Great Falls

Posted September 18, 2008, 10:53 a.m.

I neglected to post this photo when I took it . . . uh . . . August 9. On my first off-read bike excursion after buying my Schwinn Mesa mountain bike, I took the Cross County Trail north from Georgetown Pike into Great Falls National Park. The trail terminates at the Potomac River where the Difficult Run creek meets the Potomac.

Needless to say, it is pretty incredible how much beatiful stuff there is within a short distance of Washington, DC. Even in urban Fairfax County, sights such as this can be found—if you know where to look.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Freeman Dyson

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard

The two greatest institutions ever devised for lifting people out of poverty and enabling them to live in dignity are the market economy and the institution of marriage. These institutions will stand together, or they will fall together.

Robert George

A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.

John Henry Newman

Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.

Anne Frank

I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic.

H. L. Mencken

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

Mignon McLaughlin

Suffering overwhelms you because you take it like a coward. Meet it bravely, with a Christian spirit, and you will esteem it like a treasure.

Josemaría Escrivá

If we did not have the freedom to say no to God, we could not truly love Him.

Scott Hahn

This Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built on government contract.

Robert A. Heinlein

If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.

Seneca the Younger

The frauds of this world always have an advantage, but if you are alert to the influence of money, you can spot them more easily.

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The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight. . . .

Charles Spurgeon

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever heard goes something like this: If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.

Scott Adams

Most men are not untrue, but they are afraid. Most of the errors of public life . . . come not because men are morally bad, but because they are afraid of somebody.

Woodrow Wilson

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

John Henry Newman

Everything stands or falls with the act of speaking out.

Mattias Desmet

[History is] an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

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The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and time again that they have the management skills of celery.

Dave Barry

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