July 11
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June 7
An election is no time to discuss serious issues. ~ Kim Campbell (Canadian PM)
[On day two of the 791-mile road trip to get to Indiana University by way of Nashville, Indiana, long time home of Ruthie’s sister Rita, we’re within a stone’s throw here of the “Mountains of Brown County.” We believe this to be our 5th edition of Mini-U . . . ]
[Ruth’s son Rob joined us at Rita’s for his 55th birthday celebration . . . ]
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. ~ John Maynard Keynes
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10. ~ Bill Gates
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
[Our first night at the on campus Biddle Hotel and Conference Center we discovered a new restaurant there – The Vault. We ordered the nacho appetizer. We told them they could have charged the same price for half the amount and no one would be the wiser . . . ]
June 8
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. ~ Douglas Adams
[Looking out our bedroom window . . . ]
A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. ~ Gerald Ford
[OK, it was the last name . . . ]
Now would be a very good time for Washington to bring back its debt obsession. ~ Roge Karma
[Eskenazi Museum of Art . . . ]
As much as guns and warships, maps have been the weapons of imperialism. ~ Brian Harley, cartographer
Just when you get sick of saying something is just when other folks are beginning to hear it. ~ Cecile Richards
The separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787 not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary powers. ~ Louis Brandeis
If you can’t have justice, you’ll settle for cartharsis. ~ Conan Neutron
A simple man may rob from a freight train, but give him a college degree and he will steal the whole railroad. ~ Will Rogers
You don’t want to own a boat. You want to be friends with someone who owns a boat. ~ Bill Burr
[The model for the famed Showalter Fountain at IU . . . ]
The true symbol of the United States is not the bald eagle. It is the pendulum. And when the pendulum swings too far in one direction it will go back. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? ~ Chuck Palahnluk
There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find out when the time comes. ~ Ernest Hemingway
[There’s those magic words, made famous by the current administration . . . ]
A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. ~ Pope Francis
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly … very slowly. ~ Gypsy Rose Lee
[The Tudor Room in the Biddle was always our favorite place to eat, for the ambience if not for something else . . . ]
I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief. ~ C. S. Lewis
I wonder what future generations will make of our architectural legacy – of crash-resistant walls and blast-proof glass. ~ Witold Rybczynski
[Where we were . . . ]
[And our classrooms . . . ]
WHY . . . . . . WHY NOT? (Think, Dayton Allen)
In the 2008 presidential election, 59 percent of respondents knew virtually nothing about the position of the candidates; 12 percent believed that Barack Obama was a Muslim. In 2011, Newsweek conducted a poll of one thousand Americans to see how they would fare on a standard citizenship test. . . . 29 percent could not name the vice president; 73 percent had no idea why the United States had been in the Cold War; 44 percent were completely mystified by the Bill of Rights, not sure what rights were even included in them. Only one in six Americans and fewer than one in four college graduates can find Ukraine on a map even though it is the largest country in Europe. The majority of respondents were off by 1,800 miles. . . . Only one out of four people can name all three branches of government, with one-third unable to even name a single branch. . . . A little more than one-third can name only one of the rights contained in the First Amendment. A slight majority believe that the media is not permitted to report on national security matters without first receiving the government’s approval – partly because they do not know that First Amendment includes freedom of the press. ~ Thane Rosenbaum, Saving Free Speech . . . from Itself
June 9
Riches should come as a reward for hard work, preferably by one’s forebears. ~ Steven Rubciman
[Excellent presentation, basically noting that the personal valet, maid, dish washer robots we thought we’d have 25 years ago are still a long way from fruition . . . ]
More is more and less is a bore. ~ Iris Apfel
[Good on the economics, but a climate change denier . . . ]
It happened, so it can happen again. ~ Primo Levi (Holocaust survivor)
No more dudes in dresses. ~ Pete Hegseth
The fool doth think he is wise, but wise man knows himself to be a fool. ~ Shakespeare
I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~ Phyllis Diller
[She was very good, but this stuff sounds scarier than we’ve been led to believe . . . ]
Because you are the king of a nation, it does not follow that you are to gather for yourself all the wealth of that nation. ~ John Ruskin
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you. ~ Carl Jung
I’ve lived through some really weird shit. ~ Brooke Shields
You and I should date. You’re the most beautiful woman in the world and I’m the richest man, and people will love it. ~ Donald Trump (to Brooke Shields)
Our very own dreaded legislature is almost upon us. They’ll all be here, leaving many a village without its idiot. ~ Molly Ivins
Human kind cannot bear very much reality. ~ T. S. Eliot
[Our very good friend, The DOM from Ft. Wayne, who we meet up with every year at Mini-U and Camp Brolsius, asking the professor whether he should fear penguins . . . ]
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. ~ Abraham Lincoln
[Then it was on the Bub’s (Big Ugly Bill) Burgers and Ice Cream for dinner . . . ]
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. ~ G. K. Chesterton
[I walked up two flights of stairs to get here, a feat not previously duplicated in 10 months.}
No matter what ideology you turn to, no matter how utopian it is, it does not solve the problem of hypocrites, frauds, and charlatans. ~ Tony Tulathimutte
[Vickie, the better half of the DOM . . . ]
What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors. ~ Henry Becque
[The DOM pondering, “I went to college here?”]
The robber barons probably looked in the mirror and thought they were God, too. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Stay tuned for Part 2 . . .
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