“When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.”
John Carpay to the Economic Education Association of Alberta’s 6th Essentials of Freedom conference Feb. 9 2019
“How come dumb stuff seems so smart while you’re doing it?”
Dennis the Menace, quoted in NCC Overview Winter 2002
“When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered, is, how much has been escaped.”
Samuel Johnson, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Sept. 29, 2004
“If this physical world is all, then it is a closed hell in which we are confined like prisoners in chains, condemned to watch the other prisoners being slain.”
John Updike quoted in Huston Smith Why Religion Matters
“Drive slowly and enjoy the scenery – drive fast and join the scenery.”
Douglas Horton, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com/2014/01/gamblers-fools-and-egotists-59-still_31.html
“Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.”
Novalis, quoted in George Macdonald Lilith
“Trends that have held up over several hundred years are not apt to reverse themselves within the next several weeks.”
John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History
“The profit motive is not a noble motive. It is not a gallant motive. It is not artistic. It is not dignified. And yet, it seems useful.”
Henry Luce, quoted in Calgary Sun Jan 25, 1990