Tag: quotes
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Knowledge – the Key to Sound Government
photo credit: TheAllNewAventuresOfMe Although I had never heard it before, this quote in Utah Policy really captured the essence of some of what I have been trying to convey in posts and comments on what makes an ideal legislator: “A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue…
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Very Well (Under)Stated
“There’s always the chance that politics are involved in politics.” Steve Urquhart I wonder if Steve chuckled to himself when he crafted that bit of wisdom today.
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Mob Intelligence
I love reading Terry Pratchett, for the humor, but I just discovered an extremely useful mathematical equation in Maskerade to calculate the intelligence of any mob. “The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters.” Now if only we had an accurate definition of what…