilities too.
 
3. The 1919 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3lya_conjecture Polya Conjecture], made by the author of the famous 1945 book, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It ''How To Solve It''], was that over half of the numbers less than any number N have an odd number of prime factors. For example there are eight numbers less than
N = 9. Of those eight numbers, the number 1 has an even number of prime factors--- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_of_zero 0 of them]. The number 2 has an odd number (1 of them), as do 3 (1 of them), 5 (1 of them), 7 (1 of them), and 8 (3 of them--- 2, 2, and 2, the 2's being counted three times for this conjecture). The number 4 has an even number (2 of them--- 2 and 2), as does 6 (2 of them--- 2 and 3). So over 50% of numbers less than 9--- five out of eight--- have an odd number of prime factors. Professor Connell wrote Mathematica code to check N = 10,000,000 and found that 5,000,421 of the numbers less than that have an odd number of prime factors, which is still more than half. But the Polya Conjecture is false. C. Brian Haselgrove disproved it in 1958. R. Sherman Lehman found the first explicit counterexample in 1960: N = 906,180,359. The smallest counterexample is N = 906,150,257, found by Minoru Tanaka in 1980.
 
4. See [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/Odd_number_script.pdf here ] for a script for performance of this joke by junior high kids.

==The Glass Is Half Empty== 
Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
 
Optimist: The glass is half full.
 
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 
--- Jens Foell, https://twitter.com/fMRI_guy/status/1449785982543409159 (2021)

==Transubstantiation== 
Question: What do you call it when the NCAAA has to decide whether a certain athlete is a man or a woman?
 
Answer: Trans-Substantiation.
 
Even better answer: Con-Substantiation.
 hat tip: Pastor TB

==The Black Sheep in Scotland==
A philosopher, a physicist, a mathematician and a computer scientist were travelling on a train through Scotland when they saw a black sheep through the window of the train. "Aha," says the philosopher, "I see that Scottish sheep are black." "Hmm," says the physicist, "You mean *some* Scottish sheep are black." "No," says the mathematician, "All we know is that there is *at least one* sheep in Scotland, and that *at least one side* of that sheep is black!"

==Packed Sports Stadiums and Covid==
Q. Why haven't packed sports stadiums caused massive covid outbreaks?

A. Because of all the fans.

==On Being Elected Senator ==
Day one:"Here I am at last. How is it that God has allowed me to even sit in the same room with these statesmen?" 
Day ninety: "What are these other 99 idiots doing here?"

==The Politics of the Value-Added Tax (attributed to Larry Summers)==
The reason the United States, unlike European countries and Canada, doesn't have a value-added tax is that the Democrats think it's regressive and the Republicans think it makes raising tax revenue easy. 
When *will* the United States get a value-added tax? Once the Republicans realize it's regressive and the Democrats realize it makes raising tax revenue easy.

==College Graduates without Practical Skills==
''Boss Father:'' Son, after you finish writing that compliance memo, will you sweep up the stock room?
. 
''Newly Hired Son:'' But Dad, I’m a college graduate.
. 
''Boss Father:'' Of course; I forgot. Bring me the broom, and I’ll show you how.

==The Hand of God Knocking off the Chair==
A college professor stood up on his chair and said, "If God really exists, then knock me off this chair". Nothing happened and he said, "See, I'll give it a couple more minutes". A MARINE vet stood up, punched the professor and knocked him off the chair, and then sat back down. The professor said, "What did you do that for?" The vet said, "GOD was busy protecting my buddies still fighting for your right to say and do stupid stuff like this, so HE SENT ME!

== Elephants Hiding in Trees==
"Elephants are really great in camouflage. They hide in the tops of trees!"

"That's ridiculous. I have NEVER seen an elephant in a tree!"

"EXACTLY! See how well they hide?"

==Why Are Corporations Like Vampires?==
Corporations and vampires have much in common: (i) immortality; (ii) personhood; and (iii) issues with stakeholders.
Is there a way to do something with veil-piercing? Certainly you have to design their bonds very carefully to restrain them from evil.

----
==Can you play the violin?==
Q. Can you play the violin? 
::A. I don't know. I've never tried.

==Transubstantiation==
 
Question: What do you call it when the NCAAA has to decide whether a certain athlete is a man or a woman?
 
Answer: Trans-Substantiation.
 
Even better answer: Con-Substantiation.
 hat tip: Pastor TB

----

==Should I give him a book?==
Joe: What should I get Tom for his birthday?
::Moe: How about a book?
:::Joe: No, he's already got a book.

----

==People with Negative Heights==
Via Dick Thaler at https://twitter.com/R_Thaler/status/1436472735723573249 
Q: If height is normally distributed, why aren't there people with negative heights? 
A: There are. We just can't see them.

==For the Work of a Lifetime==
John Ruskin: 'The labour of two days is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?'
Whistler: 'No. I ask it for the knowledge I have gained in the work of a lifetime.'
''Whistler v. Ruskin'' (1878)

==Two and Two Continue To Make Four==
"Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five." --''Whistler v. Ruskin'' (1878)

== Freedom of Speech in Russian Social Media==
A Russian meets up with an American.

"We have freedom of speech," the Russian says. "I can post that Russian elections are rigged on social media."

"What's the big deal?" asks the American. "I too can write that Russian elections are rigged on social media."

==Explosion in a Cheese Factory==
Did you hear about the explosion in the cheese factory? There was nothing left but debris.

I haven't laughed so hard since the suggestion that Joe and Kamala run off to Las Vegas and get inaugurated without telling anybody.

https://quillette.com/2021/01/07/the-death-of-political-cartooning-and-why-it-matters/

Those who study the moon are real optimists, they tend to look at the bright side.

==Eggs Benedict on a Hubcap==
Why should you eat eggs benedict on a hubcap for Christmas dinner? 
--because there's no plate like chrome for the hollandaise.

==The Glass Is Half Empty (Engineer)==
 
Pessimist: The glass is half empty. 
Optimist: The glass is half full. 
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
--- Jens Foell, https://twitter.com/fMRI_guy/status/ (2021)

==Husbands==
If your husband is standing alone in the forest and says something, is he still wrong?

==The Joke Convention==
(Here write my better version, the Joke Convention, with the jolly guy rolling on the floor who hadn't heard it before.)

George Stigler's version in "The Conference Handbook" Journal of Political Economv, 1977, vol. 85, no. 2, is
{{Quotation|
There is an ancient joke about the two traveling salesmen in the age of
the train. The younger drummer was being initiated into the social life
of the traveler by the older. They proceeded to the smoking parlor on the
train, where a group of drummers were congregated. One said, "87,"
and a wave of laughter went through the group. The older drummer
explained to the younger that they traveled together so often that they
had numbered their jokes. The younger drummer wished to participate
in the event and diffidently ventured to say, "36." He was greeted by
cool silence. The older drummer took him aside and explained that they
had already heard that joke. (In another version, the younger drummer
was told that he had told the joke badly.)
}}

Stigler published an economists' version. I've improved it here, in the spirit of joketelling:

<pre>
Introductory Remarks 
A. Here is what the author was trying to say. 
B. The paper admirably solves the problem which it sets for itself.
Unfortunately, this was the wrong problem. 
C. What a pity that the vast erudition and industry of the author were so
misdirected 

D. I am an amateur in this field so my remarks must be diffident and
tentative. However, even a novice must find much to quarrel with in
this piece.
E. I can be very sympathetic with the author; until 2 years ago I was
thinking along similar lines.
F. It is good to have a nonspecialist looking at our problem. There is
always a chance of a fresh viewpoint, although usually, as in this
case, the advantages of the division of labor are reaffirmed.
G. This paper contains much that is new and much that is good.
H. Although the paper was promised 3 weeks ago, I received it as I
entered this room.
Comments
1. Adam Smith said that.
2. Unfortunately, there is an identification problem which is not dealt
with adequately in the paper.
3. The residuals are clearly nonnormal and the specification of the
model is incorrect.
4. Theorizing is not fruitful at this stage: we need a series of case
studies.
5. Case studies are a clue, but no real progress can be made until a
model of the process is constructed.
6. The second-best consideration would of course vitiate the argument.
7. That is an index number problem (obs., except in Cambridge).
8. Have you tried two-stage least squares?
9. The conclusions change if you introduce uncertainty.
10. You didn't use probit analysis?
11. I proved the main results in a paper published years ago.
12. The analysis is marred by a failure to distinguish transitory and
permanent components.
13. The market cannot, of course, deal satisfactorily with that externality.
14. But what if transaction costs are not zero?
15. That follows from the Coase theorem.
16. Of course, if you allow for the investment in human capital, the
entire picture changes.
17. Of course the demand function is quite inelastic.
18. Of course the supply function is highly inelastic.
19. The author uses a sledgehammer to crack a peanut.
20. What empirical finding would contradict your theory?
21. The central argument is not only a tautology, it is false.
22. What happens when you extend the analysis to the later (or earlier)
period?
23. The motivation of the agents in this theory is so narrowly egotistic
that it cannot possibly explain the behavior of real people.
24. The flabby economic actor in this impressionistic model should be
replaced by the utility-maximizing individual.
25. Did you have any trouble in inverting the singular matrix?
2 6. It was unfortunate that the wrong choice was made between M1 and
M2.
27. That is alright in theory, but it doesn't work out in practice (use
sparingly).
28. The speaker apparently believes that there is still one free lunch.
29. The problem cannot be dealt with by partial equilibrium methods:
it requires a general equilibrium formulation.
30. The paper is rigidly confined by the paradigm of neoclassical
economics, so large parts of urgent reality are outside its comprehension.
31. The conclusion rests on the assumption of fixed tastes, but of course
tastes have surely changed.
32. The trouble with the present situation is that the property rights
have not been fully assigned.
</pre>
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== The Old Lady Looking from the Attic==
A bunch of boys were swimming in the river without swimming suits. An old lady who lived on the river called up the Sheriff to complain. He went down and told the boys to move down the river, out of sight.
Then, the sheriff got another phone call. The old lady said she could still see the boys, if she was upstairs in her bedroom. so the Sheriff went down and told the boys to move a little further down.
Then the sheriff got another phone call. The old lady said she could still see the boys, if she went up to her attic window and looked out with binoculars.
This time the sheriff said he was busy.

==Proof that 10 + 10 = 11 + 11==
Alex Kontorovich

Claim: 10 + 10 = 11 + 11

Proof: 
10+10 = twenty 
11+11 = twenty too

== Curing the Common Cold==
 
Patient: Doctor, what should I do to get over my cold? 
Doctor: I'm afraid we have no cure for the common cold. 
Patient: Surely you can think of something! 
Doctor: Well, yes: take a shower and then go naked into your yard in the 20-degree weather for half an hour. 
Patient: But then I'll get pneumonia! 
Doctor: Right. And *that*, we can cure.

==Ridden Out of Town on a Rail==
President Lincoln one evening at the White House was asked "How does it feel to be President of the United States?" "You have heard," said Lincoln, "about the man tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail? A man in the crowd asked him how he liked it, and his reply was, 'If it wasn't for the honor of the thing, I would rather walk.'" I need to find a good source.

==Grad Students without Original Thoughts==
I'm really depressed. I just went to my Department Chairman and said, "I'm depressed. You know my PhD student, Sam Jones? He just told me my seminar presentation was the worst he'd ever heard". The Chairman's reply: "Don't worry about Jones, he doesn't have an original thought in his head, and I very much fear he'll never come up with a dissertation topic. He just repeats what he hears all the other people in the department saying."

I'm really depressed. I just went to my Department Chairman and said, "I'm depressed. You know my PhD student, Sam Jones? He gave his practice job talk today, and it was the worst I've ever heard". The Chairman's reply: "Yeah, I sympathize. Jone is very good at learning what he's taught, but he's totally unoriginal. He just copies what he sees."

Jokes

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This page should eventually be split into: [[Jokes to convey ideas]], [[Humor]], [[Satire]], and [[Cartoons]].

==Math Jokes==
===Dear Algebra Teachers===
<pre>
Dear algebra teacher,

Please stop trying to make us find your x.

She's not coming back.

We don't know y either.

Sincerely,
Your Students.
</pre>
----

===Theorem: All Numbers Are Interesting===
Proof: Suppose not...

===The Pythagorean Theorem Joke===
First explain the Pythagorean Theorem: The square of the hypotenuse, the long side of a right triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, e.g., if other two sides are 3 and 4, so their squares sum to 9+16= 25, the square of the hypotenuse is 25 and the hypotenuse has length 5. Then tell the joke.

Once there was an Indian chief named Big Hunter, who had a younger brother named Little Hunter and three squaws. The first squaw slept on a bearskin, the second squaw slept on a buffalo hide, and the third Squaw, who was named Hippolita, slept on a hippopotamus hide. (Big Hunter got his name because he was the only Indian who ever killed hippopotamus, or even saw one for that matter.)

Alas, all of the squaws were barren and had no children. The first two squaws schemed to become the favorites, though, and jointly adopted a little baby boy. They boasted about that and shamed Hippolita for being inferior to them and their boy.

One day, the whole family, including the brother, were in a canoe crossing the lake, when the buffalo-hide squaw stood up, which you should never do in a canoe. The bear-hide squaw stood up too, to match her bravery, but the boat started to tip over. "Save the baby, Little Hunter!" shouted Big Hunter, as he swam to save Hippolita. So the baby and Hippolita were saved, though not the other two squaws.

The moral of the story: "The squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the son of the squaws of the other two hides."

=== Using Logs===
Adders need log to multiply.

===How many seconds are there in a year?===
Q: “How many seconds are there in a year?”
A: “Twelve… January second, February second, March second, …”

===Can a triangle fly?===
Riddle: Can a triangle fly? Yes, it's past the line and on a plane.

===Your Shoes Are Dirty===
. 
'''Woman to hillbilly as he comes into the store''': "Hey, wipe the mud off your shoes when you come in here." 
'''Hillbilly:''' "What shoes? I ain't got no shoes." 
(mnemonic for remembering that anybody but a hillbilly knows that two negatives make a positive) 
The version omitting "I ain't got no shoes" is better, but doesn't make that point.

===All Odd Numbers Are Prime (The Polya Conjecture)===
An engineer, a physicist, a mathematician, a psychologist, a sociologist, a law professor, and a grievance studies professor walk into a bar, and someone offers to buy a drink for whoever has the best proof that all numbers are prime.

The engineer says, "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, so all odd numbers are prime."

The physicist says: ‘1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9’s not a prime --hmmm, but let's go on---11's a prime, 13's a prime.. It must be that 9 was measurement error.

The mathematician says: "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime. Therefore, by induction, all odd numbers are prime."

The psychologist says: "I told my R.A. the result we wanted, and having rechecked his work, he now reports that 1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9's a prime, 11's a prime, 13's a prime, 15's a prime, and so is every other odd number."

The sociologist says: "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9's a prime,..."

The law professor says,"First of all, my billing rate is $400/hour, and it runs for every 15-minute increment..."

The grievance studies professor says: "What's a prime number?"

. 
THE END

. 
''Notes:'' 
1. A prime number is a number greater than 1 that is evenly divisible only by itself and 1. 
2. Engineers are known for being satisfied with equations and other mathematical conclusions that are only approximately true, not exactly true. Physicists are known for thinking a lot about how precisely their instruments measure things. Mathematicians are known for being very proud of how exact and rigorous they are, but for making mistakes sometimes anyway. Psychologists are known for publishing fraudulent results and for pressuring subordinates to make up data. Sociologists are known for lack of mathematical ability. Lawyers are known for their high fees. Grievance studies professors ar known for being even worse at math than sociologists. All of these are stereotypes; whether the stereotypes have any truth in them, you must judge. Someone is free to add my own field, "economics" to the joke. Accounting may have possibilities too.
 
3. The 1919 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3lya_conjecture Polya Conjecture], made by the author of the famous 1945 book, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It ''How To Solve It''], was that over half of the numbers less than any number N have an odd number of prime factors. For example there are eight numbers less than
N = 9. Of those eight numbers, the number 1 has an even number of prime factors--- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_of_zero 0 of them]. The number 2 has an odd number (1 of them), as do 3 (1 of them), 5 (1 of them), 7 (1 of them), and 8 (3 of them--- 2, 2, and 2, the 2's being counted three times for this conjecture). The number 4 has an even number (2 of them--- 2 and 2), as does 6 (2 of them--- 2 and 3). So over 50% of numbers less than 9--- five out of eight--- have an odd number of prime factors. Professor Connell wrote Mathematica code to check N = 10,000,000 and found that 5,000,421 of the numbers less than that have an odd number of prime factors, which is still more than half. But the Polya Conjecture is false. C. Brian Haselgrove disproved it in 1958. R. Sherman Lehman found the first explicit counterexample in 1960: N = 906,180,359. The smallest counterexample is N = 906,150,257, found by Minoru Tanaka in 1980.
 
4. See [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/Odd_number_script.pdf here ] for a script for performance of this joke by junior high kids.

==The Glass Is Half Empty== 
Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
 
Optimist: The glass is half full.
 
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 
--- Jens Foell, https://twitter.com/fMRI_guy/status/1449785982543409159 (2021)

==Transubstantiation== 
Question: What do you call it when the NCAAA has to decide whether a certain athlete is a man or a woman?
 
Answer: Trans-Substantiation.
 
Even better answer: Con-Substantiation.
 hat tip: Pastor TB

==The Black Sheep in Scotland==
A philosopher, a physicist, a mathematician and a computer scientist were travelling on a train through Scotland when they saw a black sheep through the window of the train. "Aha," says the philosopher, "I see that Scottish sheep are black." "Hmm," says the physicist, "You mean *some* Scottish sheep are black." "No," says the mathematician, "All we know is that there is *at least one* sheep in Scotland, and that *at least one side* of that sheep is black!"

==Packed Sports Stadiums and Covid==
Q. Why haven't packed sports stadiums caused massive covid outbreaks?

A. Because of all the fans.

==On Being Elected Senator ==
Day one:"Here I am at last. How is it that God has allowed me to even sit in the same room with these statesmen?" 
Day ninety: "What are these other 99 idiots doing here?"

==The Politics of the Value-Added Tax (attributed to Larry Summers)==
The reason the United States, unlike European countries and Canada, doesn't have a value-added tax is that the Democrats think it's regressive and the Republicans think it makes raising tax revenue easy. 
When *will* the United States get a value-added tax? Once the Republicans realize it's regressive and the Democrats realize it makes raising tax revenue easy.

==College Graduates without Practical Skills==
''Boss Father:'' Son, after you finish writing that compliance memo, will you sweep up the stock room?
. 
''Newly Hired Son:'' But Dad, I’m a college graduate.
. 
''Boss Father:'' Of course; I forgot. Bring me the broom, and I’ll show you how.

==The Hand of God Knocking off the Chair==
A college professor stood up on his chair and said, "If God really exists, then knock me off this chair". Nothing happened and he said, "See, I'll give it a couple more minutes". A MARINE vet stood up, punched the professor and knocked him off the chair, and then sat back down. The professor said, "What did you do that for?" The vet said, "GOD was busy protecting my buddies still fighting for your right to say and do stupid stuff like this, so HE SENT ME!

== Elephants Hiding in Trees==
"Elephants are really great in camouflage. They hide in the tops of trees!"

"That's ridiculous. I have NEVER seen an elephant in a tree!"

"EXACTLY! See how well they hide?"

==Why Are Corporations Like Vampires?==
Corporations and vampires have much in common: (i) immortality; (ii) personhood; and (iii) issues with stakeholders.
Is there a way to do something with veil-piercing? Certainly you have to design their bonds very carefully to restrain them from evil.

----
==Can you play the violin?==
Q. Can you play the violin? 
::A. I don't know. I've never tried.

==Transubstantiation==
 
Question: What do you call it when the NCAAA has to decide whether a certain athlete is a man or a woman?
 
Answer: Trans-Substantiation.
 
Even better answer: Con-Substantiation.
 hat tip: Pastor TB

----

==Should I give him a book?==
Joe: What should I get Tom for his birthday?
::Moe: How about a book?
:::Joe: No, he's already got a book.

----

==People with Negative Heights==
Via Dick Thaler at https://twitter.com/R_Thaler/status/1436472735723573249 
Q: If height is normally distributed, why aren't there people with negative heights? 
A: There are. We just can't see them.

==For the Work of a Lifetime==
John Ruskin: 'The labour of two days is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?'
Whistler: 'No. I ask it for the knowledge I have gained in the work of a lifetime.'
''Whistler v. Ruskin'' (1878)

==Two and Two Continue To Make Four==
"Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five." --''Whistler v. Ruskin'' (1878)

== Freedom of Speech in Russian Social Media==
A Russian meets up with an American.

"We have freedom of speech," the Russian says. "I can post that Russian elections are rigged on social media."

"What's the big deal?" asks the American. "I too can write that Russian elections are rigged on social media."

==Explosion in a Cheese Factory==
Did you hear about the explosion in the cheese factory? There was nothing left but debris.

I haven't laughed so hard since the suggestion that Joe and Kamala run off to Las Vegas and get inaugurated without telling anybody.

https://quillette.com/2021/01/07/the-death-of-political-cartooning-and-why-it-matters/

Those who study the moon are real optimists, they tend to look at the bright side.

==Eggs Benedict on a Hubcap==
Why should you eat eggs benedict on a hubcap for Christmas dinner? 
--because there's no plate like chrome for the hollandaise.

==The Glass Is Half Empty (Engineer)==
 
Pessimist: The glass is half empty. 
Optimist: The glass is half full. 
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
--- Jens Foell, https://twitter.com/fMRI_guy/status/ (2021)

==Husbands==
If your husband is standing alone in the forest and says something, is he still wrong?

==The Joke Convention==
(Here write my better version, the Joke Convention, with the jolly guy rolling on the floor who hadn't heard it before.)

George Stigler's version in "The Conference Handbook" Journal of Political Economv, 1977, vol. 85, no. 2, is
{{Quotation|
There is an ancient joke about the two traveling salesmen in the age of
the train. The younger drummer was being initiated into the social life
of the traveler by the older. They proceeded to the smoking parlor on the
train, where a group of drummers were congregated. One said, "87,"
and a wave of laughter went through the group. The older drummer
explained to the younger that they traveled together so often that they
had numbered their jokes. The younger drummer wished to participate
in the event and diffidently ventured to say, "36." He was greeted by
cool silence. The older drummer took him aside and explained that they
had already heard that joke. (In another version, the younger drummer
was told that he had told the joke badly.)
}}

Stigler published an economists' version. I've improved it here, in the spirit of joketelling:

<pre>
Introductory Remarks 
A. Here is what the author was trying to say. 
B. The paper admirably solves the problem which it sets for itself.
Unfortunately, this was the wrong problem. 
C. What a pity that the vast erudition and industry of the author were so
misdirected 

D. I am an amateur in this field so my remarks must be diffident and
tentative. However, even a novice must find much to quarrel with in
this piece.
E. I can be very sympathetic with the author; until 2 years ago I was
thinking along similar lines.
F. It is good to have a nonspecialist looking at our problem. There is
always a chance of a fresh viewpoint, although usually, as in this
case, the advantages of the division of labor are reaffirmed.
G. This paper contains much that is new and much that is good.
H. Although the paper was promised 3 weeks ago, I received it as I
entered this room.
Comments
1. Adam Smith said that.
2. Unfortunately, there is an identification problem which is not dealt
with adequately in the paper.
3. The residuals are clearly nonnormal and the specification of the
model is incorrect.
4. Theorizing is not fruitful at this stage: we need a series of case
studies.
5. Case studies are a clue, but no real progress can be made until a
model of the process is constructed.
6. The second-best consideration would of course vitiate the argument.
7. That is an index number problem (obs., except in Cambridge).
8. Have you tried two-stage least squares?
9. The conclusions change if you introduce uncertainty.
10. You didn't use probit analysis?
11. I proved the main results in a paper published years ago.
12. The analysis is marred by a failure to distinguish transitory and
permanent components.
13. The market cannot, of course, deal satisfactorily with that externality.
14. But what if transaction costs are not zero?
15. That follows from the Coase theorem.
16. Of course, if you allow for the investment in human capital, the
entire picture changes.
17. Of course the demand function is quite inelastic.
18. Of course the supply function is highly inelastic.
19. The author uses a sledgehammer to crack a peanut.
20. What empirical finding would contradict your theory?
21. The central argument is not only a tautology, it is false.
22. What happens when you extend the analysis to the later (or earlier)
period?
23. The motivation of the agents in this theory is so narrowly egotistic
that it cannot possibly explain the behavior of real people.
24. The flabby economic actor in this impressionistic model should be
replaced by the utility-maximizing individual.
25. Did you have any trouble in inverting the singular matrix?
2 6. It was unfortunate that the wrong choice was made between M1 and
M2.
27. That is alright in theory, but it doesn't work out in practice (use
sparingly).
28. The speaker apparently believes that there is still one free lunch.
29. The problem cannot be dealt with by partial equilibrium methods:
it requires a general equilibrium formulation.
30. The paper is rigidly confined by the paradigm of neoclassical
economics, so large parts of urgent reality are outside its comprehension.
31. The conclusion rests on the assumption of fixed tastes, but of course
tastes have surely changed.
32. The trouble with the present situation is that the property rights
have not been fully assigned.
</pre>
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https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/01/07/xkcd-curve-fitting-methods-and-the-messages-they-send/
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==Proof that 10 + 10 = 11 + 11==
Alex Kontorovich

Claim: 10 + 10 = 11 + 11

Proof: 
10+10 = twenty 
11+11 = twenty too

== Curing the Common Cold==
 
Patient: Doctor, what should I do to get over my cold? 
Doctor: I'm afraid we have no cure for the common cold. 
Patient: Surely you can think of something! 
Doctor: Well, yes: take a shower and then go naked into your yard in the 20-degree weather for half an hour. 
Patient: But then I'll get pneumonia! 
Doctor: Right. And *that*, we can cure.

==Ridden Out of Town on a Rail==
President Lincoln one evening at the White House was asked "How does it feel to be President of the United States?" "You have heard," said Lincoln, "about the man tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail? A man in the crowd asked him how he liked it, and his reply was, 'If it wasn't for the honor of the thing, I would rather walk.'" I need to find a good source.

==Grad Students without Original Thoughts==
I'm really depressed. I just went to my Department Chairman and said, "I'm depressed. You know my PhD student, Sam Jones? He just told me my seminar presentation was the worst he'd ever heard". The Chairman's reply: "Don't worry about Jones, he doesn't have an original thought in his head, and I very much fear he'll never come up with a dissertation topic. He just repeats what he hears all the other people in the department saying."

I'm really depressed. I just went to my Department Chairman and said, "I'm depressed. You know my PhD student, Sam Jones? He gave his practice job talk today, and it was the worst I've ever heard". The Chairman's reply: "Yeah, I sympathize. Jone is very good at learning what he's taught, but he's totally unoriginal. He just copies what he sees."

Morality Laws

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==Alcohol==
*Reading the scene with the fat midget Englishman in a colored bar in Portis's novel, Narwood, I had an idea. What if, to encourage social interaction, we enacted a law saying that beers under $3, wines under $20, and liquor under $40 could not be sold in liquor stores?

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*[[Bad Supreme Court Writing As Exemplified in ''Ford v. Montana'' (2021)]]
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*[[Bankruptcy--Skeel on Christian Bankruptcy]]
*[[Equity-- Why Not Have Enough?]] and [[Euclid]] and [[Evaluation in Organizations]]
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*[[An Old Man's Stories]] and [[Ostracism in Japan]] and [[Outliers]]
*[[Regulation Book]]
*[[Riker Book]]
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*[[Talks: Polarization and Splitting a Pie (January 19, 2021)]]
*[[Notes for My Book-in-Progress on Writing, Talking, Listening and Thinking]]
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*[[Notes for My Book-in-Progress on Writing, Talking, Listening and Thinking]]. See also [[Coding]] and [[Tables of Numbers]] and [[Figures and Diagrams]] and [[Social media]] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/c-p-snow-good-judgement-and-winston-churchill/ C. P. Snow, Good Judgement and Winston Churchill ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/indefinite-pronouns/ Indefinite Pronouns ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/writing-right-right-away/ Writing Right Right Now. ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/style-manual/ Writing Style. ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/rewriting-abstracts/ Rewriting Abstracts ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/diagrams/ Diagrams. ] and [[Careful Writing Requires Work]].
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==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

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==Anonymous==
*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan,"as quoted in ''A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own. "

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain".This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan.

It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.

Women will always and forever rely on men.}}

{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==Adams, Scott==
[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

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==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Andreessen, Mark==
"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.” ― Isaac Asimov

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

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==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
"“eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

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==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

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==CANNON, William.==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*[https://mailchi.mp/inpolicy/2022-and-chestertons-fence-488333?e=bda54c6080 "Chesterton's Fence" ]:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:Chesterton is not alone in the observation. It is found throughout our literature and theatre. In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to famously challenge his reformist son-in-law. The poet Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in “Mending Wall.” Scripture is replete with its warning, beginning in Proverbs 22:28, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone that your fathers have placed.” }}

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*{{Quotation|
If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization.}}

*{{Quotation|
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
--Autobiography}}

*{{Quotation|
We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|
My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

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== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
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1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [--Twitter, 2021]}}

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==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in First THings, 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
{{Quotation|
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, The Information)}}

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

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==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

==Enzensbergert==
{{Quotation|
So we belong to a class that neither controls nor owns what matters, the famous means of production, and it does not produce what also matters, the famous surplus value (or perhaps produces it only indirectly and incidentally . . . ).}}

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==Faulkner, William==
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

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==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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== Rob Henderson==
“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/

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==Hippocrates==
"There are ticks in woods now." Why did God create ticks? Perhaps the tick will be justified some day like the flea, by a poem. Ars longa, vita brevis. With a zero discount rate, a good poem justifies even the Black Death. https://buff.ly/3dpjpHE
10:29 AM · Apr 18, 2021·Buffer

Professor Eric Rasmusen
Replying to
@erasmuse
I rightly used "Ars longa, vita brevis",to digress, but it has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."
Ars longa, vita brevis - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

Professor Eric Rasmusen
@erasmuse
The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
{{Quotation|
(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk” 
(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
}}
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Long, Earl (Senator from Louisiana)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan."

--Book IV of The Prince}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

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==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

*I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

*Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats

*An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup

*A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

==Prince Philip==
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

“It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

“If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

“It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

“It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/
== ==

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

== ==

==Sailer, Steve==
*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*{{Quotation| How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general.}} [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world.’

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king.
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” To understand all is to forgive all. 
*[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

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==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html
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==Wang, John==
@j0hnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

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==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

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Joshua Katz

2022-05-27T23:48:46Z

Erasmuse: /* 2022 */

==2021==
*[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/27/8_at_princeton_assail_false_portrayal_of_prof_as_racist_146631.html Eight professors, 7 anonymous, criticize the Administration], October 27, 2021.

*[https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2021/02/alumni-allegations-princeton-joshua-katz "Alumni allege history of inappropriate conduct with female students by Princeton professor Joshua Katz,"] Marie-Rose Sheinerman and Evelyn Doskoch, ''The Princetonian,''
(February 4, 2021) but see the harsh criticisms of that article at [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/editorial-mccarthyism-daily-princetonian "Editorial: "McCarthyism at the Daily Princetonian",] Princetonians for Free Speech and the [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/letter-editor-which-daily-princetonian-has-ignored Elizabeth Bogan letter] that the Princetonian wouldn't publish.

*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/how-low-did-princeton-go-joshua-t-katz-racism/ "How Low Did Princeton Go?,"] Rod Dreher, ''The American Conservative'' (September 15, 2021).

*[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/10/my-confessions "My Confessions,"] Joshua Katz, ''First Things'' (October 2021).
{{Quotation|
Early in my career, however, I made a grave mistake, by which I mean something beyond the bounds of “merely” bad behavior, something sinful: I had a relationship with a student whom I was at the same time teaching. It was a consensual relationship between adults; it took place at a time when Princeton’s rules permitted students and faculty to engage in sexual contact, provided there was no pedagogical or supervisory conflict; and there was no Title IX violation. Still, it was a sin.

It is a sin I lived with every day. It ate away at me. But I lived with it alone. Alone, that is, until weeks after the #MeToo movement took off in late 2017, when an anonymous complainant—not the woman herself—informed Princeton about the more-than-a-decade-old affair. The result was an internal investigation, which culminated in a one-year suspension without pay.

Even before I knew that my life was about to change, I had begun reading theology and occasionally attending church (in that order—once a bookish academic, always a bookish academic). The fact is that I was sad, I was making a mess of my personal life, and I needed help.

Then I learned of the investigation, learned that I would likely be suspended, and found myself in need of help on an entirely different level. I was on sabbatical in London at the time, and my future mother-in-law—I had only just begun dating her daughter, a former (yes, former) student of mine who was now at Cambridge—gave me the following firm instruction: Get myself to the Temple Church, whose Master (senior cleric), the Rev. Robin Griffith-Jones, she had heard preach a few years earlier in New York.
...
Two reporters at the main student newspaper spent seven months digging into my private life. Surmising that I had been suspended, they published an article about me in the first week of February that “threw away basic journalistic standards” (in the words of Princetonians for Free Speech) in its reliance on hearsay, innuendo, and hostile anonymous sources. }}

==2022==
He was fired. [https://nypost.com/2022/05/20/princeton-president-recommends-firing-professor-who-was-under-sexual-misconduct-probe/amp/ New York Post] and [https://paw.princeton.edu/article/princeton-trustees-fire-classics-professor-joshua-katz Princeton Paw] an d[https://academeblog.org/2022/05/24/in-defense-of-joshua-katz/ Academe] (NAS); [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/us/princeton-fires-joshua-katz.html New York Times] (pro-Katz!); [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/princeton-president-recommends-firing-professor-in-sexual-misconduct-probe/ar-AAXxCbx?ocid=uxbndlbing the Washington Post] is anti-Katz, about the only article I could find against him and thus useful. Princetonians for Free Speech [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/statement-princetonians-free-speech-princetons-firing-classics-professor-joshua-katz-award-winning defended him].

*His [https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-princeton-did-to-my-husband?s=r wife's extremely good article] at Bari Weiss's Substack.
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Quotations

2022-05-27T23:45:25Z

Erasmuse: /* Samuelson, Paul */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

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==Anonymous==
*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan,"as quoted in ''A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own. "

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain".This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan.

It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.

Women will always and forever rely on men.}}

{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==Adams, Scott==
[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

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==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Andreessen, Mark==
"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.” ― Isaac Asimov

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

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==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
"“eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

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==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

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==CANNON, William.==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*[https://mailchi.mp/inpolicy/2022-and-chestertons-fence-488333?e=bda54c6080 "Chesterton's Fence" ]:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:Chesterton is not alone in the observation. It is found throughout our literature and theatre. In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to famously challenge his reformist son-in-law. The poet Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in “Mending Wall.” Scripture is replete with its warning, beginning in Proverbs 22:28, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone that your fathers have placed.” }}

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*{{Quotation|
If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization.}}

*{{Quotation|
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
--Autobiography}}

*{{Quotation|
We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|
My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

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== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [--Twitter, 2021]}}

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==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in First THings, 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
{{Quotation|
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, The Information)}}

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

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==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

==Enzensbergert==
{{Quotation|
So we belong to a class that neither controls nor owns what matters, the famous means of production, and it does not produce what also matters, the famous surplus value (or perhaps produces it only indirectly and incidentally . . . ).}}

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==Faulkner, William==
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

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==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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== Rob Henderson==
“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/

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==Hippocrates==
"There are ticks in woods now." Why did God create ticks? Perhaps the tick will be justified some day like the flea, by a poem. Ars longa, vita brevis. With a zero discount rate, a good poem justifies even the Black Death. https://buff.ly/3dpjpHE
10:29 AM · Apr 18, 2021·Buffer

Professor Eric Rasmusen
Replying to
@erasmuse
I rightly used "Ars longa, vita brevis",to digress, but it has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."
Ars longa, vita brevis - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

Professor Eric Rasmusen
@erasmuse
The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
{{Quotation|
(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk” 
(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
}}
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Long, Earl (Senator from Louisiana)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan."

--Book IV of The Prince}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

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==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

*I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

*Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats

*An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup

*A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

==Prince Philip==
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

“It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

“If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

“It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

“It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/
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==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

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==Sailer, Steve==
*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*{{Quotation| How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general.}} [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world.’

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [ https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king.
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” To understand all is to forgive all. 
*[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

== ==

==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

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== ==
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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html
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== ==

==Wang, John==
@j0hnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

== ==
==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

*************************** -->

Quotations

2022-05-27T23:45:02Z

Erasmuse: /* Samuelson, Paul */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

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==Anonymous==
*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan,"as quoted in ''A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own. "

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain".This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan.

It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.

Women will always and forever rely on men.}}

{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==Adams, Scott==
[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

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==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Andreessen, Mark==
"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.” ― Isaac Asimov

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

== ==
==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
"“eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

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==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

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== ==
==CANNON, William.==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*[https://mailchi.mp/inpolicy/2022-and-chestertons-fence-488333?e=bda54c6080 "Chesterton's Fence" ]:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:Chesterton is not alone in the observation. It is found throughout our literature and theatre. In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to famously challenge his reformist son-in-law. The poet Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in “Mending Wall.” Scripture is replete with its warning, beginning in Proverbs 22:28, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone that your fathers have placed.” }}

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*{{Quotation|
If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization.}}

*{{Quotation|
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
--Autobiography}}

*{{Quotation|
We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|
My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

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== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [--Twitter, 2021]}}

== ==

==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in First THings, 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
{{Quotation|
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, The Information)}}

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

== ==

==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

==Enzensbergert==
{{Quotation|
So we belong to a class that neither controls nor owns what matters, the famous means of production, and it does not produce what also matters, the famous surplus value (or perhaps produces it only indirectly and incidentally . . . ).}}

== ==

==Faulkner, William==
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

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==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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== Rob Henderson==
“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/

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==Hippocrates==
"There are ticks in woods now." Why did God create ticks? Perhaps the tick will be justified some day like the flea, by a poem. Ars longa, vita brevis. With a zero discount rate, a good poem justifies even the Black Death. https://buff.ly/3dpjpHE
10:29 AM · Apr 18, 2021·Buffer

Professor Eric Rasmusen
Replying to
@erasmuse
I rightly used "Ars longa, vita brevis",to digress, but it has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."
Ars longa, vita brevis - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

Professor Eric Rasmusen
@erasmuse
The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
{{Quotation|
(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk” 
(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
}}
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Long, Earl (Senator from Louisiana)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan."

--Book IV of The Prince}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

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==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

*I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

*Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats

*An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup

*A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

==Prince Philip==
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

“It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

“If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

“It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

“It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/
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==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

== ==

==Sailer, Steve==
*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*{{Quotation| How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general.}} [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world.’

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [ https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king.
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” To understand all is to forgive all. 
*[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

== ==

==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html
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== ==

==Wang, John==
@j0hnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

== ==
==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

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Articles to read

2022-05-27T16:32:29Z

Erasmuse: /* Easy Reading */

==Easy Reading==
*[https://www-cambridge-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/core/journals/macroeconomic-dynamics/article/an-interview-with-paul-a-samuelson/27D1B2FC3BDBD93E211E5210A2D911CD Samuelson on postwar economic history of thought] (2003 or so)

*[https://razib.substack.com/p/hungarians-as-the-ghost-of-the-magyar?s=w Rzib on Magyars]

*''Chessman v. Nainby,'' 93 Eng. Rep. 819, 821 (1726) (find it)

*[https://www.scribd.com/document/49102936/Leo-Strauss-Remarks-at-Farewell-to-E-C-Banfield-on-Departure-from-Chicago-1959 Strauss on Banfield (1959)]READ

*Dubois, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2292742?seq=1 article praising Hitler]

*[https://reason.com/volokh/2022/01/21/will-the-en-banc-9th-circuit-extend-the-second-amendments-losing-streak-to-51-cases/ Gun control 9th Circuit faux en banc opinion]READ

*[https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Murray%20Intelligence.pdf Murray on going to college] (after his book was publisehd)

*[https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/how-to-save-marriage-in-america/283732/ Rich peopel get married] Atlatnic, (2022)

*[https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2022/03/17/unmasking-the-campaign-against-white-supremacy-culture-in-science/ "Unmasking the Campaign against “White Supremacy Culture” in Science"] (2022) Minding the Campus.

*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017.

*[https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/default+domain/10.1177%2F15291006211051956-FREE/full#_i28 "The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works,"] Steven L. Franconeri, Lace M. Padilla, Priti Shah (2021).

*[https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/18/spygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump/ pygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump], Margot Cleveland, March 2022.

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4060431 Vischer on Christian Nationalism being opposed to the rule of law,] probably a stupid article worth reading to understand the liberal mindset.

*[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/21/literatures-most-controversial-nobel-laureate PeterHandke, literatures-most-controversial-nobel-laureate ] New Yorker (2022).

*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in ''Harvard Magazine,'' November–December 2003.]

*[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-paleogenomics.html DNA in the South Pacific]

*[https://quillette.com/2020/01/04/build-your-own-intellectual-oasis/ Bill Frezza "Build Your Own Intellectual Oasis,"]

*[https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.4.121 Sandel JEP on altruisma and economics]

*Mann’s most important commentary on Wagner was an address to the Goethe Society of Munich in February 1933 on the fiftieth anniversary of the composer’s death. Entitled 'The Sufferings and Greatness of Richard Wagner',

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3908595 New Formalism], Paul Miller, Notre Dame.

*[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/afghanistan-military-officials-distracted-woke-issues?fbclid=IwAR1CNfgX_YU7tbty4qJVfzYlbTkXHItaF2fcWvsCWXB-vrPEsJdf3gU21ok Afghanistan-military-officials-distracted-woke-issues?]

*[https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-1392/185344/20210729162610813_Dobbs%20Amicus%20FINAL%20PDFA.pdf Jonathan Mitchell] amicus to SC on an abortion case in 2021]

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3839768 Salop on vertical merger guidelines.] Looks wrong; if so, needs refuting.

*[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/peer-review-request-depression Astral Codex Ten on Depression]

*[https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/boxplots.pdf Boxplots]

*[https://www.res.org.uk/resources-page/res2021-lunchtime-chat-the-state-of-economic-science.html Coyle and Tirole podcast] (2021)

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_languages_with_grammatical_gender#Hebrew "Gender_neutrality_in_languages_with_grammatical_gender,"]

*[https://www.irishtimes.com/news/zimbabwe-s-banana-left-legacy-of-disgrace-1.392631 "Zimbabwe's Banana left legacy of disgrace," Mark Steyn, Nov 17, 2003, and the [https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1395491031420915713 ''Economist'' obituary], and [https://nehandaradio.com/2020/11/18/canaan-bananas-son-michael-collapses-and-dies-in-the-uk/ his son], the fraudster.

* [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3714750 Sunstein's paper] on Hayek and pscyhology.

*[https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=261087081122066127114071098095108071052087053042027060078069091126091092081027009022019114028045009056121073013118004101000027098080071048000104079091115023106017109028073060091097102074117105122030115083106076023123064126091118031027092015115006071020&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE "UNDERSTANDING THE MISUNDERSTOOD: MAPPING THE SCOPE OF A DEITY’S RIGHTS IN INDIA ,"] Anujay Shrivastava & Yashowardhan Tiwari :
"It has been recognized that an idol of a Hindu Temple is a juridical person
or juristic entity18 and is often commonly referred to as a “deity”.19 The title
to properties and endowments can vest in deities such as a Hindu idol, who
has to act through a human agency (such as the Shebait).20 A Hindu idol not
only has the power of suing and being sued, but can be treated as an
“individual” who can be assessed for tax liability."

*[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-05/how-jeff-bezos-beat-the-tabloids-the-untold-story-of-money-sex-and-power "The Untold Story of How Jeff Bezos Beat the Tabloids: When a gossip rag went after the CEO, he retaliated with the brutal, brilliant efficiency he used to build his business empire. In an exclusive excerpt from the new book Amazon Unbound comes an unrivaled tale of money, sex, and power."] ''Bloomberg.''

*[https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-types-apologies-that-arent-apologies-at-all/ "6 Types of Apologies That Aren't Apologies at All,"] ''Cracked'' (2012).

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3836060 "The Islamic Waqf: Instrument of Unequal Security, Worldly and Otherworldly," 29 Apr 2021, Fatih Serkant Adiguzel and Timur Kuran.

*[https://www.connecticutmag.com/issues/features/how-the-coming-of-a-conservative-midwestern-college-divided-a-small-ct-town/article_3b86fb78-e3d6-11ea-8eda-53fc5dea576b.html "How the coming of a conservative Midwestern college divided a small CT town: S. Prestley Blake, the co-founder of the Friendly's restaurant chain, donated his Somers estate to Michigan's Hillsdale College. The school has grand plans to open an adult-learning center on the property, whose centerpiece is a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. But questions about the school's religious bona fides which pushed the deal through have left a bad taste in some residents' mouths,"] ''Connecticut Magazine,'' Christopher Hoffman Aug 26, 2020.

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1558729 "John W. Tukey: His Life and Professional Contributions," David R. Brillinger, ''The Annals of Statistics'' , Dec., 2002, Vol. 30, No. 6 (Dec., 2002), pp. 1535-1575.

*G. A. Cohen, [https://link-springer-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/content/pdf/10.1023/A:1009836317343.pdf "If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re so Rich?,"] ''Journal of Ethics'' 4, no. 1–2 (2000): 1–26.

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1147700 “Labor Racketeering: The Mafia and the Unions,” ]James B. Jacobs and Ellen Peters, ''Crime and Justice,'' 30 (2003), 229-282 (54 pages) .

*[https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/03/advice-on-writing/ "Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers: Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature."]

*[https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/A_Human%27s_Guide_to_Words "A Human's Guide to Words,"]

*Ramseyer, JM (1995). "Oko v. Sako: Kyogen and litigation in medieval Japan". Law in Japan (0458-8584), 25 , p. 135.

*Legarre, S. (2007). "The historical background of the police power. ''University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law,'' 9(3), 745-796.

*https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/

==Hard Reading==
*[https://outofmydepths.com/2020/12/31/a-divine-and-supernatural-light-by-jonathan-edwards/ Divine Light] sermon of Jonathan Edwards

*[https://osf.io/ygw8e/ Andrew Little on Persuasion] (2022)

*[https://www.fox.temple.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Efron-2020-JASA-wdiscussion.pdf Efron 2020 survey]

*[https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=167106127002030067067102022103008089022020095078034062005090091014029070004000025117052006044120112038124031097114016071023096041091082060074091011066016103123004006003112012121117083123004106024016066095085019066117021026127102002108097124002084&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE John Lott on 2020 election] and
[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/No-evidence-for-systematic-voter-fraud%3A-A-guide-to-Eggers-Garro/1fe01cea7962e678037725baa837c3dcbaa14d9c Eggers and Grimmer and somone] (2021) on the other side.

*[https://notesonmathematics.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/real-numbers-are-uncountable/ Cantor's proof that the real numbers are uncountable]

*[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.09328.pdf Bergstrom et al. on diamond plots vs. rectangle plots]

*[http://econphd.econwiki.com/notes.htm Lecture Notes Online] link page.

*[https://sites.duke.edu/collardwexler/files/2015/01/predation_sugar_industry.pdf "Predation and its rate of return: the sugar ndustry, 1887-1914], RAND Journal, David Genesove, Wallace P. Mullin .

*[https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=933078022002122097005123100109005112015082062038033030120099095096069090097009089085034019003061029120125092110013095020076065021059074001067096066002024126122071004052039021006022016108112118119031025081011067015075003014011088107102110110122020092025&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE "The Economic Geography of Global Warming,"] José Luis Cruz and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (OCTOBER 2021).

*[https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034731 "Executive Functions Predict the Success of Top-Soccer Players,] Torbjörn Vestberg,Roland Gustafson,Liselotte Maurex,Martin Ingvar,Predrag Petrovic , April 4, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034731.

*[https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7350252#page=11 "Usable Resistan.t/Robust Techniques of Analysis,"] John W. Tukey (1975).

*[https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance,"] ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', D. R. Cox (2020).

*Henry Kyburg, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30226172 "Subjective Probability: Criticisms, Reflections, and Problems"] .

*Henry Kyburg, "Are there Degrees of Belief?" ''Journal of Applied Logic,'' 1(3-4), 139-149, 2003.

*Henry Kyburg, "Keynes as Philosopher" ''History of Political Economy,'' 27 (Supplement): 7–32, 1995.

*Dostoevsky, [https://rvb.ru/dostoevski/01text/vol14/03journal_81/337.htm "II. ВОЗМОЖНО ЛЬ У НАС СПРАШИВАТЬ ЕВРОПЕЙСКИХ ФИНАНСОВ?"] probably use Google translate.

*[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973533.2020.1756817 "Student Evaluations of Teaching Encourages Poor Teaching and Contributes to Grade Inflation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis,"] Wolfgang Stroebe, ''Basic and Applied Social Psychology,'' 2020.

*[https://web.stanford.edu/~rehall/HallJones2007.pdf "THE VALUE OF LIFE AND THE RISE IN HEALTH SPENDING,"] ROBERT E. HALL AND CHARLES I. JONES (2007).

*[https://www-jstor-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/stable/pdf/43654017.pdf "How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression,"] GARY KING, JENNIFER PAN and MARGARET E. ROBERTS ''The American Political Science Review'', May 2013, Vol. 107, No. 2 (May 2013),326-343 .

*[https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA12675 "Sampling‐Based versus Design‐Based Uncertainty in Regression Analysis,"] Alberto Abadie Susan Athey Guido W. Imbens Jeffrey M. Wooldridge 05 February 2020 .

*[https://journals-sagepub-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00019.x "Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth After 35 Years Uncovering Antecedents for the Development of Math-Science Expertise,"] (2006) David Lubinski and Camilla Persson Benbow.

*[https://www.dropbox.com/s/o120sormtbw9w10/fraud_extended_public.pdf No Evidence for Voter Fraud: A Guide to Statistical Claims About the 2020 Election"] Andrew C. Eggersa, Haritz Garrob, and Justin GrimmercFebruary 3, 2021.

*[https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/02/recent-evidence-on-dysgenic-trends-february-2021/ "Recent evidence on dysgenic trends (February 2021) "]

*[http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/standardizing7.pdf "Scaling regression inputs by dividing by two standard deviations," ]STATISTICS IN MEDICINE Statist. Med. 2008; 27:2865–2873 Published online 24 October 2007 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/sim.3107. Andrew Gelman.

*[https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20170279 "Religion, Division of Labor, and Conflict: Anti-semitism in Germany over 600 Years"], Sascha O. Becker Luigi Pascali

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3757669| "If You Grant It, They Will Come: The Enduring Legal Legacy of Migratory Divorce"] 61 Pages 22 Jan 2021, Michael J. Higdon.

*Henry E. Smith, [http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/Smith_1051.pdf "Equity as Meta-Law, "] 12/2020; forthcoming in Yale Law Journal.
Abstract: With the merger of law and equity almost complete, the idea of equity as a special part of our legal system or a mode of decision-making has fallen out of view. This Article argues that much of equity is best understood as performing a vital function. Equity and related parts of the law solve complex and uncertain problems—including interdependent behavior and misuses of legal rules by opportunists—and do so in a characteristic fashion: as meta-law. From unconscionability to injunctions, equity makes reference to, supplements, and sometimes overrides the result that law would otherwise produce, while primary law operates without reference to equity. Equity operates on a domain of fraud, accident, and mistake, and employs triggers such as bad faith and disproportionate hardship to toggle into a “meta”-mode of more open-ended scrutiny. This Article provides a theoretical account of how a hybrid law, consisting of relatively simple and general primary-level law and relatively intense and directed second-order equity can regulate behavior better through these specialized modes than would homogeneous law alone. The Article tests this theory on the ostensibly most unpromising aspects of equity, the traditional equitable maxims, as well as equitable fraud, defenses, and remedies. Equity as meta-law sheds light on how the fusion of law and equity spawned multifactor balancing tests, polarized interpretation, and led to the confusion of equity with standards, discretion, purely public law, and “mere” remedies. Viewing equity as meta-law also improves on the tradeoff between formalism and contextualism and ultimately promotes the rule of law.

*[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e6033a4ea02d801f37e15bb/t/6008c722ea949843b4a024e4/1611188002639/nber_portfolio_keynote_paper.pdf COCHRANE: ] MUST READ

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2798802 "The Religious Commissions of the Bakongo,"] Wyatt MacGaffey ''Man'' , Mar., 1970, New Series, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Mar., 1970), pp. 27-38

*Fiva, J H, and D M Smith (2018), “Political dynasties and the incumbency advantage in party-centered environments”, ''American Political Science Review'' 112(3): 1–7.

*Folke, O, T Persson and J Rickne (2017), “Dynastic political rents? Economic benefits to relatives of top politicians”, ''Economic Journal'' 127(605): 495–517.

*Acemoglu, D, G De Feo, G D De Luca and G Russo (2020), “War, socialism and the rise of Fascism: An empirical exploration”, NBER Working Paper 27854.

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==Political Economy==
*[https://www-nber-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/papers/w11397 "Equilibrium Impotence: Why the States and Not the American National Government Financed Economic Development in the Antebellum Era,"] Wallis and Weingast.

*[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272714000929 "The cost of racial animus on a black candidate: Evidence using Google search data?"] Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, 2014, Pages 26-40, ''Journal of Public Economics.''

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/43669490 "The Faces of Judicial Independence: Democratic versus Bureaucratic Accountability in Judicial Selection, Training, and Promotion in South Korea and Taiwan,"] NEIL CHISHOLM ''The American Journal of Comparative Law'' , FALL 2014, Vol. 62, No. 4 (FALL 2014), pp. 893-949

*Cagé, J, A Dagorret, P Grosjean, and S Jha (2020b), [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3753869 “Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France,”] CEPR Discussion Paper no. 15613.

*Lacroix, J, P-G Méon and K Oosterlinck (2019), [https://www.eh.net/eha/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Oosterlinck.pdf “A positive effect of political dynasties: The case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act”,] CEPR Discussion Paper 13871.

*[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2019.03.002 "The Paradox of Power: Principal-agent problems and administrative capacity in Imperial China (and other absolutist regimes)"], Debin Ma Jared Rubin Journal of Comparative Economics Volume 47, Issue 2, June 2019, Pages 277-294 Journal of Comparative Economics.

==BOOKS==
*Machete Season, about Rwanda massacres

==Other==
*Dal Bó, E, P Dal Bó and J Snyder (2009), “Political dynasties”, Review of Economic Studies 76(1): 115–42.

*Ma, D (2004). "Growth, institutions and knowledge: a review and reflection on the historiography of 18th–20th century China". Australian economic history review (0004-8992), 44 (3), p. 259.

*"From Divergence to Convergence: Reevaluating the History Behind China's Economic
Boom," Loren Brandt, Debin Ma and Thomas G. Rawski, Journal of Economic Literature , MARCH 2014, Vol. 52, No. 1 pp.
45-123. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24433858

*States and Development: Early Modern India, China, and the Great Divergence
Bishnupriya Gupta Debin Ma Tirthankar Roy
20 September 2016.

*LAW AND ECONOMY IN
TRADITIONAL CHINA: A "LEGAL
ORIGIN" PERSPECTIVE ON THE
GREAT DIVERGENCE,"
Debin Ma , https://personal.lse.ac.uk/MAD1/ma_pdf_files/DP8385.pdf.

"Foreign Education, Ideology, and the
Fall of Imperial China,"
James Kai-sing KUNG† Alina Yue WANG‡
https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2021conference/program/pdf/13683_paper_dhQ7DbF9.pdf?display. This paper is an example of one with links between text mentions of papers and the reference section. But not two-way.

"Millet, Rice, and Isolation:
Origins and Persistence of the World’s Most Enduring Mega-State,"
James Kai-sing Kung=
, Omer ¨ Ozak
, Louis Putterman§
, and Shuang Shi¶
December 20, 2020. https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2021conference/program/pdf/13681_paper_96AHSRfe.pdf?display . Covered in the Frieden Tuesday Lunch.
{{Quotation| We propose and empirically test a theory for the endogenous formation and persistence of large
states, using China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies and their distance to each other set off a race between autochthonous state-building
projects and the expansion of neighboring (proto-)states. Using a novel dataset on the Chinese
state’s historical presence, the timing of agricultural adoption, social complexity, climate, and geography across 1×1 degree grid cells in East Asia, we provide empirical support for this hypothesis.
Specifically, we find that on average, cells that adopted agriculture earlier or were close to the earliest archaic state in East Asia (Erlitou) remained longer under Sinitic control. In contrast, earlier
adoption of agriculture decreased the persistent control of the Chinese state in cells farther than
2.8 weeks of travel from Erlitou.}}
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https://twitter.com/BrilliantMaps/status/1449114106200535041

==NEW WORDS NEEDED==
*{{Quotation|I taught misrepresentation/fraud yesterday; and midway through our analysis of the famous case Vokes v. Arthur Murray dance studio, I realized that the gullible, pathetic, 2-left-footed widow in that case -- Audrey Vokes -- was younger than I am now. Confused }}

:{{Quotation|Replying to @ProfEricTalley}}
:{{Quotation|If I were the mainstream media, I would now report that Columbia University admits that it teaches misrepresentation and fraud. }}
:{{Quotation|(What is the word for that self-reflexive sentence?-someone who fraudulently accuses someone else of fraud? Useful term for Russiagate too.)}}

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==Acrid==
Unpleasantly sharp, pungent, or bitter.

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==Ad hominem==
{{Quotation| Yes...when JMac made a statement about the nature of the Son of God that was very, very off and he publicly acknowledged it before the entire world. Let's take a peak at your life and see what we can find. What are you hiding Dennis? Unbelievable. The level of hypocrisy is sick.

The sin of "Dennis Swanson" is a different subject, and not as interesting.
There should be a name for this.
"Ad hominem" doesn't quite fit.
Nor "ad hominem libellum"
Nor "ad hominem innuedum"More like "ad hominem conjecturum" But my grammar may be off.}}

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==Adiaphora==
The plural of adiaphoron, a thing that exists outside of moral law, neither condemned nor approved by morality; “indifferent things,” neither right nor wrong, spiritually neutral.

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==Anscombe's Quartet==
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet The Wikipedia article on it.]
<html><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Anscombe%27s_quartet_3.svg/850px-Anscombe%27s_quartet_3.svg.png" height= 120 align=left></html>

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== Antifaschistischer Schutzwall ==
"Anti-fascist protection dike" or "rampart", the Berlin Wall's official name in East Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall

==Arcsine(x)==
In the unit circle, "the arc whose sine is x" is the same as "the angle whose sine is x", because the length of the arc of the circle is a measure of the angle. In Mexico the functions was also called angsin, meaning "angle whose sine is..." https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/33175/etymology-of-arccos-arcsin-arctan

==Argumentum ad Verecundiam==
The fallacy of argument from inappropriate authority: an appeal to the testimony of an authority outside of the authority's special field of expertise. https://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/authority.html

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==[[Baizhuo]]==
{{Quotation| WIKIPEDIA: Baizuo (/ˈbaɪˌdzwɔː/, /baɪˈzwoʊ/; Chinese: 白左; pinyin: báizuǒ, Mandarin pronunciation: [pǎi.tswò], literally White Left)[1][2] is a Chinese neologism and political epithet used to refer to Western leftist ideologies primarily espoused by white leftists.[3] The term baizuo is related to the term shèngmǔ (圣母, 聖母, literally "Blessed Mother") or shèngmǔbiǎo (圣母婊, 聖母婊, literally "Blessed Mother of Bitch"), a sarcastic reference to those whose political opinions are perceived as being guided by emotions or a hypocritical show of selflessness and empathy.

The term baizuo was apparently coined in a 2010 article published on Renren Network by user Li Shuo, entitled The Fake Morality of the Western White Left and the Chinese Patriotic Scientists (西方白左和中国爱国科学家的伪道德), initially used as a general critique of certain socialist values in the American left.[3] No further use of the term is known until 2013, where on Chinese forum Zhihu through 2013–2015, the term evolved to criticize some people among the left who seemingly advocate for positive slogans like peace and equality to boast their sense of moral superiority, but are ignorant of real-world consequences, and utilize destructive behavior like political sacrifice and identity politics.

Substantial use in Chinese Internet culture began in early 2016, at first at MIT BBS, a bulletin board system used by many Chinese in the U.S., during the 2016 United States presidential election.}}

==Beautilicious==

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==Cadence==
{{Quotation| [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cadence#English From Wiktionary:] 
1. The act or state of declining or sinking. 
2. Balanced, rhythmic flow. 
3. The measure or beat of movement. 
4. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound. 
5. (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation. 
6. (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. 
7. (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.}}

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==Camel case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with capitals, as in FirstSecondThird. See also: pothole case, kebab case.

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==Chesterton's Fence==
{{Quotation| “In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”
Chesterton is not alone in the observation. It is found throughout our literature and theatre. In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to famously challenge his reformist son-in-law. The poet Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in “Mending Wall.” Scripture is replete with its warning, beginning in Proverbs 22:28, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone that your fathers have placed.” }}--[https://mailchi.mp/inpolicy/2022-and-chestertons-fence-488333?e=bda54c6080 "Chesterton's Fence"]

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==Combatativeness==
"Combativeness" is a word. So is "combatative".. : Is "combatativeness" an existing word? Should it be? Is it better than "combativeness"?

==CHYMPS==
{{Quotation| CHYMPS is the acronym for the top political science PhD programs in the United States. It is the political science PhD equivalent to HYS (Harvard, Yale, Stanford) for law schools and HSW (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton) for business schools. CHYMPS stands for: 
Cal-Berkeley 
Harvard 
Yale 
Michigan 
Princeton 
Stanford.

[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a443ef9dd190e688bf05648a48e463e7 image of network]

The acronym was originally Hypes-Bomb (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT) as a shorthand for the top political science departments (perhaps pejorative, as in overhyped but famous political science schools).

Hypes-Bomb then morphed to CHYMPS since it’s catchier.

CHYMPS then became the updated HYP as an acronym for the most prestigious schools in the US generally (see Urban Dictionary entry from 2009), though it’s causing some confusion among Columbia, Cornell, Caltech, and University of Chicago fans who feel that “C” should stand for them, not Cal-Berkeley (just a bias against public schools IMO, since Cal is clearly superior to the other “C” schools, at least at the graduate level). 
--https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-CHYMPS-Cal-Berkeley-Harvard-Yale-MIT-Princeton-and-Stanford }}

==Contradictorily==
"In selling stock, the filer is not ''contradictorily'' asserting it is solvent; the *buyers* are saying that."

== Crazytown==
"I feel like I'm in crazytown when I express distress about taxation - literally people forcibly taking away your property - and ppl act like I'm the crazy one." [https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1386021135112839171 A tweet] (2021).

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==[[Deificatio]]==
"Deificatio hominis" or just "deificatio" is the Latin term used in theology for the idea of a man trying to become more like God. It might be exactly the same idea as "sanctification"; I'm not sure. Often people say "deification", which is bad terminology. It already has a main meaning, and that main meaning is completely different, almost opposite, since it is to make something into an idol, treating it as God. The idea here is not to set yourself up falsely as God, but to make yourself slightly more like God and diminish your own contrary will. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosis_(Eastern_Christian_theology)#:~:text=Theosis%2C%20or%20deification%20(deification%20may,and%20the%20Byzantine%20Catholic%20Churches. Greek term “Theosis”] is better, maybe; I don’t grasp the Eastern Orthodox concept very well. “Sanctification” is good. “Divinization” is okay, but sounds too much like “divining”, as in fortune-telling.

==Degringolade==
A rapid decline or deterioration in a situation.

==Derangement==
From [https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1168597790127284224 Twitter]: "A permutation that leaves no element in-place is called a 'derangement'."

==Devolution==
Devolution can mean either the reverse of evolution or the devolving of power, two quite distinct meanings.

==Doctrine of Double Effect==
"The doctrine (or principle) of double effect is often invoked to explain the permissibility of an action that causes a serious harm, such as the death of a human being, as a side effect of promoting some good end. According to the principle of double effect, sometimes it is permissible to cause a harm as a side effect (or “double effect”) of bringing about a good result even though it would not be permissible to cause such a harm as a means to bringing about the same good end." [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-effect/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20principle%20of,about%20the%20same%20good%20end. "Doctrine of Double Effect,"] Stanford dictionary.

==Drafty Version of a Paper==
“Very drafty version”: I like that, and will use it myself. You eventually will insulate it from criticism. "Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of State
Formation in Europe, " Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University, August 31, 2020.

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==Enantiomer==
"Enantiomers, also known as optical isomers, are two stereoisomers that are related to each other by a reflection: they are mirror images of each other that are non-superposable. Human hands are a macroscopic analog of this." --[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoisomerism#:~:text=Enantiomers%2C%20also%20known%20as%20optical,opposite%20configuration%20in%20the%20other "Steroisomerism,"] ''Wikipedia.''

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==Enunciative and Enunciatory==
I think these mean "enunciating well", but I haven't been able to find out, googling.

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==Epiphany==
One meaning in Greek of ἐπιφάνεια is, from [https://www.studylight.org/lexicons/eng/greek/2015.html Liddel-Scott-Jones, ]
" in war, sudden appearance of an enemy, Aen.Tact. 31.8, Plb. 1.54.2, Ascl. Tact. 12.10(pl.), Onos. 22.3 (pl.)."

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==The Fallacy of Equivocation==
Using a term with one meaning in the premise, and another in the conclusion. [http://fallacyoftheweek.professorsykes.com/fallacy-types/equivocation/ From Professorsykes.com:] 
“Noisy children are a real pain. Two aspirin will make any pain go away. Therefore, two aspirin will make noisy children go away.”

==Eructation==
A belch.
A violent bursting forth or ejection of matter from the earth.

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==Fiat Abuse==
A debate team term. "Fiat abuse is where you try to prevent debate not only on whether you could actually enact a policy (that's what you can "fiat" into existence) but also the policy's workability. So, if you were debating Communism, you might be able to fiat a Communist revolution- "if the workers revolted, would it be good", but you can't fiat the moneyed classes giving up all their private property voluntarily. One of the problems with Communism is they'd resist!" Dilan Esper
@dilanesper

==Flatus==
Gas generated in or expelled from the digestive tract, especially the stomach or intestines.

==The Flypaper Effect==
"The flypaper effect is '''a concept from the field of public finance''' that suggests that a government grant to a recipient municipality increases the level of local public spending more than an increase in local income of an equivalent size. '''When a dollar of exogenous grants to a community leads to significantly greater public spending than an equivalent dollar of citizen income: money sticks where it hits, like a fly to flypaper'''. Grants to the government will stay in the hands of the government and income to individuals will stay with these individuals." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flypaper_effect

==Fugacity==
 
1. The noun for being fleeting, evanescent. 
2. A coefficient for a real-world gas which makes the ideal gas equation be true. The fugacity of an ideal gas is 1. The fugacity of real-world gases is between 0 and 1, e.g. the fugacity of nitrogen is about .93. 
This came up in Ben's Thermodynamics class. 
I would like there to be the word "Fugacitaceous" too, for the sound of it, but that's a neologism.

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==Googleability or Googlability==
A measure of how easy it is to find information about a person on the Web.
Which spelling is better?
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==Gluckschmerz==
Pain at seeing someone else's good fortune, analogous to Schadenfreude. But it's fake German. See this [https://twitter.com/TomVaid/status/1442500467158765574 twitter thread].
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==The Javert Paradox==
{{Quotation| The Javert Paradox: Suppose you find a problem with published work. If you just point it out once or twice, the authors of the work are likely to do nothing. But if you really pursue the problem, then you look like a Javert.
-- [https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2009/05/24/handy_statistic/ Andrew Gelman]}}
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==[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos '''Kairos.''']==
καιρός. "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved."

{{quotation| While chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative, permanent nature.<ref> [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkairo%2Fs1 Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon ]</ref> ''Kairos'' also means ''weather'' in Modern Greek... In weaving, kairos denotes the moment in which the shuttle could be passed through threads on the loom."<ref>Stephenson,Hunter W. (2005) "Forecasting Opportunity: Kairos, Production, and Writing, p.4. University Press of America: Oxford</ref> ..."Kairos" (used 86 times in the New Testament) refers to an opportune time, a "moment" or a "season" such as "harvest time," whereas "chronos" (used 54 times) refers to a specific amount of time, such as a day or an hour (e.g. Acts 13:18 and 27:9).}}

==Katz==
Short for "Kohen Tzedeq ("priest of justice"/"authentic priest") or Kohen Tzadok (meaning the name-bearer is of patrilineal descent of the Kohanim sons of Zadok)", Wikipedia says.

==Kebab case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with dashes, as in first-second-third. See also: camel case, pothole case.
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==Lunate epsilon==
The lunate epsilon (tex: $\epsilon$) is the moon-shaped one that I like to use for something very small because it looks smaller. The "reverse-3" form is the uglier squiggly one that has the advantage of one-stroke cursive writing on the blackboard. See the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon Wikipedia entry].

==To Lustrate==
To purify by expiatory sacrifice, ceremonial washing, or some other ritual action.
"a soul lustrated in the baptismal waters"

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==Mnemonic==
Mnemonic (plural mnemonics): Anything (especially in verbal form) used to help remember something.
:How do you spell mnemonic? 
:It's practically demonic. 
:You put an M before the N; 
:And then it's just phenomic.

==Mokita==
"Mokita is a Papua New Guinean term for something that everyone knows but no one talks about." https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/1439993770519445508?s=03. 
"Earl Hunt, the eminent psychometrician, invoked that word in his review of TBC many, many years ago."--Charles Murray, https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/1439993770519445508?s=03.

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==Nuisance parameter==
A nuisance parameter is any parameter which is not of immediate interest but must be accounted for in the analysis of the parameter of interest. The classic example is the variance of distribution when the mean is of primary interest. [https://buff.ly/2RVnaMH Wikipedia's article].

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==Obrazovanshchina==
"Obrazovanshchina (Russian: образованщина, 'educationdom', 'educaties',[1] 'smatterers') is a Russian ironical, derogatory term for a category of people with superficial education who lack the higher ethics of an educated person.[2] The term was introduced by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his 1974 essay "Obrazovanshchina" (translated as "The Smatterers") as a criticism of the transformation of the Russian intelligentsia, which, in his opinion had lost high ethical values." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obrazovanshchina

==On the Record==
{{Quotation|
AP's guidelines for "Off the record", "Background" and "Deep Background"
Published 2011-08-01

Not everyone understands “off the record” or “on background” to mean the same things. Before any interview in which any degree of anonymity is expected, there should be a discussion in which the ground rules are set explicitly.
These are the AP’s definitions:

On the record: The information can be used with no caveats, quoting the source by name.

Off the record: The information cannot be used for publication.

Background: The information can be published but only under conditions negotiated with the source. Generally, the sources do not want their names published but will agree to a description of their position. AP reporters should object vigorously when a source wants to brief a group of reporters on background and try to persuade the source to put the briefing on the record. These background briefings have become routine in many venues, especially with government officials.

Deep background: The information can be used but without attribution. The source does not want to be identified in any way, even on condition of anonymity.
https://blog.chrislkeller.com/aps-guidelines-for-off-the-record-background/}}

==Overfeatures==
I'd like to popularize the word "overfeatured" to mean software, cars, or any other product that has too many bells and whistles. These can either actively degrade usability, or make it too hard to figure out simple uses.

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==Per curiam==
A way for a court to sign a judicial opinion. "Traditionally, the per curiam was used to signal that a case was
uncontroversial, obvious, and did not require a substantial opinion... These early
opinions often comprised only a sentence or two, rarely more than a
paragraph, and never displayed disagreement among the Justices.
Beginning in 1909 with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose
strongly worded separate opinions earned him the moniker "the Great
Dissenter," per curiam opinions began to feature dissents... The per curiam
not only allowed the Court to quickly adjudicate these more
substantive cases but also to signify to the public that the issues in
them were easily resolved and required little explanation."
[https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/425/ "Hiding Behind the Cloak of Invisibility: The Supreme Court and Per Curiam Opinions,"]
Ira Robbins (2012).

==Pothole case==
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with underscores, as in first_second_third. See also: camel case, kebab case.

==Plaque==
1. an ornamental tablet,
2. A sticky bacterial deposit on teeth.

==Pronunciamento==
{{Quotation| A pronunciamiento (Spanish: [pɾonunθjaˈmjento], Portuguese: pronunciamento [pɾunũsiɐˈmẽtu]; "proclamation , announcement or declaration") is a form of military rebellion or coup d'état particularly associated with Spain, Portugal and Latin America, especially in the 19th century.}}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciamiento

==Psephology==
The statistical study of elections and voting.

==PUMP AND DUMP==
1. The stock manipulation trick of using rumor or purchase to inflate a stock's purchase and then selling it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump. 2. The political dirty trick of getting a crowd so excited that it charges off to wreck a building or kill someone, so it gets in trouble and discredits the movement, and then quietly leaving before the arrests and shooting. 3. A Full Service Company Offering Residential & Commercial Septic Services. https://www.pumpndumpusa.com/.
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==RAREBIT==
Ambrose Bierce (1911): "Rarebit n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad in the hole is really not a toad, and that ris de veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker."
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==Spitster==
A double-cup invention for eating sunflower seeds, peanuts, or pistachios. https://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9254850.htm

==Steelmanning==
Presenting one's opponent's arguments as well as possible, even if that's not the way they presented them. Chicago's Professor [https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/12/steelmanning-and-interpretive-charity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Will Baude says,]
"Indeed, I now sometimes test a version of this skill on my exams, asking students to write up both sides of an argument, with the rule that their grade will be based on the quality of the worse of the two arguments."

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==Traumata==
An alternative to "traumas" as a plural for "trauma".

== ==

==The Unpronounceable Case==
[https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-968_8nj9.pdf Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski], US Supreme Court (2020) may supplant whatever case has traditionally held this title.

==Unterschlepper==
Neologism from [https://stljewishlight.org/news/news-local/yiddish-word-of-the-week-schlep-or-schlepper/ "schlepper"].
{{Quotation| From Yiddish שלעפּן (“to drag”); from High German schleppen (“to drag”)– “to carry”- 
1) a servant who carries things 
2) a porter 
3) a pejorative insult for an individual who wanders aimlessly 
4) One who acts in a slovenly, lazy, or sloppy manner. Kind of like the modern idiom of “slacker”. 

Synonyms in academia are "assistant dean", "deanlet" and "deanlette".

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==Vatic==
Describing or predicting what will happen in the future.

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== Valley of the Clueles: Das Tal der Ahnungslosen==
The valley in East Germany that could not be reached by Voice of America radio. "regions in the northeast to Greifswald and in the southeast of the GDR in the former district of Dresden... about 15 % of the population of the GDR...The term is now used for local communities or areas in Germany with missing or poorly developed broadband Internet access," from [https://memim.com/tal-der-ahnungslosen.html Tal der Ahnungslosen].

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==Wokeschaltung==
The Woke pressure to bring everything in society into conformity or else crush it, by analogy to the Nazi gleichschaltung. Perhaps coined by Curtis Yarvin in [https://graymirror.substack.com/p/big-tech-has-no-power-at-all?s=r "Big tech has no power at all: The basics of tech censorship and the structure of the cathedral,"] (2021).

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==Zornhau==
A zornhau (wrath hew) is the diagonal cut sword cut from shoulder to opposite waist known as "kesa-giri" in Japan. It is said to be historically the most effective at killing people. See https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Diagonal_Cut and https://danielagnewauthor.com/2017/04/27/the-zornhau-ort-its-simpler-than-you-think/.

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Articles to read

2022-05-26T21:30:34Z

Erasmuse: /* Easy Reading */

==Easy Reading==

*[https://razib.substack.com/p/hungarians-as-the-ghost-of-the-magyar?s=w Rzib on Magyars]

*''Chessman v. Nainby,'' 93 Eng. Rep. 819, 821 (1726) (find it)

*[https://www.scribd.com/document/49102936/Leo-Strauss-Remarks-at-Farewell-to-E-C-Banfield-on-Departure-from-Chicago-1959 Strauss on Banfield (1959)]READ

*Dubois, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2292742?seq=1 article praising Hitler]

*[https://reason.com/volokh/2022/01/21/will-the-en-banc-9th-circuit-extend-the-second-amendments-losing-streak-to-51-cases/ Gun control 9th Circuit faux en banc opinion]READ

*[https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Murray%20Intelligence.pdf Murray on going to college] (after his book was publisehd)

*[https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/how-to-save-marriage-in-america/283732/ Rich peopel get married] Atlatnic, (2022)

*[https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2022/03/17/unmasking-the-campaign-against-white-supremacy-culture-in-science/ "Unmasking the Campaign against “White Supremacy Culture” in Science"] (2022) Minding the Campus.

*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017.

*[https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/default+domain/10.1177%2F15291006211051956-FREE/full#_i28 "The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works,"] Steven L. Franconeri, Lace M. Padilla, Priti Shah (2021).

*[https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/18/spygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump/ pygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump], Margot Cleveland, March 2022.

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4060431 Vischer on Christian Nationalism being opposed to the rule of law,] probably a stupid article worth reading to understand the liberal mindset.

*[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/21/literatures-most-controversial-nobel-laureate PeterHandke, literatures-most-controversial-nobel-laureate ] New Yorker (2022).

*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in ''Harvard Magazine,'' November–December 2003.]

*[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-paleogenomics.html DNA in the South Pacific]

*[https://quillette.com/2020/01/04/build-your-own-intellectual-oasis/ Bill Frezza "Build Your Own Intellectual Oasis,"]

*[https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.4.121 Sandel JEP on altruisma and economics]

*Mann’s most important commentary on Wagner was an address to the Goethe Society of Munich in February 1933 on the fiftieth anniversary of the composer’s death. Entitled 'The Sufferings and Greatness of Richard Wagner',

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3908595 New Formalism], Paul Miller, Notre Dame.

*[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/afghanistan-military-officials-distracted-woke-issues?fbclid=IwAR1CNfgX_YU7tbty4qJVfzYlbTkXHItaF2fcWvsCWXB-vrPEsJdf3gU21ok Afghanistan-military-officials-distracted-woke-issues?]

*[https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-1392/185344/20210729162610813_Dobbs%20Amicus%20FINAL%20PDFA.pdf Jonathan Mitchell] amicus to SC on an abortion case in 2021]

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3839768 Salop on vertical merger guidelines.] Looks wrong; if so, needs refuting.

*[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/peer-review-request-depression Astral Codex Ten on Depression]

*[https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/boxplots.pdf Boxplots]

*[https://www.res.org.uk/resources-page/res2021-lunchtime-chat-the-state-of-economic-science.html Coyle and Tirole podcast] (2021)

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_languages_with_grammatical_gender#Hebrew "Gender_neutrality_in_languages_with_grammatical_gender,"]

*[https://www.irishtimes.com/news/zimbabwe-s-banana-left-legacy-of-disgrace-1.392631 "Zimbabwe's Banana left legacy of disgrace," Mark Steyn, Nov 17, 2003, and the [https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1395491031420915713 ''Economist'' obituary], and [https://nehandaradio.com/2020/11/18/canaan-bananas-son-michael-collapses-and-dies-in-the-uk/ his son], the fraudster.

* [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3714750 Sunstein's paper] on Hayek and pscyhology.

*[https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=261087081122066127114071098095108071052087053042027060078069091126091092081027009022019114028045009056121073013118004101000027098080071048000104079091115023106017109028073060091097102074117105122030115083106076023123064126091118031027092015115006071020&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE "UNDERSTANDING THE MISUNDERSTOOD: MAPPING THE SCOPE OF A DEITY’S RIGHTS IN INDIA ,"] Anujay Shrivastava & Yashowardhan Tiwari :
"It has been recognized that an idol of a Hindu Temple is a juridical person
or juristic entity18 and is often commonly referred to as a “deity”.19 The title
to properties and endowments can vest in deities such as a Hindu idol, who
has to act through a human agency (such as the Shebait).20 A Hindu idol not
only has the power of suing and being sued, but can be treated as an
“individual” who can be assessed for tax liability."

*[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-05/how-jeff-bezos-beat-the-tabloids-the-untold-story-of-money-sex-and-power "The Untold Story of How Jeff Bezos Beat the Tabloids: When a gossip rag went after the CEO, he retaliated with the brutal, brilliant efficiency he used to build his business empire. In an exclusive excerpt from the new book Amazon Unbound comes an unrivaled tale of money, sex, and power."] ''Bloomberg.''

*[https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-types-apologies-that-arent-apologies-at-all/ "6 Types of Apologies That Aren't Apologies at All,"] ''Cracked'' (2012).

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3836060 "The Islamic Waqf: Instrument of Unequal Security, Worldly and Otherworldly," 29 Apr 2021, Fatih Serkant Adiguzel and Timur Kuran.

*[https://www.connecticutmag.com/issues/features/how-the-coming-of-a-conservative-midwestern-college-divided-a-small-ct-town/article_3b86fb78-e3d6-11ea-8eda-53fc5dea576b.html "How the coming of a conservative Midwestern college divided a small CT town: S. Prestley Blake, the co-founder of the Friendly's restaurant chain, donated his Somers estate to Michigan's Hillsdale College. The school has grand plans to open an adult-learning center on the property, whose centerpiece is a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. But questions about the school's religious bona fides which pushed the deal through have left a bad taste in some residents' mouths,"] ''Connecticut Magazine,'' Christopher Hoffman Aug 26, 2020.

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1558729 "John W. Tukey: His Life and Professional Contributions," David R. Brillinger, ''The Annals of Statistics'' , Dec., 2002, Vol. 30, No. 6 (Dec., 2002), pp. 1535-1575.

*G. A. Cohen, [https://link-springer-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/content/pdf/10.1023/A:1009836317343.pdf "If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re so Rich?,"] ''Journal of Ethics'' 4, no. 1–2 (2000): 1–26.

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1147700 “Labor Racketeering: The Mafia and the Unions,” ]James B. Jacobs and Ellen Peters, ''Crime and Justice,'' 30 (2003), 229-282 (54 pages) .

*[https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/03/advice-on-writing/ "Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers: Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature."]

*[https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/A_Human%27s_Guide_to_Words "A Human's Guide to Words,"]

*Ramseyer, JM (1995). "Oko v. Sako: Kyogen and litigation in medieval Japan". Law in Japan (0458-8584), 25 , p. 135.

*Legarre, S. (2007). "The historical background of the police power. ''University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law,'' 9(3), 745-796.

*https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/

==Hard Reading==
*[https://outofmydepths.com/2020/12/31/a-divine-and-supernatural-light-by-jonathan-edwards/ Divine Light] sermon of Jonathan Edwards

*[https://osf.io/ygw8e/ Andrew Little on Persuasion] (2022)

*[https://www.fox.temple.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Efron-2020-JASA-wdiscussion.pdf Efron 2020 survey]

*[https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=167106127002030067067102022103008089022020095078034062005090091014029070004000025117052006044120112038124031097114016071023096041091082060074091011066016103123004006003112012121117083123004106024016066095085019066117021026127102002108097124002084&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE John Lott on 2020 election] and
[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/No-evidence-for-systematic-voter-fraud%3A-A-guide-to-Eggers-Garro/1fe01cea7962e678037725baa837c3dcbaa14d9c Eggers and Grimmer and somone] (2021) on the other side.

*[https://notesonmathematics.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/real-numbers-are-uncountable/ Cantor's proof that the real numbers are uncountable]

*[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.09328.pdf Bergstrom et al. on diamond plots vs. rectangle plots]

*[http://econphd.econwiki.com/notes.htm Lecture Notes Online] link page.

*[https://sites.duke.edu/collardwexler/files/2015/01/predation_sugar_industry.pdf "Predation and its rate of return: the sugar ndustry, 1887-1914], RAND Journal, David Genesove, Wallace P. Mullin .

*[https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=933078022002122097005123100109005112015082062038033030120099095096069090097009089085034019003061029120125092110013095020076065021059074001067096066002024126122071004052039021006022016108112118119031025081011067015075003014011088107102110110122020092025&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE "The Economic Geography of Global Warming,"] José Luis Cruz and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (OCTOBER 2021).

*[https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034731 "Executive Functions Predict the Success of Top-Soccer Players,] Torbjörn Vestberg,Roland Gustafson,Liselotte Maurex,Martin Ingvar,Predrag Petrovic , April 4, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034731.

*[https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7350252#page=11 "Usable Resistan.t/Robust Techniques of Analysis,"] John W. Tukey (1975).

*[https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance,"] ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', D. R. Cox (2020).

*Henry Kyburg, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30226172 "Subjective Probability: Criticisms, Reflections, and Problems"] .

*Henry Kyburg, "Are there Degrees of Belief?" ''Journal of Applied Logic,'' 1(3-4), 139-149, 2003.

*Henry Kyburg, "Keynes as Philosopher" ''History of Political Economy,'' 27 (Supplement): 7–32, 1995.

*Dostoevsky, [https://rvb.ru/dostoevski/01text/vol14/03journal_81/337.htm "II. ВОЗМОЖНО ЛЬ У НАС СПРАШИВАТЬ ЕВРОПЕЙСКИХ ФИНАНСОВ?"] probably use Google translate.

*[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973533.2020.1756817 "Student Evaluations of Teaching Encourages Poor Teaching and Contributes to Grade Inflation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis,"] Wolfgang Stroebe, ''Basic and Applied Social Psychology,'' 2020.

*[https://web.stanford.edu/~rehall/HallJones2007.pdf "THE VALUE OF LIFE AND THE RISE IN HEALTH SPENDING,"] ROBERT E. HALL AND CHARLES I. JONES (2007).

*[https://www-jstor-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/stable/pdf/43654017.pdf "How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression,"] GARY KING, JENNIFER PAN and MARGARET E. ROBERTS ''The American Political Science Review'', May 2013, Vol. 107, No. 2 (May 2013),326-343 .

*[https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA12675 "Sampling‐Based versus Design‐Based Uncertainty in Regression Analysis,"] Alberto Abadie Susan Athey Guido W. Imbens Jeffrey M. Wooldridge 05 February 2020 .

*[https://journals-sagepub-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00019.x "Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth After 35 Years Uncovering Antecedents for the Development of Math-Science Expertise,"] (2006) David Lubinski and Camilla Persson Benbow.

*[https://www.dropbox.com/s/o120sormtbw9w10/fraud_extended_public.pdf No Evidence for Voter Fraud: A Guide to Statistical Claims About the 2020 Election"] Andrew C. Eggersa, Haritz Garrob, and Justin GrimmercFebruary 3, 2021.

*[https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/02/recent-evidence-on-dysgenic-trends-february-2021/ "Recent evidence on dysgenic trends (February 2021) "]

*[http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/standardizing7.pdf "Scaling regression inputs by dividing by two standard deviations," ]STATISTICS IN MEDICINE Statist. Med. 2008; 27:2865–2873 Published online 24 October 2007 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/sim.3107. Andrew Gelman.

*[https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20170279 "Religion, Division of Labor, and Conflict: Anti-semitism in Germany over 600 Years"], Sascha O. Becker Luigi Pascali

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3757669| "If You Grant It, They Will Come: The Enduring Legal Legacy of Migratory Divorce"] 61 Pages 22 Jan 2021, Michael J. Higdon.

*Henry E. Smith, [http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/Smith_1051.pdf "Equity as Meta-Law, "] 12/2020; forthcoming in Yale Law Journal.
Abstract: With the merger of law and equity almost complete, the idea of equity as a special part of our legal system or a mode of decision-making has fallen out of view. This Article argues that much of equity is best understood as performing a vital function. Equity and related parts of the law solve complex and uncertain problems—including interdependent behavior and misuses of legal rules by opportunists—and do so in a characteristic fashion: as meta-law. From unconscionability to injunctions, equity makes reference to, supplements, and sometimes overrides the result that law would otherwise produce, while primary law operates without reference to equity. Equity operates on a domain of fraud, accident, and mistake, and employs triggers such as bad faith and disproportionate hardship to toggle into a “meta”-mode of more open-ended scrutiny. This Article provides a theoretical account of how a hybrid law, consisting of relatively simple and general primary-level law and relatively intense and directed second-order equity can regulate behavior better through these specialized modes than would homogeneous law alone. The Article tests this theory on the ostensibly most unpromising aspects of equity, the traditional equitable maxims, as well as equitable fraud, defenses, and remedies. Equity as meta-law sheds light on how the fusion of law and equity spawned multifactor balancing tests, polarized interpretation, and led to the confusion of equity with standards, discretion, purely public law, and “mere” remedies. Viewing equity as meta-law also improves on the tradeoff between formalism and contextualism and ultimately promotes the rule of law.

*[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e6033a4ea02d801f37e15bb/t/6008c722ea949843b4a024e4/1611188002639/nber_portfolio_keynote_paper.pdf COCHRANE: ] MUST READ

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2798802 "The Religious Commissions of the Bakongo,"] Wyatt MacGaffey ''Man'' , Mar., 1970, New Series, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Mar., 1970), pp. 27-38

*Fiva, J H, and D M Smith (2018), “Political dynasties and the incumbency advantage in party-centered environments”, ''American Political Science Review'' 112(3): 1–7.

*Folke, O, T Persson and J Rickne (2017), “Dynastic political rents? Economic benefits to relatives of top politicians”, ''Economic Journal'' 127(605): 495–517.

*Acemoglu, D, G De Feo, G D De Luca and G Russo (2020), “War, socialism and the rise of Fascism: An empirical exploration”, NBER Working Paper 27854.

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==Political Economy==
*[https://www-nber-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/papers/w11397 "Equilibrium Impotence: Why the States and Not the American National Government Financed Economic Development in the Antebellum Era,"] Wallis and Weingast.

*[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272714000929 "The cost of racial animus on a black candidate: Evidence using Google search data?"] Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, 2014, Pages 26-40, ''Journal of Public Economics.''

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/43669490 "The Faces of Judicial Independence: Democratic versus Bureaucratic Accountability in Judicial Selection, Training, and Promotion in South Korea and Taiwan,"] NEIL CHISHOLM ''The American Journal of Comparative Law'' , FALL 2014, Vol. 62, No. 4 (FALL 2014), pp. 893-949

*Cagé, J, A Dagorret, P Grosjean, and S Jha (2020b), [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3753869 “Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France,”] CEPR Discussion Paper no. 15613.

*Lacroix, J, P-G Méon and K Oosterlinck (2019), [https://www.eh.net/eha/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Oosterlinck.pdf “A positive effect of political dynasties: The case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act”,] CEPR Discussion Paper 13871.

*[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2019.03.002 "The Paradox of Power: Principal-agent problems and administrative capacity in Imperial China (and other absolutist regimes)"], Debin Ma Jared Rubin Journal of Comparative Economics Volume 47, Issue 2, June 2019, Pages 277-294 Journal of Comparative Economics.

==BOOKS==
*Machete Season, about Rwanda massacres

==Other==
*Dal Bó, E, P Dal Bó and J Snyder (2009), “Political dynasties”, Review of Economic Studies 76(1): 115–42.

*Ma, D (2004). "Growth, institutions and knowledge: a review and reflection on the historiography of 18th–20th century China". Australian economic history review (0004-8992), 44 (3), p. 259.

*"From Divergence to Convergence: Reevaluating the History Behind China's Economic
Boom," Loren Brandt, Debin Ma and Thomas G. Rawski, Journal of Economic Literature , MARCH 2014, Vol. 52, No. 1 pp.
45-123. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24433858

*States and Development: Early Modern India, China, and the Great Divergence
Bishnupriya Gupta Debin Ma Tirthankar Roy
20 September 2016.

*LAW AND ECONOMY IN
TRADITIONAL CHINA: A "LEGAL
ORIGIN" PERSPECTIVE ON THE
GREAT DIVERGENCE,"
Debin Ma , https://personal.lse.ac.uk/MAD1/ma_pdf_files/DP8385.pdf.

"Foreign Education, Ideology, and the
Fall of Imperial China,"
James Kai-sing KUNG† Alina Yue WANG‡
https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2021conference/program/pdf/13683_paper_dhQ7DbF9.pdf?display. This paper is an example of one with links between text mentions of papers and the reference section. But not two-way.

"Millet, Rice, and Isolation:
Origins and Persistence of the World’s Most Enduring Mega-State,"
James Kai-sing Kung=
, Omer ¨ Ozak
, Louis Putterman§
, and Shuang Shi¶
December 20, 2020. https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2021conference/program/pdf/13681_paper_96AHSRfe.pdf?display . Covered in the Frieden Tuesday Lunch.
{{Quotation| We propose and empirically test a theory for the endogenous formation and persistence of large
states, using China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies and their distance to each other set off a race between autochthonous state-building
projects and the expansion of neighboring (proto-)states. Using a novel dataset on the Chinese
state’s historical presence, the timing of agricultural adoption, social complexity, climate, and geography across 1×1 degree grid cells in East Asia, we provide empirical support for this hypothesis.
Specifically, we find that on average, cells that adopted agriculture earlier or were close to the earliest archaic state in East Asia (Erlitou) remained longer under Sinitic control. In contrast, earlier
adoption of agriculture decreased the persistent control of the Chinese state in cells farther than
2.8 weeks of travel from Erlitou.}}
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Articles to read

2022-05-26T16:26:00Z

Erasmuse: /* Hard Reading */

==Easy Reading==

*[ https://razib.substack.com/p/hungarians-as-the-ghost-of-the-magyar?s=w Rzib on Magyars]

*[https://www.scribd.com/document/49102936/Leo-Strauss-Remarks-at-Farewell-to-E-C-Banfield-on-Departure-from-Chicago-1959 Strauss on Banfield (1959)]READ

*Dubois, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2292742?seq=1 article praising Hitler]

*[https://reason.com/volokh/2022/01/21/will-the-en-banc-9th-circuit-extend-the-second-amendments-losing-streak-to-51-cases/ Gun control 9th Circuit faux en banc opinion]READ

*[https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Murray%20Intelligence.pdf Murray on going to college] (after his book was publisehd)

*[https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/how-to-save-marriage-in-america/283732/ Rich peopel get married] Atlatnic, (2022)

*[https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2022/03/17/unmasking-the-campaign-against-white-supremacy-culture-in-science/ "Unmasking the Campaign against “White Supremacy Culture” in Science"] (2022) Minding the Campus.

*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017.

*[https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/default+domain/10.1177%2F15291006211051956-FREE/full#_i28 "The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works,"] Steven L. Franconeri, Lace M. Padilla, Priti Shah (2021).

*[https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/18/spygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump/ pygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump], Margot Cleveland, March 2022.

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4060431 Vischer on Christian Nationalism being opposed to the rule of law,] probably a stupid article worth reading to understand the liberal mindset.

*[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/21/literatures-most-controversial-nobel-laureate PeterHandke, literatures-most-controversial-nobel-laureate ] New Yorker (2022).

*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in ''Harvard Magazine,'' November–December 2003.]

*[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-paleogenomics.html DNA in the South Pacific]

*[https://quillette.com/2020/01/04/build-your-own-intellectual-oasis/ Bill Frezza "Build Your Own Intellectual Oasis,"]

*[https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.4.121 Sandel JEP on altruisma and economics]

*Mann’s most important commentary on Wagner was an address to the Goethe Society of Munich in February 1933 on the fiftieth anniversary of the composer’s death. Entitled 'The Sufferings and Greatness of Richard Wagner',

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3908595 New Formalism], Paul Miller, Notre Dame.

*[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/afghanistan-military-officials-distracted-woke-issues?fbclid=IwAR1CNfgX_YU7tbty4qJVfzYlbTkXHItaF2fcWvsCWXB-vrPEsJdf3gU21ok Afghanistan-military-officials-distracted-woke-issues?]

*[https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-1392/185344/20210729162610813_Dobbs%20Amicus%20FINAL%20PDFA.pdf Jonathan Mitchell] amicus to SC on an abortion case in 2021]

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3839768 Salop on vertical merger guidelines.] Looks wrong; if so, needs refuting.

*[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/peer-review-request-depression Astral Codex Ten on Depression]

*[https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/boxplots.pdf Boxplots]

*[https://www.res.org.uk/resources-page/res2021-lunchtime-chat-the-state-of-economic-science.html Coyle and Tirole podcast] (2021)

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_languages_with_grammatical_gender#Hebrew "Gender_neutrality_in_languages_with_grammatical_gender,"]

*[https://www.irishtimes.com/news/zimbabwe-s-banana-left-legacy-of-disgrace-1.392631 "Zimbabwe's Banana left legacy of disgrace," Mark Steyn, Nov 17, 2003, and the [https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1395491031420915713 ''Economist'' obituary], and [https://nehandaradio.com/2020/11/18/canaan-bananas-son-michael-collapses-and-dies-in-the-uk/ his son], the fraudster.

* [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3714750 Sunstein's paper] on Hayek and pscyhology.

*[https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=261087081122066127114071098095108071052087053042027060078069091126091092081027009022019114028045009056121073013118004101000027098080071048000104079091115023106017109028073060091097102074117105122030115083106076023123064126091118031027092015115006071020&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE "UNDERSTANDING THE MISUNDERSTOOD: MAPPING THE SCOPE OF A DEITY’S RIGHTS IN INDIA ,"] Anujay Shrivastava & Yashowardhan Tiwari :
"It has been recognized that an idol of a Hindu Temple is a juridical person
or juristic entity18 and is often commonly referred to as a “deity”.19 The title
to properties and endowments can vest in deities such as a Hindu idol, who
has to act through a human agency (such as the Shebait).20 A Hindu idol not
only has the power of suing and being sued, but can be treated as an
“individual” who can be assessed for tax liability."

*[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-05/how-jeff-bezos-beat-the-tabloids-the-untold-story-of-money-sex-and-power "The Untold Story of How Jeff Bezos Beat the Tabloids: When a gossip rag went after the CEO, he retaliated with the brutal, brilliant efficiency he used to build his business empire. In an exclusive excerpt from the new book Amazon Unbound comes an unrivaled tale of money, sex, and power."] ''Bloomberg.''

*[https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-types-apologies-that-arent-apologies-at-all/ "6 Types of Apologies That Aren't Apologies at All,"] ''Cracked'' (2012).

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3836060 "The Islamic Waqf: Instrument of Unequal Security, Worldly and Otherworldly," 29 Apr 2021, Fatih Serkant Adiguzel and Timur Kuran.

*[https://www.connecticutmag.com/issues/features/how-the-coming-of-a-conservative-midwestern-college-divided-a-small-ct-town/article_3b86fb78-e3d6-11ea-8eda-53fc5dea576b.html "How the coming of a conservative Midwestern college divided a small CT town: S. Prestley Blake, the co-founder of the Friendly's restaurant chain, donated his Somers estate to Michigan's Hillsdale College. The school has grand plans to open an adult-learning center on the property, whose centerpiece is a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. But questions about the school's religious bona fides which pushed the deal through have left a bad taste in some residents' mouths,"] ''Connecticut Magazine,'' Christopher Hoffman Aug 26, 2020.

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1558729 "John W. Tukey: His Life and Professional Contributions," David R. Brillinger, ''The Annals of Statistics'' , Dec., 2002, Vol. 30, No. 6 (Dec., 2002), pp. 1535-1575.

*G. A. Cohen, [https://link-springer-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/content/pdf/10.1023/A:1009836317343.pdf "If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re so Rich?,"] ''Journal of Ethics'' 4, no. 1–2 (2000): 1–26.

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1147700 “Labor Racketeering: The Mafia and the Unions,” ]James B. Jacobs and Ellen Peters, ''Crime and Justice,'' 30 (2003), 229-282 (54 pages) .

*[https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/03/advice-on-writing/ "Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers: Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature."]

*[https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/A_Human%27s_Guide_to_Words "A Human's Guide to Words,"]

*Ramseyer, JM (1995). "Oko v. Sako: Kyogen and litigation in medieval Japan". Law in Japan (0458-8584), 25 , p. 135.

*Legarre, S. (2007). "The historical background of the police power. ''University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law,'' 9(3), 745-796.

*https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/

==Hard Reading==
*[https://outofmydepths.com/2020/12/31/a-divine-and-supernatural-light-by-jonathan-edwards/ Divine Light] sermon of Jonathan Edwards

*[https://osf.io/ygw8e/ Andrew Little on Persuasion] (2022)

*[https://www.fox.temple.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Efron-2020-JASA-wdiscussion.pdf Efron 2020 survey]

*[https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=167106127002030067067102022103008089022020095078034062005090091014029070004000025117052006044120112038124031097114016071023096041091082060074091011066016103123004006003112012121117083123004106024016066095085019066117021026127102002108097124002084&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE John Lott on 2020 election] and
[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/No-evidence-for-systematic-voter-fraud%3A-A-guide-to-Eggers-Garro/1fe01cea7962e678037725baa837c3dcbaa14d9c Eggers and Grimmer and somone] (2021) on the other side.

*[https://notesonmathematics.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/real-numbers-are-uncountable/ Cantor's proof that the real numbers are uncountable]

*[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.09328.pdf Bergstrom et al. on diamond plots vs. rectangle plots]

*[http://econphd.econwiki.com/notes.htm Lecture Notes Online] link page.

*[https://sites.duke.edu/collardwexler/files/2015/01/predation_sugar_industry.pdf "Predation and its rate of return: the sugar ndustry, 1887-1914], RAND Journal, David Genesove, Wallace P. Mullin .

*[https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=933078022002122097005123100109005112015082062038033030120099095096069090097009089085034019003061029120125092110013095020076065021059074001067096066002024126122071004052039021006022016108112118119031025081011067015075003014011088107102110110122020092025&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE "The Economic Geography of Global Warming,"] José Luis Cruz and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (OCTOBER 2021).

*[https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034731 "Executive Functions Predict the Success of Top-Soccer Players,] Torbjörn Vestberg,Roland Gustafson,Liselotte Maurex,Martin Ingvar,Predrag Petrovic , April 4, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034731.

*[https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7350252#page=11 "Usable Resistan.t/Robust Techniques of Analysis,"] John W. Tukey (1975).

*[https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance,"] ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', D. R. Cox (2020).

*Henry Kyburg, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30226172 "Subjective Probability: Criticisms, Reflections, and Problems"] .

*Henry Kyburg, "Are there Degrees of Belief?" ''Journal of Applied Logic,'' 1(3-4), 139-149, 2003.

*Henry Kyburg, "Keynes as Philosopher" ''History of Political Economy,'' 27 (Supplement): 7–32, 1995.

*Dostoevsky, [https://rvb.ru/dostoevski/01text/vol14/03journal_81/337.htm "II. ВОЗМОЖНО ЛЬ У НАС СПРАШИВАТЬ ЕВРОПЕЙСКИХ ФИНАНСОВ?"] probably use Google translate.

*[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973533.2020.1756817 "Student Evaluations of Teaching Encourages Poor Teaching and Contributes to Grade Inflation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis,"] Wolfgang Stroebe, ''Basic and Applied Social Psychology,'' 2020.

*[https://web.stanford.edu/~rehall/HallJones2007.pdf "THE VALUE OF LIFE AND THE RISE IN HEALTH SPENDING,"] ROBERT E. HALL AND CHARLES I. JONES (2007).

*[https://www-jstor-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/stable/pdf/43654017.pdf "How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression,"] GARY KING, JENNIFER PAN and MARGARET E. ROBERTS ''The American Political Science Review'', May 2013, Vol. 107, No. 2 (May 2013),326-343 .

*[https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA12675 "Sampling‐Based versus Design‐Based Uncertainty in Regression Analysis,"] Alberto Abadie Susan Athey Guido W. Imbens Jeffrey M. Wooldridge 05 February 2020 .

*[https://journals-sagepub-com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00019.x "Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth After 35 Years Uncovering Antecedents for the Development of Math-Science Expertise,"] (2006) David Lubinski and Camilla Persson Benbow.

*[https://www.dropbox.com/s/o120sormtbw9w10/fraud_extended_public.pdf No Evidence for Voter Fraud: A Guide to Statistical Claims About the 2020 Election"] Andrew C. Eggersa, Haritz Garrob, and Justin GrimmercFebruary 3, 2021.

*[https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/02/recent-evidence-on-dysgenic-trends-february-2021/ "Recent evidence on dysgenic trends (February 2021) "]

*[http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/standardizing7.pdf "Scaling regression inputs by dividing by two standard deviations," ]STATISTICS IN MEDICINE Statist. Med. 2008; 27:2865–2873 Published online 24 October 2007 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/sim.3107. Andrew Gelman.

*[https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20170279 "Religion, Division of Labor, and Conflict: Anti-semitism in Germany over 600 Years"], Sascha O. Becker Luigi Pascali

*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3757669| "If You Grant It, They Will Come: The Enduring Legal Legacy of Migratory Divorce"] 61 Pages 22 Jan 2021, Michael J. Higdon.

*Henry E. Smith, [http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/Smith_1051.pdf "Equity as Meta-Law, "] 12/2020; forthcoming in Yale Law Journal.
Abstract: With the merger of law and equity almost complete, the idea of equity as a special part of our legal system or a mode of decision-making has fallen out of view. This Article argues that much of equity is best understood as performing a vital function. Equity and related parts of the law solve complex and uncertain problems—including interdependent behavior and misuses of legal rules by opportunists—and do so in a characteristic fashion: as meta-law. From unconscionability to injunctions, equity makes reference to, supplements, and sometimes overrides the result that law would otherwise produce, while primary law operates without reference to equity. Equity operates on a domain of fraud, accident, and mistake, and employs triggers such as bad faith and disproportionate hardship to toggle into a “meta”-mode of more open-ended scrutiny. This Article provides a theoretical account of how a hybrid law, consisting of relatively simple and general primary-level law and relatively intense and directed second-order equity can regulate behavior better through these specialized modes than would homogeneous law alone. The Article tests this theory on the ostensibly most unpromising aspects of equity, the traditional equitable maxims, as well as equitable fraud, defenses, and remedies. Equity as meta-law sheds light on how the fusion of law and equity spawned multifactor balancing tests, polarized interpretation, and led to the confusion of equity with standards, discretion, purely public law, and “mere” remedies. Viewing equity as meta-law also improves on the tradeoff between formalism and contextualism and ultimately promotes the rule of law.

*[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e6033a4ea02d801f37e15bb/t/6008c722ea949843b4a024e4/1611188002639/nber_portfolio_keynote_paper.pdf COCHRANE: ] MUST READ

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2798802 "The Religious Commissions of the Bakongo,"] Wyatt MacGaffey ''Man'' , Mar., 1970, New Series, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Mar., 1970), pp. 27-38

*Fiva, J H, and D M Smith (2018), “Political dynasties and the incumbency advantage in party-centered environments”, ''American Political Science Review'' 112(3): 1–7.

*Folke, O, T Persson and J Rickne (2017), “Dynastic political rents? Economic benefits to relatives of top politicians”, ''Economic Journal'' 127(605): 495–517.

*Acemoglu, D, G De Feo, G D De Luca and G Russo (2020), “War, socialism and the rise of Fascism: An empirical exploration”, NBER Working Paper 27854.

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==Political Economy==
*[https://www-nber-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/papers/w11397 "Equilibrium Impotence: Why the States and Not the American National Government Financed Economic Development in the Antebellum Era,"] Wallis and Weingast.

*[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272714000929 "The cost of racial animus on a black candidate: Evidence using Google search data?"] Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, 2014, Pages 26-40, ''Journal of Public Economics.''

*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/43669490 "The Faces of Judicial Independence: Democratic versus Bureaucratic Accountability in Judicial Selection, Training, and Promotion in South Korea and Taiwan,"] NEIL CHISHOLM ''The American Journal of Comparative Law'' , FALL 2014, Vol. 62, No. 4 (FALL 2014), pp. 893-949

*Cagé, J, A Dagorret, P Grosjean, and S Jha (2020b), [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3753869 “Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France,”] CEPR Discussion Paper no. 15613.

*Lacroix, J, P-G Méon and K Oosterlinck (2019), [https://www.eh.net/eha/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Oosterlinck.pdf “A positive effect of political dynasties: The case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act”,] CEPR Discussion Paper 13871.

*[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2019.03.002 "The Paradox of Power: Principal-agent problems and administrative capacity in Imperial China (and other absolutist regimes)"], Debin Ma Jared Rubin Journal of Comparative Economics Volume 47, Issue 2, June 2019, Pages 277-294 Journal of Comparative Economics.

==BOOKS==
*Machete Season, about Rwanda massacres

==Other==
*Dal Bó, E, P Dal Bó and J Snyder (2009), “Political dynasties”, Review of Economic Studies 76(1): 115–42.

*Ma, D (2004). "Growth, institutions and knowledge: a review and reflection on the historiography of 18th–20th century China". Australian economic history review (0004-8992), 44 (3), p. 259.

*"From Divergence to Convergence: Reevaluating the History Behind China's Economic
Boom," Loren Brandt, Debin Ma and Thomas G. Rawski, Journal of Economic Literature , MARCH 2014, Vol. 52, No. 1 pp.
45-123. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24433858

*States and Development: Early Modern India, China, and the Great Divergence
Bishnupriya Gupta Debin Ma Tirthankar Roy
20 September 2016.

*LAW AND ECONOMY IN
TRADITIONAL CHINA: A "LEGAL
ORIGIN" PERSPECTIVE ON THE
GREAT DIVERGENCE,"
Debin Ma , https://personal.lse.ac.uk/MAD1/ma_pdf_files/DP8385.pdf.

"Foreign Education, Ideology, and the
Fall of Imperial China,"
James Kai-sing KUNG† Alina Yue WANG‡
https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2021conference/program/pdf/13683_paper_dhQ7DbF9.pdf?display. This paper is an example of one with links between text mentions of papers and the reference section. But not two-way.

"Millet, Rice, and Isolation:
Origins and Persistence of the World’s Most Enduring Mega-State,"
James Kai-sing Kung=
, Omer ¨ Ozak
, Louis Putterman§
, and Shuang Shi¶
December 20, 2020. https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2021conference/program/pdf/13681_paper_96AHSRfe.pdf?display . Covered in the Frieden Tuesday Lunch.
{{Quotation| We propose and empirically test a theory for the endogenous formation and persistence of large
states, using China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies and their distance to each other set off a race between autochthonous state-building
projects and the expansion of neighboring (proto-)states. Using a novel dataset on the Chinese
state’s historical presence, the timing of agricultural adoption, social complexity, climate, and geography across 1×1 degree grid cells in East Asia, we provide empirical support for this hypothesis.
Specifically, we find that on average, cells that adopted agriculture earlier or were close to the earliest archaic state in East Asia (Erlitou) remained longer under Sinitic control. In contrast, earlier
adoption of agriculture decreased the persistent control of the Chinese state in cells farther than
2.8 weeks of travel from Erlitou.}}
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The Common Carrier Theory of Facebook

2022-05-26T13:29:07Z

Erasmuse: /* Ohio case */

==Introduction==
*I should reorganize to have pages on [[Section 230: The Platform Law]] and [[NetChoice v. Moody: Florida]] and [[Biden v. Knight: Thomas Dissent]].

*[https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/12/the-u-s-department-of-justice-defends-section-230s-constitutionality.htm Technology and Marketing Law Blog]

* I should organize a Zoom conference of Common Carrier people for late January. Invite Goldman too. Private conference, no media, just learn. Like publshing each others' amicus briefs in advance.

*[https://www.lawfareblog.com/are-facebook-and-google-state-actors "Are Facebook and Google State Actors?"] Lawfare, Jed Rubenfeld , November 4, 2019.

*[https://twitter.com/AriCohn/status/1466061393233420289 Going to be tweeting through the House Energy & Commerce "Big Tech" hearing ]

*[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230 47 U.S. Code 230], the big federal statute on Big Tech.

(a)Findings
The Congress finds the following:
(1)The rapidly developing array of Internet and other interactive computer services available to individual Americans represent an extraordinary advance in the availability of educational and informational resources to our citizens.
(2)These services offer users a great degree of control over the information that they receive, as well as the potential for even greater control in the future as technology develops.
(3)The Internet and other interactive computer services offer a forum for a true diversity of political discourse, unique opportunities for cultural development, and myriad avenues for intellectual activity.
(4)The Internet and other interactive computer services have flourished, to the benefit of all Americans, with a minimum of government regulation.
(5)Increasingly Americans are relying on interactive media for a variety of political, educational, cultural, and entertainment services.
(b)Policy
It is the policy of the United States—
(1)to promote the continued development of the Internet and other interactive computer services and other interactive media;
(2)to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet and other interactive computer services, unfettered by Federal or State regulation;
(3)to encourage the development of technologies which maximize user control over what information is received by individuals, families, and schools who use the Internet and other interactive computer services;
(4)to remove disincentives for the development and utilization of blocking and filtering technologies that empower parents to restrict their children’s access to objectionable or inappropriate online material; and
(5)to ensure vigorous enforcement of Federal criminal laws to deter and punish trafficking in obscenity, stalking, and harassment by means of computer.
(c)Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material
(1)Treatment of publisher or speaker
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

(2)Civil liability
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
(A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
(B)any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).[1]
(d)Obligations of interactive computer service
A provider of interactive computer service shall, at the time of entering an agreement with a customer for the provision of interactive computer service and in a manner deemed appropriate by the provider, notify such customer that parental control protections (such as computer hardware, software, or filtering services) are commercially available that may assist the customer in limiting access to material that is harmful to minors. Such notice shall identify, or provide the customer with access to information identifying, current providers of such protections.

(e)Effect on other laws
(1)No effect on criminal law
Nothing in this section shall be construed to impair the enforcement of section 223 or 231 of this title, chapter 71 (relating to obscenity) or 110 (relating to sexual exploitation of children) of title 18, or any other Federal criminal statute.

(2)No effect on intellectual property law
Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or expand any law pertaining to intellectual property.

(3)State law
Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any State from enforcing any State law that is consistent with this section. No cause of action may be brought and no liability may be imposed under any State or local law that is inconsistent with this section.

(4)No effect on communications privacy law
Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the application of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 or any of the amendments made by such Act, or any similar State law.

(5)No effect on sex trafficking law
Nothing in this section (other than subsection (c)(2)(A)) shall be construed to impair or limit—
(A)any claim in a civil action brought under section 1595 of title 18, if the conduct underlying the claim constitutes a violation of section 1591 of that title;
(B)any charge in a criminal prosecution brought under State law if the conduct underlying the charge would constitute a violation of section 1591 of title 18; or
(C)any charge in a criminal prosecution brought under State law if the conduct underlying the charge would constitute a violation of section 2421A of title 18, and promotion or facilitation of prostitution is illegal in the jurisdiction where the defendant’s promotion or facilitation of prostitution was targeted.
(f)Definitions
As used in this section:
(1)Internet
The term “Internet” means the international computer network of both Federal and non-Federal interoperable packet switched data networks.

(2)Interactive computer service
The term “interactive computer service” means any information service, system, or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server, including specifically a service or system that provides access to the Internet and such systems operated or services offered by libraries or educational institutions.

(3)Information content provider
The term “information content provider” means any person or entity that is responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information provided through the Internet or any other interactive computer service.

(4)Access software provider
The term “access software provider” means a provider of software (including client or server software), or enabling tools that do any one or more of the following:
(A)filter, screen, allow, or disallow content;
(B)pick, choose, analyze, or digest content; or
(C)transmit, receive, display, forward, cache, search, subset, organize, reorganize, or translate content.
(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title II, § 230, as added Pub. L. 104–104, title V, § 509, Feb. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 137; amended Pub. L. 105–277, div. C, title XIV, § 1404(a), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–739; Pub. L. 115–164, § 4(a), Apr. 11, 2018, 132 Stat. 1254.)

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==Ohio case==
*[https://rasmusen.org/special/common_carriers/ohio_case.pdf Here] it is.

==Moody v. Netchoice (Florida vs. TechLords)==

== Paxton v. Netchoice (Texas vs. BigTech)==
*NetChoice LLC et al v. Paxton, Judge Robert Pitman, Western District of Texas (Austin), CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:21-cv-00840. In the 5th Circuit it is case 21-51178.

*Professor Eric Goldman of Santa Clara Law has a [https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/12/court-enjoins-texas-attempt-to-censor-social-media-and-the-opinion-is-a-major-development-in-internet-law-netchoice-v-paxton.htm nice summary and links to key documents]. See also the [https://netchoice.org/netchoice-and-ccia-v-paxton-resource-page/ netchoice.org] page.

*[https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3591&context=historical Netchoice opinion in District Court]

*[https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/11/catching-up-on-netchoice-v-paxton-the-challenge-to-texas-social-media-censorship-law.htm Goldman on Netchoice v. Paxton] nov. 2021.

*[https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/09/texas-enacts-social-media-censorship-law-to-benefit-anti-vaxxers-spammers.htm Goldman on Texas statute,] September 2021.

*[https://netchoice.org/netchoice-and-ccia-v-paxton-resource-page/ Netchoice v. Paxton link page.]

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=== The Texas Statute===
The statute is [https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/872/billtext/pdf/HB00020F.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2T8jh6OcicifErYrbUzI5spLt4cDGzMH_RQ1pMdubg8luoM2VI8uIQzAU#navpanes=0 here]:
<pre>
Sec. 143A.002. CENSORSHIP PROHIBITED. (a) A social media platform or interactive computer service may not censor a user, a user's expression, or a user's ability to receive the expression of another person based on:
(1) the viewpoint of the user or another person;
(2) the viewpoint represented in the user's expression
or another person's expression; or
(3) a user's geographic location in this state or any part of this state.
(b) This section applies regardless of whether the
viewpoint is expressed on a social media platform or interactive
computer service or through any other medium.
</pre>

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==Evidence==
*[https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/29/dr-robert-malone-renowned-physician-and-inventor-of-mrna-technology-permanently-banned-from-twitter/ "dr-robert-malone-renowned-physician-and-inventor-of-mrna-technology-permanently-banned-from-twitter/"]

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==Facts==
*[https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2021/11/15/youtube-cuts-off-the-best-real-time-legal-coverage-of-rittenhouse-trial-and-immediately-regrets-it-n1533042 "youtube-cuts-off-the-best-real-time-legal-coverage-of-rittenhouse-trial-and-immediately-regrets-it,"] PJMedia (Nov. 15, 2021):
{{Quotation|
Right after Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger began his closing statement in the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial, YouTube cut off channels that were beating legacy media channels. Coincidence?
The Rekieta Law channel, which features multiple lawyers doing real-time analysis of the trial, often beat the number of people watching the PBS stream. The PBS stream is one of the more reliable ones available to YouTube users and was being used by several outlets.
After getting cut off, Nick Rekieta reminded YouTube that ten lawyers considered it a breach of contract.

...

Ticking off channels featuring dozens of lawyers seemed like a bad business plan. Within a few minutes, the stream was put back up after Rekieta reminded the tech giant that the courtroom coverage was public property and therefore not under copyright.}}

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*[https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stunning-facebook-court-filing-admits-fact-checks-are-just-matter-opinion Stossel defamation case admission] by Facebook that its factcheckers are just opinion-listers. The [https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3543&context=historical complaint] is this. The [https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Facebook-admits-its-fact-check-is-opinion-page-2.pdf motion to dismiss].

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==Statutory History==
*[https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7213938/2020-09-17-Cox-Wyden-FCC-Reply-Comments-Final-2.pdf "2020 09 17 Cox Wyden FCC Reply Comments], (2020).

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==Regulations==
asdsdfsd

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==Commentary==
*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3961703 "Section 230’s Application to States’ Regulation of Social Media,] Eric Goldman,
Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper, 14 Nov 2021).

*[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211030/01585247847/scale-content-moderation-is-unfathomable.shtml "The Scale Of Content Moderation Is Unfathomable: from the it's-way-more-than-you-think dept,"] TechDirt.com, (Nov 2nd 2021) Mike Masnick.

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==Litigation Strategy==
* The idea is for someone to sue Facebook or Twitter for defamation. The plaintiff would be somebody, preferably not a public figure in any way, who was clearly defamed by someone posting on defendant's website (let's use Twitter for concreteness). Twitter would move to dismiss on the grounds that they are immune by statute from liability for defamation by somebody posting on their website, and perhaps immune for some common law reason such as that they can't be expected to police content any more than somebody polices the graffiti on the wall of their warehouse. The response would be that Twitter has forfeited its immunity because it actually *does* police content, and not just for obscenity, but for correctness of political content, so it has shown itself willing and able to do so. THus, Twitter is actually a content provider with editorial control like a magazine, not a neutral software provider. This is a question of fact, which must be decided by a jury.

The purpose would not be to win the particular lawsuit, but to establish in a court of law that Twitter is liable for defamatory content. If this could get beyond motion to dismiss, it would allow Discovery of Twitter's internal documents and practices and publicity about them at trial, even if it lost in the end. It would prepare the way for Twitter to be treated by courts and regulated by the government as a common carrier (though that of course raises the additional issue of whether it is a natural monopoly).

A big thing is to find a test case which would not be dismissed for other reasons--- so it would be good to find defamation per se (false accusation of a crime, say), of a private figure, with a false statement of fact not opinion, etc., which was widely circulated, with a plaintiff in a favorable state and federal circuit.

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==Caselaw==
*[https://blog.ericgoldman.org/ Eric Goldman's blog]

*[https://twitter.com/Section_230 Section 230 Twitter]

*[https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=316680 Page v. Oath], 2021 WL 528472 (Del. Superior Ct. Feb. 11, 2021).

*[https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/california/candce/5:2006cv03926/181461/117/0.pdf IO Group v. Veoh Networks], 5:2006cv03926 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 27, 2008) .

*[https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1958442027646479582 Blumenthal v. Drudge] (1998)

* [https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2950&context=historical Downs v. Oath], 2019 WL 2209206 (S.D.N.Y. May 22, 2019)

*[UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Veoh Networks, Inc]., 2008 WL 5423841 (C.D. Cal. Dec. 29, 2008)
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===Judge Thomas (2021)===
[https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-197_5ie6.pdf Thomas, J. ] in Biden v. Knight (2021):
{{Quotation|
If part of the problem is private, concentrated control over online content and platforms available to the public, then part of the solution may be found in doctrines that limit the right of a private company to exclude. Historically, at least two legal doctrines limited a company’s right to exclude. First, our legal system and its British predecessor have long subjected certain businesses, known as common carriers, to special regulations, including a general requirement to serve all comers. Candeub, Bargaining for Free Speech: Common Carriage, Network Neutrality, and Section 230, 22 ''Yale J. L. & Tech.'' 391, 398–403 (2020) (Candeub); see also Burdick, The Origin of the Peculiar Duties of Public Service Companies, Pt. 1, 11 ''Colum. L. Rev.'' 514 (1911). Justifications for these regulations have varied. Some scholars have argued that common-carrier regulations are justified only when a carrier possesses substantial market power. Candeub 404. Others have said that no substantial market power is needed so long as the company holds itself out as open to the public. Ibid.; see also ''Ingate v. Christie, 3 Car. & K''. 61, 63, 175 Eng. Rep. 463, 464 (N. P. 1850) (“[A] person [who] holds himself out to carry goods for everyone as a business . . . is a common carrier”). And this Court long ago suggested that regulations like those placed on common carriers may be justified, even for industries not historically recognized as common carriers, when “a business, by circumstances and its nature, . . . rise[s] from private to be of public concern.” See ''German Alliance Ins. Co. v. Lewis,'' 233 U. S. 389, 411 (1914) (affirming state regulation of fire insurance rates). At that point, a company’s “property is but its instrument, the means of rendering the service which has become of public interest.” Id., at 408.

This latter definition of course is hardly helpful, for most things can be described as “of public interest.” But whatever may be said of other industries, there is clear historical precedent for regulating transportation and communications networks in a similar manner as traditional common carriers. Candeub 398–405. Telegraphs, for example, because they “resemble[d] railroad companies and other common carriers,” were “bound to serve all customers alike, without discrimination.” ''Primrose v. Western Union Telegraph Co''., 154 U. S. 1, 14 (1894).footnote 2

Footnote 2 This Court has been inconsistent about whether telegraphs were common carriers. Compare ''Primrose'', 154 U. S., at 14, with ''Moore v. New York Cotton Exchange'', 270 U. S. 593, 605 (1926). But the Court has consistently recognized that ]y from certain types of suits”Footnote3 or to regulations that make it more difficult for other companies to compete with the carrier (such as franchise licenses). Ibid. By giving these companies special privileges, governments place them into a category distinct from other companies and closer to some functions, like the postal service, that the State has traditionally undertaken. Second, governments have limited a company’s right to exclude when that company is a public accommodation. This concept—related to common-carrier law—applies to companies that hold themselves out to the public but do not “carry” freight, passengers, or communications. See, e.g., ''Civil Rights Cases,'' 109 U. S. 3, 41–43 (1883) (Harlan, J., dissenting) (discussing places of public amusement). It also applies regardless of the company’s market power. See, e.g., 78 Stat. 243, 42 U. S. C. §2000a(a).

Footnote 3T elegraphs, for example, historically received some protection from defamation suits. Unlike other entities that might retransmit defamatory content, they were liable only if they knew or had reason to know that a message they distributed was defamatory. Restatement (Second) of Torts §581 (1976); see also ''O’Brien v. Western Union Tel. Co.,'' 113 F. 2d 539, 542 (CA1 1940).

B.

Internet platforms of course have their own First Amendment interests, but regulations that might affect speech are valid if they would have been permissible at the time of the founding. See ''United States v. Stevens'', 559 U. S. 460, 468 (2010). The long history in this country and in England of restricting the exclusion right of common carriers and places of public accommodation may save similar regulations today from triggering heightened scrutiny—especially where a restriction would not prohibit the company from speaking or force the company to endorse the speech. See ''Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC'', 512 U. S. 622, 684 (1994) (O’Connor, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part); ''PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins'', 447 U. S. 74, 88 (1980). There is a fair argument that some digital platforms are sufficiently akin to common carriers or places of accommodation to be regulated in this manner.

1.

In many ways, digital platforms that hold themselves out to the public resemble traditional common carriers.

Though digital instead of physical, they are at bottom communications networks, and they “carry” information from one user to another. A traditional telephone company laid physical wires to create a network connecting people. Digital platforms lay information infrastructure that can be controlled in much the same way. And unlike newspapers, digital platforms hold themselves out as organizations that focus on distributing the speech of the broader public. Federal law dictates that companies cannot “be treated as the publisher or speaker” of information that they merely distribute. 110 Stat. 137, 47 U. S. C. §230(c). The analogy to common carriers is even clearer for digital platforms that have dominant market share. Similar to utilities, today’s dominant digital platforms derive much of their value from network size. The Internet, of course, is a network. But these digital platforms are networks within that network. The Facebook suite of apps is valuable largely because 3 billion people use it. Google search—at 90% of the market share—is valuable relative to other search engines because more people use it, creating data that Google’s algorithm uses to refine and improve search results. These network effects entrench these companies. Ordinarily, the astronomical profit margins of these platforms—last year, Google brought in $182.5 billion total, $40.3 billion in net income—would induce new entrants into the market. That these companies have no comparable competitors highlights that the industries may have substantial barriers to entry.

To be sure, much activity on the Internet derives value from network effects. But dominant digital platforms are different. Unlike decentralized digital spheres, such as the e-mail protocol, control of these networks is highly concentrated. Although both companies are public, one person controls Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg), and just two control Google (Larry Page and Sergey Brin). No small group of people controls e-mail.

Much like with a communications utility, this concentration gives some digital platforms enormous control over speech. When a user does not already know exactly where to find something on the Internet—and users rarely do— Google is the gatekeeper between that user and the speech of others 90% of the time. It can suppress content by deindexing or downlisting a search result or by steering users away from certain content by manually altering autocomplete results. Grind, Schechner, McMillan, & West, How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results, ''Wall Street Journal,'' Nov. 15, 2019. Facebook and Twitter can greatly narrow a person’s information flow through similar means. And, as the distributor of the clear majority of e-books and about half of all physical books,Footnote4 Amazon can impose cataclysmic consequences on authors by, among other things, blocking a listing.


Footnote4 As of 2018, Amazon had 42% of the physical book market and 89% of the e-book market. Day & Gu, The Enormous Numbers Behind Amazon’s Market Reach, Bloomberg, Mar. 27, 2019.

It changes nothing that these platforms are not the sole means for distributing speech or information. A person always could choose to avoid the toll bridge or train and instead swim the Charles River or hike the Oregon Trail. But in assessing whether a company exercises substantial market power, what matters is whether the alternatives are comparable. For many of today’s digital platforms, nothing is.

If the analogy between common carriers and digital platforms is correct, then an answer may arise for dissatisfied platform users who would appreciate not being blocked: laws that restrict the platform’s right to exclude. When a platform’s unilateral control is reduced, a government official’s account begins to better resemble a “government-controlled spac[e].” ''Mansky,'' 585 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 7); see also Southeastern Promotions, 420 U. S., at 547, 555
(recognizing that a private space can become a public forum when leased to the government). Common-carrier regulations, although they directly restrain private companies, thus may have an indirect effect of subjecting government officials to suits that would not otherwise be cognizable under our public-forum jurisprudence. This analysis may help explain the Second Circuit’s intuition that part of Mr. Trump’s Twitter account was a public forum. But that intuition has problems. First, if market power is a predicate for common carriers (as some scholars suggest), nothing in the record evaluates Twitter’s market power. Second, and more problematic, neither the Second Circuit nor respondents have identified any regulation that restricts Twitter from removing an account that would otherwise be a “government-controlled space.”

2.

Even if digital platforms are not close enough to common carriers, legislatures might still be able to treat digital platforms like places of public accommodation. Although definitions between jurisdictions vary, a company ordinarily is a place of public accommodation if it provides “lodging, food, entertainment, or other services to the public . . . in general.” Black’s Law Dictionary 20 (11th ed. 2019) (defining “public accommodation”); accord, 42 U. S. C. §2000a(b)(3) (covering places of “entertainment”). Twitter and other digital platforms bear resemblance to that definition. This, too, may explain the Second Circuit’s intuition. Courts are split, however, about whether federal accommodations laws apply to anything other than “physical” locations. Compare, e.g., ''Doe v. Mutual of Omaha Ins. Co.'', 179 F. 3d 557, 559 (CA7 1999) (Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) covers websites), with ''Parker v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.'', 121 F. 3d 1006, 1010–1011 (CA6 1997) (en banc) (Title III of the ADA covers only physical places); see also 42 U. S. C. §§2000a(b)–(c) (discussing “physica[l] locat[ions]”).

Once again, a doctrine, such as public accommodation, that reduces the power of a platform to unilaterally remove a government account might strengthen the argument that an account is truly government controlled and creates a public forum. See ''Southeastern Promotions'', 420 U. S., at 547, 555. But no party has identified any public accommodation restriction that applies here.

II.

The similarities between some digital platforms and common carriers or places of public accommodation may give legislators strong arguments for similarly regulating digital platforms. “[I]t stands to reason that if Congress may demand that telephone companies operate as common carriers, it can ask the same of ” digital platforms. ''Turner'', 512 U. S., at 684 (opinion of O’Connor, J.). That is especially true because the space constraints on digital platforms are practically nonexistent (unlike on cable companies), so a regulation restricting a digital platform’s right to exclude might not appreciably impede the platform from speaking.

See id., at 675, 684 (noting restrictions on one-third of a cable company’s channels but recognizing that regulation may still be justified); ''PruneYard,'' 447 U. S., at 88. Yet Congress does not appear to have passed these kinds of regulations. To the contrary, it has given digital platforms “immunity from certain types of suits,” Candeub 403, with respect to content they distribute, 47 U. S. C. §230, but it has not imposed corresponding responsibilities, like nondiscrimination, that would matter here.

None of this analysis means, however, that the First Amendment is irrelevant until a legislature imposes common carrier or public accommodation restrictions—only that the principal means for regulating digital platforms is through those methods. Some speech doctrines might still apply in limited circumstances, as this Court has recognized in the past.

For example, although a “private entity is not ordinarily constrained by the First Amendment,” ''Halleck,'' 587 U. S., at ___, ___ (slip op., at 6, 9), it is if the government coerces or induces it to take action the government itself would not be permitted to do, such as censor expression of a lawful viewpoint. Ibid. Consider government threats. “People do not lightly disregard public officers’ thinly veiled threats to institute criminal proceedings against them if they do not come around.” ''Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan'', 372 U. S. 58, 68 (1963). The government cannot accomplish through threats of adverse government action what the Constitution prohibits it from doing directly. See ibid.; ''Blum v. Yaretsky'', 457 U. S. 991, 1004–1005 (1982). Under this doctrine, plaintiffs might have colorable claims against a digital platform if it took adverse action against them in response to government threats.

But no threat is alleged here. What threats would cause a private choice by a digital platform to “be deemed . . . that of the State” remains unclear. Id., at 1004.5 And no party has sued Twitter. The question facing the courts below involved only whether a government actor violated the First Amendment by blocking another Twitter user. That issue turns, at least to some degree, on ownership and the right to exclude.

Footnote 5 Threats directed at digital platforms can be especially problematic in the light of 47 U. S. C. §230, which some courts have misconstrued to give digital platforms immunity for bad-faith removal of third-party content. ''Malwarebytes, Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC,'' 592 U. S. ___, ___–___ (2020) (THOMAS, J., statement respecting denial of certiorari) (slip op., at 7–8). This immunity eliminates the biggest deterrent— a private lawsuit—against caving to an unconstitutional government threat.

For similar reasons, some commentators have suggested that immunity provisions like §230 could potentially violate the First Amendment to the extent those provisions pre-empt state laws that protect speech from private censorship. See Volokh, Might Federal Preemption of SpeechProtective State Laws Violate the First Amendment? ''The Volokh Conspiracy, Reason'', Jan. 23, 2021. According to that argument, when a State creates a private right and a federal statute pre-empts that state law, “the federal statute is the source of the power and authority by which any private rights are lost or sacrificed.” Railway Employees v.}}

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==Stossel v Meta==
Stossell, represented by Harmeet Dillon, sued Facebook (the Meta company) for defamation because they said their factcheckers found he lied in connection with posts at Climate Feedback. Facebook moved to dismiss, on grounds including that its factchecking was just opinion and that Section 230 gave it immunity anyway.

Consider this in relation to the Texas Netchoice v. Paxton case. There, the defense of the Big Tech companies is that they exercise editorial discretion, just like magazines, and hence for them to be required to be viewpoint-neutral would be compelled speech. In Stossel, Facebook's defence is that Climate Feedback provides the content, Facebook just passively accepts it. These are incompatible.

I hope that someone squarely presents the argument that Facebook has forfeited its Section 230 immunity by becoming an editor. Facebook will argue that it is immune anyway. That is to take the position that it could operate as a webzine and invite free content that it admits it knows is false and defamatory, and still be immune. Indeed, it could even invite people to submit defamatory posts, advertising,

:"Frustrated that you can't libel your private enemies because they'll sue? Publish here on Facebooks's Libelzine site! We're immune from suit, by Section 230. Do it anonymously, with protonmail, and you'll be safe too. Note: we do exercise some editorial discretion. If you libel a Democrat, we won't let you publish."

This, I believe, is Big Tech's current interpretation of Section 230, though they do not advertise this implication.

It goes even further. Under this interpretation, I think, it is not just Facebook that is immune, it is Climate Feedback, if they set themselves up cleverly. Facebook says Climate Feedback provided the content. But did they? If Climate Feedback did not pay its authors, and merely let them post there, or even invited them but did not tell them what to write, then they are not agents of Climate Feedback and so Climate Feedback can push the liability off on the authors. Libelzine can be a stand-alone operation. I, Eric Rasmusen, could set up a website specifically devoted to defaming non-public persons, advertising that fact, and I would be immune from suit, by Section 230.

We could perhaps go a step further, tho I haven't looked closely enough at the exceptions in Section 230 in writing this. How about if Eric Rasmusen sets up a site called Hit Man Central, where people could anonymously advertise their services as murderers for hire? I couldn't profit from it--- I would do it from pure malice-- and I could be subpoena'd for any info I had, but I'd be sure to explain to the content providers how to submit secretly and how to tell clients to get in touch with them.

I do not know Section 230 law much, though I am rapidly learning. The statute itself is poorly written and ambiguous. One literal interpretation is that Facebook can indeed set up Libelzine. An opposite interpretation is is that Section 230 says it does not displace state law, so it doesn't displace defamation law; it only clarifies that Facebook isn't liable for unintentionally allowing the posting of defamatory materials by someone unrelated to Facebook and unencouraged by them.

The purpose of Section 230 seems pretty clear, though: to let internet service providers provide arms-length hosting without having to check all the content in advance. It was to improve information flow, not to worsen it by legalizing defamation. It did not contemplate service providers who operated like newspapers.

*[https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3543&context=historical Stossel complaint]

*[https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Facebook-admits-its-fact-check-is-opinion-page-2.pdf MEta (facebook) motion to dismiss]

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== Examples of Tech Lord Censorship==
*[https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1510055681545719810 Google and Ukraine] (2022)

==Political Bias==
*[https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1518736198361100290 Massive imbalance in campaign contributions]. Source: Data from Open Secrets, a nonprofit political spending database by the Center for Responsive Politics, published in Vox, October 31, 2018.

==Parler's Destruction==
*[https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-show-of-monopolistic?s=w Greenwald on Parler]

==Miscellaneous==

*[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/is-big-tech-censorship-unconstitutional/ National Review on Cato]

*[https://www.cato.org/blog/all-roads-lead-big-government-heritage-takes-big-tech Cato on Heritage on the Lords of Tech]

*""Public Forum" is a term of constitutional significance - it refers to the public space that the govt provides - not a private website at which people congregate. Courts have repeatedly held that social media platforms are not subject to the "public forum doctrine." But what if the government bans private companies from doing something, and then sets up their own public space? What about air waves TV and the FCC?

*It would be quite possible to issue new versions of Windows or the Apple operating system that do not allow you to read articles criticizing the Biden Administration. In fact, they could be written to disallow writing such criticism on them. Do we want to allow that? Think of secondary boycotts in labor law, or the prohibition on cartels in antitrust.

*From [https://netchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NetChoice-v.-Moody-PI-decision.pdf NetChoice v. Moody:] {{Quotation|In Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., 1995 WL 323710, at *3–4 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. May 24, 1995), an anonymous user posted allegedly defamatory content on an electronic bulletin board—an earlier version of what today might be called social media. The court said that if the provider of such a bulletin board did not undertake to review posted content—much as a librarian does not undertake to review all the books in a library—the provider would not be deemed the publisher of a defamatory post, absent sufficient actual knowledge of the defamatory nature of the content at issue. On the facts of that case, though, the provider undertook to screen the posted content—to maintain a “family oriented” site. The court held this subjected the provider to liability as a publisher of the content. At least partly in response to that decision, which was deemed a threat to development of the internet, Congress enacted 47 U.S.C. § 230.}}

*NetChoice v. Moody says that a platform can remove *any* material it considers objectionable, for any reason, including, in particular, that the content provider is someone running for office, under Section 230. If read this way, it would rule out federal and state civil rights laws.

*NetChoice v. Moody: The plaintiffs say—correctly—that they use editorial judgment in making these decisions, much as more traditional media providers use editorial judgment when choosing what to put in or leave out of a publication or broadcast.

*NetChoice v. Moody: {{Quotation|In Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241 (1974), the Court rejected just such an argument, striking down a Florida statute requiring a newspaper to print a candidate’s reply to the newspaper’s unfavorable assertions. }}

*NetChoice v. Moody: {{Quotation|Whatever might be said of the largest providers’ monopolistic conduct, the internet provides a greater opportunity for individuals to publish their views—and for candidates to communicate directly with voters—than existed before the internet arrived.}} But can you get viewers? You get crowded out. It is like anyone being able to say anything they want, but being blocked from newspapers and prohibited from public spaces.

*NetChoice v. Moody: {{Quotation|The third case on the plaintiffs’ side is Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission of California, 475 U.S. 1 (1986). There a public utility included in its billing envelopes its own viewpoint-laden newsletters. The state directed the utility to include in its billing envelopes four times per year a private watchdog organization’s newsletters setting out a viewpoint with which the utility disagreed. The Supreme Court held this unconstitutional. }}

*NetChoice v. Moody: {{Quotation|Similarly, in PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U.S. 74 (1980), a shopping center refused to allow individuals to solicit petition signatures from members of the public at the shopping center. The California Supreme Court held the individuals had the right, under state law, to engage in the proposed activity. The ruling did not compel the shopping center to say anything at all, and the ruling did not prohibit the center from saying anything it wished, when and how it wished. The United States Supreme Court said it was unlikely anyone would attribute the solicitation activities to the shopping center and, with no state action compelling the center to speak or restricting it from doing so, there was no violation of the First Amendment.}}

*NetChoice v. Moody: {{Quotation|Moreover, these statements are consistent with the statutory definition of “social media platform,” which extends only to, and thus makes the legislation applicable only to, large entities—those with $100 million in revenues or 100 million monthly participants. As the Supreme Court has recognized, discrimination between speakers is often a tell for content discrimination....The state has suggested no other basis for imposing these restrictions only on the largest providers. }} Antitrust enters here, and natural monopoly.

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The Common Carrier Theory of Facebook

2022-05-26T13:28:38Z

Erasmuse: /* NetChoice v. Paxton */

==Introduction==
*I should reorganize to have pages on [[Section 230: The Platform Law]] and [[NetChoice v. Moody: Florida]] and [[Biden v. Knight: Thomas Dissent]].

*[https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/12/the-u-s-department-of-justice-defends-section-230s-constitutionality.htm Technology and Marketing Law Blog]

* I should organize a Zoom conference of Common Carrier people for late January. Invite Goldman too. Private conference, no media, just learn. Like publshing each others' amicus briefs in advance.

*[https://www.lawfareblog.com/are-facebook-and-google-state-actors "Are Facebook and Google State Actors?"] Lawfare, Jed Rubenfeld , November 4, 2019.

*[https://twitter.com/AriCohn/status/1466061393233420289 Going to be tweeting through the House Energy & Commerce "Big Tech" hearing ]

*[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230 47 U.S. Code 230], the big federal statute on Big Tech.

(a)Findings
The Congress finds the following:
(1)The rapidly developing array of Internet and other interactive computer services available to individual Americans represent an extraordinary advance in the availability of educational and informational resources to our citizens.
(2)These services offer users a great degree of control over the information that they receive, as well as the potential for even greater control in the future as technology develops.
(3)The Internet and other interactive computer services offer a forum for a true diversity of political discourse, unique opportunities for cultural development, and myriad avenues for intellectual activity.
(4)The Internet and other interactive computer services have flourished, to the benefit of all Americans, with a minimum of government regulation.
(5)Increasingly Americans are relying on interactive media for a variety of political, educational, cultural, and entertainment services.
(b)Policy
It is the policy of the United States—
(1)to promote the continued development of the Internet and other interactive computer services and other interactive media;
(2)to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet and other interactive computer services, unfettered by Federal or State regulation;
(3)to encourage the development of technologies which maximize user control over what information is received by individuals, families, and schools who use the Internet and other interactive computer services;
(4)to remove disincentives for the development and utilization of blocking and filtering technologies that empower parents to restrict their children’s access to objectionable or inappropriate online material; and
(5)to ensure vigorous enforcement of Federal criminal laws to deter and punish trafficking in obscenity, stalking, and harassment by means of computer.
(c)Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material
(1)Treatment of publisher or speaker
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

(2)Civil liability
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
(A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
(B)any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).[1]
(d)Obligations of interactive computer service
A provider of interactive computer service shall, at the time of entering an agreement with a customer for the provision of interactive computer service and in a manner deemed appropriate by the provider, notify such customer that parental control protections (such as computer hardware, software, or filtering services) are commercially available that may assist the customer in limiting access to material that is harmful to minors. Such notice shall identify, or provide the customer with access to information identifying, current providers of such protections.

(e)Effect on other laws
(1)No effect on criminal law
Nothing in this section shall be construed to impair the enforcement of section 223 or 231 of this title, chapter 71 (relating to obscenity) or 110 (relating to sexual exploitation of children) of title 18, or any other Federal criminal statute.

(2)No effect on intellectual property law
Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or expand any law pertaining to intellectual property.

(3)State law
Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any State from enforcing any State law that is consistent with this section. No cause of action may be brought and no liability may be imposed under any State or local law that is inconsistent with this section.

(4)No effect on communications privacy law
Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the application of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 or any of the amendments made by such Act, or any similar State law.

(5)No effect on sex trafficking law
Nothing in this section (other than subsection (c)(2)(A)) shall be construed to impair or limit—
(A)any claim in a civil action brought under section 1595 of title 18, if the conduct underlying the claim constitutes a violation of section 1591 of that title;
(B)any charge in a criminal prosecution brought under State law if the conduct underlying the charge would constitute a violation of section 1591 of title 18; or
(C)any charge in a criminal prosecution brought under State law if the conduct underlying the charge would constitute a violation of section 2421A of title 18, and promotion or facilitation of prostitution is illegal in the jurisdiction where the defendant’s promotion or facilitation of prostitution was targeted.
(f)Definitions
As used in this section:
(1)Internet
The term “Internet” means the international computer network of both Federal and non-Federal interoperable packet switched data networks.

(2)Interactive computer service
The term “interactive computer service” means any information service, system, or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server, including specifically a service or system that provides access to the Internet and such systems operated or services offered by libraries or educational institutions.

(3)Information content provider
The term “information content provider” means any person or entity that is responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information provided through the Internet or any other interactive computer service.

(4)Access software provider
The term “access software provider” means a provider of software (including client or server software), or enabling tools that do any one or more of the following:
(A)filter, screen, allow, or disallow content;
(B)pick, choose, analyze, or digest content; or
(C)transmit, receive, display, forward, cache, search, subset, organize, reorganize, or translate content.
(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title II, § 230, as added Pub. L. 104–104, title V, § 509, Feb. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 137; amended Pub. L. 105–277, div. C, title XIV, § 1404(a), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–739; Pub. L. 115–164, § 4(a), Apr. 11, 2018, 132 Stat. 1254.)

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==Ohio case==
*[https://rasmusen.org/common_carriers/ohio_case.pdf Here] it is.

==Moody v. Netchoice (Florida vs. TechLords)==

== Paxton v. Netchoice (Texas vs. BigTech)==
*NetChoice LLC et al v. Paxton, Judge Robert Pitman, Western District of Texas (Austin), CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:21-cv-00840. In the 5th Circuit it is case 21-51178.

*Professor Eric Goldman of Santa Clara Law has a [https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/12/court-enjoins-texas-attempt-to-censor-social-media-and-the-opinion-is-a-major-development-in-internet-law-netchoice-v-paxton.htm nice summary and links to key documents]. See also the [https://netchoice.org/netchoice-and-ccia-v-paxton-resource-page/ netchoice.org] page.

*[https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3591&context=historical Netchoice opinion in District Court]

*[https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/11/catching-up-on-netchoice-v-paxton-the-challenge-to-texas-social-media-censorship-law.htm Goldman on Netchoice v. Paxton] nov. 2021.

*[https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/09/texas-enacts-social-media-censorship-law-to-benefit-anti-vaxxers-spammers.htm Goldman on Texas statute,] September 2021.

*[https://netchoice.org/netchoice-and-ccia-v-paxton-resource-page/ Netchoice v. Paxton link page.]

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=== The Texas Statute===
The statute is [https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/872/billtext/pdf/HB00020F.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2T8jh6OcicifErYrbUzI5spLt4cDGzMH_RQ1pMdubg8luoM2VI8uIQzAU#navpanes=0 here]:
<pre>
Sec. 143A.002. CENSORSHIP PROHIBITED. (a) A social media platform or interactive computer service may not censor a user, a user's expression, or a user's ability to receive the expression of another person based on:
(1) the viewpoint of the user or another person;
(2) the viewpoint represented in the user's expression
or another person's expression; or
(3) a user's geographic location in this state or any part of this state.
(b) This section applies regardless of whether the
viewpoint is expressed on a social media platform or interactive
computer service or through any other medium.
</pre>

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==Evidence==
*[https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/29/dr-robert-malone-renowned-physician-and-inventor-of-mrna-technology-permanently-banned-from-twitter/ "dr-robert-malone-renowned-physician-and-inventor-of-mrna-technology-permanently-banned-from-twitter/"]

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==Facts==
*[https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2021/11/15/youtube-cuts-off-the-best-real-time-legal-coverage-of-rittenhouse-trial-and-immediately-regrets-it-n1533042 "youtube-cuts-off-the-best-real-time-legal-coverage-of-rittenhouse-trial-and-immediately-regrets-it,"] PJMedia (Nov. 15, 2021):
{{Quotation|
Right after Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger began his closing statement in the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial, YouTube cut off channels that were beating legacy media channels. Coincidence?
The Rekieta Law channel, which features multiple lawyers doing real-time analysis of the trial, often beat the number of people watching the PBS stream. The PBS stream is one of the more reliable ones available to YouTube users and was being used by several outlets.
After getting cut off, Nick Rekieta reminded YouTube that ten lawyers considered it a breach of contract.

...

Ticking off channels featuring dozens of lawyers seemed like a bad business plan. Within a few minutes, the stream was put back up after Rekieta reminded the tech giant that the courtroom coverage was public property and therefore not under copyright.}}

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*[https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stunning-facebook-court-filing-admits-fact-checks-are-just-matter-opinion Stossel defamation case admission] by Facebook that its factcheckers are just opinion-listers. The [https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3543&context=historical complaint] is this. The [https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Facebook-admits-its-fact-check-is-opinion-page-2.pdf motion to dismiss].

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==Statutory History==
*[https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7213938/2020-09-17-Cox-Wyden-FCC-Reply-Comments-Final-2.pdf "2020 09 17 Cox Wyden FCC Reply Comments], (2020).

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==Regulations==
asdsdfsd

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==Commentary==
*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3961703 "Section 230’s Application to States’ Regulation of Social Media,] Eric Goldman,
Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper, 14 Nov 2021).

*[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211030/01585247847/scale-content-moderation-is-unfathomable.shtml "The Scale Of Content Moderation Is Unfathomable: from the it's-way-more-than-you-think dept,"] TechDirt.com, (Nov 2nd 2021) Mike Masnick.

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==Litigation Strategy==
* The idea is for someone to sue Facebook or Twitter for defamation. The plaintiff would be somebody, preferably not a public figure in any way, who was clearly defamed by someone posting on defendant's website (let's use Twitter for concreteness). Twitter would move to dismiss on the grounds that they are immune by statute from liability for defamation by somebody posting on their website, and perhaps immune for some common law reason such as that they can't be expected to police content any more than somebody polices the graffiti on the wall of their warehouse. The response would be that Twitter has forfeited its immunity because it actually *does* police content, and not just for obscenity, but for correctness of political content, so it has shown itself willing and able to do so. THus, Twitter is actually a content provider with editorial control like a magazine, not a neutral software provider. This is a question of fact, which must be decided by a jury.

The purpose would not be to win the particular lawsuit, but to establish in a court of law that Twitter is liable for defamatory content. If this could get beyond motion to dismiss, it would allow Discovery of Twitter's internal documents and practices and publicity about them at trial, even if it lost in the end. It would prepare the way for Twitter to be treated by courts and regulated by the government as a common carrier (though that of course raises the additional issue of whether it is a natural monopoly).

A big thing is to find a test case which would not be dismissed for other reasons--- so it would be good to find defamation per se (false accusation of a crime, say), of a private figure, with a false statement of fact not opinion, etc., which was widely circulated, with a plaintiff in a favorable state and federal circuit.

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==Caselaw==
*[https://blog.ericgoldman.org/ Eric Goldman's blog]

*[https://twitter.com/Section_230 Section 230 Twitter]

*[https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=316680 Page v. Oath], 2021 WL 528472 (Del. Superior Ct. Feb. 11, 2021).

*[https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/california/candce/5:2006cv03926/181461/117/0.pdf IO Group v. Veoh Networks], 5:2006cv03926 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 27, 2008) .

*[https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1958442027646479582 Blumenthal v. Drudge] (1998)

* [https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2950&context=historical Downs v. Oath], 2019 WL 2209206 (S.D.N.Y. May 22, 2019)

*[UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Veoh Networks, Inc]., 2008 WL 5423841 (C.D. Cal. Dec. 29, 2008)
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===Judge Thomas (2021)===
[https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-197_5ie6.pdf Thomas, J. ] in Biden v. Knight (2021):
{{Quotation|
If part of the problem is private, concentrated control over online content and platforms available to the public, then part of the solution may be found in doctrines that limit the right of a private company to exclude. Historically, at least two legal doctrines limited a company’s right to exclude. First, our legal system and its British predecessor have long subjected certain businesses, known as common carriers, to special regulations, including a general requirement to serve all comers. Candeub, Bargaining for Free Speech: Common Carriage, Network Neutrality, and Section 230, 22 ''Yale J. L. & Tech.'' 391, 398–403 (2020) (Candeub); see also Burdick, The Origin of the Peculiar Duties of Public Service Companies, Pt. 1, 11 ''Colum. L. Rev.'' 514 (1911). Justifications for these regulations have varied. Some scholars have argued that common-carrier regulations are justified only when a carrier possesses substantial market power. Candeub 404. Others have said that no substantial market power is needed so long as the company holds itself out as open to the public. Ibid.; see also ''Ingate v. Christie, 3 Car. & K''. 61, 63, 175 Eng. Rep. 463, 464 (N. P. 1850) (“[A] person [who] holds himself out to carry goods for everyone as a business . . . is a common carrier”). And this Court long ago suggested that regulations like those placed on common carriers may be justified, even for industries not historically recognized as common carriers, when “a business, by circumstances and its nature, . . . rise[s] from private to be of public concern.” See ''German Alliance Ins. Co. v. Lewis,'' 233 U. S. 389, 411 (1914) (affirming state regulation of fire insurance rates). At that point, a company’s “property is but its instrument, the means of rendering the service which has become of public interest.” Id., at 408.

This latter definition of course is hardly helpful, for most things can be described as “of public interest.” But whatever may be said of other industries, there is clear historical precedent for regulating transportation and communications networks in a similar manner as traditional common carriers. Candeub 398–405. Telegraphs, for example, because they “resemble[d] railroad companies and other common carriers,” were “bound to serve all customers alike, without discrimination.” ''Primrose v. Western Union Telegraph Co''., 154 U. S. 1, 14 (1894).footnote 2

Footnote 2 This Court has been inconsistent about whether telegraphs were common carriers. Compare ''Primrose'', 154 U. S., at 14, with ''Moore v. New York Cotton Exchange'', 270 U. S. 593, 605 (1926). But the Court has consistently recognized that ]y from certain types of suits”Footnote3 or to regulations that make it more difficult for other companies to compete with the carrier (such as franchise licenses). Ibid. By giving these companies special privileges, governments place them into a category distinct from other companies and closer to some functions, like the postal service, that the State has traditionally undertaken. Second, governments have limited a company’s right to exclude when that company is a public accommodation. This concept—related to common-carrier law—applies to companies that hold themselves out to the public but do not “carry” freight, passengers, or communications. See, e.g., ''Civil Rights Cases,'' 109 U. S. 3, 41–43 (1883) (Harlan, J., dissenting) (discussing places of public amusement). It also applies regardless of the company’s market power. See, e.g., 78 Stat. 243, 42 U. S. C. §2000a(a).

Footnote 3T elegraphs, for example, historically received some protection from defamation suits. Unlike other entities that might retransmit defamatory content, they were liable only if they knew or had reason to know that a message they distributed was defamatory. Restatement (Second) of Torts §581 (1976); see also ''O’Brien v. Western Union Tel. Co.,'' 113 F. 2d 539, 542 (CA1 1940).

B.

Internet platforms of course have their own First Amendment interests, but regulations that might affect speech are valid if they would have been permissible at the time of the founding. See ''United States v. Stevens'', 559 U. S. 460, 468 (2010). The long history in this country and in England of restricting the exclusion right of common carriers and places of public accommodation may save similar regulations today from triggering heightened scrutiny—especially where a restriction would not prohibit the company from speaking or force the company to endorse the speech. See ''Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC'', 512 U. S. 622, 684 (1994) (O’Connor, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part); ''PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins'', 447 U. S. 74, 88 (1980). There is a fair argument that some digital platforms are sufficiently akin to common carriers or places of accommodation to be regulated in this manner.

1.

In many ways, digital platforms that hold themselves out to the public resemble traditional common carriers.

Though digital instead of physical, they are at bottom communications networks, and they “carry” information from one user to another. A traditional telephone company laid physical wires to create a network connecting people. Digital platforms lay information infrastructure that can be controlled in much the same way. And unlike newspapers, digital platforms hold themselves out as organizations that focus on distributing the speech of the broader public. Federal law dictates that companies cannot “be treated as the publisher or speaker” of information that they merely distribute. 110 Stat. 137, 47 U. S. C. §230(c). The analogy to common carriers is even clearer for digital platforms that have dominant market share. Similar to utilities, today’s dominant digital platforms derive much of their value from network size. The Internet, of course, is a network. But these digital platforms are networks within that network. The Facebook suite of apps is valuable largely because 3 billion people use it. Google search—at 90% of the market share—is valuable relative to other search engines because more people use it, creating data that Google’s algorithm uses to refine and improve search results. These network effects entrench these companies. Ordinarily, the astronomical profit margins of these platforms—last year, Google brought in $182.5 billion total, $40.3 billion in net income—would induce new entrants into the market. That these companies have no comparable competitors highlights that the industries may have substantial barriers to entry.

To be sure, much activity on the Internet derives value from network effects. But dominant digital platforms are different. Unlike decentralized digital spheres, such as the e-mail protocol, control of these networks is highly concentrated. Although both companies are public, one person controls Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg), and just two control Google (Larry Page and Sergey Brin). No small group of people controls e-mail.

Much like with a communications utility, this concentration gives some digital platforms enormous control over speech. When a user does not already know exactly where to find something on the Internet—and users rarely do— Google is the gatekeeper between that user and the speech of others 90% of the time. It can suppress content by deindexing or downlisting a search result or by steering users away from certain content by manually altering autocomplete results. Grind, Schechner, McMillan, & West, How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results, ''Wall Street Journal,'' Nov. 15, 2019. Facebook and Twitter can greatly narrow a person’s information flow through similar means. And, as the distributor of the clear majority of e-books and about half of all physical books,Footnote4 Amazon can impose cataclysmic consequences on authors by, among other things, blocking a listing.


Footnote4 As of 2018, Amazon had 42% of the physical book market and 89% of the e-book market. Day & Gu, The Enormous Numbers Behind Amazon’s Market Reach, Bloomberg, Mar. 27, 2019.

It changes nothing that these platforms are not the sole means for distributing speech or information. A person always could choose to avoid the toll bridge or train and instead swim the Charles River or hike the Oregon Trail. But in assessing whether a company exercises substantial market power, what matters is whether the alternatives are comparable. For many of today’s digital platforms, nothing is.

If the analogy between common carriers and digital platforms is correct, then an answer may arise for dissatisfied platform users who would appreciate not being blocked: laws that restrict the platform’s right to exclude. When a platform’s unilateral control is reduced, a government official’s account begins to better resemble a “government-controlled spac[e].” ''Mansky,'' 585 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 7); see also Southeastern Promotions, 420 U. S., at 547, 555
(recognizing that a private space can become a public forum when leased to the government). Common-carrier regulations, although they directly restrain private companies, thus may have an indirect effect of subjecting government officials to suits that would not otherwise be cognizable under our public-forum jurisprudence. This analysis may help explain the Second Circuit’s intuition that part of Mr. Trump’s Twitter account was a public forum. But that intuition has problems. First, if market power is a predicate for common carriers (as some scholars suggest), nothing in the record evaluates Twitter’s market power. Second, and more problematic, neither the Second Circuit nor respondents have identified any regulation that restricts Twitter from removing an account that would otherwise be a “government-controlled space.”

2.

Even if digital platforms are not close enough to common carriers, legislatures might still be able to treat digital platforms like places of public accommodation. Although definitions between jurisdictions vary, a company ordinarily is a place of public accommodation if it provides “lodging, food, entertainment, or other services to the public . . . in general.” Black’s Law Dictionary 20 (11th ed. 2019) (defining “public accommodation”); accord, 42 U. S. C. §2000a(b)(3) (covering places of “entertainment”). Twitter and other digital platforms bear resemblance to that definition. This, too, may explain the Second Circuit’s intuition. Courts are split, however, about whether federal accommodations laws apply to anything other than “physical” locations. Compare, e.g., ''Doe v. Mutual of Omaha Ins. Co.'', 179 F. 3d 557, 559 (CA7 1999) (Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) covers websites), with ''Parker v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.'', 121 F. 3d 1006, 1010–1011 (CA6 1997) (en banc) (Title III of the ADA covers only physical places); see also 42 U. S. C. §§2000a(b)–(c) (discussing “physica[l] locat[ions]”).

Once again, a doctrine, such as public accommodation, that reduces the power of a platform to unilaterally remove a government account might strengthen the argument that an account is truly government controlled and creates a public forum. See ''Southeastern Promotions'', 420 U. S., at 547, 555. But no party has identified any public accommodation restriction that applies here.

II.

The similarities between some digital platforms and common carriers or places of public accommodation may give legislators strong arguments for similarly regulating digital platforms. “[I]t stands to reason that if Congress may demand that telephone companies operate as common carriers, it can ask the same of ” digital platforms. ''Turner'', 512 U. S., at 684 (opinion of O’Connor, J.). That is especially true because the space constraints on digital platforms are practically nonexistent (unlike on cable companies), so a regulation restricting a digital platform’s right to exclude might not appreciably impede the platform from speaking.

See id., at 675, 684 (noting restrictions on one-third of a cable company’s channels but recognizing that regulation may still be justified); ''PruneYard,'' 447 U. S., at 88. Yet Congress does not appear to have passed these kinds of regulations. To the contrary, it has given digital platforms “immunity from certain types of suits,” Candeub 403, with respect to content they distribute, 47 U. S. C. §230, but it has not imposed corresponding responsibilities, like nondiscrimination, that would matter here.

None of this analysis means, however, that the First Amendment is irrelevant until a legislature imposes common carrier or public accommodation restrictions—only that the principal means for regulating digital platforms is through those methods. Some speech doctrines might still apply in limited circumstances, as this Court has recognized in the past.

For example, although a “private entity is not ordinarily constrained by the First Amendment,” ''Halleck,'' 587 U. S., at ___, ___ (slip op., at 6, 9), it is if the government coerces or induces it to take action the government itself would not be permitted to do, such as censor expression of a lawful viewpoint. Ibid. Consider government threats. “People do not lightly disregard public officers’ thinly veiled threats to institute criminal proceedings against them if they do not come around.” ''Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan'', 372 U. S. 58, 68 (1963). The government cannot accomplish through threats of adverse government action what the Constitution prohibits it from doing directly. See ibid.; ''Blum v. Yaretsky'', 457 U. S. 991, 1004–1005 (1982). Under this doctrine, plaintiffs might have colorable claims against a digital platform if it took adverse action against them in response to government threats.

But no threat is alleged here. What threats would cause a private choice by a digital platform to “be deemed . . . that of the State” remains unclear. Id., at 1004.5 And no party has sued Twitter. The question facing the courts below involved only whether a government actor violated the First Amendment by blocking another Twitter user. That issue turns, at least to some degree, on ownership and the right to exclude.

Footnote 5 Threats directed at digital platforms can be especially problematic in the light of 47 U. S. C. §230, which some courts have misconstrued to give digital platforms immunity for bad-faith removal of third-party content. ''Malwarebytes, Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC,'' 592 U. S. ___, ___–___ (2020) (THOMAS, J., statement respecting denial of certiorari) (slip op., at 7–8). This immunity eliminates the biggest deterrent— a private lawsuit—against caving to an unconstitutional government threat.

For similar reasons, some commentators have suggested that immunity provisions like §230 could potentially violate the First Amendment to the extent those provisions pre-empt state laws that protect speech from private censorship. See Volokh, Might Federal Preemption of SpeechProtective State Laws Violate the First Amendment? ''The Volokh Conspiracy, Reason'', Jan. 23, 2021. According to that argument, when a State creates a private right and a federal statute pre-empts that state law, “the federal statute is the source of the power and authority by which any private rights are lost or sacrificed.” Railway Employees v.}}

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==Stossel v Meta==
Stossell, represented by Harmeet Dillon, sued Facebook (the Meta company) for defamation because they said their factcheckers found he lied in connection with posts at Climate Feedback. Facebook moved to dismiss, on grounds including that its factchecking was just opinion and that Section 230 gave it immunity anyway.

Consider this in relation to the Texas Netchoice v. Paxton case. There, the defense of the Big Tech companies is that they exercise editorial discretion, just like magazines, and hence for them to be required to be viewpoint-neutral would be compelled speech. In Stossel, Facebook's defence is that Climate Feedback provides the content, Facebook just passively accepts it. These are incompatible.

I hope that someone squarely presents the argument that Facebook has forfeited its Section 230 immunity by becoming an editor. Facebook will argue that it is immune anyway. That is to take the position that it could operate as a webzine and invite free content that it admits it knows is false and defamatory, and still be immune. Indeed, it could even invite people to submit defamatory posts, advertising,

:"Frustrated that you can't libel your private enemies because they'll sue? Publish here on Facebooks's Libelzine site! We're immune from suit, by Section 230. Do it anonymously, with protonmail, and you'll be safe too. Note: we do exercise some editorial discretion. If you libel a Democrat, we won't let you publish."

This, I believe, is Big Tech's current interpretation of Section 230, though they do not advertise this implication.

It goes even further. Under this interpretation, I think, it is not just Facebook that is immune, it is Climate Feedback, if they set themselves up cleverly. Facebook says Climate Feedback provided the content. But did they? If Climate Feedback did not pay its authors, and merely let them post there, or even invited them but did not tell them what to write, then they are not agents of Climate Feedback and so Climate Feedback can push the liability off on the authors. Libelzine can be a stand-alone operation. I, Eric Rasmusen, could set up a website specifically devoted to defaming non-public persons, advertising that fact, and I would be immune from suit, by Section 230.

We could perhaps go a step further, tho I haven't looked closely enough at the exceptions in Section 230 in writing this. How about if Eric Rasmusen sets up a site called Hit Man Central, where people could anonymously advertise their services as murderers for hire? I couldn't profit from it--- I would do it from pure malice-- and I could be subpoena'd for any info I had, but I'd be sure to explain to the content providers how to submit secretly and how to tell clients to get in touch with them.

I do not know Section 230 law much, though I am rapidly learning. The statute itself is poorly written and ambiguous. One literal interpretation is that Facebook can indeed set up Libelzine. An opposite interpretation is is that Section 230 says it does not displace state law, so it doesn't displace defamation law; it only clarifies that Facebook isn't liable for unintentionally allowing the posting of defamatory materials by someone unrelated to Facebook and unencouraged by them.

The purpose of Section 230 seems pretty clear, though: to let internet service providers provide arms-length hosting without having to check all the content in advance. It was to improve information flow, not to worsen it by legalizing defamation. It did not contemplate service providers who operated like newspapers.

*[https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3543&context=historical Stossel complaint]

*[https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Facebook-admits-its-fact-check-is-opinion-page-2.pdf MEta (facebook) motion to dismiss]

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== Examples of Tech Lord Censorship==
*[https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1510055681545719810 Google and Ukraine] (2022)

==Political Bias==
*[https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1518736198361100290 Massive imbalance in campaign contributions]. Source: Data from Open Secrets, a nonprofit political spending database by the Center for Responsive Politics, published in Vox, October 31, 2018.

==Parler's Destruction==
*[https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-show-of-monopolistic?s=w Greenwald on Parler]

==Miscellaneous==

*[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/is-big-tech-censorship-unconstitutional/ National Review on Cato]

*[https://www.cato.org/blog/all-roads-lead-big-government-heritage-takes-big-tech Cato on Heritage on the Lords of Tech]

*""Public Forum" is a term of constitutional significance - it refers to the public space that the govt provides - not a private website at which people congregate. Courts have repeatedly held that social media platforms are not subject to the "public forum doctrine." But what if the government bans private companies from doing something, and then sets up their own public space? What about air waves TV and the FCC?

*It would be quite possible to issue new versions of Windows or the Apple operating system that do not allow you to read articles criticizing the Biden Administration. In fact, they could be written to disallow writing such criticism on them. Do we want to allow that? Think of secondary boycotts in labor law, or the prohibition on cartels in antitrust.

*From [https://netchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NetChoice-v.-Moody-PI-decision.pdf NetChoice v. Moody:] {{Quotation|In Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., 1995 WL 323710, at *3–4 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. May 24, 1995), an anonymous user posted allegedly defamatory content on an electronic bulletin board—an earlier version of what today might be called social media. The court said that if the provider of such a bulletin board did not undertake to review posted content—much as a librarian does not undertake to review all the books in a library—the provider would not be deemed the publisher of a defamatory post, absent sufficient actual knowledge of the defamatory nature of the content at issue. On the facts of that case, though, the provider undertook to screen the posted content—to maintain a “family oriented” site. The court held this subjected the provider to liability as a publisher of the content. At least partly in response to that decision, which was deemed a threat to development of the internet, Congress enacted 47 U.S.C. § 230.}}

*NetChoice v. Moody says that a platform can remove *any* material it considers objectionable, for any reason, including, in particular, that the content provider is someone running for office, under Section 230. If read this way, it would rule out federal and state civil rights laws.

*NetChoice v. Moody: The plaintiffs say—correctly—that they use editorial judgment in making these decisions, much as more traditional media providers use editorial judgment when choosing what to put in or leave out of a publication or broadcast.

*NetChoice v. Moody: {{Quotation|In Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241 (1974), the Court rejected just such an argument, striking down a Florida statute requiring a newspaper to print a candidate’s reply to the newspaper’s unfavorable assertions. }}

*NetChoice v. Moody: {{Quotation|Whatever might be said of the largest providers’ monopolistic conduct, the internet provides a greater opportunity for individuals to publish their views—and for candidates to communicate directly with voters—than existed before the internet arrived.}} But can you get viewers? You get crowded out. It is like anyone being able to say anything they want, but being blocked from newspapers and prohibited from public spaces.

*NetChoice v. Moody: {{Quotation|The third case on the plaintiffs’ side is Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission of California, 475 U.S. 1 (1986). There a public utility included in its billing envelopes its own viewpoint-laden newsletters. The state directed the utility to include in its billing envelopes four times per year a private watchdog organization’s newsletters setting out a viewpoint with which the utility disagreed. The Supreme Court held this unconstitutional. }}

*NetChoice v. Moody: {{Quotation|Similarly, in PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U.S. 74 (1980), a shopping center refused to allow individuals to solicit petition signatures from members of the public at the shopping center. The California Supreme Court held the individuals had the right, under state law, to engage in the proposed activity. The ruling did not compel the shopping center to say anything at all, and the ruling did not prohibit the center from saying anything it wished, when and how it wished. The United States Supreme Court said it was unlikely anyone would attribute the solicitation activities to the shopping center and, with no state action compelling the center to speak or restricting it from doing so, there was no violation of the First Amendment.}}

*NetChoice v. Moody: {{Quotation|Moreover, these statements are consistent with the statutory definition of “social media platform,” which extends only to, and thus makes the legislation applicable only to, large entities—those with $100 million in revenues or 100 million monthly participants. As the Supreme Court has recognized, discrimination between speakers is often a tell for content discrimination....The state has suggested no other basis for imposing these restrictions only on the largest providers. }} Antitrust enters here, and natural monopoly.

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*[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/27/8_at_princeton_assail_false_portrayal_of_prof_as_racist_146631.html Eight professors, 7 anonymous, criticize the Administration], October 27, 2021.

*[https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2021/02/alumni-allegations-princeton-joshua-katz "Alumni allege history of inappropriate conduct with female students by Princeton professor Joshua Katz,"] Marie-Rose Sheinerman and Evelyn Doskoch, ''The Princetonian,''
(February 4, 2021) but see the harsh criticisms of that article at [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/editorial-mccarthyism-daily-princetonian "Editorial: "McCarthyism at the Daily Princetonian",] Princetonians for Free Speech and the [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/letter-editor-which-daily-princetonian-has-ignored Elizabeth Bogan letter] that the Princetonian wouldn't publish.

*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/how-low-did-princeton-go-joshua-t-katz-racism/ "How Low Did Princeton Go?,"] Rod Dreher, ''The American Conservative'' (September 15, 2021).

*[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/10/my-confessions "My Confessions,"] Joshua Katz, ''First Things'' (October 2021).
{{Quotation|
Early in my career, however, I made a grave mistake, by which I mean something beyond the bounds of “merely” bad behavior, something sinful: I had a relationship with a student whom I was at the same time teaching. It was a consensual relationship between adults; it took place at a time when Princeton’s rules permitted students and faculty to engage in sexual contact, provided there was no pedagogical or supervisory conflict; and there was no Title IX violation. Still, it was a sin.

It is a sin I lived with every day. It ate away at me. But I lived with it alone. Alone, that is, until weeks after the #MeToo movement took off in late 2017, when an anonymous complainant—not the woman herself—informed Princeton about the more-than-a-decade-old affair. The result was an internal investigation, which culminated in a one-year suspension without pay.

Even before I knew that my life was about to change, I had begun reading theology and occasionally attending church (in that order—once a bookish academic, always a bookish academic). The fact is that I was sad, I was making a mess of my personal life, and I needed help.

Then I learned of the investigation, learned that I would likely be suspended, and found myself in need of help on an entirely different level. I was on sabbatical in London at the time, and my future mother-in-law—I had only just begun dating her daughter, a former (yes, former) student of mine who was now at Cambridge—gave me the following firm instruction: Get myself to the Temple Church, whose Master (senior cleric), the Rev. Robin Griffith-Jones, she had heard preach a few years earlier in New York.
...
Two reporters at the main student newspaper spent seven months digging into my private life. Surmising that I had been suspended, they published an article about me in the first week of February that “threw away basic journalistic standards” (in the words of Princetonians for Free Speech) in its reliance on hearsay, innuendo, and hostile anonymous sources. }}

*2022. He was fired. [https://nypost.com/2022/05/20/princeton-president-recommends-firing-professor-who-was-under-sexual-misconduct-probe/amp/ New York Post] and [https://paw.princeton.edu/article/princeton-trustees-fire-classics-professor-joshua-katz Princeton Paw] an d[https://academeblog.org/2022/05/24/in-defense-of-joshua-katz/ Academe] (NAS); [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/us/princeton-fires-joshua-katz.html New York Times] (pro-Katz!); [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/princeton-president-recommends-firing-professor-in-sexual-misconduct-probe/ar-AAXxCbx?ocid=uxbndlbing the Washington Post] is anti-Katz, about the only article I could find against him and thus useful. Princetonians for Free Speech [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/statement-princetonians-free-speech-princetons-firing-classics-professor-joshua-katz-award-winning defended him].
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See also [[Nondisclosure Clauses]].

*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9487849/China-launches-app-citizens-report-mistaken-opinions.html China launches app for citizens to report anyone who has 'mistaken opinions' or 'denies the excellence of socialist culture' The app and hotline has been released ahead of party's 100th anniversary ..."] (2021).

*[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/ "THE NEW PURITANS",] Atlantic (2021) by Ann Applebaum is a good survey with lots of specifics about cancellings and the various effects on its victims.

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==How to Resist==
*[https://quillette.com/2021/01/27/beating-back-cancel-culture-a-case-study-from-the-field-of-artificial-intelligence/ Pedro Domingos], ''Quillette'' (2021)

*[https://quillette.com/2021/02/05/more-weight-an-academics-guide-to-surviving-campus-witch-hunts/ Dorian Abbot], ''Quillette'' (2021).

==Miscellaneous==
*[https://www.unz.com/mmalkin/why-airbnb-banned-me-and-my-hubby-too/ Michelle Malkin banned from AirBnB], February 2022.

==Commentary on Cancellings Generally==
*[https://reason.com/2021/12/13/the-second-great-age-of-political-correctness/ "he-second-great-age-of-political-correctness/ "] ''Reason'' (Dec.2021).

*Level 2 and 3 Witch Hunts
2021 and 2019 ( [https://twitter.com/search?q=ensure%20that%20even%20those%20most%20carefully%20orthodox%20in%20their%20opinions%20would%20have%20said%20something%20that%20later%20became%20heretical.&src=typed_query Paul Graham]

We can classify witch hunts by how long such paths can be. E.g. in a level 3 witch hunt, you can be targeted for defending someone who defended someone who was targeted. I saw that happen in 2020. I don't think I've seen 4 hops yet though.

It happened to me. A mob came after me when I tweeted this because they thought I was defending Stallman for defending Minsky. (Actually I wasn't. Stallman just happened to be one of two people getting cancelled then.)

Sep 17, 2019

If we extended human lifespans sufficiently, everyone would be cancelled. The drift in moral fashion would ensure that even those most carefully orthodox in their opinions would have said something that later became heretical.

2019 had 245 comments and 105 quote retweets and 2K Likes.

*[https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/twitter-is-now-cancelling-wooldridge/page/2 Wooldridge cancelling, power v. authority]

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==Dorian Abbot (MIT, 2021)==
*[https://freespeech.mit.edu/signatories "Campaign to endorse the Chicago Principles on freedom of expression,"] list of MIT faculty who signed.

*[https://www.mitfreespeech.org/ The MIT Free Speech Alliance], an alumni group formed in response to the Abbot cancellation.

*[https://www.thefire.org/mit-community-rallies-behind-chicago-statement-after-dorian-abbot-disinvitation/ mit-community-rallies-behind-chicago-statement-after-dorian-abbot-disinvitation/,"] FIRE (November 2021).

*[https://twitter.com/haralduhlig/status/1457018887514505219 Harald Uhlig Tweet] on Ivan Werning not signing.

*The [[MIT Free Speech]] page.

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==Boudreau (Central Michigan, 2021)==
*A FOIA request got the [https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/boudreau-settlement-agreement.pdf settlement agreement]. See [https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/08/recent-developments-in-controversies-about-quoting-slurs-from-court-cases/#more-8115395 Volokh Conspiracy.]
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5. Dr. Boudreau shall be paid in a lump sum, less normal withholding taxes the value of pay and CMU's contribution to benefits through June 30, 2021 within thirty (30) days of this settlement. A W-2 will be issued for this payment.

15. Dr. Boudreau agrees that the terms of this Release, including the payment made hereunder, are confidential and shall not be divulged to any third party except his spouse, tax advisor, CPA, wealth manager, and/or his attorneys who shall be advised of this confidentiality provision. Dr. Boudreau shall not be held liable for breach of this confidentiality clause in the event he is compelled via subpoena to under oath in court of law regarding details or terms of his severance and/or settlement agreement provided that he gives prompt notice to the CMU's General Counsel so CMU has the opportunity to object to the subpoena.

16. In the event that Dr. Boudreau violates any aspect of this Agreement, he acknowledges that said breach shall cause damage to CMU. The parties understand that CMU may have to reveal the terms pursuant to FOIA unrelated to any request by the Union or Dr. Boudreau, who agree not to make, encourage, or otherwise participate in such request.

19. Dr. Boudreau shall not, by oral or written expression or any other act of communication to any third party, by name, disparage, criticize, or impugn the reputation or character of CMU's curent or former Board of Trustees members, Board of Trustees, administrators, directors, other employees,eagents and representatives, both individually and in their official capacities (Releas6s). This provision shall not be construed to prohibit Dr. Boudreau from communicating his disagreement with CMU's decision to terminate his employment for the way he spoke various words including the "n-word", his criticism of CMU's decision and generally his beliefs and opinion on the efficacy of his teaching methods. Dr. Boudreau further agrees that this provision concerning non-disparagement is a material condition ofthe consideration contained herein, that this provision is an essential part of this Agreement, and that any violation ofthe terms ofthis paragraph shall be deemed a material breach of the entire Agreement.

21. Dr. Boudreau agrees that this Agreement shall be binding and inure to the benefit of his successors, executors, administrators, personal representatives and assigns, and to the benefit of the predecessors, successors, and assigns of the Releasees, and further agrees and acknowledges that this Agreement contains and comprises the entire agreement and understandings of the parties, and that there are no additional promises or terms of this Agreement, other than those contained within this document and the documents referenced herein.

23. If any provision of this Agreement shall for any reason be held invalid, illegal, unenforceable, or in conflict with any law governing this Agreement, the validity of the remaining portions of this Agreement shall not be affected but shall continue in full legal force and effect to the fullest extent allowed by law.
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*(4) No damages are specified for breach of the clause. He is paid his settlement money within 30 days, and there are no liquidated damages. Presumably the damages would be the default of expectation damages, which in this case would be like defamation damages except he would be liable for harm caused even by truthful statements about public figures.
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*[https://sarahjbraasch.com/2021/10/30/so-you-want-to-talk-about-ijeoma-oluo-who-repeatedly-tried-to-drive-me-to-suicide-on-twitter-because-i-am-the-proof-that-she-is-an-evil-lying-bigot-and-fraud-part-i/ Braasch's blog, screenshots of the Left's attempt to harass her and drive her to suicide] (2021)
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== [[Amy Chua]] (Yale Law). See the [[Amy Chua]] page. ==

== [[Trent Colbert]]: The Trap House Party (Yale Law). See the [[Trent Colbert]] page.==

==Jed DeVaro ( Cal State-East Bay econ)==
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*[https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/mgmt/devarojed.html Jed DeVaro faculty profile] and his [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KnFonD0AAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar Citation page].

*[https://thepioneeronline.com/42499/features/professors-not-immune-to-gender-inequality/ "Professors not immune to gender inequality: Jung Sook You, CSUEB,"] ''The Pioneer,'' November 30, 2020.
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==Roland Fryer (Harvard econ, 2019)==
*[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/01/27/harvard_the_new_york_times_and_the_metoo_takedown_of_a_black_academic_star.html "Harvard, the NY Times and the #MeToo Takedown of a Black Academic Star,"] Stuart Taylor Jr., ''RealClearInvestigations,'' January 29, 2019.

*[https://karlstack.substack.com/p/the-lynching-of-roland-fryer "The Lynching of Roland Fryer," ] ''Substack'' (2021).
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==Iowa ==
*[https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18597 "University ordered to pay almost $2 million after students win religious freedom lawsuit
The University of Iowa was recently ordered to pay $1.9 million after two student groups sued the school.
The lawsuits were filed originally in 2017 and 2018."]

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==[[Timothy Jackson]], North Texas, Musicology. See the [[Timothy Jackson]] page.==

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==Katz, Joshua (Princeton Classics)==
*[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/27/8_at_princeton_assail_false_portrayal_of_prof_as_racist_146631.html Eight professors, 7 anonymous, criticize the Administration], October 27, 2021.

*[https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2021/02/alumni-allegations-princeton-joshua-katz "Alumni allege history of inappropriate conduct with female students by Princeton professor Joshua Katz,"] Marie-Rose Sheinerman and Evelyn Doskoch, ''The Princetonian,''
(February 4, 2021) but see the harsh criticisms of that article at [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/editorial-mccarthyism-daily-princetonian "Editorial: "McCarthyism at the Daily Princetonian",] Princetonians for Free Speech and the [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/letter-editor-which-daily-princetonian-has-ignored Elizabeth Bogan letter] that the Princetonian wouldn't publish.

*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/how-low-did-princeton-go-joshua-t-katz-racism/ "How Low Did Princeton Go?,"] Rod Dreher, The American Conservative (September 15, 2021).

*[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/10/my-confessions "My Confessions,"] Joshua Katz, First Things (October 2021).
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Early in my career, however, I made a grave mistake, by which I mean something beyond the bounds of “merely” bad behavior, something sinful: I had a relationship with a student whom I was at the same time teaching. It was a consensual relationship between adults; it took place at a time when Princeton’s rules permitted students and faculty to engage in sexual contact, provided there was no pedagogical or supervisory conflict; and there was no Title IX violation. Still, it was a sin.

It is a sin I lived with every day. It ate away at me. But I lived with it alone. Alone, that is, until weeks after the #MeToo movement took off in late 2017, when an anonymous complainant—not the woman herself—informed Princeton about the more-than-a-decade-old affair. The result was an internal investigation, which culminated in a one-year suspension without pay.

Even before I knew that my life was about to change, I had begun reading theology and occasionally attending church (in that order—once a bookish academic, always a bookish academic). The fact is that I was sad, I was making a mess of my personal life, and I needed help.

Then I learned of the investigation, learned that I would likely be suspended, and found myself in need of help on an entirely different level. I was on sabbatical in London at the time, and my future mother-in-law—I had only just begun dating her daughter, a former (yes, former) student of mine who was now at Cambridge—gave me the following firm instruction: Get myself to the Temple Church, whose Master (senior cleric), the Rev. Robin Griffith-Jones, she had heard preach a few years earlier in New York.

...

Two reporters at the main student newspaper spent seven months digging into my private life. Surmising that I had been suspended, they published an article about me in the first week of February that “threw away basic journalistic standards” (in the words of Princetonians for Free Speech) in its reliance on hearsay, innuendo, and hostile anonymous sources. }}

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==Kilborn, Jason==
*[https://campusreform.org/article?id=16754 "Law prof says he was forced to undergo lengthy mental examination & drug test after exam question caused students ‘distress’,"] (2021):
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Kilborn told Campus Reform that his classes “were cancelled for the entire semester on the very first day of class. He said he also had to undergo “an agonizing several-week period of ‘administrative leave,’” during which he was “barred from campus and prevented from participating in normal faculty communications and activities, including my elected position on the university promotion and tenure committee.”

Kilborn said he was compelled to submit to three hours of mental examination and a drug test by university doctors and a social worker, broken into two segments spanning the course of a week.}}
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==Chad KIMBALL (Broadway actor, 2021)==
*[https://nypost.com/2021/11/05/tony-nominee-i-was-fired-from-broadway-for-being-christian/ "Tony nominee Chad Kimball: I was fired from Broadway for being Christian,"] ''New York Post.''

==Brian KLATTMAN (Lehigh, 2021)==
*[https://thebrownandwhite.com/2021/11/09/math-professor-removed-from-the-classroom/ "Visiting math professor removed from the classroom following social media posts brought to university’s attention ,"] GABRIELLE FALK,NOVEMBER 9, 2021, ''The Brown and White.''
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==Diane Klein (LaVerne, Chapman)==
*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/law-professor-says-university-fired-her-by-racializing-criticism-of-black-colleagues-performance/ "Law professor says university fired her by ‘racializing’ criticism of black colleague’s performance," ] CHRISTIAN LUBKE (AUGUST 26, 2020).
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In a meeting on the future of the law school last fall, Klein told colleagues that they must decide “whether we are willing to assassinate” Assistant Dean Jendayi Saada, who runs the Center for Academic and Bar Readiness.}}

*[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/02/17/la-verne-seeks-terminate-gadfly-professor-allegedly-threatening-assassinate Insider Higher Education] article.

*[https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/concerned-la-verne-faculty-for-the-restoration-of#scrollTo--undefined Petition] from Laverne faculty in support of KLein.

*[https://www.coursicle.com/chapman/professors/Diane+Klein/ Chapman Law] teaching schedule.

*[http://www.caaaup.org/about-ca-aaup.html AAUP State of California Vice President for Private Universities] (2020-2022).
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==[[Gordon Klein]], UCLA, Anderson School, Accounting (2020). See the [[Gordon Klein]] page.==

==John Kluge (Indiana schoolteacher)==
*[https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20200109d01 District Court decision]

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==Zhihao Kong (Purdue student, Chinese government harassment)==
*[https://www.propublica.org/article/even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out "even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out,"] ''Pro Publica'', Sebastian Rotella (Nov. 2021).

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==Walter Lewin (MIT)==
This is an odd one. I haven't figure it out yet.
*[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/23/complainant-unprecedented-walter-lewin-sexual-harassment-case-comes-forward walter-lewin-sexual-harassment-case].

[https://thetech.com/2014/12/09/walterlewin-v134-n60 "MIT cuts ties with Walter Lewin after online harassment probe
Institute revokes emeritus title, removes online courses of popular physics professor who starred in viral videos"] The Tech (2014).

==Jamie Lund (St. Mary's Law) (2013)==
*[https://abovethelaw.com/2013/05/sources-and-dr-phil-offer-insights-author-of-confessions-of-a-sociopath-who-might-be-this-law-professor/ Above the Law] guessing as to the true identity of a "sociopath". It looks like she was mistreated.

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==John MacAdams (Marquette, 2018)==
[https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2021/04/15/marquette-political-science-professor-john-mcadams-dies/7246026002/ "John McAdams, political science professor who took Marquette to the state Supreme Court, dies,"] Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 15, 2021.

==McPhail, Mark (Indiana U.--Northwest, Gary, 2022)==
[[McPhail, Mark]] has its own page.
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==Meriwether (Ohio, gender pronouns)==
See [[Meriwether Case of Administration Persecution]]. Not a cancelling case, really, if I remember right; a wokeness case, though.

==Joseph Petry (Illinois)==
*[https://www.docdroid.net/24J86No/20-448releaseable-pdf Feb. 28, 2020 University Report] online.

*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/petry.pdf June 11, 2020 News Release] by Thies-Webber.

*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/petry-1.pdf January 27, 2021 News Release] by Thies-Webber after winning on the motion to dismiss, with the Complaint and Motion to Dismiss and Objection to the Motion to Dismiss and Decision. This is the key document.

*Jan 28, 2021 [https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/university-illinois/ex-professors-breach-of-contract-suit-against-ui-can-proceed-judge-decides/article_b9ee510e-8ff7-5ebd-bfc1-7f4cca3725e1.html "Ex-professor's breach-of-contract suit against UI can proceed, judge decides,"] Ben Zigterman bzigterman@news-gazette.com,.

*FEBRUARY 9, 2021, [https://www.thecollegefix.com/judge-approves-professors-lawsuit-against-university-for-baseless-grades-for-sex-investigation/ "Judge approves professor’s lawsuit against university for baseless grades-for-sex investigation,"] HENRY KOKKELER - WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY. This is a very informative article.

==Stephen Porter (NC State, 2021)==
[https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/10/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-professor-files-lawsuit-against-nc-state-university/ "“Death by a Thousand Cuts”: Professor Files Lawsuit Against NC State University,"] Inside Higher Education, Oct. 11, 2021, Shannon Watkins.

==Judge Pryor (2021)==
*[http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2021/10/judge-bill-pryor-and-law-clerk-cancel.html?m=1 Attack on him by Dorf on Law] for hiring a clerk who sent an anti-black tweet once a few years ago.

==Purdue==
*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/purdue-has-students-criminally-charged-for-posters-criticizing-administrator/ Purdue brings criminal vandalism charges against students] for putting up posters criticizing an administrator for going soft on rape.

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== J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law, 2020). See the [[J. Mark Ramseyer]] page. ==

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==Sanders, Steve (Indiana Law, 2021)==
*[https://www.thefire.org/did-indiana-university-foia-its-own-professor/ FIRE writeup] of the situation, around Dec. 15.

==Schulz, Gregory (Concordia-Wisconsin, 2022)==
*[https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/16/christian-university-still-hasnt-reinstated-professor-it-kicked-out-after-he-criticized-identity-politics/ Suspended] from a Missouri Lutheran, supposedly conservative denominational college for criticizing wokeism. On the web is a [https://gunnerq.com/2022/03/14/heres-the-real-reason-they-canceled-concordias-greg-schultz/ confused set of notes by someone] with valuable background information]

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==Shaw, Jodi (Smith librarian)==
*[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ac03e14ec4eb74c10016931/t/61bcbb8de3cfe174add26ed7/1639758778264/2021-12-16+Shaw+Complaint.pdf Her lawsuit complaint] (2021).

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==Harald UHLIG (Chicago Econ, 2020)==
*[https://www.dropbox.com/s/45hnqjjki12529m/uhlig_petition_public.pdf?dl=0 Petition calling for the resignation of Harald Uhlig as editor of JPE]:
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To: The Coeditors of the Journal of Political Economy and Director of The University of Chicago
Press

We, the undersigned, call for the resignation of Harald Uhlig, the Bruce Allen and Barbara
Ritzenthaler Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, '''as the Lead Editor of the Journal
of Political Economy.''' Prof. Uhlig's comments published on his blog (https://bit.ly/3cN0L97)
and Twitter posts dated June 8th, '''trivializing the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement''' and drawing
parallels between the BLM movement and the Ku Klux Klan, are outrageous and unacceptable. They hurt and marginalize people of color and their allies in the economics profession; c'''all into question his impartiality''' in assessing academic work on this and related topics; and damage the standing of the economics discipline in society. '''We do not question the right of Prof. Uhlig to make such comments,''' but we are strongly opposed to him holding a position of power as the editor of a prominent journal in our discipline. }}

::Signed by Richard Tol, Oliver Jehiel, Sharon Oster, Shelly Lundberg, Ivan Werning, David Cutler, Chris Blattman, Paul Goldsmith, Severin Borenstein, Arthur Silve, Andrew Atkeson, Scott Imberman, Jennifer Doleac, Justin Wolfers, Judith Chevalier,

*[https://twitter.com/erasmuse/status/1459537303894900741 Uhlig tweet with Rasmusen comments] on the MIT Free Speech petition, its signers, and its nonsigners.

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==Allyn Walker (Old Dominion, 2021)==
*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10210713/Trans-professor-placed-leave-controversially-defending-pedophiles.html ''Daily Mail'' article,] October 21, 2021.
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A transgender university professor in Virginia has been placed on leave after defending pedophiles as 'Minor Attracted People' and saying they shouldn't be ostracized because they can't help their natural urges....Walker has written a book that tries to destigmatize pedophilia. It encourages people to refer to pedophiles as 'Minor Attracted People' and says they shouldn't be ostracized for their urges, which they can't help.... said that the online backlash had led to concerns for Walker's safety and that of the campus, and placing them on leave was the best course of action. }}

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==Amy Wax (Penn Law)==
*[https://newcriterion.com/issues/2018/4/fahrenheit-451-updated 2018 New Criterion article]

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==Zimmerman, James (Nashville clarinet, 2021)==
*[https://freebeacon.com/culture/how-racial-anxiety-conquered-an-orchestra-and-crushed-a-career/ " How Racial Anxiety Conquered an Orchestra and Crushed a Career"] Aaron Sibarium, Washington Free Beacon. A black oboeist on temp status because of his musicial weakness was hired by breaking the rules and not having fellow musicians vote on him. A clarinetist, James Zimmerman, who had advocated for his temporary trial and gotten him the job, was assigned to help him. He resented that, and with another musician, accused Zimmerman of stalking them and got Zimmerman fired. The Board boasted about it, and the Union refused to support him.

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