Saturday, February 11, 2006
Achieving Utopia
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell
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Saturday, February 4, 2006
On Life's Changes
an approximate quote from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King "How do you pick up the threads of an old life left behind? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand that there is no going back? That there are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...
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Thursday, February 2, 2006
How to Be a Failure
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby
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Wednesday, February 1, 2006
On Equality
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. Hannah Arendt
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Sunday, January 29, 2006
More on the Right Use of Pity
"Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.... "... The passion of Pity... the ache that draws men to concede what should not...
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Saturday, January 28, 2006
On the Misuse of Pity
Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But.... It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity. C.S. Lewis The Great Divorce
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
God's Law Is a Scary Thing!
The Law reflects the fact that the world is broken due to Sin, and that such a Law is necessary at all is a bleak reminder of the horror that is sin. In the perfect world that God created, there was no need for the Law. Man walked with God, and man was naked and there was no shame. It was not until...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
An Interesting and Inspiring Statistic
When I start to feel like a failure, I like to remember the following little tidbit that I read somewhere several years ago: Every article in National Geographic Magazine is accompanied by about thirty pictures, taken by some of the best photographers in the world. Those thirty "successful" shots...
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Sunday, January 22, 2006
The Greatest Moment of Your Life
The great moments, when the world cheers, are not the moments that count. The ones that count are when it's just you, and people have stopped believing in you. Those are the moments that define you. Bob Greene ----------------------------------------------------------- How very true. Think of all of...
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Saturday, January 21, 2006
Which Do YOU Want?
If you're only concerned with being liked, you will most likely miss the opportunity to be respected. Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D. in Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office
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