William James Quote – All our life…is but a mass of habits
“All our life…is but a mass of habits.” – William James
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Poem – THE MAN WHO ATE HIS BOOTS (By Peter Taylor)
THE MAN WHO ATE HIS BOOTS I remember now. Air so still you could hear it breathing through the frozen shrouds, the crack of floes caressing hulls as if ships could talk to each other. Men slept fully clothed, smoked, drank tea, cooked, read books from the library, and pretended that this was all normal. On holidays […]
Read morePoem – The Face of Death (By Mary Bone)
The Face of Death The doctor has seen the face of death on many occasions. He has seen scars and lacerations. His duty, his call the doctor has seen it all.
Read moreLeonardo da Vinci Quote – Simplicity
“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
Read moreFBI Files
The FBI has files on roughly 77.7 million people in the U.S.—the equivalent of one in three American adults. As many as 12,000 new names are added to its master criminal database every day, largely as the result of minor arrests connected to “zero-tolerance” policies at schools.
Read moreSen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quote – Competence In Government
“The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.” – Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Read moreCartoon – Aliens Heed Our Technology
T.S. Eliot Quote – Humility Is Endless
“The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.” – T.S. Eliot
Read moreAudrey Hepburn Quote – Tell More About A Person
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.” ― Audrey Hepburn
Read moreHelen Hayes Quote – We Are Extraordinary
“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.” – Helen Hayes
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