Be creative, invent a perversion.
Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
$100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000, by which time it will be worth nothing.
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an “intellectual”, find out how he feels about astrology.
$100 invested at 7% interest for 100 years will become $100,000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.
All men are created unequal.
No matter how tough things are, Man copes. He comes up with adequate answers from illogical reasons. But the answers work. Last to come out of Pandora’s Box was a gleaming, beautiful thing – Eternal Hope.
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion – i.e. none to speak of.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.
What are the marks of a sick culture? It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.
