Bill Bonner Quotes

A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do.

Bill Bonner

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• My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • Father
  • Law

• You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Often

• First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Prisons
  • Rid
  • Suggest

• Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Process
  • Pushing
  • Mindfulness

• What you are will show in what you do.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Show

• The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Consequence
  • Attack
  • Defence

• To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

  

  Confucius
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Pleasure

• Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Jesus
  • Qualities
  • Antithesis

• We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Interest
  • Empathy
  • Neighbors

• It's nice. You meet some of your neighbors while you're there.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Nice
  • Neighbors

• Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, out to the edge of the universe - every field has questions that are awaiting the power of Hubble.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Universe
  • Neighbors
  • Astrophysics

• The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Art
  • Remember
  • Attention

• My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.

  

  Paul Lynde
  • Dad
  • Proud
  • Son

• A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do.

  

  Bill Bonner
  • Neighbors
  • Advised
  • Political Party