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

• Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

  

  Plato
  • Opinion
  • Neighbors
  • Medical Treatment

• There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Ambition
  • Building
  • China

• Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Imagination

• I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Long
  • Black
  • Style

• Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.

  

  Christopher Cokinos
  • Environment
  • Forget
  • Species

• 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