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Great/inspirational quotes

Keith Martin said:
“It has yet to be shown that any society can sustain stable high fertility beyond two generations of mass [state] schooling.”

John C. Caldwell (Theory of Fertility Decline, Academic Press, 1982)
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Why do you suppose that is?

And does this include places which only so educated boys?
 
rockfox said:
Why do you suppose that is?

And does this include places which only so educated boys?
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I don't know the answer to the second question, @rockfox, but my educated guess about why mass-state-education would cause a decline in fertility would be that it is because the impulse to create compulsory education is only going to come from those of the progressive bent, who will tend toward both elitism and misguided collectivist philosophies that emphasize the supposed benefits of eliminating distinctions among people, especially those based on merit or achievement outside of general popularity. Add to that the dumbing down required to keep most students on the same page, and you have a recipe for lowered expectations and covertly-encouraged selfishness that both discourages the kind of competitiveness that leads to men being virile and women appreciating that virility, all of which will lead to lowered virility and a decrease in the kind of activity that leads to actualized fertility.

But that's just what occurs to me off the top of my head.

o_O
 
"I read about some squirrely guy,
Who claims, he just don't believe in fightin'.
An' I wonder just how long,
The rest of us can count on bein' free."

Merle Haggard
 
Keith Martin said:
I don't know the answer to the second question, @rockfox, but my educated guess about why mass-state-education would cause a decline in fertility would be that it is because the impulse to create compulsory education is only going to come from those of the progressive bent, who will tend toward both elitism and misguided collectivist philosophies that emphasize the supposed benefits of eliminating distinctions among people, especially those based on merit or achievement outside of general popularity. Add to that the dumbing down required to keep most students on the same page, and you have a recipe for lowered expectations and covertly-encouraged selfishness that both discourages the kind of competitiveness that leads to men being virile and women appreciating that virility, all of which will lead to lowered virility and a decrease in the kind of activity that leads to actualized fertility.

But that's just what occurs to me off the top of my head.

o_O
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I've seen a few interviews with people on the ground working on education access in third world countries in Africa and Asia and they were upfront about their prime goal being breaking their patriarchal culture and encouraging girls to abandon motherhood and the home and seek jobs in the workplace. I'm sure this is at work all over the place. And we all know they've been pushing college and the workplace on our daughters in US public schools. Anyone remember back in the day the home-ech classes that did the exercises where a girl had to carry around a fake baby? The whole exercise was to make motherhood unappealing and babies seem like unrewarding burdens.

Is it any wonder they went on to treat babies like a sack of flour to be tossed aside at the abortion clinic?
 
“When the Almighty himself condescends to address mankind in their own language, his meaning, luminous as it must be, is rendered dim and doubtful, by the cloudy medium through which it is communicated.”

John Madison, in Federalist Paper 37, January 11, 1788
 
"The elusive search for scientific proof of the Divine is destined to remain unsatisfying. Something not to forget is that value exists in believing despite the lack of material evidence. Faith has its own rewards -- rewards more imbued with Grace than one can ever acquire from academic validation."

Keith Martin
Redan, Georgia
National Review, June 3, 1996
 
“I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom of the individuals of whom they are composed.”

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper #85, May 28, 1788
 
"Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed."

Kinky Friedman
"Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed," from Sold American
 
“The United States must overcome the materialist fallacy: the illusion that resources and capital are essentially things [emphasis added], which can run out, rather than products of human will and imagination which in freedom are inexhaustible. This fallacy is one of the oldest of economic delusions, from the period of mercantilism when they fantasized that it was gold, to the contemporary period when they suppose it is oil; and our citizens clutch at real estate and gold as well. But economists make an only slightly lesser error when they add up capital in quantities and assume that wealth consists mainly in machines and factories. Throughout history, from Venice to Hong Kong, the fastest growing countries have been the lands best endowed not with things but with free minds and private rights to property.”

George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty, 1981
 
"We didn't start the fire . . ."

Billy Joel
 
"There was a time when there was nothing at all, just a distant hum.
"There was a being, and He lived on His own; He had no one to talk to and nothing to do.
"He drew up the plans, and [when] His work was done, His word were these:
"'Hope you find it in everything, everything that you see.
"Hope you find it, hope you find it, hope you find Me in you.'"

Howard Jones
"Hide and Seek"
Human's Lib, 1984
 
"First you guess . . . if it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn't matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what you're name is. If it disagrees with experience, it's wrong. That's all there is to it."

Richard Feynman

"Consensus is not science."

Rush Limbaugh
 
“Well does he who has been united to the Truth know that it is well with him although the multitude may admonish him as wandering. For it probably escapes them, that he is wandering from error to the truth, through the veritable faith. But, he truly knows himself, not, as they say, mad, but liberated from the unstable and variable course around the manifold variety of error, through the simple, and ever the same, and similar truth.

Dionysius, On Divine Names, Caput VII
 
"Can I tell you something?
"I got to tell you one thing
"If you expect the freedom
"That you say is yours
"Prove that you deserve it
"Help us to preserve it
"Or being free will just be
"Words and nothing more"

Kansas
Kansas
1974
 
"You're making all our decisions
"We have just one request of you
"That while you're thinking things over
"Here's something you just better do

"Free the people now
"Do it do it do it do it do it now

"Well we were caught with our hands in the air
"Don't despair paranoia is everywhere
"We can shake it with love when we're scared
"So let's shout it like a prayer

"We understand your paranoia
"But we don't want to play your game
"You think you're cool and know what you are doing
"666 is your name

"So while you're jerking off each other
"You better bear this thought in mind
"Your time is up you better know it
"But maybe you don't read the signs

"Well you were caught with your hands in the till
"And you still got to swallow your pill
"As you slip and you slide down the hill
"On the blood of the people you killed

"Stop the killing now
"Do it do it do it do it do it now."

John Lennon, 1973
"Bring on the Lucie"
Mind Games
 
"The world is a bad place, a bad place, a terrible place to live,
"Oh, but I don't want to die."

William Campbell, Thomas McAleese
"Reflections of My Life"
Marmalade, 1970
 
Keith Martin said:
“The United States must overcome the materialist fallacy: the illusion that resources and capital are essentially things [emphasis added], which can run out, rather than products of human will and imagination which in freedom are inexhaustible. This fallacy is one of the oldest of economic delusions, from the period of mercantilism when they fantasized that it was gold, to the contemporary period when they suppose it is oil; and our citizens clutch at real estate and gold as well. But economists make an only slightly lesser error when they add up capital in quantities and assume that wealth consists mainly in machines and factories. Throughout history, from Venice to Hong Kong, the fastest growing countries have been the lands best endowed not with things but with free minds and private rights to property.”

George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty, 1981
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The fundamental sin of modern economics is to value markets, wealth and things over people, culture, and virtue.
 
“This type of person makes decisions – but he makes them hastily, prematurely and is well-known for going off half-cocked. Making decisions offers him no problem at all. He is perfect. It is impossible for him to be wrong in any case. Therefore, why consider facts or consequences? He is able to maintain this fiction when his decisions backfire, simply by convincing himself it was someone else’s fault.”

Maxwell Maltz
Psycho-Cybernetics, 1960
 
“No man is hurt but by himself.”

Diogenes, 4th Century BC
 
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