Envy — Charlie Munger’s Least Favorite of the Seven Deadly Sins

“It’s the only sin you can never have fun doing.”

–Munger at a May 2, 2010 press conference the day following the Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting

“Combine gluttony and lust and you can have a helluva weekend.”

— Warren Buffett’s retort.    Read more »

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All Too True…

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

–Warren Buffett    Read more »

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The More Things Change…

“The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax — especially on higher incomes.”

— Will Rogers, 1879 – 1935

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Immediately Apply Today’s Latin Lesson To Bill Introductions

Ne Nimium

“Do Nothing in Excess”

(Ditto for  passing legislation.)    Read more »

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Here, Here…

“Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.”

— Warren Buffett    Read more »

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A Slightly Belated Fourth of July Reminder

AMERICA

We are the dream that other people dream.

The land where other people land.

When late at night

They think on flight

And, flying, here arrive

Where we fools dumbly thrive ourselves.

Refuse to see

We be what all the world would like to be.

Because we hive within this scheme

The obvious dream is blind to us.    Read more »

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Speaking of Principles…

“If principles can become dated, they’re not principles.”

     — Warren Buffett

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“Those are my principles. And if you don’t like them…I have others.”

     — Groucho Marx

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Advice for Politicians from Bob Marley

” Only a fool lean upon his own misunderstanding.”

— Lyric from ‘Forever Loving Jah’    Read more »

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Jerry Brown on Former State Senator Ken Maddy

“Maddy made the mistake of saying he smoked a marijuana cigarette. I never made that mistake.”

— At the Stanford Mansion during The Maddy Institute  Bob Beverly Legislative Intern Scholarship Fundraiser, June 26, 2012    Read more »

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Winner of the 2011 Bulwyer-Lytton Fiction Contest

“Cheryl’s mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories.”

— Sue Fondrie, Oshkosh, associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Runner-Up:

“As I stood among the ransacked ruin that had been my home, surveying the aftermath of the senseless horrors and atrocities that had been perpetrated on my family and everything I hold dear, I swore to myself that no matter where I had to go, no matter what I had to do or endure, I would find the man who did this … and when I did, when I did, oh, there would be words.”     Read more »

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