Murney Republic Quotes & Sayings

Humans are great optimizers. We look at everything around us, whether a cow, a house, or a share portfolio, and ask ourselves how we can manage it to get the best return. Our modus operandi is to break the things we're managing down into its component parts and understand how each part functions and what inputs will yield the greatest outputs . . . [but] the more you optimize elements of a complex system of humans and nature for some specific goal, the more you diminish that system's resilience. A drive for efficient optimal state outcome has the effect of making the total system more vulnerable to shocks and disturbances. — Stanley McChrystal

We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God. — John Ashcroft

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable. — George Henry Lewes

It's not that George Bush doesn't care about black people, god made hurricanes, not people who can't swim. — Zach Braff

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,
I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me. — T. S. Eliot

After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams. — Zach Condon

It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it — Marshall McLuhan

Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy! — Beth Moore

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains. — Herbert Hoover

Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% how you React to it, Stay Strong, Be Unstoppable. — Diamond Dallas Page

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece. — Leonard Cohen

As cocky as this sounds, I knew I could walk onto that campus and get a date with the nearest available girl. Probably even a girl who wasn't available, but with Avery, it was like trying to hit on a nun. And not a naughty nun. — J. Lynn

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion. — Hunter Hayes

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going. — John Green

The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live. — Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof