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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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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Jesus Christ

Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.

Jonathan Rauch

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Benjamin Franklin

Our contemporaries [have] two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they wish to remain free. . . . They strive to satisfy them both at once.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In the beginning there was perfect sound, then man created rooms.

Unknown

By . . . false politeness, sincerity is sacrificed, and truth violated.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Jesus Christ

Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value.

Scott Adams

Belief in immortality dies easily in those who live in such a way that they cannot face the prospect of a judgment.

Fulton Sheen

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Oscar Wilde

Peace requires arrangements by which other people can prosper. It is our duty to contribute of our capital and our skill to that prosperity.

Calvin Coolidge

Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence is but a transitional stage in the movement toward something higher. . . .

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Then they will deliver you up to tribulation, and put you to death; and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. . . . And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.

Jesus Christ

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary.

William James

Everything stands or falls with the act of speaking out.

Mattias Desmet

Complication and obscurity often reflect insecurity on the part of the writer or speaker.

Bryan Garner

What we are doing [may be] just a drop in the ocean. But if the drop was not in the ocean, . . . the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.

Teresa of Calcutta

When schedule slippage is recognized, the natural (and traditional) response is to add manpower. Like dousing a fire with gasoline, this makes matters worse, much worse.

Fred Brooks

I believe that I’ve made good judgments in the past, and I think I’ve made good judgments in the future.

Dan Quayle

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