Wednesday, November 27, 2013
A Problem Is Solved
"Most of the world's problems cannot be solved until someone is willing to give up doing what caused them." - Clark
Know Thyself
"He that knows himself; knows others." - Charles Colton
Quiescence
"Peace is the one condition of survival in the nuclear age." - Adlai Stevenson
Subjective
"Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring." - Hilaire
Ice
"Smooth runs the water when the brook is deep." - Shakespeare
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Knowledge
"Knowledge is that which should be most freely shared, since in sharing, knowledge is multiplied rather than divided." - H. Daly
It Has Been Said
"Doing nothing is about the most tiresome work in the world because you cannot stop and rest." - Anon
Idleness
"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than Kings and Parliaments." - Ben Franklin
Sunday, November 17, 2013
On This Basis
"Let us be willing to remold society by redefining what it means to be a human being." - Hillary Clinton
Global Leadership
"America should lead - alone when it must, with allies when it can." - Madeleine Albright
Defined
"Here on earth, God's work must truly be our own." - John F. Kennedy
View
"Perhaps the only people who view the world realistically are the cynics and the saints." - J. Waller
A Thought
"None are for being in fault, but for not being what they would be thought." - Anonymous
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Dishonesty
"That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it." - H. Matthew
Distance
"The distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." - Campbell
Dreams
"I talk of dreams: which are children of an idle brain, Bogot of nothing but vain phantasy which is as thin of substance as the air; and more inconstant than the wind." - Shakespeare
Ambition
"Ambition - idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train." - P.R.
Dreams
"Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream." - Shakespeare
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