Jim McGoodwin:
CLASS OF 1971
Putnam City High SchoolClass of 1971
Oklahoma city, OK
University of Oklahoma - LawClass of 1978
Norman, OK
University of Oklahoma - Social ScienceClass of 1975
Norman, OK
Jim's Story
Jim is from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is married. His schools include Putnam City High School. He later attended The University of Oklahoma. He worked atEdmond and Deer Creek School Districts, Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services, Oklahoma Office of the State Auditor and Inspector.
Jim's interests include Swimming, Tai Chi, Pa - kua. Music he likes includes psychedelia, 50s R & B, rockabilly, 80s new wave and others. Books he likes include Tao Te Ching, American Amnesia, and Why Nations Fail. Movies he likes include Seven Samurai, Lord of the Rings series and Chinatown among many others. TV shows he likes include Hill Street Blues, The Wire, The Handmaid's Tale.
One of Jim's favorite quotes is:"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all. – Keynes
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
— Galileo Galilei.
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
attributed to Sinclair Lewis
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.
— Vincenzo Galilei, Quoted in James Reston, Jr., Galile...Expand for more
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“A good war makes sacred any cause.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the industry which is carried on for the benefit of the rich and the powerful, that is principally encouraged by our mercantile system. That which is carried on for the benefit of the poor and the indigent is too often either neglected or oppressed.
Adam Smith, "...Wealth of Nations"
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for those untrained in the scientific method, who thus turn to the rigid certainty of the Bible instead. There is something comfortable about a view that allows for no deviation and that spares you the painful necessity of having to think.
— Isaac Asimov, The 'Threat' of Creationism. In Ashley Montagu (ed.), Science and Creationism (1984)
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is, in reality, instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
Adam Smith, "...Wealth of Nations"
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
- Ben Franklin
“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”
Adam Smith
"It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong."
— Isaac Asimov.
I swim, play with our monsters (our dogs: Brulee and Godiva) and enjoy retirement.
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