If Trump hadn’t survived that Butler rally then America would’ve been lost, including free speech despite Musk’s best efforts.
We really don’t realize how close we came to losing everything. By less than an inch.
God saved us.
(Paul A. Szypula)

There's a lot of people that don't speak their mind. ... Do you know how many artists like musicians/comedians that thanked me for endorsing Trump because they can't do it. ... They said they want to, but they don't wanna be attacked. They can't say it. They think the country is going in the wrong direction. ... Trump has vowed to have free speech become a very important part of what he's standing for and that this censoring of information needs to stop and that we need to stop all government influence in what people have to say.
(Joe Rogan)

Without rigorous pursuing truth, you obviously cannot understand the true nature of the universe.
(E. Musk)

 Proclivities wrote:

What's buggin' me outside is my own inside.
(thisbody)

"It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta."
Hemingway

Do Law-Making, Sausage-Making and Quote-Making Have Something in Common?

"If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear."
(unknown source)

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
- Ernest Borgnine

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

 Isabeau wrote: 
Maj. Eaton: We have top men working on it right now.
Indiana: Who?
Maj. Eaton: Top... men.

"Coin collecting is the only hobby where you can spend all your money and still have some left." 

unattributed

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
Milton Friedman

"And you left ... just as you were beginning to become interesting."        â€” Senior Doctor Jones to Indiana Jones in The Last Crusade

“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.”

Joseph Conrad

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1

There is either understanding, or no understanding.
(Mis-understanding is nothing but an illegitmate feat, used to excuse oneself.)

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocation, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet in holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address on Jan. 17, 1961.

The late Townes Van Zandt famously said of Olney: "Any time anyone asks me who my favorite music writers are... I say Mozart, Lightnin Hopkins, Bob Dylan and Dave Olney. Dave Olney is one of the best songwriters I've ever heard — and that's true. I mean that from my heart."

Hypocrisy is a two-edged sword with a broken point.

Hack em and stack em...