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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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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the beloved.

John of the Cross

Forced compassion is slavery. It dulls people’s sense of caring for others. Without compassion people become as animals, willingly sacrificing the lives of others just to get ahead.

Paul Skousen

Being right and being wrong feel exactly the same to all of us. We can’t tell the difference. If we could, everyone would agree on everything important.

Scott Adams

I was walking around one day trying to figure out what the meaning of life was. I figured it was something that would come to me easily while walking around, but I didn’t actually figure it out until I sat down.

Scott Bradford

In its sharp protest against Catholicism, Protestantism [discarded] the mysterious, mythical, and mystical aspects of the faith. In that sense it has impoverished religion.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Abraham Lincoln

You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.

Steve Jobs

Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate.

G.K. Chesterton

The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.

Jordan Peterson

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. To be in the window and watch people being sent to concentration camps or being attacked in the street and do nothing, that’s being dead.

Elie Wiesel

Communism, in particular, was attractive not so much to oppressed workers, its hypothetical beneficiaries, but to intellectuals—to those whose arrogant pride in intellect assured them they were always right.

Jordan Peterson

Experience says it must be and love says let it be.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

So, let us not be blind to our differences—but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

John F. Kennedy

Alongside the wisdom of true conservatism is the danger that the status quo might become corrupt and its corruption self-servingly exploited.

Jordan Peterson

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 most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Calvin Coolidge

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Aristotle

Nothing is easier than to have good intentions but, without an understanding of how an economy works, good intentions can lead to counterproductive, or even disastrous, consequences for a whole nation.

Thomas Sowell

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