-- Hugo Black (1886 - 1971), American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Majority opinion in Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 (1964), at 17-18 on the right to vote as the foundation of democracy
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
No Right Is More Precious
Monday, October 21, 2024
Congratulations, David
He's enthusiastic to continue the journey.
Friday, October 18, 2024
It's Interesting
-- Roger Willis Mitchell, Sr., Trooper Tales: Plus Other Bizarre, Odd and Funny Stories (2003), p. 30
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Choice
-- Definition of "Choice" provided in WikiQuote's page of quotes on "Choice"
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Nostalgia
-- Homer Simpson, attributed
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Nobler Art
-- Lin Yutang (1895 - 1976), Chinese writer and translator, The Importance of Living (1937) p. 162
Monday, October 14, 2024
We Do Not Need
-- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005) American politician, poet, and 22-year member of the US Congress (D-MN), The New York Times (11 December 2005)
Friday, October 11, 2024
Limitless
-- Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, standing atop Tibet's Mount Shishapangma as the youngest person to have scaled all 14 mountains that the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) recognises as more than 8,000 metres above sea level, 9 October 2024. The previous record holder is Mingma Gyabu 'David' Sherpa, who achieved it at the age of 30 in 2019
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Forgive Me My Nonsense
-- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), American poet and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes, Letter to Louis Untermeyer (7 August 1915)
Wednesday, October 09, 2024
Underlying Purpose
-- Joseph Browning via Facebook (10 July 2024) cited by jeffowski on Mastodon & Twitter
Tuesday, October 08, 2024
Early Autumn
-- Brian Aldiss (1925 - 2017), English writer of general fiction and science fiction, "Steppenpferd", Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine (February 2000)
Monday, October 07, 2024
Your Experience Of Me
-- Ronald David (R.D.) Laing (7 October 1927 - 23 August 1989), Scottish psychiatrist who wrote on mental illness and the experience of psychosis, The Politics of Experience (1967) Chapter 1 : Experience as evidence
Friday, October 04, 2024
All The Colors Of Poetry
-- David Hume (1711 - 1776), Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
Thursday, October 03, 2024
The Answer To That Question
-- Special Counsel Jack Smith, in the opening paragraph of his 165-page filing in United States of America v Donald J. Trump, 2 October 2024
Wednesday, October 02, 2024
And Only Then
For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid's Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could -- or should -- force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another. Considering the compelling record evidence about the physical, mental, and emotional impact of unwanted pregnancies on the women who are forced by law to carry them to term (as well as on their other living children), the Court finds that, until the pregnancy is viable, a woman's right to make decisions about her body and her health remains private and protected, i.e., remains her business and her business alone. When someone other than the pregnant woman is able to sustain the fetus, then -- and only then -- should those other voices have a say in the discussion about the decisions the pregnant woman makes concerning her body and what is growing within it.
-- Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C.I. McBurney, deciding SisterSong Women Of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, et al v State of Georgia in favor of the plaintiff, ruling that Section 4 of the LIFE Act is unconstitutional and unenforceable
Tuesday, October 01, 2024
HBD, Jimmy Carter
-- Former President Jimmy Carter (1 October 1924 -), who turned 100 years old today, Cited by The Independent "Presidents’ Day: What America’s leaders did next after leaving the White House" The Independent (London, 21 February 2022). Interview with reporters, as quoted in "Carter condemns abortion culture" The Washington Times (3 November 2005)
Monday, September 30, 2024
Not Even Past
-- William Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist and short story writer, 1949 Nobel laureate in literature, Requiem for a Nun (1951) Act 1, scene 3
Friday, September 27, 2024
Holding Your Breath
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), Irish-American novelist and short story writer, Undated letter to his daughter "Scottie" (Frances Scott Fitzgerald)
Thursday, September 26, 2024
He Is A Talker
-- Euripides (480 BC - 406 BC), Greek playwright, Æolus, Frag. 38
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Perfect
-- Homer Simpson, "And Maggie Makes Three" (Season 6, episode 13) 22 January 1995
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Never Put Off
-- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), British statesman and man of letters, Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), entry for 26 December 1749
Monday, September 23, 2024
To Persuade Ourselves
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.
-- François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac (15 September 1613 - 17 March 1680), French author of maxims and memoirs, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665-1678), Maxim 327
Friday, September 20, 2024
Great Skill
There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.
-- François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac (15 September 1613 - 17 March 1680), French author of maxims and memoirs, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665-1678), Maxim 245
Thursday, September 19, 2024
For Others
Il est plus aisé d'être sage pour les autres que de l'être pour soi-même.
It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself.
-- François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac (15 September 1613 - 17 March 1680), French author of maxims and memoirs, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665-1678), Maxim 132
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Indefinitely Perfectible
-- Daniel Clement Dennett III (1942 - 2024), American atheist philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist, "Postmodernism and Truth", delivered at the 1998 World Congress of Philosophy (13 August 1998)
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Not A Single One
-- Daniel Clement Dennett III (1942 - 2024), American atheist philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (2005), p. 2
Monday, September 16, 2024
Quietly Available
-- Daniel Clement Dennett III (1942 - 2024), American atheist philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist, Breaking the Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon (2006)
Friday, September 13, 2024
Nor The Problem
-- Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902 - 1994), Austrian-British philosopher, academic, and social commentator, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach (1972)
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Familiar Doctrine
-- Henry Louis (H. L.) Mencken (12 September 1880 - 29 January 1956), journalist, satirist, social critic, and freethinker, Prejudices, Third Series (1922) Ch. 3
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Never Interrupt
-- Napoléon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821), French military general, First Consul of the French Republic, and then Emperor of the French and King of Italy under the name Napoleon I, as quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 93
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
The Great Enemy
-- William H. Whyte Jr. (1917 - 1999), American urbanist, sociologist, organizational analyst, and people-watcher, "Is Anybody Listening?" Fortune Magazine (1950)
Monday, September 09, 2024
RIP James Earl Jones
-- James Earl Jones (17 January 1931 - 9 September 2024), American actor known for his roles in film and theater; one of the few performers to have achieved EGOT status (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards), Voices and Silences (1993; 2002) p. 357 (2002 edition)
Friday, September 06, 2024
So Confident
-- John Danforth (1936 -), former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, former U.S. Senator (R-MO), and ordained Episcopal priest, Faith and Politics (2006) p. 10
Thursday, September 05, 2024
The Day You Follow
-- Anthony de Mello (1931 - 1987), Jesuit priest, psychotherapist, and writer who became widely known for his books on spirituality, One Minute Wisdom (1989) Discipleship
Wednesday, September 04, 2024
A Collective Hunch
-- Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (1939 -), American actress, comedian, writer, and producer since the late 1960s, speaking as Trudy in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985), written by Tomlin's spouse Jane Wagner
Tuesday, September 03, 2024
I Am Grateful
-- William Saroyan (1908 - 1981), Armenian American author, My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
Monday, September 02, 2024
Dissatisfied Unless
-- Robert Nozick (1938 - 2002), American libertarian philosopher, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; The Framework as Utopian Common Ground, p. 320
Friday, August 30, 2024
What Sides
-- John Kessel (1950 -), American author of science fiction and fantasy, Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance (2009) in Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan (eds.) The New Space Opera 2, p. 93
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Risk
-- Warren Edward Buffett (30 August 1930 -), American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, currently chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, "The Three Essential Warren Buffett Quotes To Live By" forbes.com (20 April 2014)
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Ignorance In Action
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832), German novelist, dramatist, poet, and philosopher, Maxims and Reflections (1833) Maxim 542, translation by Elisabeth Stopp
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Teaching By Examples
-- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678 - 1751), English statesman and philosopher, On the Study and Use of History, letter 2; in fact this relates to a third-century AD treatise on rhetoric, wrongly attributed to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, which says (xi. 2): "The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples". The line is not found in Thucydides
Monday, August 26, 2024
Restraint
-- Frank Byron Jevons (1858 - 1936), English polymath, academic and administrator of Durham University, A History of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Demosthenes (1886) pp. 340
Friday, August 23, 2024
A Little Bit Short
-- Former president Donald Trump, speaking to reporters at the southern border about a chart showing weekly migrant encounters, and apparently acknowledging for the first time that he lost the 2020 election, despite his past insistence that the election was stolen (22 August 2024)
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Demarcation
-- Sir William Francis Butler (1838 - 1910), Irish 19th-century British Army officer, writer, and adventurer, in Charles George Gordon (1889), p. 85
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Affirmative Action
-- Former First Lady Michelle Obama speaking at the Democratic National Convention, 20 August 2024
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
A Ghost In The Machine
-- Alan Moore (1953 -), British writer, most famous for his influential work in comic-books and graphic novels, "What Is Reality?" London Weekend Television (27 July 1998)
Monday, August 19, 2024
Recognition Of Illusion
-- Eckhart Tolle (1948 -), German / Canadian spiritual teacher, motivational speaker, and writer, in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, (2005)
Friday, August 16, 2024
Theory And Practice
-- Donald Knuth (1938 -), American computer scientist, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, and winner of the 1974 Turing Award, quoted in: Arturo Gonzalez-Gutierrez (2007) Minimum-length Corridors: Complexity and Approximations. p. 99
Thursday, August 15, 2024
You Cannot Have One
-- John Galsworthy OM (1867 - 1933), English novelist and playwright, 1932 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Swan Song (1928) Pt. II, Ch. 6
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Untidy
-- John Galsworthy OM (1867 - 1933), English novelist and playwright, 1932 Nobel Laureate in Literature, One More River (1933) Chapter 1