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Parting Shot—A Farewell to George Mason University

Posted May 1, 2004, 2:01 p.m.

Job search over! I start at Microsoft in May!

Posted April 1, 2004, 7:26 p.m.

A Few “Lynes” About the Real World

Posted June 13, 2003, 1:32 p.m.

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.

Quotes

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Samuel Johnson

Paper has more patience than people.

Unknown

We have got to find a substitute for war, and the substitute isn’t surrender.

Norman Thomas

[Inflation is] a hidden tax that can be imposed without having been voted—taxation without representation.

Milton Friedman

Some people think God is infinitely demanding. Some think he is infinitely forgiving. He is both.

Scott Bradford

There are only two obstacles to responsible legislation—the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Thomas Sowell

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Albert Einstein

The entire spiritual life consists in this: That we gradually turn from those things whose appearance is deceptive to those things that are real.

Erasmus

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Salvador Dalí

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Laurence J. Peter

A little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular.

Donald Trump

The compacts which are to embrace thirteen distinct States in a common bond of amity and union, must as necessarily be a compromise of as many dissimilar interests and inclinations. How can perfection spring from such materials?

Alexander Hamilton

The wise avoid extremes, excesses, and complacency.

Lao Tsu

Just because we prefer something, that doesn’t make it good for us.

Scott Adams

If people have always said it, it is probably true. . . . If people have not always said it, but [are] saying it now, it is probably a lie. . . .

Anthony Esolen

A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses.

Hannah Arendt

At its birth violence acts openly and even with pride[, but] it cannot continue to exist without descending into a fog of lies. . . .

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Maya Angelou

The successful man admits that there is more pleasure in work than in having secured the rewards of it—that becoming is better than being—since possibility marks the one and finality seals the other.

Thomas Oliver

When you ain’t nothing else, you are an artist. It’s the one thing you can claim to be and nobody can prove you ain’t.

Will Rogers

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