Soren Dayton:
CLASS OF 1994
Evanston Township High SchoolClass of 1994
Evanston, IL
Soren's Story
Soren is from Chicago, Illinois. Soren's schools include Evanston Township High School. Soren later attended University of Chicago (Anthropology, Mathematics) . Soren works(ed) at International Young Democrat Union (iydu), New Media Strategies, John Mccain Presidential Campaign, 2008.
Music Soren likes includes LISA PAPINEAU, Silje Nergaard, Rameen Chaharbaghi. Books Soren likes include Economist, The Information Diet, Wall Street Journal. Movies Soren likes include PINA, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Putin's Kiss (US Release).
One of Soren's favorite quotes is:"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- William James
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions that were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
- Walter Bagehot (founding editor of the Economist)
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Bagehot
You find them, and you vote them.
- Abraham Lincoln on how to win elections.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
- John Cage
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every government looking at the actions of another government and trying to explain them always exaggerates rationality and conspiracy, and underestimates incompetency and fortuity.
- Silberman's Law of Diplomacy, U.S. Circuit Court Judge Laurence Silberman
âThe atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of tru...Expand for more
th.â -- Pat Moynihan
"In Washington, truth is just another special interest, and one that is not particularly well financed." -- Mike Mussa. AER, May 1993.
âThe observation of the numerous misfortunes that attend all conditions forbids us to grow insolent upon our present enjoyments, or to admire a manâs happiness that may yet, in course of time, suffer change. For the uncertain future has yet to come, with all variety of future; and him only to whom the divinity has [guaranteed] continued happiness until the end we may call happy.�? -- Solon, the Athenian Statesman
These are men with bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas; they try to find whether their ideas are right by first trying to find whether they are not perhaps wrong. They work with bold conjectures and severe attempts at refuting their own conjectures. -- Karl Popper
Doubt is not the opposite of truth; it is an element of faith. -- Paul Tillich, theologian
He's a nice guy. But if he was in a knife fight, he'd ask which end of the knife to hold. -- Anonymous
What I object to among rationalist intellectuals such as those I shall be discussing is not that they experiment; rather, they experiment all too little, and what they fancy to be experimentation turns out to be banal -- after all, the idea of returning to instinct is as common as the rain and has by now been tried out so often that it is no longer clear in what sense it can any longer be called experimental. -- F. A. Hayek
Mr Bush is the classic instance of a conservative politician who confuses support for particular businesses with support for enterprise in general. These seemingly similar ideas are in fact directly contradictory. -- The Economist".
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