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Parking Vulture (writing as Tamera Finn)

Posted February 24, 2004, 2:26 p.m.

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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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

One reason inflation is so destructive is because some people benefit greatly while other people suffer; society is divided into winners and losers.

Milton Friedman

When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen’s constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters in his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.

William O. Douglas

Contemporary churches have made Christianity too easy, presenting it as a way around suffering instead of a way through it. The old myths know better.

Rod Dreher

In so far as religion is gone, reason is going. For they are both of the same primary and authoritative kind. They are both methods of proof which cannot themselves be proved.

G.K. Chesterton

It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

Carl Sagan

The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

Thomas Jefferson

Time . . . is the author of authors.

Francis Bacon

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Seneca the Younger

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.

Immanuel Kant

The function of science fiction is not only to predict the future, but to prevent it.

Ray Bradbury

I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

It is obvious that tradition is only democracy extended through time. It is trusting to a consensus of common human voices rather than to some isolated or arbitrary record.

G.K. Chesterton

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Eugene McCarthy

I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is through strife, or the readiness for strife, that a nation must win greatness.

Teddy Roosevelt

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

William O. Douglas

I think apologizing is a great thing, but you have to be wrong. I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I’m ever wrong.

Donald Trump

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