Your Quote of the Day

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
Edgar Allan Poe

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

Where ignorance is bliss tis folly to be wise. Thomas Gray

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
Shakespeare

"I hope that one day you will have the experience
of doing something you do not understand for
someone you love.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else”
Winston Churchill

“The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and just ain't spitting it out.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

"An institution is of the nature of a usage which has become axiomatic and indispensible by habituation and general acceptance. Its physiological counterpart would presumably be any one of those habitual addictions that are now attracting the attention of the experts in sobriety."

Thorstein Veblen: Absentee Ownership. 1923.

Mr Veblen is likening the institution, Captain of Industry, to other institutions which are passing away such as the Crown, the Country Gentleman and the Priesthood.

If you love a lot of LOLs you'll love ol' Vebbie. He's a one-man laughing machine which lasts. A beacon of enlightenment.

No institution can last forever, whether it be business, governance or social. Time and the forces of nature wear and tear, like playful and even angry dogs, tearing it away. Other institutions grow in their stead, just as strong and as revered and as temporal.

You didn't understand the quote ed.

You don't seriously think that Mr Veblen was unaware of the gist of your remarks do you? Or any of those who sit at the feet of the master craftsman.

He actually points to three institutions in the process of what you describe. So did I.

He uses the word "presumably" in a manner his fans appreciate. It means he doesn't really wish to explain what the addictions are which the "experts in sobriety" are giving more and more attention to. "Presumably" is code for addictions that won't pass away.

"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
George Washington Carver

“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am.” –Anonymous

“Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.”
― Christopher Pike, Thirst No. 2: Phantom, Evil Thirst, and Creatures of Forever

Inspired by Barry's Lady of Shalott.

The Oak
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Live thy Life,
Young and old,
Like yon oak,
Bright in spring,
Living gold;

"Think left and think right;
Think low and think High.
Oh, the thinks you can think up
If only you try!"
Dr. Seuss

“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street”
― Stephen Hawking

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ~Randall Jarrell

"The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey"
Sarah Fielding