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

'The Fullness Thereof'

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