Albert Einstein Quote – Bad Lessons
“Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.” – Albert Einstein
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Quote – Millionaires
“24.2 million millionaires control 1/3 of world’s wealth. There are more millionaires than there are Australians.”
Read moreCartoon – Pill Pushing Doctors
Poem – Waiting Out a Storm (By Thomas Locicero)
Waiting Out a Storm I consider the peculiar heft of ostensibly touchable clouds, the gray and black mix that puff out of the last of the azure. Hints of sapphire seem to keep the rain at bay, but the sky is talking and I am listening. It will not be the type of rain for which the flowers open their […]
Read moreCartoon – Technology’s Affect on Goodwill
John F. Kennedy Quote – The Discomfort Of Thought
“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F. Kennedy
Read moreWhy Canada Won’t Join The US
Joining the U.S. would be a net loss for Canada— even if it made us Canadians richer, said Conrad Black. It’s not that the idea of a merger, currently touted by journalist Diane Francis in her book Merger of the Century, makes me “tremble with patriotic loathing”—after all, I once suggested that joining the U.S. would be preferable for English […]
Read moreAbraham Flexner Quote – War and Civilization
“Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.” – Abraham Flexner
Read moreRalph Waldo Emerson Quote – Helping Himself
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read morePoem – A Voice Says Cry (By Nosakhare Collins)
A voice says ‘cry’ A voce says ‘cry’ And I said, what shall I cry? All flash is grass, For all the beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, When the breath of the God blows upon it, Surely the people are grass. The grass withers the flower fades, But the word […]
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