David

“It is healthier for us to have questions we cannot answer, than to have answers we cannot question.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“If you hear a “prominent” economist using the word equilibrium, or normal distribution, do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Americans of the nineteenth century were not inclined to leave to private lawyers any more than to public men the conception, execution, and interpretation of public laws. The conviction was generally that no aristocracy existed with respect to the Constitution. Like politics, with which it was inextricably joined, the Constitution was everybody's business. That attitude should prevail today.”
― Louis Fisher Congressional Research Service

“Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.”
― G. K. Chesterton