“All history is contemporary history.” Benedotto Croce

“Not believing in the marketplace is like not believing in gravity.” P.J. O’Rourke in Ottawa Citizen March 18 2000

“’In my experience,’ he told me, ‘if you run away from a thing just because you don’t like it, you don’t like what you find either. Now, running to a thing, that’s a different matter, but what would you want to run to?’” The narrator’s wise uncle Axel in John Wyndham The Chrysalids

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”

Tony Hsieh

“All differences of opinion are at bottom theological.” Henry Edward Cardinal Manning

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller

“Among the civilized, action follows from thought; among the barbaric, action from action.” David Warren in the Ottawa Citizen November 28, 2001

“The price you pay for precision is inability to deal with real-world questions” Douglas North, Nobel Prize winner in economics