FE Smith

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

"My heart was filled with joy. I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger... a man on the move... and just sick enough to be totally confident."

The Daily Reckoning - 10-6-08 - Bill Bonner

There’s a crack in every bell God ever made...a little hairline fracture. Perhaps invisible to the human eye. Perhaps unnoticeable for many years. But hit the thing hard enough...and it falls to pieces.

Whiskey and Gunpowder - 10-1-08

In fact, fertile soil — good dirt — may become more important to land values than oil or minerals in the ground. Some say it is already a strategic asset on par with oil. As Lennart Bage, president of a U.N. fund for agricultural development says, “Now fertile land with access to water has become a strategic asset.”

Michael Nutter - WSJ

"Fact is, al Qaeda wouldn't last a day in parts of Philadelphia. I've got gangsters with .45s that would run them outta town."

Joshua Blahyi - General Butt Naked

So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people — so many I lost count.

F. Roger Devlin - Home Economics vol III

Those who generate wealth have a better idea of its value than those who are supported by others.