Eleanor Roosevelt – Use Your Heart
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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Jeanette Winterson Quote – After Every Victory
“After every “victory” you have more enemies.” – Jeanette Winterson
Read moreCarl Sandburg Quote – Discover Creative Solitude
“One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.” – Carl Sandburg
Read morePoem – It’s Snowing in Manila (By Karlo Sevilla)
It’s Snowing in Manila “The snow is always falling in ‘Fargo,’ cloaking the world in metaphysical confusion.” – Jessica Zafra The militant chided the child for singing “White Christmas” when the longest Christmas season isn’t white, in the absence of snow in these parts. (The movement would not give its imprimatur.) But it gets almost-white cold up in Baguio City. But […]
Read moreThomas Henry Huxley Quote – The Cost Of Doing Nothing
“There is a well-worn adage that those who set out upon a great enterprise would do well to count the cost. I am not sure that this is always true. I think that some of the very greatest enterprises in this world have been carried out successfully simply because the people who undertook them did not count the cost; and […]
Read moreCartoon – Signs of Weakness
Winston Churchill Quote – Men Occasionally Stumble
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” – Winston Churchill
Read moreLionel Trilling Quote – The Sign of Virtue and Intellect
“Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.” – Lionel Trilling
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Greening The Hood
■ South Central Los Angeles is more famous for drive-by shootings than well-kept gardens, but one native son is getting locals to trade their sawed-off shotguns for shovels. Ron Finley, who styles himself the “Gangsta Gardener” is encouraging Angelenos to cultivate vegetable and fruit gardens in vacant lots in deprived neighborhoods. He has co-founded a charity, L.A. Green Grounds, to […]
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