Ellen Glasgow Quote – No Idea
“No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.” – Ellen Glasgow
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Irving Kristol Quote – Equality Of Opportunity
“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions, it only guarantees equality of opportunity.” – Irving Kristol
Read morePoem – Sylvia’s Son (By Layla Lenhardt)
Sylvia’s Son I was wrapped in a towel like a bad dream, wet feet on linoleum. I was too preoccupied to see the cracked blood, to hear the silence until I was knee- deep in your tomb. Sometimes, I dreamt you were a baby being born, waking to a pain that was not yours, a motherhood I never had. It […]
Read moreGilbert K. Chesterton Quote
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” ― Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Albert Pike Quote – Done for Others
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” – Albert Pike
Read moreA depression breakthrough
A hallucinatory party drug could point the way to the first new treatments for depression in a generation. Scientists have discovered that ketamine (“Special K”), which club-goers take for dream-like highs, also improves mood disorders by repairing damaged connections in the brain. What’s more, ketamine works within hours as opposed to weeks— even for people whose mood disorders have proved […]
Read moreHelen Keller Quote – Do The Best We Can
“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” – Helen Keller
Read moreThornton Wilder Quote – To Be Alive
‘We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” – Thornton Wilder
Read morePollution’s links to autism
A new study has found the strongest link yet between air pollution and autism, which experts now say affects one in 50 U.S. schoolchildren. Pregnant women who lived in areas with high levels of diesel exhaust and airborne mercury were found to be twice as likely to have a child with autism as those living in places with the lowest […]
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