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When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.

For the longest time, I tried to make the slogan “Just do it,” but it lost its effectiveness after a while. Now, I have a new motto. I was watching the news from Israel, and they had a clip with a cabinet minister. The interviewer kept pressing him to agree to the need to decide…

December 28, 2023
To believe your own thoughts

I am listening to an audiobook by Adam Savage of MythBusters fame. He quoted a famous American essayist and philosopher. “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.” Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1841 essay “Self-Reliance” When…

February 16, 2023
The Two Important Things in Politics

I’m listening to a podcast interview, and the guest mentioned this quote: “there are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember the second.” Senator Mark Hanna (1895)

July 26, 2022
“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!”

Mark Twain Article in City Journal, spring 2022. By John Tierney

July 20, 2022
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

Mark Twain

July 20, 2022

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