QUOTE A DAY - October 23, 2014

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
--Khalil Gibran

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
--Desmond Tutu

I feel like I been shot at and missed and shit at and hit.
--John Durham's grandfather


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
The left holds that because markets are stupid models should be smart; the right believes that because models are stupid markets should be smart. Alas, it never hit both sides that both markets and models are very stupid.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
There is not only one explanation or one cause for the amazing continuity of American national security policy. But obviously there is something else going on when policy after policy after policy all continue virtually the same way that they were in the George W. Bush administration.
--Michael J. Glennon, former legal counsel for Foreign Relations Committee

I think the American people are deluded... that the institutions that provide the public face actually set American national security policy. They believe that when they vote for a president or member of Congress or succeed in bringing a case before the courts, that policy is going to change. Now, there are many counter-examples in which these branches do affect policy... But the larger picture is still true-policy by and large in the national security realm is made by the concealed institutions.
--Michael J. Glennon, former legal counsel for Foreign Relations Committee

The ultimate problem is the pervasive political ignorance on the part of the American people. And indifference to the threat that is emerging from these concealed institutions.
--Michael J. Glennon, former legal counsel for Foreign
Relations Committee


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

The left holds that because markets are stupid models should be smart; the right believes that because models are stupid markets should be smart. Alas, it never hit both sides that both markets and models are very stupid.

ANSWER: Nassim Taleb

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