Baltasar Gracian Quote – Good Things
“Good things, when short, are twice as good.” – Baltasar Gracian
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Inequality: Why the poor are getting poorer
Why is America a nation of growing inequality? The yawning economic and cultural gap between the well-to-do and the working class—now wider than at almost any point in our history—has academics and pundits searching for explanations. Now, a new Harvard study provides an illuminating—and “horrifying”—insight into what’s going on. The affluent and the working classes, the study found, are raising […]
Read morePoem – Warning Signs (By Gary Beck)
We ignore preparations that insure survival so citizens of neglect have little chance in a doomed nation, brought about by the greed of our masters concerned with their comforts, while the people struggle to pay the rent, put food on the table, insufficiently aware of the extravagance of the aristos spending millions on Picassos, while the children of poverty […]
Read moreAmelia Earhart Quote – Courage
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” – Amelia Earhart
Read moreMarcus Antonius Quote – Consider
“Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.” – Marcus Antonius
Read moreMignon McLaughlin Quote – Every Day Of Our Lives
“Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” – Mignon McLaughlin
Read moreHuman Compassion Quote by Nelson Mandela
“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” – Nelson Mandela
Read moreThe story of air pollution started way back in ancient times
Ahhh — to remember the glory days before dirty air descended on Delhi, a methane leak in California gassed thousands, and catastrophic smog in China prompted people to buy bottled air, of all things. Before the Industrial Revolution, the world was basically one big, serene Walden Pond, right? Wrong. Take off those rose-tinted glasses and get acquainted with the story of […]
Read moreCartoon – Why husbands don’t talk much
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote – Cursing The Darkness
“Cursing the darkness only delays the dawn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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