My favorite quotes

My Favorite Art and Entertainment

• Witkacy (An Artist who was My Kind of Hero)
• Galaxy Quest (Tech Seargent Chen is My Kind of Hero)
• The Greatest American Hero (Clearly the best American TV show ever made, both Ralph Hinkley, a.k.a. Ralph Hanley, and Bill Maxwell are My Kind of Heroes)
• due South (Clearly the best Canadian TV show ever made, both Benton Fraser and Ray Vecchio are My Kind of Heroes)
• Czterdziestolatek (Clearly, the best Polish TV show ever made, Dr. Karol Stelmach is My Kind of Hero)
• Fawlty Towers (Clearly, the best British TV show ever made, Mr. Basil Fawlty is My Kind of Hero)
• Monk (Captain Leland Stottlemeyer is My Kind of Hero)
• Nero Wolfe (Inspector Cramer is My Kind of Hero)
• Other People's Money (Lawrence Garfield is My Kind of Hero)
• Importance of Being Earnest (As far as I am concerned, the Greatest Play Ever Written, a glorious masterpiece and the greatest presentation of the essence of Western Civilization. Merriman, the butler, is My Kind of Hero)
• A Taxing Woman (Mr. Gondo, The Entrepreneur! Ryoko Itakura is My Kind of Hero)
• High and Low (Mr. Gondo, The Entrepreneur!)
• The Burial of Count Orgaz by El Greco
• Mater Dolorosa by Dieric Bouts

Economics

• Cascade Policy Institute
• Cato Institute
• How to Become a Millionaire -- Easy, Effective, Works for Everyone!

Music

• Arctic Monkeys (after the 2007 album of The White Stripes I have to admit, with sadness, that the baton of the best band around has been passed from Jack White to Alex Turner)
• Peggy Lee ("Why Don't You Do Right?" is the quintessential American Song)
• Howard Jones 
• King Crimson 
• The White Stripes 
• t.A.T.u. 
• Golec uOrkiestra 
• The Black Keys

Philosophy

• The Ayn Rand Institute
• Objective American
• Institute for Objectivist Studies
• What is the meaning of life? -- according to Ayn Rand

Politics

• Anti-Federalist Papers
• The Articles of Confederation
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Federalist Papers
• John Wayne on politics
• "Our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor"
• President George Washington's Farewell Address to the Nation, September 19, 1796
• President Ronald Reagan's Address to the Nation, July 4, 1981
• "If there is a bear ..." -- the greatest Presidential Election television commercial ever
• President Ronald Reagan's Farewell to the Nation, January 11, 1989 (text), or RealVideo
• Rush Limbaugh
• Socialized medicine
• The United States Constitution, and Amendments to the Constitution
• Townhall
• What is Western Civilization?

Role Models for Modern Youths

• Shirley Temple Black
• Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernik): Other than George Washington, the only revolutionary who ever did any good. Of course, neither Kopernik nor Washington were really revolutionaries.
• Benjamin Disraeli
• Ian Fleming
• Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss: Gauss was a mathematician. Otherwise, a mathematician is defined as someone who is considered to be a mathematician by a person already defined as a mathematician.
• William Ewart Gladstone
• Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
• Henri Lebesgue
• Claire Boothe Luce
• Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin
• Ahmad Shah Massoud
• Stefan Mazurkiewicz (also here)
• Ludwig von Mises
• Jan Pietrzak
• Ayn Rand
• David Ricardo: One of only two economists who ever made real money in capital markets, and the man who identified outsourcing and the like as the key social challenge for mankind.
• Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann: Considered to be a mathematician by Gauss. Need I say more?
• Adam Smith
• Domenicos Theotocopoulos (El Greco)
• Booker T. Washington
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington