“Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.”
D.P. Diffiné, “The 1993 American Incentive System Almanac”.
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” not further attributed in Epoch Times email newsletter November 26, 2021.
“He did not lack just the last six inches of steel: he lacked the first.”
The Economist August 24, 1991 (alas, my notes here are incomplete; it was to do with British politician Robert Boothby, but I cannot tell whether it was said by or of him).
“No man was ever wise by chance”
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” (not further attributed) in Epoch Times email December 6, 2021
“The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that the key insight into any society in any age is had by inquiring into what people didn’t write about; because that is what those people, in that age, simply took for granted.”
William F. Buckley Jr. in National Review January 24, 2000
In my latest National Post column I argue that the real division in Canada is between people who praise diversity in theory but suppress it in practice and those who do the opposite.
“The NDP Boxing Day sale ends in just a few hours. But you must act now. Donate to Canada’s New Democrats before midnight tonight – and get up to 75% back on your 2011 taxes.”
Email from the federal NDP December 31, 2011. (The point being that even they know incentives matter... except when designing policy proposals.)
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the Ontario NDP proposal to bring all mental health care into our crumbling public system reflects a broad, nonpartisan, goofy belief that government is the main and best creator of wealth in a society.