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Steve Martin wrote:"There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas" - Susan Cain

Love it. Susan Cain is great.

"Withdrawing in disgust is not the same thing as apathy"

-oblique strategies

"Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”

-George Bernard Shaw

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

Ian Wilson wrote:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

That is essentially Dunning–Kruger Effect ... am I right? (see what I did there?)

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”

― Albert Camus

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Everyone has scars. Cowards conceal them. The brave reveal them.”

― A.D. Posey

“To the cowards, change is a want; to the weak, change is a wish; but to the brave, change is a must. People who put change ahead of all things are those who make a difference!”

― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

Oddball: Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?

Who is Oddball?

mpallamary wrote:Who is Oddball?

Oddball:

noun
1. a person or thing that is atypical, bizarre, eccentric, or nonconforming, especially one having beliefs that are unusual but harmless.

Did you mean Odd Job?

Good one Peter. I loved that show!

Poe's Law is an Internet adage which states that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, parodies of extreme views will be mistaken by some readers or viewers as sincere expressions of the parodied views.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair

via D. Woolley

....."The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds."..

.Theodore Roosevelt

"When a man has had a training in one of the exact sciences, where every problem
within its purview is supposed to be susceptible of accurate solution, he is likely to
be not a little impatient when he is told that, under some circumstances, he must
recognize inaccuracies, and govern his action by facts which lead him away from the
results which theoretically he ought to reach. Observation warrants us in saying that
this remark may frequently be made of surveyors."

- Chief Justice Thomas M. Cooley

The whole paper is worth reading over again and again.