Something To Think About Archive

We enjoyed seeing that while Google’s Deep Mind AI may have scored a gold metal at the recent mathematical Olympiad; 26 students, including four Americans, out scored AI in the competition. There is hope for humanity yet.

Ogden Nash defined middle age as, “when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else”

La Rochefoucauld said: “We all have the strength to endure the misfortunes of others.”

It’s been said that “The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.”

Organizational consultant Walter Bennis believed that “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision int reality.”

Thomas Jefferson said: “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.”

We’re constantly amazed by so-called freedom fighters and social justice warriors who commit murder and/or mayhem proudly proclaiming that their cause is just, as did Luigi Mangione killer of United Health CEO Brian Thompson, and then they plead ‘Not Guilty.’

“Labor Day” has been defined as “When people take a day off from work to celebrate working by not working.”

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale said, “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

Actress Helen Hayes, at age 83, once observed that “The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”

It’s been said that “Everything is always impossible before it works.”

Former Harvard University President Derek Bok said, “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

Rather than picking fights with our neighbors to the north and south, Ronald Reagan believed in a strong North America, stating that “We are neighbors by geography, but more than that, we must be partners by choice – in prosperity, in progress, and in peace.” That certainly doesn’t mean open borders where bad actors from all over the world can enter the country, but it does mean that we shouldn’t be threatening to make them 51^st states and that freer trade between the three countries does more good than harm.

Mark Twain claimed that “Providence protects children and idiots. I know,” said Twain, “because I have tested it.”

Henry Ford believed that “Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.”

According to Garrison Keillor, “Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”

The U.S. national debt hit a record $37 trillion on August 8, less than eight months after passing the $36 trillion threshold for the first time in November and continues to surge past our Annual GDP. Tariffs, while bringing some money into the Treasury, are not the answer. Cutting expenses is the only solution to avoiding this fiscal cliff.

Author Ernest Heminway advised us to “Never mistake motion for action.”

It’s interesting to watch the recent hyperventilation by Democrats over the gerrymandering proposed in Texas especially considering that New York immediately threatened to do the same thing under its Democratic control, and Illinois has done it for decades under the control of Democrats.  Even California did the same thing in 2000, although that was supposed to be a bipartisan effort, given the Democratic control of the state it hardly was.