Baskettee Quotes & Sayings

We start by trusting our reason. But, later, we encounter skeptical arguments against that trust and so we stop trusting reason. But once we do this, we no longer have any reason to accept the skeptical arguments themselves and continue our mistrust of reason. At this point, I begin to trust reason again, but then, the skeptical arguments reassert themselves and so forth. We have entered a vicious dialectical loop that, eventually, will reach a sort of intellectual paralysis. — J.P. Moreland

If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value. — Warren Buffett

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods — Montesquieu

Don't do anything stupid, Jake!"
I laugh to myself. Stupid? I've fallen in fucking love. I couldn't be any more stupid than that. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it. — Michael E. Mann

Everyone is good at heart. We all do things with the greatest of intentions and most of the time we do it for selfish reasons. Myself included. — Celia Mcmahon

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle! — Dana Carvey

In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in 2009 President Obama was praised for reversing it, even though his decision was arguably just as political. — Nancy Gibbs