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Small is Beautiful
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Posted:Jun 10, 2016 6:57 pm
Last Updated:Mar 28, 2024 10:0 pm 13202 Views
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.” —E. F. Schumacher*
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Old , cliché , yet still germane to the discussion
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Posted:Jun 2, 2016 10:29 am
Last Updated:Jun 4, 2019 11:21 am 13627 Views
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An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life...
"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy.
"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.
"One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego.
"The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.
"This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather,
"Which wolf will win?"
The old chief simply replied,
"The one you feed."
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Survival?
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Posted:May 27, 2016 8:55 am
Last Updated:Sep 8, 2017 10:34 am 13454 Views
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"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value." - Arthur C. Clarke
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Cynical #1
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Posted:May 26, 2016 7:49 am
Last Updated:Jul 10, 2017 7:36 am 13554 Views
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw
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Troubled times
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Posted:May 25, 2016 10:55 pm
Last Updated:Mar 28, 2024 10:0 pm 13543 Views
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -George Orwell
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Even philosophers know this to be true
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Posted:May 25, 2016 6:50 pm
Last Updated:May 26, 2016 7:44 am 13682 Views
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything." Friedrich Nietzsche
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Political correctness
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Posted:May 24, 2016 12:34 am
Last Updated:Mar 11, 2022 5:00 pm 13784 Views
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There is an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term. This year's term was:
"Political Correctness."
The winner wrote:
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end. "
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Today I start a blog
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Posted:Aug 7, 2015 6:40 am
Last Updated:Mar 28, 2024 10:0 pm 19188 Views
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I think that I will try an experiment by attempting to communicate my thoughts through the selection of appropriate and germane quotations. It might attract the attention of readers who will accept the words of the erudite and eloquent over what might otherwise be considered merely opinion. We will see if there are any comments which corroborate or repudiate that perception. As I said .... this is an experiment.
“Sometimes I think this whole wide world is one big prison yard. Some of us are prisoners, the rest of us are guards.” – Bob Dylan
"People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence." - James Baldwin
“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.” -Franz Kafka, Blue Octavo Notebooks
"To learn who rules over you, find out who you can't criticize." Voltaire
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