Something To Think About Archive

It’s been said that “Upon achieving victory, the problem with riding high is that the air gets pretty thin, and you can get lost in the clouds.”

Thoreau said, “The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.”

“There’s something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question,” says actor/comedienne Kristin Wiig, “Because I think it’s really hard to lie.”

Dorthea Dix believed that “Surely the consolation prize of old age is finding out how few things are worth worrying over.”

Poet Laureate Maya Angelou once noted that “Fear brings out the worst in everybody.”

We get President Trump pulling the security detail from Anthony Fauci, all he did is lie about the origins of Covid, but we think that former National Security Advisor John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo should get special consideration given that the Ayatollah Khamenei has put out a hit on them for their role in the assassination of Iranian terrorist General Soleimani during the first Trump Administration, an act that clearly was important to the world’s security and deserving of our continued support for their safety.

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale cautioned us that “Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”

Marcus Aurelius said: “The true worth of a manis to be measured by the objects he pursues.”

“The only sure thing about luck;” wrote Bret Harte, “is that it will change.”

Makeup entrepreneur Mary Kay Ash said: “The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.”

It’s been said that “If we’re not making mistakes, we’re not going anywhere.”

The CIA has finally joined the FBI and openly admitted that the Covid outbreak was, in all probability, the result of a Wuhan lab leak and not a “natural” occurrence. What is unfathomable is why the U.S. was funding research in China in the first place, much less biological gain of function research. Why would we be helping anyone, much less China, with the creation of potential bio-weaponry?

Swiss playwright Max Frisch once noted that “Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.”

According to a Navajo saying: “Act as if everybody was related to you.”

Bertrand Russell: “The trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

Playwright and novelist Betty Smith advised us to “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it for the first or last time.”

According to actor Steve Coogan: “The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.”

In four years, the Biden Administration issued 1213 new regulations that, according to the American Action Forum, will cost $1.9 trillion over the first ten years these new rules are in effect. This far exceeds the expense of the actions of prior Administrations. We can only hope that the next four years will see a rollback of the onerous burdens of all this red tape, particularly the direct and indirect electric car mandates.

Author Pau-Choudhury writes: “If we want the world to be better tomorrow than it is today, we first have to expect that it will be. Then we have to imagine the ways in which it could be. And then we have to ensure that it will be.”

Entrepreneur Paul Hawken says that “Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.”