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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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Those who understand freedom as the radically arbitrary license to do just what they want and to have their own way are living in a lie, for by his very nature man is part of a shared existence and his freedom is shared freedom.

Benedict XVI

The difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is that the Democrats let the poor be corrupt, too.

Oscar Levant

It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.

Jordan Peterson

In all that follows I adopt the standpoint, therefore, that the inclination to aggression is an original, self-subsisting instinctual disposition in man, and I return to my view that it constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

Sigmund Freud

It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense, and can’t see things as they are.

G.K. Chesterton

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

Mignon McLaughlin

The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. . . .

Charles Spurgeon

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus [and] the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Avoid such godless chatter, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will eat its way like gangrene.

Paul the Apostle

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

When men are uniform in their opinions, it affords evidence that they are sincere. When they are shifting, it gives reason to believe, they do not change from conviction.

Melancton Smith

Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over everything that stands in their way.

Robert Yates

Trying to manage from the top down, when the bottom is out of control, may be the least effective approach.

David Allen

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Dan Quayle

There’s no device known to mankind that will prevent people from being idiots.

Mark Rasch

Look for three qualities in employees: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.

Unknown

Other people are a mess. I think we can agree on that.

Scott Adams

Mass formation blinds both intelligent and less intelligent people to the same extent. People really don’t have to be part of a conspiracy to systematically make the most foolish mistakes.

Mattias Desmet

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Augustine of Hippo

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