“We best learn patience by practicing it.”— Jim Elliot Related Quotes “Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‘whiz kids’ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.”— Thomas Sowell “It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.”— Alan Rickman “The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future’s shape, look to the past.”— John Pipkin