James Cook
James Cook
Captain James Cook FRS RNwas a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth27 October 1728
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Without memory there are no worries.
government quota incompetence
Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.
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With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.
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All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.
Faith must be worked at.
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Beware the person who is on a hot streak.
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The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
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Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.
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When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.
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People rarely use advice.
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Nobody heeds danger when they're making money.
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Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.
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Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give it to a long line of moochers, pork barrel hustlers and ne'er-do-wells. These funds would otherwise have been employed as additional capital indispensable to economic progress.
explanation
There are alternate explanations for everything.