Death on the Installment Plan

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Insurance is death on the installment plan. – Philip Slater




Insurance is the guarantee that, no matter how many necessities a person has to forgo all through life, death was something to which he could look forward. – Fred Allen



Progress means taking risks, for you can’t steal home and keep your foot on third base. – Herbert V. Prochnow



Being grown up means we can have our own way – at our expense. – Hal Rogers



There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. – John F. Kennedy



We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. – Eric Hoffer

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Image by danpeters via FlickrPerhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. – Thomas Henry Huxley




Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – Herbert George Wells



A first-rate theory predicts: a second-rate theory forbids: and a third-rate theory explains after the event. – A.I. Kitaigorodskii



But I hang onto my prejudices. They are the testicles of my mind. – Eric Hoffer

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve. – Tehyi Hsieh

No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go beyond. – Andre Gide
First a new theory is attacked as absurd: then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant: finally, it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it. – William James

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Weakness Corrupts the Many

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The measure of a man is what he does with power. – Pittacus

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. – Henrik Ibsen

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. – Eric Hoffer

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. – Herbert Hoover

Knowledge! Money! Power! That’s the cycle democracy is built on. – Tennessee Williams

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many. – Ausonius



Use power to curb power. – Chinese proverb

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