Support Victims of Hurricane Harvey

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Posted August 28, 2017, 12:30 p.m.

Southeast Texas has been devastated by Hurricane Harvey, the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States in twelve years. Though now downgraded to a tropical storm, Harvey continues to hover over Texas and drop record-setting amounts of rain. Widespread flooding is occurring throughout the region, and many thousands of people have been displaced.

My own family in Houston is safe, but many others are not. Please consider making a donation to a reputable disaster relief charity like Catholic Charities USA or the American Red Cross. Your donation will be used to help provide for the safety and well-being of the victims of this disaster.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Persistence is useful, but there’s no point in being an idiot about it.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that [God] exists.

Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want.

He must be a poor creature that does not often repeat himself.

The capital resources of the nation are not increased by using the tax collector rather than the stock market to mobilize them.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Holiness is not a luxury of the few, it is a simple duty for each one of us. . . .

True politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.

Abstract verbalizations about personal liberty, freedom of the press, and so on, will not be convincing in most parts of the world. In many areas they will not even be comprehensible.

Everything stands or falls with the act of speaking out.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD. . . .

Truth isn’t some malleable thing that changes with the times. It is truth. There is an objective reality, and an objective morality, that can be discerned with faith and reason.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

Communism, in particular, was attractive not so much to oppressed workers, its hypothetical beneficiaries, but to intellectuals—to those whose arrogant pride in intellect assured them they were always right.

There’s an old saying in Tennessee . . . I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee . . . that says, fool me once, shame on . . . shame on you. Fool me . . . you can’t get fooled again.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

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