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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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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

Salman Rushdie

Nothing is done, unless the Almighty wills it to be done, either by permitting it, or by actually doing it.

Augustine of Hippo

Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

Charles Spurgeon

Throughout the history of anti-trust prosecutions, there has been an unresolved confusion between what is detrimental to competition and what is detrimental to competitors.

Thomas Sowell

Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Jesus Christ

If you don’t believe in brick walls, you will still be injured when you run headlong into one.

Jordan Peterson

It’s funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating.

Jack Handey

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

John Henry Newman

It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty and intelligence.

Teddy Roosevelt

If you can’t tell whether a simple plan or a complicated one will be the best, choose the simple one. If it’s a coin toss, you might as well do whatever is easiest.

Scott Adams

When the law interferes with people’s pursuit of their own values, they will try to find a way around.

Milton Friedman

Not to be deceived in matters of faith, we must always distinguish very carefully between the abuses to which a devotion may lead and the truths upon which the devotion rests.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.

Dwight Morrow

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

Edgar Allan Poe

Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the ‘wet streets cause rain’ stories. Paper’s full of them.

Michael Crichton

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. . . .

Winston Churchill

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

Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity, which has declared that all men are equal in the sight of God, will not refuse to acknowledge that all citizens are equal in the eye of the law.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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