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Addiction

 See, madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

Art

 Recently my secretary came to work one morning and she said that her little boy had come home from school the previous afternoon, had removed his jacket, had thrown it down on the living room couch and said "Mom, I feel just like Charlie Brown." And all of the sudden it occurred to me after all of these years, this is the purpose of Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown is somewhat like a line of poetry. That little boy then, did not have to talk anymore about his feelings. The mother knew exactly how he felt. And I suppose this could be the reason for Charlie Brown's existence. If someone says to you "Boy, I feel just like Charlie Brown today" you know how he feels.

Adversity

 I like to think that I point out some solutions now and then. I suppose one of the solutions is, as Charly Brown, just to keep on trying. He never gives up. And if anyone should give up, he should.

Adversity

 A cartoonist is a lot like Lucy's psychiatric stand. She said once that she only points out the problems. She doesn't try to solve them. And I think that's what a cartoonist does.

Adversity

 BBC Interviewer (Peter France): I think that one overwhelming reason why your work is so popular here in England where very largely we think of ourselves as being a post-Christian society is that um, here's a man who really knows how terrible life is. Are you happy to be looked at in that way? Charles Schulz: Yes. But we must admit that I'm talking only about the minor everyday problems in life. Leo Tolstoy dealt with the major problems of the world. I'm only dealing with, um, why we all have the feeling that people don't like us. This is Charlie Brown's problem.

Art

 I wish I had a better education, but I think that my entire background made me well suited for what I do. If I could write better than I can, perhaps I would have tried to become a novelist, and I might have become a failure. If I could draw better than I can, I might have tried to become an illustrator or an artist, and would have failed there. But my entire being seems to be just right for being a cartoonist.

Art

 I studied art in a correspondence course because I was afraid to go to art school. I couldn't see myself sitting in a room where everyone else in the room could draw much better than I, and this way I was protected by drawing at home and simply mailing my drawing in and having them criticize.

Art

 I suppose when a composer is composing well, the music is coming faster than he can think of it. And when I have a good idea, I can hardly get the words down fast enough. I'm afraid that they will leave me before I get them down on the paper. And sometimes, um, my hand will literally shake with excitement as I'm drawing it because I'm having a good time. Unfortunately this does not happen every day.

Artificial Intelligence

 You'll hear people saying things like "They're just doing autocomplete. They're just trying to predict the next word. And, they're just using statistics." Well, It's true they're just trying to predict the next word, but if you think about it, to predict the next word, you have to understand the sentences. So the idea "they [AI] just predict the next word so they're not intelligent" is crazy. You have to be really intelligent to predict the next word really accurately.

Artificial Intelligence

 The AI revolution is progressing at lightning speed. It took centuries for humanity to adapt to the agricultural revolution. It took decades to adapt to the industrial revolution. We may have but a few years to adapt to the AI revolution.

Abortion

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Art

 "I knew that Humbolt would die soon, because I had seen him on the street two months before. And he had death all over him. He didn't see me. He was gray stout sick dusty, he had brought a pretzel stick and was eating it. His lunch." James Atlas (Biographer): Delmore Schwartz was born in 1913 in New York, and was appraised by T.S Elliot as the poet of his generation. This amazing, sudden, precocious recognition. But Delmore also became a symbol of the artist in America who's doomed by the pressures of capitalism and has to be crazy because he's a poet. Saul Bellow: People like that have no proper place in American life. They just don't. This is a high tech, high finance, rationally organized kind of society in which people normally don't have such motives as Humbolt had. They just don't. He himself looks upon himself as an alien object, because he was aware that he does not guide his life by the standards that prevail. But in his saner moments, I would have thought that he would say that art was something that life couldn't do without. Uh, there was not this sort of divorce at at all. But that um, um, art was one of the powers that made life life. I think we all believe that. I think I still do.

Art

 But of course there's no shortage of people who are capable of being moved by bad art. I mean, the world is full of bad art and people love it. I don't think popularity can be cited as a standard of achievement in art.

Abundance

 The purpose of life is not to live long but to live fully.

American Dream

 Our family went from cotton to congress in one lifetime. And that's why I believe the next American century can be be better than the last.

American Dream

 We don't give into cancel culture or the radical and factually baseless belief that things are worse today than the 1860's or the 1960's. We have work to do, but I believe in the goodness of America. The promise that all men and all women are created equal.

American Exceptionalism

 If there is one thing I've learned, it's that even on our worst day we are blessed to live in America.

American Exceptionalism

 In much of the Democratic party, it's now fashionable to say that America is racist. That is a lie. America is not a racist country.

American Exceptionalism

 What made america exceptional was not its flaws, which were all universal, but it's virtues which were not.

Anti-Semitism

 It's just a given people in police states either like it or have no choice about it secondly the notion of I'm not Anti-jewish. I'm Anti-israel is so perverse as to be laughable it is it is perverse Let me just explain it would be like saying i've used this analogy my whole life it would be like saying I love Italians I love I love Verdi and Puccini and I love Ivaldi and I love Italian art and I love pizza and Italian food but I Believe Italy should be destroyed That is what anti-zionists argue we love Jews, but of all the 220 countries on earth only one is illegitimate and it happens to be the only Jewish one

American Exceptionalism

 The actions that occurred in mystic in 1637, and the actions that have occurred in America since, should not be confused, though often are, with the ideas and ideals that make America the greatest country in the world.

American Exceptionalism

 The notion that all men are created free and equal is beautiful. I don't care that the guy that wrote it had slaves. It's aspiring to what was written. It's the ideal.

Agency

 No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.

Action

 R2D2: Beeps, clicks, whistles, etc. Luke: Oh no. We’ll never get it out now! Yoda: So certain are you? Always with you it cannot be done. Do you nothing that I say? Luke: Master moving stones around is one thing. This is totally different. Yoda: No! No different! Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned. Luke: Alright, I’ll give it a try. Yoda: No. Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.

Arrogance

 Tank Evans: I love being the center of attention, because it’s really where I should be.

Arrogance

 Tank Evans: Right. No, I get ya. What’s winning without the losers?…Feels better when there’s a lot of losers around. Was, was that your question?

Arrogance

 Tank Evans: A role model? No, but I do consider myself somebody that everyone should look up to. Kids should try to, uh, pretend that they’re tank. I mean they should try. Huh huh. Good luck kids! Narrator: You never want to get in there and like you know, help ‘em out, and show ‘em how to surf, and spend some time with the kids? Tank Evans: No. No. I don’t wanna do that…Anyway, this is my wave. Narrator: Always classy Tank Evans.

Annoyance

 Everybody that I've ever met who's driven, or passionate is also afflicted in some way. Right. They get up, typically a little annoyed that the world is not precisely the way they think it ought to be.

Book of Mormon

 As we go into western New York, we find that the fortifications are not built so well. They are very poorly built, because in the Book of Mormon, they only had a few years to go up into that area and settle as they waited for the big day at Hill Cumorah. And so the forts here are not anywhere near as nicely made as they are in the Ohio. An this is an Indiana fort. As you can see how nice it is. Again look at the size of it. Huge earth berms. These were taken time. These were engineered walls. The walls made of different layers of clay and gravel and earth. They were made to last. Because they lived here for a long time. But not in western New York. That was a short timespan for the Hopewell people.

Book of Mormon

 In western New York we find in the actual ditches of the forts and in the forts we find, the early guys did, these 250 plus forts, they find these huge piles of bones showing tremendous warfare. And of course throughout the Midwest we find battle mounds. And when they are cleared we find piles of people. Men, women, and children where genocide has taken place and entire villages have been eliminated. Again, things from the Book of Mormon.

Book of Mormon

 I think we need to pay attention. As the archaeologists hit this vast array of information in the Ohio, they all went for the burial mounds, because they wanted the artifacts. The earthen banks, the ditches, the entrance ways, places of entrance as Alma calls it, they have just now begin to start having them excavated. It began in the 1970's by Dr. Robert Reorden of Wright State University. He is leading the way on attacking the berms and the doorways. And he is finding that these things have gone down by fire. They've been burned out showing confrontation. Up to that point, they've been writing off the forts as churches, sacred places. And I've got to tell you, the people in the Ohio, the Hopewell, whoever they are they built more churches than the Mormons did.

Book of Mormon

 By doing the work in the mounds we find there are post molds left behind, and that will give us the size of the log and the size of the Bastions that stood in the earth banks. Post molds. Not only do you get that, but you also get carbon dating, and the dating goes from approximately 30 A.D. on the average to a high of 430 A.D. Right in the Book of Mormon timeline. That's how accurate the post-molds are for Ohio forts.

Book of Mormon

 In the Book of Mormon we talk about these strong places and it can be demonstrated that the forts of the Ohio do fit the description given in the book of Alma.

Book of Mormon

 There are a number of structures of earth and stone scattered throughout (the) state (of Ohio)...All such earthworks are, of course, placed on summits of high hills, or on plateaus overlooking river valleys. At fort Miami, it seems as if blockhouses or bastions of wood had been burned down when once protecting the gateway. This is not only an excellent description of the Book of Mormon strong places, but it also suits exactly the picture of the standard fortified places of the Old World.

Book of Mormon

 So early on, the saints who came into the church as converts, like I am, North America was the place. But somewhere along the line we've walked away from this and looked totally south of the Rio Grande. And my whole thing for doing what I'm doing, I'm trying to get people to look to the east. To look east of the Mississippi. Back to North America.

Book of Mormon

 Blinded by the gold of the pharaohs and the mighty ruins of Babylon, Book of Mormon students have declared themselves "not interested" in the drab and commonplace remains of our lowly (North American) Indians. But in all the Book of Mormon we look in vain for anything that promises majestic ruins.

Bodybuilding

 And my mother got freaked out: "And all his friends, they have, you know...girls above their bed. My son doesn't have one girl up here! Look at that. Not one girl. I mean its only naked men oiled up! Where did we go wrong?"

Biden

 Joe Biden said if a black man didn't vote for him, he wasn't truly black. Joe Biden said Black people are a monolithic community. It was Joe Biden who said poor kids can be just as smart as white kids.

Brave

 Ivy: How is it you are brave when all the rest of us shake in our boots? Lucius: I don’t worry about what will happen, only what needs to be done.

Competition

 I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No, I'm Alexander, he's no Alexander. I'm the best ever! There's never been anybody as ruthless! I'm Sonny Liston, I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There's no one that can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!

Creativity

 If you were siting there worrying whether or not you were drawing something that is going to be influential, you're not going to be able to think of anything. You have to kind of bend over the drawing board, shut the world out, and just draw something that you hope is funny.

Capitalism

 This notion though, that you can just sort of send checks out to everybody and things will be fine is not true, obviously. Some have this absurd view that the economy is like some magic horn of plenty… that just makes stuff. There’s a magic horn of plenty, and the goods and services, they just come from this magic horn of plenty. And then if somebody has more stuff than somebody else, it’s because they took more from this magic horn of plenty. Now let me just break it to the fools out there: If you don’t make stuff, there’s no stuff. If you don’t make the food, if you don’t process the food, if you don’t transport the food, medical treatment, getting your teeth fixed, there’s no stuff. We’ve become detached from reality. You can’t just legislate money and solve these things. If you don’t make stuff, there is no stuff.

Capitalism

 So now I would rather buy a wonderful business at a fair price, than a fair business at a wonderful price.

Courage

 There's a line in the old testament; the fear of god is the begining of wisdom. And I think it's more like that, it's not that I'm courageous, it's that I'm afraid of the right things.

Choice

 Moses said that the people's fate would be determined by the choice they made between the blessing and the curse. That same choice has echoed down the ages, not just for the people of Israel, but for all humanity.

Commitment

 If you're serious about something you're not based looking for the one march, the one concert, the one bill. That you're involved on a day to day basis. You're here today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, 10 years from now.

Competition

 When I was a boy I used to uh... I used to read all about Edison and the Wright brothers, Mr. Ford, they were my heroes. Rags to riches, that's not just the name of a book, that's what this country was all about. We invented the free enterprise system where anybody, no matter who he was, where he came from, what class he belonged to, if he came up with a better idea about anything, there's no limit to how far he could go. I grew up a generation too late, I guess, because now the way the system works, the loner, the dreamer, the crackpot who comes up with some crazy idea that everybody laughs at, that later turns out to revolutionize the world, he's squashed from above before he even gets his head out of the water, because the bureaucrats they would rather kill a new idea than let it rock the boat. If Benjamin Franklin were alive today he would be thrown in jail for sailing a kite without a license. It's true. We're all puffed up with ourselves now 'cause we invented the bomb. Dropped the... Beat the daylights out of the Japanese, the Nazis. But if big business closes the door on the little guy with a new idea, we're not only closing the door on progress but we're sabotaging everything we fought for, everything the country stands for. And one day we're going to find ourselves at the bottom of the heap, instead of king of the hill having no idea how we got there, buying our radios and our cars from our former enemies. I don't believe that's going to happen. I can't believe it because if I ever stop believing in the plain ol' common horse sense of the American people there'd be no way I could get out of bed in the morning.

Conspiracy

 Tucker: What's all this cloak and dagger business now? Abe: Yor office is wired. The boardroom. The whole plant. Even the washrooms. Tucker: What? Abe: Ever since you road tested the new car, forty G-men have been following you around the clock. Tucker: What for? Abe: You made the car too good. Tucker: Well that's the whole idea isn't it? To build a better mouse trap. Abe: Not if you're the mouse.

Curiosity

 We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomenon of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order, that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Counterfeit

 One evening at a press conference, a man working for the U.S. treasury who had just solved a major counterfeit ring was told by a reporter, “You must spend a lot of time studying counterfeit bills to be able to recognize them so easily.” “No,” he responded, “I don’t ever study counterfeit bills, I spend my time studying genuine bills, then the imperfections are easy to recognize.”

Change

 In the cosmos, there is no refuge from change.

Consequence

 As the saying goes. Whether the stone hits the pitcher or the pitcher hits the stone, it's going to be bad for the pitcher.

Cancel Culture

 Do we want a society the breeds success, or a culture that cancels everything it even slightly disagrees with?

Covid

 "Less than a month ago on July 31st, the CDC ... released guidelines to state health departments about patients infected with the coronavirus," Carlson said. "In a footnote, the CDC acknowledged that researchers lacked evidence that 'masks offer any protection' against coronavirus. Any at all." According to Carlson, the CDC urged state health departments to "ignore whether or not people were wearing masks," deeming it an insignificant consideration when monitoring the spread of the virus in their area. " In other words, wearing a mask might be completely irrelevant to preventing the spread of the virus," he said. "So there is still no proof that masks protect us against COVID-19?" Trump vs. Biden: Deal with the virus then reopen the country?Video "Why isn't that on page one of The New York Times?" Carlson asked. "Why is the entire media, the entire leadership class of the United States of America ignoring this? Masks are obligatory, they're mandatory, everywhere. "What is going on?" he continued. "You know what is going on. Fear works. The more afraid you are, the more you will accept ... it's human nature. The more cut off you are from your family and your friends, the more power they have to control you.

Capitalism

 Well, clearly a good chunk of the younger generation, as well as many of my generation stopped saving money. And saving matters because it allows you to build capital to invest in assets. And one thing I learned a long time ago is one good investment is worth more than a life's worth of toil. That means if you can accumulate enough capital and buy assets that produce income, and over time build that, uh you don't have to get up every day and work hard to generate your own income. You have assets working for you. Um, you can't just do that overnight. But it takes building savings, being smart, being frugal and prudent with your resources.

Covid

 But it will help a lot of these businesses over this short period of time. But the problem is, if we don't reopen our economy, then all that money, all these hundreds of billions of dollars we as taxpayers have funded... Because ya know the government's money is not some nebulous money that grows on a tree. It's our money. And we're just borrowing from our future. So if we don't get this economy reopened all those loans are going to go for naught. Because those businesses come June 30th, ok, they have to survive.

Covid

 Here is what my concern is. I think the financial ramifications may end up causing the loss of a lot more lives than the corona virus ever will cause. Why do I say that? We know heart attacks, strokes are vastly more prevalent when people are under severe financial pressures, or under long term joblessness. We know suicides will spike. 20% to 30% of all suicides are tied to joblessness. Overdoses. This country has been running at over 60,000 deaths, largely young people, to overdoses, for over a decade. A lot of that started in our last great financial crisis. So I think you're going to have a whole ramification of secondary or primary deaths more to our younger generations than clearly coronavirus because it typically doesn't impact the young very much.

Covid

 well Tucker there's so much to talk about here first off I didn't realize I was going to be on a sci-fi show tonight but, we are, entering a dystopian future we are entering an authoritarian future because as I've said to you before authoritarians love authoritarianism so they're taking this opportunity when we're all confused, we're all locked at home, the only way we can communicate with each other through their pipes is through YouTube and Facebook and Twitter and everything else and they're actually finally saying to us this is who we are I mean theAtlantic is ridiculous I don't know anyone that reads it anymore but but the bigger issue here is is the YouTube Twitter Facebook component of it because we are now saying to them or they're saying to us we're gonna tell you what's true and if you dare go against what we say is true not necessarily what is true but what we say is true then we're gonna boot you so the the of course the other part of this is that it will always only be one side that gets booted here I mean is Facebook running around and is Twitter and YouTube running around are they taking away all the Russian collusion videos that were up over the past couple years a pretty sure MSNBC has a YouTube channel that still has videos on it I mean that was pushing lies and misinformation and propaganda so we need to debate these things if I was to interview these two doctors that you showed the video of would my channel be deleted am I not allowed to talk about that is that not what science and open inquiry really is about that you test theories and then you find out what actually is true and as you pointed out and this may be the most important part it's not as if the w-h-o is infallible.

Covid

 These days it’s hard to tell where sincerity ends and parody begins. Reality has become nearly indistinguishable from satire. As a case-in-point consider the recent article on Gizmodo complaining that billionaire Jack Ma has donated $14 million to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Author Matt Novak says that this apparently paltry sum is “roughly equivalent to the average American household donating $33.” He concludes, somehow, that Ma’s generosity is proof that the government should “take that obscene wealth through taxes and [spend] it to make the world a healthier place for everyone.”

Cancel Culture

 You Don't rewrite history by taking down statues.

Cheating

 Irv: You wanna know why I cheated right? Derice: Yes I do. Irv: That’s a fair question. It’s quite simple really. I had to win. You see Derice, I’d made winning my whole life, and when you make winning your whole life, you have to keep on winning. No matter what. You understand that? Derice: No I don’t understand coach. Ya had two gold medals. Ya had it all. Irv: Derice…A gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it.

Competition

 Joker: Now. Our operation is small, but there is a lot of potential for aggressive expansion. So which one of you fine gentlemen would like to join our team. Oh, there’s only one spot open right now so we’re going to have tryouts! Make it fast.

Conflict

 Walt Mossberg: And are people willing to tell you that you are wrong? Steve Jobs: Uh, yeah. Walt Mossberg: I mean other than snarky journalists. I mean people that work for you? Steve Jobs: Oh Yeah! No we have wonderful arguments. Walt Mossberg: And do you win them all? Steve Jobs: Oh no. I wish I did. See you can't. If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions and you have to be run by ideas. Not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win. Otherwise good people don't stay.

Choice

 Spock: You have to shoot. If you are logical, you have to shoot. Lt. Valeris: I do not want to. Spock: What you want is irrelevant. What you have chosen is at hand. Kirk: I’d just as soon you didn’t.

Curses

 Coach Gary Gaines: Well it took me a long time to realize that uh…there ain't much difference between winning and losing except for how the outside world treats you. But inside you it's about all the same ya know. It really is. Fact of the matter is. I believe that uh, our only curses are the ones that are self-imposed. You know what I'm sayin'? We uh, all of us, dig our own holes.

Consumerism

 Tyler Durden: An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables. Slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes. Working jobs we hate so we can buy s*** we don't need. We're the middle children of history man. No purpose or place. We have no great war. No great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.

Celebrity

 Tyler Durden: We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won't. We're slowly learning that fact.

Consumerism

 The Narrator: What? Tyler Durden: The things you own end up owning you.

Competition

 I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot, and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Curse

 It’s not the power of the curse. It’s the power you give the curse.

Carpe Diem

 Economics Teacher: Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? (Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron skipping school, having a perfect day at the art museum)

Carpe Diem

 John Keating: I would like you to step forward over here. And peruse some of the faces from the past. You've walked past them many times. I don't think you've really looked at them. They're not that different from you are they. Same haircuts. Full of hormones just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you. Their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on. Lean in. Listen. You hear it? Carpe...Carpe...Carpe Diem. Seize the day boys. Make your lives extraordinary.

Carpe Diem

 John Keating: Seize the day. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. Why does the writer use these lines? Charlie Dalton: Because he’s in a hurry. John Keating: No. Ding! Thanks for playing anyway. Because we are food for worms lads. Because believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

Competition

 Billy Beane: You get on base, we win. You don't, we lose. And I hate losing Chave. I hate it! I hate losing more than I even wanna win. And there's a difference.

Chance

 Your worldly success, will partly be a function of your choices and capabilities, but it will also be subject to the vagaries of life, and to chance. Fortunately our relationship with God depends on none of that. It's entirely in our control.

Career

 Dive into your profession with passion and heart. Go beyond what's expected or required. And in doing so by the way, you will learn the secret to advancement. And that is doing your present job well.

Design

 And then the final step is automate.

Design

 Finally, you get to step four, which is accelerate cycle time. You're moving too slowly, go faster. But don't go faster until you've worked on the other three things first. If you're digging and you're grave, don't dig it faster. Stop digging your grave.

Design

 Well, everyone has been trained in high school and college, that you've gotta answer the question. Convergent logic. So you can't tell a professor, your question is dumb. You will get a bad grade. You have to answer the question. So everyone is basically without knowing it, they've got like mental straight jacket on. That is, they'll work on optimizing the thing that should simply not exist.

Design

 So step one, make your requirements less dumb. Step two, delete the part or process step. If you're not deleting a part or process step at least 10% of the time, basically if you're not adding things back in 10% of the time, you're clearly not deleting enough. And then only the third step is simplify or optimize. The third step. Not the first step. The reason it's the third step is because it's very common, possibly the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize the thing that should not exist.

Design

 Whatever requirement or constraint you have, it must come with a name, not a department. Because you can't ask the departments, you have to ask a person. And that person who's putting forward the requirement or constraint must agree that they must take responsibility for that requirement.

Design

 First make your requirements less dumb. Your requirements are definitely dumb. It does not matter who gave them to you. It's particularly dangerous if a smart person gave you the requirements, because you might not question them enough. ... Everyone's wrong, no matter who you are, everyone's wrong some of the time. So make requirements less dumb, then try very hard to delete the part or process. This is actually very important. If you're not occasionally adding things back in, you are not deleting enough. The bias tends to be very strongly towards, let's add this part of the process step in case we need it. But you can basically make in case arguments for so many things.

Design

 Humanity will become a multi-planet species, if we get cost per ton to orbit to the point where we can afford to become a space race civilization and a multiplanet species.

Design

 If people have not been in manufacturing, especially manufacturing of something that's relatively new, then they don't understand. And they think the design is the hard part, and they think production is like a copier or something like that.

Design

 I think currently manufacturing is underrated and design is overrated. So people generally think that, like this Eureka moment, like you come up with this idea and that's it, now it it's good. But the design like this, literally a thousand percent, maybe ten thousand percent more work that goes into the production system than the thing itself.

Design

 All designs are wrong, it's just a matter of how wrong.

Design

 I have this mantra. It's called, "If a schedule is long, it's wrong. If it's tight, it's right." And I've just, basically just go recursive improvement on schedule, with feedback loop. "Did this make it go faster? OK. If it didn't, we're going to need to fix it." If the design takes a long time to build, it's the wrong design. This is the fundamental thing. Over and over, the tendency is to complicate things. And I have another thing which is, the best part is no part. The best process is no process. It weighs nothing, costs nothing, can't go wrong. So, as obvious as that sounds, the best part is no part. The thing I'm most impressed with, when I have the design meetings at SpaceX, is "What did you undesign?" Undesigning is the best thing. Just delete it. That's the best thing.

Death

 In the insecurity that we have about a prior life or an afterlife, God, I hope there is a God, if he does exist he's got a rather weird sense of humor however. But if there's a process that will allow us to live our days, that will allow that degree of equanimity, towards the end, looking at that black, implacable wall of death, that will allow us that degree of peace, that degree of non-fear, I want in.

Discrimination

 Racial discrimination is not a permissible solution. That can only weaken the principle of equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Equal Protection Clause. Show me in the Constitution where you get a right to separate citizens based on race. I think what we've become comfortable with is thinking that there is some good discrimination, and some bad discrimination. Well, who gets to determine that? And if you look in the briefs and the race cases, the segregationists, the people who thought you should have a separate system, they said that they thought it was good for both races. So they thought it was good discrimination.

Drake Equation

 But in the history of the solar system, and even in human history, there are clear records of extraordinary and devastating catastrophes. We humans have now achieved the dubious distinction of being able to make our own major catastrophes, both intentional and inadvertent. On the landscapes of other planets, where the records of the past are better preserved, there is abundant evidence of major catastrophes. It's all a matter of timescale. An event which is improbable in a hundred years, may be inevitable in a hundred-million.

Disagreement

 We can disagree without hating each other.

Debate

 We can debate issues without degrading each other's character.

Death

 You know, death is something many of us are uncomfortable speaking about. But to die is to be human. And anything human is mentionable. Anything mentionable is manageable.

Drawing

 I have been trying to draw for 15 years. But all I kept doing in that time was trying to copy finished works others had done. I always got stuck on trying to replicate the details and could never break them down to simple shapes and forms. And worse, when copying something, I never felt like I learned anything. It just felt like a fruitless exercise. I watched this video few years ago, not really understanding how to implement it. I got what Sycra was trying to say, but I couldn't drop my fears and pride enough to actually follow the advice. I thought that using a source would be faster than just blindly trying to draw stuff on my own. And I definitely was too scared to try and draw stuff from memory before attempting to look at a source. I mean, who can draw something without looking at it first? THAT must be the phantom talent everyone talks about. So I just kept going back to copying stuff. Just this last week, when I was trying for the umpteenth time to copy a drawing, it never came out the way I wanted it to. I could see every little mistake I was making, but had no basis of understanding how to correct the mistakes. And as a result, every new drawing I did ended up worse than the one before. And I got frustrated more than I ever had. I hit my breaking point and, as if the years of failure were all piled up at once, I vowed to give up on drawing. But in my blind anger, I also had a small revelation. "If I can't copy the source correctly, then to hell with the source!" Out of simple spite, I decided to draw one last thing. I set myself to purposefully draw the source incorrectly. I made the hips too fat, drew the chin off center, tried to make the arms like noodles, put the mouth too far up, made one leg longer than the other, etc. I wanted to vent all my frustration on this one drawing, since I had gotten myself into a mental state where I assumed anything I did would look bad anyway. But I was shocked to find that the figure I purposefully drew wrong looked better than all the copies I had attempted. I thought it was a fluke so I drew a couple more. And again, these strange variations on the source I doodled in about 1 minute ended up looking better than the meticulous, time consuming copies that took me 15 minutes a piece. And more importantly, I had actual fun drawing them, unlike the copying which felt like work. Soul crushing, annoying work that made me dread drawing. So I experimented further and tried drawing random body shapes and faces without a source. And again, the results were surprising. I was drawing better stuff without looking at a source than I ever did when trying to copy a finished piece of art. Somehow in all those years of painfully trying to copy, I had learned some of the basics of anatomy and perspective. But I never felt like I had because I was only using those skills to try and copy a completed image. In effect, I was discouraging myself because my rough sketches didn't look exactly like a fully inked and colored final image. During all this realization, I remembered this video and rewatched it. And suddenly everything clicked. I tried Sycra's suggestion of drawing 20 heads and it worked. After about 10 heads, I found new tricks which drastically improved the placement of eyes and mouth. And after all 20, I had already gotten to a point that I could replicate it in just a few seconds without much effort. And I didn't even look at a source to create the head. I just kept refining the first basic head I came up with. I don't know if someone new to drawing can start right away with this or if you need the years of copying to build the mental library/muscle memory to get to this point. But all I can say is, in my experience, it finally started working. After I dropped my stubbornness and accepted it. And I thank Sycra for expanding on this process. Now I'm going to keep trying this process with all the parts of the body and hopefully move onto landsc

Different

 The human being has a history of being awful cruel to some - something different.

Democracy

 The founders believed in a republic the Left believes in a democracy It's a big difference that Is the reason that we have two senators from every state? States with 30 million people have two senators and states with two million people have two senators Because it's the United States of America not just America. They did not trust The great majority they want they didn't because they knew people are not basically good So they didn't trust just let's go in the majority Nope That's why there's an electoral college And that's why the Left hates the electoral college and they're trying to get around it now not using the constant a constitutional amendment process Colorado just today passed the law that all the electoral votes of Colorado will go to whoever wins the national vote So in other words if Colorado goes for candidate a and the country goes for candidate be tough Coloradans We don't care It's not it's a republic or as franklin said it's a republic if you can keep it He knew what this is in an experiment America is an experiment Every generation has to reaffirm the experiment or it disappears That's my worry The left believes America is racist bigoted imperialistic Conservatives believe America is the least racist country in the history of any multi-ethnic multiracial country

Debate

 We think you're wrong. You think we're evil! It's a big difference you Have to think we're evil because you don't argue with us So we must be dismissed as evil there. Why do they call us racist bigoted homophobic xenophobic and so on because they don't have arguments.

Definition

 Vizzini: Inconceivable! Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Debate

 Beware the sound of one hand clapping. Which was a way of saying if there's an argument on one side there's bound to be an argument on the other.

Dole

 Alfred Doolittle: Well. Look at it my way. What am I? I ask you what am I? I’m one of the undeservin’ poor, that’s what I am. Now think what that means to a man. It means he’s up against middle class morality for all of time. If there’s anything going and I puts in fer a bit of it, it’s always the same story. Your undeservin' so you can’t have it. But my needs is as great as the most deservin' widows that ever got money out of six different charities in one week for the death of the same husband. Heh. I don’t need less than a deservin’ man. I need more. I don’t eat less hardy than he does. And I drink…oh a lot more. I’m playin’ strait with you. I aint pretending to be deserving. No. I’m undeserving. And I mean to go on being undeserving. I like it and that’s the truth.

Dreams

 There are a lot of people that have dreams. I like to say everyone who has ever had a shower has had a good idea. It's the people who dry off and do something about them that make a difference.

Dreams

 You're talkin' about the American Dream. You find something that you love and then you twist it and you torture it; Try to find a way to make money at it. You spend a lifetime doing that, and at the end you can't find a trace of what you started out loving.

Engineering

 Possibly, the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.

Environmentalism

 We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world. That's the trick of it.

Environmentalism

 I'm not really super hard core about being ultra environmental in all things. Because I think that you don't want to make life miserable. We want to create a better future, but a better future is not one where we are constantly depriving ourselves of things that we love.

Emotion

 We shouldn’t try to force spiritual things. If we try to, we may rely on emotions that mimic spiritual promptings but are not. These emotions may include sentimentality, awe, empathy, excitement—or raging hormones.

Environmentalism

 Elon: We're not in any danger of resource collapse. Maher: But lot's of people don't have enough food or water. Water, we will run out of water. They're running out of sand. Elon: Earth is 70% water by surface area. Maher: But you cant drink that. Elon: Desalination is absurdly cheap. Maher: Why don't we do it then? Elon: We do it. Maher: You have a lot of free time. Elon: There's a lot of desalination done. There's plenty of water. It's not an issue. I want to be clear.

Entrepreneur

 It turns out ideas are the easy part. Execution is everything.

Exploration

 Important lessons about our environment have come from spacecraft missions to the planets. By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds.

Extraterrestrial

 So if civilizations do not always destroy themselves shortly after discovering radio astronomy, then the sky may be softly humming with messages from the stars. With signals from civilizations enormously older, and wiser than we.

Extraterrestrial

 There are an enormous number of stars. Only some of them will have planets suitable for life. On only some of those worlds will intelligence arise. And perhaps a few of those civilizations will avoid the trap jointly set by their technology and their passions. If there are many civilizations, one of them should be rather close by. If there are few civilizations, then even the nearest may be very far away.

Extraterrestrial

 With 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone, could ours be the only one with an inhabited planet? How much more likely it is that the galaxy is throbbing and humming with advanced societies. Perhaps near one of those pinpoints of light in our night sky, someone quite different from us is glancing idly at the star we call the sun, and entertaining just for a moment, an outrageous speculation.

Extraterrestrial

 Extraterrestrial beings will have a different biology, a different culture, a different language. How could we possibly understand their messages. Is there in any sense a cosmic Rosetta Stone? I believe there is. All the technical civilizations in the cosmos, no matter how different they are, must have one language in common. The language called science.

Extraterrestrial

 The receipt of an interstellar message would be one of the major events in human history and the beginning of the deprovincialization of our planet.

Evidence

 Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Extraterrestrial

 In the vastness of the Cosmos, there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

Exploration

 We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

Emotion

 Where we have strong emotions we're liable to fool ourselves.

Ecosystem

 The world is divided politically. But ecologically it is tightly interwoven. There are no useless threads in the fabric of the ecosystem. If you cut any one of them you will unravel many others. We've uncovered other worlds with choking atmospheres and deadly surfaces. Shall we then recreate these hells on earth? We've encountered desolate moons and barren asteroids. Shall we then scar and crater this blue-green world in their likeness? Natural catastrophes are rare. But they come often enough. We need not force the hand of nature. If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go. This is not a disposable world. And we are not yet able to re-engineer other planets. The cruelest desert on earth is far more hospitable than any place on mars.

Extraterrestrial

 The study of a single instance of extra-terrestrial life - no matter how humble- a microbe would be just fine, will de-provincialize biology. It will show us what else is possible.

Equity

 Equity is another synonym for the sort of the obverse which is racism and white supremacy I've been hearing more and my ears are more attuned to Biden's endless repetition of systemic racism and they're the same thing I mean equity is the response to systemic racism equity means quotas, it means the destruction of meritocratic standards, it means you hire and promote on the basis of race not on the basis of qualifications, and any institution which does not show a proportional number of of blacks or hispanics is thereby by the definition of systemically racist and engaged in bias.

Elitism

 Don Lemon: Democrats don't do a good job of speaking to working class people. What do you say to that? You are supposed to be fixing that. Andrew Yang: I had that experience countless times on the trail Don. Where I would say 'Hey I'm running for President' to a truck driver, retail worker, a waitress in a diner. And they would say 'What party?' and I would say Democrat. And they would flinch like I had said something really negative or like I had turned another color or something like that. And there is something deeply wrong when working class Americans have that response to a major party that theoretically is supposed to be fighting for them. So you have to ask yourself what has the Democratic party been standing for in their minds. And in their minds the Democratic party unfortunately has taken on this role of the coastal, urban elites who are more concerned about policing various cultural issues than improving their way of life that has been declining for years. And so, if you're in that situation, this to me is a fundamental problem for the Democratic party, because if they don't figure this out then this polarization and division will get worse not better. Don Lemon: Is that real, or messaging, or both? Andrew Yang: It's real. I mean Debbie just said they just lost a plant that had 1500 workers. And so if you are a laid off worker from that plant and you look up and say 'What is the Democratic party doing for me?', it's unclear. And we can talk about a unifying message from Joe Biden, he's a naturally very unifying figure, but then there's the reality on the ground where their way of life has been disintegrating for years, and if we don't address that then you're going to see a continued acceleration toward the institutional mistrust that animated the Trump vote and will continue to do so.

Entrepreneur

 If there's ever a point in your life when you want to take a risk to go start a business it's when you're young. Because when you're my age in your mid 50's, if you fail, it's a lot harder to recover from it, because your life span is much shorter, and you may not have the same level of energy.

Economy

 But it's hard if you've taken a significant amount of losses in your business, and you may not have the capital. A lot of these businesses are going to fail. Unfortunately my projection is that you'r probably going to lose 25% to 30% of all restaurants. We'll probably lose a quarter of all hotels. And there's just going to be a whole host of businesses that won't restart. And why is this so important? It's not just that that one restaurant fails or multitudes of restaurants. But they're the job engine. Small businesses are the job engine for America. It's when small businesses go from small businesses to medium, to big companies. That is what creates job and opportunities for Americans. So I'm really concerned that we're going to be in kind of a long term higher level of unemployment. Maybe a permanent 10% unemployment for a number of years. Because it's not going to just snap back on.

Economy

 Well, there's no way to fix it by the government doing another round of stimulus. The only way to fix it is getting people back working again. Our economy, our modern day economy with the amount of leverage we have in the system... That means the amount of debt that we have in our country, can't absorb everybody just sitting idly. And it's very hard just to flip the switch back on and have everything resume like it was prior. We have to get back to work. We have to get our economy going. And again, for me, it's not just about, ya know, financial impact. Again, I think of it in people's livelihoods, and their lives.

Eternalism

 Help from the Lord always follows eternal law. The better you understand that law, the easier it is to receive His help.

Excellence

 Remember that once you have experienced excellence, you will never again be content with mediocrity.

Eternalism

 We are acting in all things with reference to eternity. … We believe in eternal principles, in an eternal Gospel, an eternal Priesthood, in eternal communications and associations. Everything associated with the Gospel that we believe in is eternal.

Eternalism

 Joseph Smith … departed from the notion that God is a Being foreign to nature and wholly superior to it. Instead, he taught that God is part of nature, and superior to it only in the sense that the electrician is superior to the current that is transmitted along the wire. The great laws of nature are immutable, and even God cannot transcend them.

Eternalism

 I recognize for purposes we mortals may not understand, the Lord can control the elements. For the most part, however, he does not cause but he allows nature to run its course.

Eternalism

 I can understand why someone who lacks an eternal perspective might see the horrifying news footage of starving children and man’s inhumanity to man and shake a fist at the heavens and cry, “If there is a God, how could he allow such things to happen?” The answer is not easy, but it isn’t that complicated, either. God has put his plan in motion. It proceeds through natural laws that are, in fact, God’s laws. Since they are his, he is bound by them, as are we.

Eternalism

 He does not have to be spiteful or vengeful in order that punishment will come from the breaking of the moral code. The laws are established of themselves.

Ethics

 Erin Sullivan (Teacher): Having all read Huckleberry Finn, can anyone tell me what the good lie means? Sari Woman (Student): Huck uses lies to survive in undesirable situations. Erin Sullivan (Teacher): Exactly. But later in the book the lies change. How so? Mamere: They change because Huck changes. Erin Sullivan (Teacher): Yes. Keep going. Mamere: When he tells the slave hunters that he has no slaves, his lie is credible. So he lies well. But what is more important it that it is an unselfish lie because it saves Jim. Jim’s freedom means more to Huck than the money he would get for turning him in. So it is a good lie. Erin Sullivan (Teacher): Could not have said it better.

Eternalism

 Every true philosopher, so far as he understands the principles of truth, has so much of the Gospel, and so far he is a Latter-day Saint, whether he knows it or not...

Extraterrestrial

 Ellie Arroway: Hey Dad? Ted Arroway: Yeah. Ellie Arroway: You think there's people on other planets? Ted Arroway: I don't know sparks. But I guess I'd say if it is just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Excellence

 Launch out into the deep. Don't live in the shallows. Live it in the deep waters. Grasp every enobling experience that is available to you. Embrace every dimension of living that challenges you, that educates you, that elevates you. Live for purposes greater than yourself.

Eternalism

 This people have embraced the philosophy of eternal lives, and in view of this we should cease to be children and become philosophers, understanding our own existence, its purpose and ultimate design...

Funny

 1966 I'm in little league, I'm on first. I steal 3rd. I went straight across. Earlier that week I learnt that the shortest distance between two points is a direct line. I took advantage of that knowledge. I told the umpire 2nd base was out of my way.

Funny

 Five years old, watching TV. "Only you can prevent forest fires!" (points at himself surprised). Oh no!. Every night, out the window with a bucket of water. Stephen, why are you so tired all the time? "I'm preventing forest fires."

Funny

 Tinsel is really snake mirrors. I always carry a little bit of tinsel with me when I walk through the woods in case I come across a snake. Even snakes are afraid of snakes. Snakes have no arms. That's why they don't wear vests. My father used to tell me that when he put me to bed at night. "Snakes have no arms, that's why they don't wear vests... Good night."

Funny

 I was driving down the street past a sign that said "next rest area 25 miles". I said "Wow! That's pretty big! People must get really tired around here."

Funny

 I have all the erasures to all of the miniature golf pencils in the world.

Funny

 One time I was walking through the woods and I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree. I said don't be so sarcastic.

Funny

 The only reason I exist is so my shadow will have something to do. Tried to draw my shadow once, but I couldn't because my arm kept moving. I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one. It wasn't doing what I was doing.

Funny

 I'm kind of tired. I was up all night trying to round off infinity.

Funny

 What's another work for "thesaurus"?

Funny

 There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Funny

 Whenever I think about the past it just brings up so many memories.

Funny

 Hermits have no peer pressure.

Funny

 Another friend of mine does voodoo acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'd just be walking down the street and all of the sudden "Oh...That's much better!"

Funny

 Friend of mine is in jail for counterfeit pennies. It's minimum security. He's on a whiffle ball and chain. You know how they caught him? He had the head and the tail on the wrong side.

Funny

 (Waterglass joke)

Funny

 I've been making wine at home, but I make it out of raisins so it will be aged automatically.

Funny

 I've been getting into astronomy, so I installed a sky light. The people living above me are furious.

Funny

 I'm living on a one-way, dead-end street. I don't know how I ever got there.

Funny

 I took a lie detector test. No I didn't.

Funny

 Whenever I see a Dalmatian I say what number are you?

Funny

 You think when they asked George Washington for his ID he pulled out a quarter?

Funny

 What a nice night for an evening, uh? First thing I said to my girlfriend in 7th grade, what a nice night for an evening. She looked at me like I was crazy. We were on the same bus together for 7 years. I asked her if she lives in the area? Went over to pick her up at her house, her father said I want her home by 8:15. I said middle of August, that's cool.

Funny

 About 4 years ago...No it was yesterday. I couldn't sleep so I got up. Then I got hungry so I went down to the store that I know was open 24 hours. When I got down there, there was a guy outside locking it up. He said sorry, we're closed. I said what do you mean your closed. The sign says open 24 hours. He said, not in a row!

Funny

 One time I went to the drive-in in a cab. The movie cost me 95 dollars! I went to court for a parking ticket. I pleaded insanity.

Funny

 Yeah, it's a small world. But I wouldn't want to paint it.

Funny

 It's a good apartment building to live in though, because they allow pets. I have a pony. I have a Shetland pony named Nikki. And last summer he was involved in a bizarre electrolysis accident. All the hair was removed except for the tail. Now I rent him out to Hari Krishna family picnics.

Funny

 I've never seen electricity. That's why I don't pay for it. I write right on the bill: sorry, haven't seen it all month.

Funny

 One time right in the middle of a job interview, I took out a book and I started reading. The guy said what the hell are you doing? I said let me ask you one question. If you were in a vehicle and you were travelling at the speed of light, and then you turned your lights on, would they do anything? He said I don't know. I said forget it then, I don't want to work for you.

Funny

 I got up the other day and everything in my apartment had been stolen and replaced with an exact replica. I couldn't believe it. I called my roommate and I said come here and look at this stuff. It's all an exact replica, what do you think? He said do I know you?

Funny

 I finally went to the eye doctor. I got contacts, but I only need them when I read, so I got flip ups. I keep them on my desk right next to my typewriter. I have the oldest typewriter in the entire world. Types in pencil.

Funny

 I called the wrong number today. I said hello is Joey there? And a woman answered. She said yes, yes, he is. I said can I speak to him please? She said no, he can't talk right now. He's only two months old. I said alright, I'll wait.

Funny

 I like it here. I have a new girlfriend. She's 3. I met her in Toys R' Us.

Funny

 Carson: Some very, very, funny observations. Do you come from a normal, uh family? In the sense, I mean mother and father, one of each? Wright: In a way. Height-wise.

Funny

 I live in an apartment building, everybody who lives in the building is absolutely insane. The man who lives above me designed synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats. The woman lives beside me tried to rob a department store with a pricing gun. She walked in and said give me all the money in the vault or I'll mark down everything in the store.

Funny

 I have a 3 year old dog. I named him stay. He was a lot of fun when he was a puppy cuz when I called him, I'd say "Come here stay. Come here stay." And he'd go (start, stop start, stop)

Funny

 The police stopped me for speeding. They said don't you know the speed limit is 55 miles an hour? I said yeah, I know. But I wasn't going to be out that long.

Funny

 A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me. I'm afraid of widths.

Funny

 I woke up this morning, my girlfriend asked me if I slept good. I said no, I made a few mistakes.

Funny

 I'm planning a trip to Spain. So I bought an album that teaches you the language. You put the album on, you put headphones on, you learn the language while you're sleeping. During the night the record skipped. I got up the next day. I could only stutter in spanish.

Funny

 The ice cream truck in my neighborhood plays Helter Skelter.

Funny

 I'm entering the strangest sweep stakes. It's a contest you pay 50 cents, you get a little card that has a number on it. Then you go up to any stranger and you scratch a penny on his head. If the number under there matches the number you have then you win $100 dollars. I won twice. I was beat up 11 times.

Funny

 My friend George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge you can't hear him talk.

Funny

 Last time I went camping, I accidentally borrowed a circus tent. I didn't know it until I got there and set it up. People complaining because they couldn't see the lake.

Funny

 I was travelling with my friend George. Some people think George is weird because he has sideburns behind his ears. I think he's weird because he has false teeth but he has braces on them.

Funny

 The stones. I love the stones. I can't believe they're still doing it after all these years. I watch em whenever I can. Fred and Barney.

Funny

 See, madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse. The people who stay sane are those who can make the quick decisions. "Should I stick my fingers into the fan, or leave right now? Should I run the blade of this razor across my tongue, or just finish shaving and move away from the sink?" But you don't because luckily, most of us have that little voice inside of our head that says "uh, uh, uhhh. Turning the car into oncoming traffic is counter-productive." Imagine if we didn't have that voice. Man, I wouldn't be here right now. I'd be in the shark tank at sea world.

Funny

 I used to get really upset when I told people where I came from, down in Los Angeles, because I always got the same response: "Canada! Wow! Must have been cold." Now I just go along with them. "Yes, Canada. It was a frozen hostile wasteland. And there was much work to be done if we were to survive the elements. After boring a hole through the ice to find food, my good friend Nantuk and I would build an igloo to protect ourselves from polar bears and flying hockey pucks. Then we would drink a lot of beer. And when Nantuk was ready, he would tell me the story of the great Moose who said to the little squirrel, Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat."

Funny

 You have to be careful walking in West Hollywood. The police are different now. It's like "Stop! Those shoes don't go with that shirt!" Fine, fine. "Take them out, get something different. Salmon, Salmon. Put something in Salmon."

Funny

 Well, I guess the Philippine elections are today, and they should be very close. I guess he'll be going "Okay, here's one for me. And this one looks like me too!" Mr. Marcos do you have a war record? "Yes, I would like to play it for you right now." As far as a strange thing, they always ask him "basically is your whole congress, is it a puppet dictatorship? "(hand speaking like a puppet) Not at all." See, they believe you. "(hand speaking like a puppet) Easy for him to say, yes." Say the word Democracy. "(hand speaking like a puppet) Easy for you to say."

Funny

 It started early. When I saw On Golden Pond when I was a kid, I walked out of the theater and I was like "You want me to pick strawberries?" I was like, I didn't know why I was doing it. I saw myself in a shop window and I went "Wow! That's his face." But it came from the inside.

Funny

 I can see it tomorrow in the National Enquirer. He's gone. We knew he'd do it. I don't know, National Enquirer though. You and I both love that magazine. You know the strange thing is, I put it in the cat box, and the cat won't go in there. You're telling me a little cat, he's sitting there, his little eyes go "Why? That'd be redundant." Carson: You got it right. Really high class paper. Williams: Yeah, "Lose weight after death. Exciting new diet!"

Funny

 Carson: You speaking at first when you have no children? Williams: No sir. Not that I know of. None that have gone (in a child voice) "Are you Mr. Williams? Yes. You're my daddy! And you owe me, lets see by present account, eight million dollars! I'm not Mr. Williams anymore.

Funny

 Williams: I keep adjusting over here. Carson: Yeah, well, this is a nice outfit. Williams: Yeah, somewhere there is a car seat real envious. "Man, you got my car seat. Come back here with that."

Funny

 Believe that comedy can heal you. Praise the power! And Sears had a sale, this furniture went cheap!

Funny

 It's weird. In California this summer, all the state parks caught on fire. Which is sad, because these parks are full of weed! It's bad news. It's like, even the guys fighting the fires are like laughing.

Funny

 When Thanksgiving is coming up, do you think that's the rapture for turkeys? That every year they go "Get ready! Some of us are leaving." And then the ones that don't get taken up are are like "ahhhgg. goble goble".

Funny

 Is there a thing like a positive Tourette's? I know sometimes in the negative traits like the people say things like ****. Yeah but is there a positive Tourette's where someone goes like (shouting) "Those pants are slimming! Your eyes are amazing! You're very attractive!"

Funny

 I love it when you get off the plane in London. The English paparazzi are always there going "Wobin. Hello Wobin." I go "When did Elmer Fudd land here!"

Funny

 Craig Ferguson: Well, see, everybody thinks they're funny. Though. Everybody thinks they have got a sense of humor. That's the problem. Even people that don't have a sense of humor they go "that's not funny". You go "Yes it's funny." Robin Williams: No, no, no. Craig Ferguson: I know funny, I'm German. Robin Williams: "Knock, knock"... We ask the questions!

Funny

 Restaurants in Paris are wonderful. I went to a tiny little restaurant, had five tables. At one of the tables there were two couples and a cat sitting eating dinner. Even the cat is going "try the mouse, it's fabulous." It's crazy, and then at the end of the meal (cough up a furball)... Again.

Funny

 We had the honeymoon suite at Notre Dame. Come up here we go right now (playing a hunchback). Don't be afraid. If you need anything just right the bell.

Funny

 (Messing with the audience) Oh, we're just gonna work on this (woman's hair). We're gonna tease it a little.

Funny

 (Messing with the audience) Hello. How are you? A little bandanna. Hold on. Oh look now the people in the bank recognize you!

Funny

 If you go to France there is no SIRI, because maybe they have their own. They have "Chéri". You go "Chéri, where is the nearest good restaurant." ... It's Paris you idiot! They're everywhere. Put down your digital device, go outside and live your life you American *******!

Funny

 People always complain about their phones. They're saying like you know, I've only got two bars. Listen, I'm an alcoholic. All I've ever needed was one bar.

Funny

 I have a new application on my phone. It's a moral GPS. It's kind of cool. "The girl you're texting is the same age as your daughter... Re-route."

Free Speech

 And it's damn annoying when someone you don't like says something you don't like. That is a sign of a healthy functioning free speech situation.

Free Speech

 A good sign as to whether there is free speech is, "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like?"

Faith

 I have no expectation that I'll ever be provided external evidence sufficient to relieve me of the responsibility of choice or of the burden of faith...

Fanaticism

 Do not claim divine motivation for self-serving behavior.

Faith

 When we start with an inclination to believe, observation leads to faith. As faith grows, reason facilitates the transformation of faith into revelatory knowledge, and revelatory knowledge produces added faith.

Faith

 Those disinclined toward faith in God often over-rely on reasoning and look to explain away the hand of God. That is what happened on the day of Pentecost. Inclinations away from faith caused some to misinterpret this remarkable spiritual outpouring.

Fanaticism

 Real hope inspires quiet Christian service, not flashy public fanaticism. Finley Peter Dunne impishly observed, “A fanatic is a man who does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts”.

Free Speech

 I really can't emphasize this enough. We must protect free speech, and free speech only matters, its only relevant when its someone you don't like saying something you don't like, because obviously free speech that you like, its easy.

Free Speech

 Its bizarre that we've come to this point where, like free speech used to be a left or liberal value. And yet we see from, in the quotes left, a desire to actually censure.

Free Speech

 I think we need to be very cautious about anything that is anti-meritocratic and anything that results in the suppression of free speech.

Finance

 After all, you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

Fashion

 That's really what this multi-billion dollar industry is all about anyway isn't it? Inner beauty...(sarcasm)

Facts

 Whatever is inconsistent with the facts, no matter how fond of it we are, must be discarded or revised.

Facts

 When he [Kepler] found that his long cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions. That is the heart of science.

Freedom

 As human beings, we're no different than the human beings anywhere else in the world. And there have been [people] thousands of years on this planet longer than we have. [America] We're barely 250 years old and we have outdone everybody in almost everything that raises the standard of living in the history of the world. It's not because our DNA is different, not because we're special human beings. It's because of our freedom. It's because of the founding documents and those rights that we have, where they come from.

Free Will

 Moyers: The difficult part to see of course, is the proposition that people are born with a freedom that is inherent in human nature. Adler: I don't think it's too difficult. If I said that man, and man alone has an intellect. Other animals have perceptual intelligence, but only man has intellection or understanding, conceptual intelligence, and along with that only man has a will that is free. I mean, I think these two things: free will, and conceptual intelligence, being able to think, and understand as only man can think and understand are the distinctive characteristics of the human race. These are the properties of human nature. And these two properties that underlie freedom of action, the entitlement of freedom of action, and underlie freedom of political liberty. Moyers: And we have them by being human? Adler: That's right. Moyers: In our nature? Adler: That's right.

Free Will

 Adler: ... a freedom which is man's natural endowment. The freedom of his will by which he is able to choose freely and free choice consists of being able to choose otherwise - no matter how you choose - you could have chosen otherwise. That's freedom of choice. Moyers: If you choose A, you could have chosen B. Adler: And that, I think we do have, we do possess though there are determinists you know, scientists who think that man doesn't have free will, but if we have it, we have it by inherent or native endowment. So I call that the natural freedom of self-determination. Moyers: It comes with the trip. Adler: That's right.

Freedom

 ...we must not become accustomed to sweeping assertions of governmental power.

Freedom

 But whatever else government officials may be called upon to do, we the people must never allow them to forget that their offices and powers exist to secure our fundamental freedoms and the conditions for exercising those freedoms.

Fake News

 We live in a world that only wants you to believe in the bad news, racially, economically, and culturally polarizing news. The truth is our nation's arc always bends back towards fairness. We are not fully where we want to be but I thank God almighty we are not where we used to be.

Faith Crisis

 You know because you are the epicenter of people coming to you saying I am having a faith crisis. They don't know how to deal with the data. Isn't that right? They are exposed to these inconvenient truths and they freak out. If we could give them the conceptual framework in which they can place those data points then they can make an informed choice. OK do I stay in the faith tradition or do I leave it but at least I'm not freaking out. I'm making a calm decision. And it's a decision that factors in reality. We have not provided that framework for them and that's the price that we're paying now.

Freedom

 Most Americans persist in believing that a government powerful enough to give you everything you want, will also, necessarily, be powerful enough to take away everything you have. Including your freedom.

Freedom

 Liberty is a big value. We have the Liberty Bell. Not the Equality Bell

Friendship

 Zak: Carl, You are my best friend. And... and you are my family. Carl: Well, that's it. Friends are the family you choose.

Freedom

 There is no true love and there is no true virtue unless you're free to choose them.

Force

 and all you got to do is think it through you can't have love if you're not free if you're not free to choose your love it's not love at the point of a sword you can't have virtue at the point of the sword you have to be able to choose it it's not charity when Elizabeth Warren takes this guy's money and gives it to this guy it's charity when you reach into your pocket and say I would have liked to go to the movies but here's five bucks go buy yourself a burger that's charity that hurts that's hard everything else is just degrading

Flourishing

 Freedom is so hard and annoying and messy why do I want you to have it if the natural way of things is one person rules and everybody else follows why not just fall into the natural way and the reason is without freedom you will never know joy you will never have the full life that God meant you to have in the Declaration it says that God gave you certain rights among them the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and we talk about happiness sometimes as if they want you to be happy like you just have a great date or you're just made a lot of money or something like that that's not the kind of happiness they were talking about that happiness comes and goes when sad things happen you'll be sad when happy things happen you'll be happy the kind of happiness that the founders were talking about is what the Greeks called eudaimonia means good spirit it really means human flourishing it's what Jesus called life in abundance that's what they wanted you to pursue they wanted you to pursue eudaimonia where does it come from well Aristotle said that it came from virtue that people did not experience eudaimonia until they had virtue and jesus said that virtue largely consists of loving God and loving your neighbor as you love yourself.

Family History

 As you go back in time, the records become less complete. As others of your family search out ancestors, you will discover that the ancestor you find has already been offered the full blessings of the temple. Then you will have a difficult and important choice to make. You will be tempted to stop and leave the hard work of finding to others who are more expert or to another time in your life. But you will also feel a tug on your heart to go on in the work, hard as it will be. As you decide, remember that the names which will be so difficult to find are of real people to whom you owe your existence in this world and whom you will meet again in the spirit world. When you were baptized, your ancestors looked down on you with hope. Perhaps after centuries, they rejoiced to see one of their descendants make a covenant to find them and to offer them freedom. In your reunion, you will see in their eyes either gratitude or terrible disappointment. Their hearts are bound to you. Their hope is in your hands. You will have more than your own strength as you choose to labor on to find them.

Family History

 I invite the young people of the Church to learn about and experience the Spirit of Elijah. I encourage you to study, to search out your ancestors, and to prepare yourselves to perform proxy baptisms in the house of the Lord for your kindred dead. And I urge you to help other people identify their family histories. As you respond in faith to this invitation, your hearts shall turn to the fathers. The promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will be implanted in your hearts. Your patriarchal blessing, with its declaration of lineage, will link you to these fathers and be more meaningful to you. Your love and gratitude for your ancestors will increase. Your testimony of and conversion to the Savior will become deep and abiding. And I promise you will be protected against the intensifying influence of the adversary. As you participate in and love this holy work, you will be safeguarded in your youth and throughout your lives.

Golf

 We only get one shot at golf, one shot at life. Life is too short to play bad golf.

Gun Control

 The gun control debate was done when the second amendment was written. Its not a debate anymore. It never was a debate.

God

 If the general picture however of a big bang, followed by an expanding universe is correct, what happened before that? Was the universe devoid of all matter and then the matter suddenly, somehow created? How did that happen? In many cultures the customary answer is that a god or gods created the universe out of nothing. But if we wish to pursue this question courageously, we must of course ask the next question, where did God come from? If we decide that this in an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question? Or, if we say that God always existed, why not save a step and conclude that the universe always existed? There's no need for a creation, it was always here. These are not easy questions. Cosmology brings us face to face with the deepest mysteries. With questions that were once treated only in religion and myth.

Gratitude

 Over my nine and a half decades of life, I have concluded that counting our blessings is far better than recounting our problems. No matter our situation, showing gratitude for our privileges is a fast-acting and long lasting spiritual prescription.

Government

 The power of government must have limits.

Government

 Government has a just role in fostering a moral environment in which people can live good and honorable lives.

Government

 Constitutions, representative government, checks and balances, and the rule of law help constrain the tendency of government to exercise unlimited power.

Government

 Government power can never be unlimited. In our political system, the government "derives its just powers from the consent of the governed," to quote the Declaration of Independence.

Gathering

 Being in each other’s presence is a unique and irreplaceable experience.

Government

 Conservatives believe that government power must be limited, because the alternative is unlimited government.

Global Economy

 When you look at the 2nd and 3rd world, the developing and least developed countries. We have made enormous progress over the last 20 years of eliminating starvation, of reducing diseases and infections like malaria. And with this economic collapse its going to have profound impact on those countries. Because a lot of these countries manufacture products and send them to the United States. So when we stop buying apparel here in the United States, what's going to happen? Those factories are going to be shut down. Those people won't have a job. And they don't have long term unemployment insurance. They don't have food stamps. They don't have any of those things. So I'm very concerned what's going to happen to a spike of starvations throughout the 3rd world. I'm very concerned about the economic collapse, the social unrest that will come from it.

God

 They understood something the bigger the government the less the Liberty. That's why you need a big God Secular conservatives are terrific but they don't understand the importance of the American Trinity which is on every coin in God, we trust' applaud bassoon demand Liberty. You won't have Liberty if God disappears Because people have to feel that they are accountable to something higher than themselves in order to do good and it's going to either be a government or a god

God

 I don't think God cares whether you get rich. I don't think that he hopes your business will make a huge profit. I know a lot of religious people who think God will intervene to make their investments grow. Or will get them a promotion. Or make their businsess a success. But life on this Earth is about learning to live and work in a place where God does not make everything work out for good people.

Humor

 Yeah, I was a football player in high school. I was so bad they asked me to play another sport real quick. I was a triple threat man. I was slow, small, and white which is a great thing. "Throw it to him, he's so good. How do you block him? Bing (flick a finger) out of the way.

Humor

 My secret is making the wrong choices. But committing completely.

Humor

 If you ever want to be in an Indian video try this, you have to just simply do this: change the lightbulb, change the lightbulb, change the lightbulb,

Humor

 I've been nominated twice. It's so nice to watch somebody else win. When they read the name and they go "And the winner for best actor is...someone other than you." And you sit there and they keep the camera on you, and you're supposed to go like "I'm so happy!" I mean wouldn't it be nice if you could be really truthful and go "Ahhhhhhh!"

Humor

 Letterman: You have a son who is actually now graduated college. That correct? Williams: Graduated with a degree in linguistics. Which, I know. Even I'm going wow! "Your Ma and I are so proud about you. You can repair a sentence at any time. You know what syntax is!"

Humor

 He (Schwarzenegger) is very much about immigration. And Arnold what do you want to do to solve immigration? "I want to build a wall." Even the Chinese are going "That will not work. Who you gonna get to build it? Irish and Chinese? Who you gonna get to build it? They'll only go around the wall you know." A couple of East German people going "There, we can dig under it for you."

Humor

 Cartooning is still drawing funny pictures, whether they're just silly little things, or rather meaningful political cartoons. But it's still drawing something funny. And that's all you should think about at that time. Keep kind of a light feeling.

Happiness

 THEN THERE IS SOME HOPE IN THAT MESSAGE, RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU THINK IF YOU JUST ACCEPTED PEOPLE THE WAY THEY ARE THEY WOULD BE HAPPY U.S. NO THEY WOULDN'T BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SHOOT FOR, PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOTHING TO SHOOT FOR ARE NOT HAPPY, HAPPY IS A CONSEQUENCE OF MOVING TOWARDS SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE AIMING FOR. SO, NO AIM, NO HAPPINESS, THAT IS ANOTHER GOOD THING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO KNOW IS TO HAVE A GOAL. TECHNICALLY, TECHNICALLY HAPPINESS OCCURS WHEN YOU SEE YOURSELF MOVING TOWARD A VALUED GOAL, THAT IS HOW IT WORKS NEUROPSYCH LOGICALLY, CHEMICALLY. SO, THE HIGHER YOUR GOAL, THE HIGHER YOUR POSSIBILITY FOR HAPPINESS EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE TO SUFFER FROM A DISTANCE.

Human Rights

 For peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting. It was this insight that drove drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after the Second World War. In the wake of devastation, they recognized that if human rights are not protected, peace is a hollow promise.

Human Rights

 Thomas Jefferson had written in 1776 'all men are created equal, they are endowed by their creator, with certain unalienable rights'. That's natural law in a nutshell. How then could a country founded on these principles have permitted slavery and segregation to exist? The answer was that it couldn't, not without being untrue to its own ideals. I was looking for a way of thinking, a set of ideals, that fundamentally, at its core says slavery is wrong. At its core. Which Natural Law of course does.

Humanity

 As long as there have been humans, we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Where are we? Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet, of a hum-drum star, lost in a galaxy, tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe of which there are far more galaxies than people.

Humanity

 The number of useful ways of assembling nucleic acids is stupifyingly large. It's probably larger than the total number of atoms in the universe. This means that the number of possible kinds of human beings is vastly greater than the number of human beings that has ever lived. This untapped potential of the human species is immense. There must be ways of putting nucleic acids together which will function far better - by any criterion you wish to choose - than the hereditary instructions of any human being who has ever lived. Fortunately we do not know, or at least do not yet know, how to assemble alternative sequences of nucleotides to make alternative kinds of human beings. But in the future we might well be able to put nucleotides together in any desired sequence to produce whatever human characteristics we think desirable. A disquieting and awesome prospect.

Humanity

 Moyers: What if we are wrong about human nature? Adler: If we are wrong about human nature, if we are not different from the animals in kind, if we differ only in degree from the higher mammals, I cannot state a rational justification for a different treatment of men and beasts. The Roman law made the fundamental distinction between persons and things. The word "person" is a very important word. I have never found anyone who is willing to call a cow a person. Or a dog a person. Now why not? Why do we refuse the word person to these animals we love and care for, our domestic pets. We sometime joke "my cat is like a person" but we know we are joking, that they are not persons. Now that word person means that we by being persons, not things, have a dignity. And all of us, every human being from the least to the greatest in terms of all the difference talents and aptitudes is a person, has personal dignity, and the rights that we have, the right to freedom, the right to political liberty, are our personal attributes.

Hate Speech

 You're allowed to deny the Holocaust in the United States, you're not allowed to deny the Holocaust in Europe There's a lot more free speech in the United States, but we're becoming because the left loves Europe more like Europe Hey, they ban hate speech will do it too and what's hate speech? Whatever we don't agree with That's all it means. That is all it means

Human Nature

 Jews after Auschwitz believe people are basically good. How do you are you out of your minds? And The answer is no we're leftists Because that's what the left teaches you Being they have to teach you people or basically or basically good because then they can blame racism and poverty on crime You get it. There's a very important belief on the left that people are basically good Why would a good person rape why would a good person murder? Why would a good person? Hold up a bank Because clearly if you're good, you wouldn't do those things. So they blame outside forces that's why this issue of are we basically good as so significant because the upshot of the belief is so Significant if you believe people are basically good you blame society for people's evil If you believe people are not basically good you blame them for their evil There's a very big difference It's it's it's not them it's poverty it's not them it's racism. It's not them it's guns Then amazing thing to blame guns no, no think about it. You know how bizarre that is blame guns Guns in good people's hands don't do bad guns in bad people's hands do bad. Why? Is that what? Five-year-olds understand that and I not a five-year-old fan. I don't think we have a lot to learn from five-year-olds

Humor

 The new American dream is not owning your own home. The new American dream is getting your kids out of the home you own.

Integrity

 We look for three things when we hire people. We look for intelligence, we look for initiative or energy, and we look for integrity. And if you don't have the latter, the first two will kill you, because if you are going to get somebody without integrity, you want them lazy and dumb.

Ideas

 Information itself evolves, nurtured by open communication and free inquiry. The units of biological evolution are genes. The units of cultural evolution are ideas. Ideas are transported all over the planet. They reproduce through communication. They are selected by analysis and debate. In the last few millennia, something extraordinary has been happening on the planet earth. Rich information from distant lands and peoples, has become routinely available.

Improvement

 Regardless of your religious or political beliefs, or your favorite sports team or any other way we like to divide ourselves into tribes, I think we can all agree that a successful life is one where you leave the world better than you found it.

Ideal

 An idealist? Well I've never had the courage to believe in nothing.

Information

 I think what has not been realized, is how completely and permanently the internet democratized data. And we were caught off guard as a church by that. And still are playing catch up. Not realizing that our kids already have the data points. What they are struggling with now is how do you place those data points into a context that allows you to make an informed choice about your faith. And we have dropped the ball in providing that context.

Israel

 It was all very confusing. So I pushed on. And the more research I did, the clearer the picture became. Israel has free speech, a free press, and independent courts. It has open and fair elections. Its neighbors don't. Women have full rights and are active in every profession, including the military. That's not true of any of its neighbors.

Ideas

 Messala: The Emperor is displeased. He wishes Judea made into a more obedient and disciplined province. He has ordered the new governor and me to restore order. I intend to carry out his wishes. Sextus: Yes, but how Messala? Oh you can break a man's skull, you can arrest him, you can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you control what's up here? How do you fight an idea? Especially a new idea? ... Messala: Sextus, you ask how to fight an idea. Well, I'll tell you how. With another idea.

Inspirational

 You only live one life. Don’t spend it in safe, shallow water. Launch out into the deep.

Jazz

 Today you're going to make a modern recording. All this technology. The base plays first then the drums comes in later, and they track the trumpet, and a singer comes in and they ship the tapes somewhere. Well none of the musicians have played together. You can't play jazz music that way. In order for you to play jazz, you've got to listen to them. The music forces you at all times to address what other people are thinking, and for you to interact with them with empathy. And to deal with the process of working things out. That's how our music really could teach what the meaning of American democracy is.

Justice

 Also, justice, in and of itself, is compassionate. First, to the victims of crime and to their loved ones. And second, to the criminal: How can you become a better human being if you don’t first recognize that you’ve done something wrong?

Kepler

 There was little reassurance or comfort here for a sensitive boy like Kepler. He was intelligent, and he knew it. That together with his stubbornness and his fierce independence served to isolate him from the other boys. Kepler made few friends in his two years at Maulbronn, so he kept to himself, withdrawn into the world of his own thoughts. ... But the real world of Kepler's time was far from perfect. It was haunted by fear, pestilence, famine, and war. Superstition was a natural refuge for people who are powerless.

Kindness

 But Just because I don’t agree with someone on everything doesn’t mean that I am not going to be friends with them. When I say be kind to one another, I don’t mean only the people who think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone. Doesn’t matter.

Kindness

 So uh, this weekend I went to Dallas for the Cowboys game. … This is, I took a video of who, who, was next to me. … (President George W. Bush) … So I’ve got to say, when we were invited, you know, I was aware that I was going to be surrounded with people from very different views and beliefs. … But during the game they showed a shot of George and me laughing together, and uh so. People were upset, they thought why is a gay, Hollywood liberal sitting next to a conservative Republican President. … But a lot of people were mad, and they did what people do when they’re mad, they tweet. But here is one tweet that I love. This person says “Ellen and George Bush together makes me have faith in America again.” … (Cheers) … Exactly! Here’s the thing. I’m friends with George Bush, in fact I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have. We’re all different and I think that we’ve forgotten that that’s OK that we’re all different. … But Just because I don’t agree with someone on everything doesn’t mean that I am not going to be friends with them. When I say be kind to one another, I don’t mean only the people who think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone. Doesn’t matter.

Legacy

 You get to that point in your life where you want to leave something behind that was a great thing you did.

Leadership

 Great Leaders Do What Drug Addicts Do

LDS

 There are many ways to describe and speak of divine love. One of the terms we hear often today is that God’s love is “unconditional.” While in one sense that is true, the descriptor unconditional appears nowhere in scripture. Rather, His love is described in scripture as “great and wonderful love,”3 “perfect love,”4 “redeeming love,”5 and “everlasting love.”6 These are better terms because the word unconditional can convey mistaken impressions about divine love, such as, God tolerates and excuses anything we do because His love is unconditional, or God makes no demands upon us because His love is unconditional, or all are saved in the heavenly kingdom of God because His love is unconditional. God’s love is infinite and it will endure forever, but what it means for each of us depends on how we respond to His love.

LDS

 Because God's love is all-embracing some speak of it as unconditional, and in their minds they may project that thought to mean that God's blessings are unconditional and that salvation is unconditional...they're not. Some are want to say 'the savior loves me just as I am'...and that is certainly true, but he cannot take any of us into his kingdom just as we are. For no unclean thing can dwell there or dwell in his presence...our sins must first be resolved.

LDS

 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will, of course, exercise its right to endorse or oppose specific legislative proposals that we believe will impact the free exercise of religion or the essential interests of Church organizations.

LDS

 The United States Constitution is unique because God revealed that He “established” it “for the rights and protection of all flesh” (D&C 101:77,80). That is why this constitution is of special concern for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout the world. Whether or how its principles should be applied in other nations of the world is for them to decide.

LDS

 If living the gospel for your is a chore, you'll go with other people who feel the same way - because that is the law you are going to love.

Life Rules

 1. start the day with a task completed 2. find someone to help you through life 3. respect everyone 4. life is not always fair, move forward 5. don't be afraid to fail often 6. take risks 7. step up when times are toughest 8. face down the bullies 9. lift up the down trodden 10. never give up

LDS

 Our world has seemingly been filled recently with strong wake-up calls. From natural disasters to a deadly pandemic sweeping the globe to a most pernicious social plague of racism, we are daily reminded that we need to awaken to the perilous times that surround us, come to ourselves, and arise and turn to our Divine Father, who desires to instruct and edify us through our trials.

Leftism

 Politically Incorrect: a truth that people on the left find too painful to acknowledge and therefore do not want expressed.

LDS

 Let’s not complicate things with additional meetings, expectations, or requirements. Keep it simple. It is in that simplicity that you will find the peace, joy, and happiness I have been talking about.

LDS

 All of these things are based on the divine commandments to love God and to love our neighbors. Can there be anything more basic, more fundamental, and more simple than that? Living the true, pure, and simple gospel plan will allow us more time to visit the widows, widowers, orphans, lonely, sick, and poor. We will find peace, joy, and happiness in our life when serving the Lord and our neighbors.

Leftism

 In the final analysis, I have come to this equation Secularism plus affluence plus boredom equals leftism.

Leftism

 But what he said is plenty depressing. We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America Let me explain something the left wants to fundamentally transform the United States of America and Barack Obama was a leftist not just a liberal That's the given that's that's a code for being a leftist if you think America needs to be fundamentally transformed You can't have it both ways you can't say I love America and I want it fundamentally Transformed you don't want to fundamentally transform that which you love if any spouse ever said, you know, I Love my wife, but I would like to fundamentally transform her We would have a right to be skeptical if you really love her items, I'm sure a fundamental transformation is a good idea Likewise a wife about a husband hell I love him but I like him fundamentally transform It doesn't work. They don't know what they say because they say what feels right at any given moment

Liberty

 Half of half of the boards of directors must of publicly held companies must be female. That's equality, but it's not Liberty. I am not free to choose whom I want on my own board.

Lie

 Well on me, I said to the motto believe women I don't believe women and I don't believe men I believe evidence. I don't understand why that's controversial The idea that gender determines truth is perverse. It's just another perversity women don't lie That's it that's as absurd as men don't lie There are honest women and honest men and lying women and lying men.

LDS

 When you have done all that you can reasonably do, rest the burden in the hands of the Lord.

LDS

 While there are many things you can do to help a loved one in need, there are some things that must be done by the Lord.

LDS

 Pres. Nelson

Law

 Alice More: Arrest him! Sir Thomas More: For what? Alice More: He's dangerous! William Roper: He's a spy! Margaret Roper: Father that man is bad! Sir Thomas More: There's no law against that. William Roper: There is; God's law. Sir Thomas More: Then God can arrest him. Alice More: While you talk he is gone. Sir Thomas More: And go he should if he were the Devil himself until he broke the law! William Roper: So, now you'd give the Devil the benefit of law? Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? William Roper: Yes! I'd cut down every law in England to do that! Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast; Man's laws, not Gods. And if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes. I'd give the Devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake. Less Quote - A Man For All Seasons (movie) Law

LDS

 Under the leadership of the president of the church we meet in council to determine the direction of the church and what are called in the world, the policies of the church. Some of those things called policies are doctrine, some of them are practices, some of them are temporary directions like the age of missionary service. But they come out of council.

LDS

 We don't believe in infallibility of our leaders. What we believe in is the organization the church has set in place. With multiple prophets, seers, and revelators, and with a council system.

LDS

 ...the Lord’s work is not just to solve problems; it is to build people. So as you walk with Him in priesthood service, you may find that sometimes what seems like the most efficient solution is not the Lord’s preferred solution because it does not allow people to grow.

LDS

 As an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, I leave my blessing upon you with a promise. That if you look beyond the bonds of time and mortality, and help those who cannot help themselves, you will be blessed with more closeness and joy in your family, and with the divine protections afforded those who are faithful in his service.

LDS

 Because this is a very spiritual work, we can expect help from the other side of the veil. We feel a pull from our relatives who are waiting for us to find them so their ordinance work can be done. This is a Christlike service because we are doing something for them that they cannot do for themselves.

LDS

 Have you prayed about your own ancestors’ work? Set aside those things in your life that don’t really matter. Decide to do something that will have eternal consequences.

LDS

 Do you young people want a sure way to eliminate the influence of the adversary in your life? Immerse yourself in searching for your ancestors, prepare their names for the sacred vicarious ordinances available in the temple, and then go to the temple to stand as proxy for them to receive the ordinances of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. As you grow older, you will be able to participate in receiving the other ordinances as well. I can think of no greater protection from the influence of the adversary in your life.

LDS

 While temple and family history work has the power to bless those beyond the veil, it has an equal power to bless the living. It has a refining influence on those who are engaged in it.

LDS

 Now today, I feel grateful to add my testimony to those other testimonies—to be one more apostolic voice in support of this temple challenge. I extend the promise of protection that’s been offered in the past. Brothers and sisters, I promise you protection for you and your family as you take this challenge, to “find as many names to take to the temple as ordinances you perform in the temple, and teach others to do the same.”...And if you accept this challenge, blessings will begin to flow to you and your family like the power of the river spoken of by Ezekiel. And the river will grow as you continue to perform this work and teach others to do the same. You’ll find not only protection from the temptation and ills of this world, but you’ll also find personal power—power to change, power to repent, power to learn, power to be sanctified, and power to turn the hearts of your family together and heal that which needs healing.

LDS

 Until now, however, I have never talked in general conference about the most basic and fundamental—and perhaps the most important—of all councils: the family council. Family councils have always been needed. They are, in fact, eternal.

Love

 Beast: I wanna do something for her. But what? Cogsworth: Well, there's the usual things. Flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep. Lumière: Ah, no no. It has to be something very special. Something that sparks her interest.

Logic

 Samantha Booke (Jurnee Smollett): Without welfare Mr. Tolson, people would be starving. Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington): Who is starving Ms. Booke? Samantha Booke (Jurnee Smollett): The unemployed are starving. Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington): Mr. Burgess here. He's unemployed. Obviously he's not starving. I drew you in Ms. Booke. You gave a faulty premise so your syllogism fell apart. Samantha Booke (Jurnee Smollett): Syllogism? Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington): Your logic fell apart. Major premise: the unemployed are starving, minor premise Mr. Burgess is unemployed. Conclusion...Mr. Burgess is starving. Your major premise was based on a faulty assumption. Classic fallacy.

Law

 Alice More: Arrest him! Sir Thomas More: For what? Alice More: He's dangerous! William Roper: He's a spy! Margaret Roper: Father that man is bad! Sir Thomas More: There's no law against that. William Roper: There is; God's law. Sir Thomas More: Then God can arrest him. Alice More: While you talk he is gone. Sir Thomas More: And go he should if he were the Devil himself until he broke the law! William Roper: So, now you'd give the Devil the benefit of law? Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? William Roper: Yes! I'd cut down every law in England to do that! Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast; Man's laws, not Gods. And if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes. I'd give the Devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake.

Leadership

 Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank. I know many people at the senior most levels of organizations who are absolutely not leaders. They are authorities and we do what they say because they have authority over us, but we would not follow them. And I know many people who are at the bottom of organizations who have no authority and they are absolutely leaders.

Love

 When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then it subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness. It is not excitement. It is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body...No. Don't blush. I tell you some truths. That is just being in love. Which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is leftover when being in love has burned away. It doesn't sound very exciting does it? But it is.

Mistakes

 But the biggest mistakes we've made by far, I've made not we've made, are mistakes of omission and not commission. I mean it's the things I knew enough to do, they were within my circle of competence, and I was sucking my thumb. And those are the ones that hurt. They don't show up any place.

Money

 I have an old fashioned belief that I only should expect to make money in things that I understand. And when I say understand, I don't mean understand, you know, what the product does or anything like that. I mean understand what the economics of the business are likely to look like 10 years from now or 20 years from now.

Mocking

 The absurd has become sacred because it hasn’t been sufficiently mocked. But isn’t mockery mean and cruel? Well, that depends. We’re not talking about mockery for the purpose of putting people down and making them feel bad. We’re talking about using it as a tool to expose foolishness for what it is, so that it isn’t taken seriously. Mockery of this kind is not only cleansing, it’s a moral imperative. Why? Because bad ideas can have catastrophic consequences.

Manipulation

 I want you guys to think of my office as a clubhouse. Total open door policy. I wanna be your friend as well as your boss.

Materialism

 Ebenezer Scrooge: Spirit... Who's lonely grave is this? Ghost of Christmas Future: Why yours Ebenezer. The richest man in the cemetery!

Metrics

 If you dont measure what you value, you will value what you measure.

Mistakes

 And, to be perfectly frank, there have been times when members or leaders in the Church have simply made mistakes. There may have been things said or done that were not in harmony with our values, principles, or doctrine.

Math

 Margaret: You know all that math you're supposed to be learning? Mark: Maybe. Margaret: I'm going to teach it to you. Mark: Nope. Margaret: I can't keep hanging out with someone who's ignorant of basic logarithmic functions. Mark. Mark look at yourself. You're a nerd who sucks at math. Where does that leave you? So, the first thing you need to know about math is that it is always perfect.

Music

 Louis Armstrong's overwhelming message is one of love. Really, when you hear his music, it's of joy. His music is so joyous. He was just not going to be defeated by the forces of life. And these forces visit all of us. My great-great-grandmother used to say that life has a board for every behind. And there's a board just fit to yours. Your board is not going to work on someone else's behind. And when it's your turn your going to come up and that paddle is going to be put on your booty and it's going to hurt as bad as it can hurt. And Louis Armstrong is there to tell you after you get that paddlin'... "It's alright son!"

Marxism

 Black lives matter is a con that sells marxism through racial tension

Marxism

 Our side is working on policy while Joe Biden's radical Democrats are trying to permanently transform what it means to be an American. Make no mistake, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want a cultural revolution, a fundamentally different America. If we let them, they will turn our country into a socialist utopia. And history has taught us that path only leads to pain and misery, especially for hard working people hoping to rise. Instead we must focus on the promise of the American journey. I know that journey well...

Mistakes

 And, to be perfectly frank, there have been times when members or leaders in the Church have simply made mistakes. There may have been things said or done that were not in harmony with our values, principles, or doctrine. I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us—His imperfect children—and imperfect people make mistakes.

Materialism

 I think possessions kind of weigh you down. Then they're kind of an attack vector. You know. People say hey billionaire you've got all this stuff. Like well, now I don't have this stuff, what you gonna do?

Materialism

 Joe Rogan: Now you're in the middle of this uh, this strange time where you're selling your houses, you say you don't want any material possessions. I've been seeing all that and I've been really excited to talk to you about this. Because it's an interesting thing coming from a guy like yourself. Like why are you doing that? Elon Musk: I'm slightly sad about it actually. Joe Rogan: If you're sad about it why you doing it? Elon Musk: I think possessions kind of weigh you down. Then they're kind of an attack vector. You know. People say hey billionaire you've got all this stuff. Like well, now I don't have this stuff, what you gonna do? Joe Rogan: Attack vector meaning like people target it? Elon Musk: Yeah

Money

 Hey. There's no reasons about it. Just money.

Materialism

 Tyler Durden: Do you know what a duvet is? The Narrator: A comforter. Tyler Durden: It’s a blanket. It’s just a blanket. Then why do guys like you and I know what a duvet is? Is this essential to our survival in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word? No. What are we then? The Narrator: Consumers. Tyler Durden: Right! We’re consumers. We’re byproducts of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty. These things don’t concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines. Television with 500 channels. Some guy’s name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.

Morality

 Professor Higgins: You mean to say you’d sell your own daughter for 50 pounds? Colonel Pickering: Have you no morals man? Alfred Doolittle: No. No. I can’t afford em’ governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Motherhood

 May I suggest that the bishopric and the ward council members be especially watchful and considerate of the time and resource demands on young mothers and their families. Know them and be wise in what you ask them to do at this time in their lives.

Nuclear War