Some ramblings you may enjoy…

“Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don’t compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest” _{Sam Levenson}

“Let’s be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven’t got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.” _{Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park}

“When we talk to God we’re praying. When God talks to us, we’re schizophrenic.” _{Lily Tomlin}

“I distrust anyone who thinks they know exactly what gods will is because it always aligns with their own.” _{Susan B. Anthony}

“Don’t confuse brains with a bull market.”  _{Humphrey Neill}

My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil. _{John Paul Getty}

In vanquishing the conventional wisdom, sometimes it seems we have vanquished wisdom itself. _{Bill Keller}

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. _{Dietrich Bonhoeffer}

I don’t set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them. _{Dick Clark}

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. _{Jacques Maritain}

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one. _{John J. Sweeney}

Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. _{Oscar Wilde}

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. _{Aldous Huxley}

The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence. _{Ludwig von Mises}

On Sept. 3, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 381 — and it did not reach that level again until November 1954. That’s an incredible rough patch that pained investors for a full 25 years.

The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. _{Bill Strickland}

The price of freedom is responsibility, but it’s a bargain, because freedom is priceless. _{Hugh Downs}

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. _{Washington Irving}

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. _{Thomas Jefferson}

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom. _{Dwight D. Eisenhower}

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one._{Albert Einstein}

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value._{Alan Greenspan}

You may delay, but time will not. _{Benjamin Franklin}

AKITA MANI YO
Observe everything as you walk. _{from the Lakota Sioux}

The main battle field for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. _{Yann Martel-From: Life of Pi}