Posted on 07/18/2021 5:38:35 AM PDT by NOBO2012
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the event all that fails to improve the lot of human life on earth perhaps you might wish to resort to economics instead. For example, consider the economics of throwing Marxists out of helicopters:
Results are guaranteed. And economics have never been so much fun.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
According to Wikiquote it's misattributed to Emerson. Here's what they say:
Widely attributed to Emerson on the internet, this actually originates with "What is Success?" by Bessie Anderson Stanley in Heart Throbs Volume Two (1911) edited by Joseph Mitchell Chapple.
Replace your wind turbines and solar panels with readily available, clean burning, LNG and observe your economics progress.
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