"The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity . . . that’s all there is. That’s the whole economy. That’s where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world."
~~ Senator Gaylord Nelson [1916-2005] of Wisconsin, founder of Earth Day [est. 1970]
"Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars."
~~ motivational speaker Leslie C. 'Les' Brown
"Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class."
~~ gangster Al Capone [1899-1947]
"No rights can exist without property rights."
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82], in "The Virtue of Selfishness" [1964]
"Stillness is not just an indulgrence for those with enough resources – it's a necessity for anyone."
~~ Pico Iyer
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
~~ Dr. Maya Angelou [1928-2014]
"Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it."
~~ Charles Rozell 'Chuck' Swindoll
"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."
~~ Oprah Winfrey
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
~~ Jimmy Dean [1928-2010]
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
~~ Eleanor Roosevelt [1884-1962]
"Do or do not. There is no try."
~~ Yoda character (in 'Star Wars')
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
~~ Henry Ford [1863-1947]
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."
~~ aviator Amelia Earhart [1897-1937]
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking [that] they don't have any."
~~ Alice Walker
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
~~ Aristotle Onassis [1906-75]
"Don't judge each day by the harvest [that] you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
~~ Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-94]
"If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
~~ painter Vincent van Gogh [1853-90]
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
~~ Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
~~ Bob Dylan
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
~~ Leonardo da Vinci [1452-1519]
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."
~~ Helen Keller [1880-1968]
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
~~ John Lennon [1940-80]
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."
~~ George W. Addair [1931-2012]
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
~~ Plato [428?-327? B.C.E.]
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
~~ Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919]
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
~~ Plutarch [46?–127 C.E.]
"Control your own destiny or someone else will."
~~ Jack Welch
"Enjoy every sandwich."
~~ rocker Warren Zevon [1947-2003]
"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."
~~ Napoleon Hill [1883-1970]
"Things always work out for the best when you make the best out of the way things work out."
~~ U.C.L.A. coach John R. Wooden [1910-2010]
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
~~ writer-aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [1900-1944]
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
~~ Ambrose Bierce [1842-1914]
"Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises."
~~ Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900]
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
~~ John F. Kennedy [1917-63]
Getty's Reminder "The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights."
~~ oil baron J. Paul Getty [1892-1976]
"Success with things is to think intelligently; success with people is to love whole heartedly".
~~ Maurice L. Washington, Jr.
"There is a crack in everything, it's how the light gets in".
~~ Leonard Cohen
"There is no traffic jam on the extra mile."
~~ salesman & speaker Zig Ziglar [1926-2012]
"Our fear should not be that we are not successful but that we are successful at something that doesn't matter."
~~ D.L. Moody [1837-99]
"Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle?"
~~ Padre Pio of Pietrelcina [1887-1968]
"Inch by inch life's a cinch, yard by yard life is hard."
~~ John Bytheway
"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."
~~ Steve Jobs [1955-2011] of Apple, Inc.
"A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you could invent."
~~ Wm. Blake [1757–1827]
"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
~~ John Gilmore
"In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success."
~~ T.L. Scrutton
"Whoever wants to know about the heart and mind of America must learn about baseball."
~~ Jacques Barzun [1907-2012]
"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”
~~ W.C. Fields [1880-1946]
"You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath."
~~ Sinclair Lewis [1885-1951]
"How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you."
~~ Louis 'Studs' Terkel [1912-2008]
"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness."
~~ Blaise Pascal [1623-62]
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
~~ marketing expert E. Joseph Cossman [1918-2002]
"Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be."
~~ J.K. Rowling
“The fact is that while there has been a good deal of discussion for and against women in business, farm women have always been business women, and I have never heard a protest.”
~~ Laura Ingalls Wilder [1867-1957]
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
~~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930]
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
~~ Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]
"We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy."
~~ E.B. White [1899-1985]
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
~~ Dante [1265-1321]
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
~~ Seneca the Younger [4? B.C.E. - 65 A.D.] (recently quoted by J.K. Rowling)
"Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results."
~~ Narcotics Anonymous 1981 manual
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
~~ George Orwell [1903-50], in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" [1949 novel]
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
News Factoids for First Quarter 2015
Oxford University Press sent a letter to all of their authors in January 2015 telling them not to have pigs or pork products in their manuscripts so as to not to offend 'other cultures'. Stupid, scared people.
The Koch Brothers's invitation-only 'primary' conference in Palm Springs in January 2015 featured Marc Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz & straw poll winner Scott Walker; their announced (nefarious) plan is to spend $889M in the 2016 election cycle.
"Deep injection of wastewater [from fracking] is the primary cause of the dramatic rise in detected earthquakes and the corresponding increase in seismic hazard in the central U.S." — per February news release from the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey that corroborates a recent study published in Science Magazine
"Between 2007 and 2012, 200 of America’s most politically active corporations spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign contributions. A year-long analysis by the Sunlight Foundation [est. 2006] suggests, however, that what they gave pales compared to what those same corporations got: $4.4 trillion in federal business and support."
"Target said [in mid-March] that it would increase the pay of its workers to at least $9 an hour, joining retailers like Wal-Mart and T.J.X. in raising its hourly wage in a more competitive job market and facing pressure from labor groups." — per New York Times
"“[T]he fast-food movement’s next big wave of protests . . . is now scheduled for April 15 . . . the organizers hope [to] turn the fast-food workers’ fight for a $15 hourly wage into a broad national movement of all low-wage workers that combines the spirit of Depression-era labor organizing with the uplifting power of Dr. King’s civil rights campaign." — per New York Times
The Totten Glacier in Antarctica is melting extremely fast, partly due to warm sea water sinking into recently-discovered sea-floor trenches directly beneath it; the completed melt will raise the world's oceans by eleven feet.
I have discovered a nice food treat. A little package of sliced Baby Bella mushrooms costs $2.29 in the produce section where I shop and scarfing half the 'shrooms works nicely as a meal. The taste is nutty, no dressing required, and best of all: no dishes!
Copyright 2015 by G.E. Nordell, all rights reserved
The Koch Brothers's invitation-only 'primary' conference in Palm Springs in January 2015 featured Marc Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz & straw poll winner Scott Walker; their announced (nefarious) plan is to spend $889M in the 2016 election cycle.
"Deep injection of wastewater [from fracking] is the primary cause of the dramatic rise in detected earthquakes and the corresponding increase in seismic hazard in the central U.S." — per February news release from the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey that corroborates a recent study published in Science Magazine
"Between 2007 and 2012, 200 of America’s most politically active corporations spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign contributions. A year-long analysis by the Sunlight Foundation [est. 2006] suggests, however, that what they gave pales compared to what those same corporations got: $4.4 trillion in federal business and support."
"Target said [in mid-March] that it would increase the pay of its workers to at least $9 an hour, joining retailers like Wal-Mart and T.J.X. in raising its hourly wage in a more competitive job market and facing pressure from labor groups." — per New York Times
"“[T]he fast-food movement’s next big wave of protests . . . is now scheduled for April 15 . . . the organizers hope [to] turn the fast-food workers’ fight for a $15 hourly wage into a broad national movement of all low-wage workers that combines the spirit of Depression-era labor organizing with the uplifting power of Dr. King’s civil rights campaign." — per New York Times
The Totten Glacier in Antarctica is melting extremely fast, partly due to warm sea water sinking into recently-discovered sea-floor trenches directly beneath it; the completed melt will raise the world's oceans by eleven feet.
I have discovered a nice food treat. A little package of sliced Baby Bella mushrooms costs $2.29 in the produce section where I shop and scarfing half the 'shrooms works nicely as a meal. The taste is nutty, no dressing required, and best of all: no dishes!
Sunday, March 29, 2015
March 2015 Quotations (60)
"The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry."
~~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt [1882-1945]
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
~~ marketing expert E. Joseph Cossman [1918-2002]
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it."
~~ W.C. Fields [1880-1946]
"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."
~~ Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]
"I wish life was not so short . . . languages take such a time, and so do all the things [that] one wants to know about."
~~ J.R.R. Tolkien [1892-1973]
"Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds."
~~ Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1957]
"I always invented to obtain money to go on inventing."
~~ Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931]
"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
~~ J.K. Rowling
"I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity."
~~ Rudyard Kipling [1865-1936]
"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."
~~ Laura Ingalls Wilder [1867-1957]
"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know [that] she is better than every other country."
~~ Sinclair Lewis [1885-1951]
"Heroes are not great statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better."
~~ Louis 'Studs' Terkel [1912-2008] Page
"To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived."
~~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930]
"Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person."
~~ James Thurber [1894-1961] & E.B. White [1899-1985]
"The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them."
~~ J.M. Barrie [1860-1937]
"Chance is the playground of fools."
~~ Capt. Francis Newcombe [1878-1956]
"Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves."
~~ Nathaniel Branden [1930-2014]
"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy."
~~ Jacques Barzun [1907-2012]
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
~~ William Shakespeare [1564-1616]
"Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain."
~~ Georges Braque [1882-1963]
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
~~ Benjamin Disraeli [1804-81], in the novel 'Coningsby' [1844]
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserve and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists . . . it is real . . . it is possible . . . it’s yours."
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82], in "Atlas Shrugged" [1957 novel]
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
~~ Samuel Beckett [1906-89], in 'Worstward Ho' [1984]
"There’s only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best."
~~ Doris Lessing [1919-2013], in 'The Golden Notebook' [1962]
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget."
~~ Arundhati Roy, in 'The Cost of Living' [1999]
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
~~ Edgar Allan Poe [1809-49], in 'Eleonora' (1841)
"Human history is in essence a history of ideas."
~~ H.G. Wells [1866-1946] in 'The Outline of History' [1920]
"It has been said, 'The West has to be seen to be believed'. But it has to be believed to be seen.”
~~ Kiowa poet N. Scott Momaday
"Freedom of speech and opinion is non-negotiable."
~~ Anonymous cyber collective video, 2015
"The reason that Republicans are not seen as leaders in America is that it is tough to lead when you are moving backwards."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"SHUT UP – in the name of free speech!"
~~ cartoonist Jen Sorensen
"If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences."
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82]
"The only thing standing between me and total happiness is reality."
~~ Brandon B.
"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it ceased to be one."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged."
~~ Cardinal Richelieu [1585-1642]
"In this world, hate has never yet dispelled hate. Only love can dispel hate."
~~ Gautama Buddha [5th Century BCE]
"You see, in our century we've learned not to fear words."
~~ character Lt. Uhura, on 'Star Trek' TV series
"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."
~~ Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
"My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read."
~~ Barbara Kingsolver
"The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music."
~~ Malcolm Gladwell
"I still wake up so jazzed that I don’t have to go to school."
~~ Sarah Silverman
"If the problem is digital, the solution is analog!!"
~~ Anonymous
"You will note that the Bill of Rights is now apparently a Bill of Concerns."
~~ Charles Pierce, in Esquire Magazine Feb 2014
"The only thing harder than speaking truth to power is speaking truth to stupid."
~~ TV producer Aaron Sorkin
“Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."
~~ Harry S. Truman [1884-1972]
"My folks came to the U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood, and became an alien."
~~ Leonard Nimoy [1931-2015]
"You want to lose all of your customers? Lie to one of them."
~~ Bartolo Aglialoro [1909-89]
"Sean Hannity is probably the most loathsome dude at Fox News. Everything is presented in as devious a manner as it could possibly be presented."
~~ Jon Stewart
"Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master."
~~ Ancient Greek orator Demosthenes [384–322 B.C.E.]
"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library."
~~ Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
"The thing about [independent films] is that you know everybody's there for the right reasons."
~~ Oscar-winning actor J.K. Simmons
"Movies are like people; you either trust them or you don't."
~~ director Bennett Miller
"If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."
~~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-68]
"Often in life, the most important question [that] we can ask ourselves is: Do we really have the problem [that] we think we have?"
~~ Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink
"We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naïve to work toward a better one."
~~ Steven Pinker
"Strategy is often in the things [that] you decide not to do."
~~ Anonymous
"You gotta be a beast - that's the only way [that] they'll respect you."
~~ rocker Nicki Minaj
"A mistake repeated more than once is a decision."
~~ Paulo Coelho
"I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one."
~~ Martha 'Calamity Jane' Cannary [1852-1903]
"Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuit question, I am confident [that] I will be the answer."
~~ Sen. Ted Cruz
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
~~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt [1882-1945]
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
~~ marketing expert E. Joseph Cossman [1918-2002]
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it."
~~ W.C. Fields [1880-1946]
"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."
~~ Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]
"I wish life was not so short . . . languages take such a time, and so do all the things [that] one wants to know about."
~~ J.R.R. Tolkien [1892-1973]
"Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds."
~~ Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1957]
"I always invented to obtain money to go on inventing."
~~ Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931]
"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
~~ J.K. Rowling
"I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity."
~~ Rudyard Kipling [1865-1936]
"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."
~~ Laura Ingalls Wilder [1867-1957]
"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know [that] she is better than every other country."
~~ Sinclair Lewis [1885-1951]
"Heroes are not great statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better."
~~ Louis 'Studs' Terkel [1912-2008] Page
"To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived."
~~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930]
"Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person."
~~ James Thurber [1894-1961] & E.B. White [1899-1985]
"The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them."
~~ J.M. Barrie [1860-1937]
"Chance is the playground of fools."
~~ Capt. Francis Newcombe [1878-1956]
"Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves."
~~ Nathaniel Branden [1930-2014]
"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy."
~~ Jacques Barzun [1907-2012]
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
~~ William Shakespeare [1564-1616]
"Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain."
~~ Georges Braque [1882-1963]
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
~~ Benjamin Disraeli [1804-81], in the novel 'Coningsby' [1844]
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserve and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists . . . it is real . . . it is possible . . . it’s yours."
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82], in "Atlas Shrugged" [1957 novel]
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
~~ Samuel Beckett [1906-89], in 'Worstward Ho' [1984]
"There’s only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best."
~~ Doris Lessing [1919-2013], in 'The Golden Notebook' [1962]
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget."
~~ Arundhati Roy, in 'The Cost of Living' [1999]
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
~~ Edgar Allan Poe [1809-49], in 'Eleonora' (1841)
"Human history is in essence a history of ideas."
~~ H.G. Wells [1866-1946] in 'The Outline of History' [1920]
"It has been said, 'The West has to be seen to be believed'. But it has to be believed to be seen.”
~~ Kiowa poet N. Scott Momaday
"Freedom of speech and opinion is non-negotiable."
~~ Anonymous cyber collective video, 2015
"The reason that Republicans are not seen as leaders in America is that it is tough to lead when you are moving backwards."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"SHUT UP – in the name of free speech!"
~~ cartoonist Jen Sorensen
"If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences."
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82]
"The only thing standing between me and total happiness is reality."
~~ Brandon B.
"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it ceased to be one."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged."
~~ Cardinal Richelieu [1585-1642]
"In this world, hate has never yet dispelled hate. Only love can dispel hate."
~~ Gautama Buddha [5th Century BCE]
"You see, in our century we've learned not to fear words."
~~ character Lt. Uhura, on 'Star Trek' TV series
"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."
~~ Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
"My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read."
~~ Barbara Kingsolver
"The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music."
~~ Malcolm Gladwell
"I still wake up so jazzed that I don’t have to go to school."
~~ Sarah Silverman
"If the problem is digital, the solution is analog!!"
~~ Anonymous
"You will note that the Bill of Rights is now apparently a Bill of Concerns."
~~ Charles Pierce, in Esquire Magazine Feb 2014
"The only thing harder than speaking truth to power is speaking truth to stupid."
~~ TV producer Aaron Sorkin
“Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."
~~ Harry S. Truman [1884-1972]
"My folks came to the U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood, and became an alien."
~~ Leonard Nimoy [1931-2015]
"You want to lose all of your customers? Lie to one of them."
~~ Bartolo Aglialoro [1909-89]
"Sean Hannity is probably the most loathsome dude at Fox News. Everything is presented in as devious a manner as it could possibly be presented."
~~ Jon Stewart
"Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master."
~~ Ancient Greek orator Demosthenes [384–322 B.C.E.]
"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library."
~~ Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
"The thing about [independent films] is that you know everybody's there for the right reasons."
~~ Oscar-winning actor J.K. Simmons
"Movies are like people; you either trust them or you don't."
~~ director Bennett Miller
"If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."
~~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-68]
"Often in life, the most important question [that] we can ask ourselves is: Do we really have the problem [that] we think we have?"
~~ Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink
"We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naïve to work toward a better one."
~~ Steven Pinker
"Strategy is often in the things [that] you decide not to do."
~~ Anonymous
"You gotta be a beast - that's the only way [that] they'll respect you."
~~ rocker Nicki Minaj
"A mistake repeated more than once is a decision."
~~ Paulo Coelho
"I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one."
~~ Martha 'Calamity Jane' Cannary [1852-1903]
"Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuit question, I am confident [that] I will be the answer."
~~ Sen. Ted Cruz
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Working Minds Essay #107: The New Civil War Is About Justice
{I got into a back-and-forth in the Opinion/Letters Dept. of the weekly local newspaper that took from October 2014 to March 2015 to be resolved. My final essay of 828 words had to be cut down to 512; this is a variation of the longer version.}
The open question was: 'What makes the United States the best country in the world?'.
The French Revolution [1789-1799] took on the slogan "Liberté, égalité, fraternité (liberty, equality, brotherhood)" but that does not satisfy the open question. Americans generally agree with the French motto, but this was not what drove the signers of the Declaration of Independence to "mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor".
I say that what the America's Founding Fathers were about was the achievement of Justice for the residents of the American Colonies.
'No taxation without representation' was at the forefront. And there was no way to attain representation under the authoritarian King George III. (Such was impossible in the practical sense as well: imagine trying to deal with votes in Britain's Parliament from across the Atlantic Ocean, a voyage that then took more than a month each way.)
The United States was built on the notion of the existence of the Individual, for whom the local and national governing bodies should provide a just environment. And that also meant justice for all, although it took a long while for such benefits to include slaves, females, and minorities – even in theory. A large part of the tension and acrimony and violence today is because theoretical justice for black and brown and red and yellow people, women, LGBT people, non-Christians, the elderly, the young, and the poor are being rolled back. The fascist Koch Brothers, their A.L.E.C. program, their Koch-funded T.E.A. Party radicals, white supremacists, and other anti-justice folk really intend to cancel the rights gained by the oppressed in hard-fought battles over the last 200 years.
There is no justice in working a full-time job of any kind and being unable to feed one's family. Thus the outcry by the working poor and their sympathizers. (None of whom have the dollars that were decreed to be free speech by the fascist Supreme Court all of five years ago this January.)
There is no justice in my personal vote having to battle with the multiple millions of dollars available to each member of the Oligarchy, the One Percent.
There is no justice in the Republican Party's attempt to bankrupt the U.S. Postal Service and the member-funded Social Security program, and to destroy life-saving Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare.
The citizens of America are willing to pay for equal opportunity – in health care, in education, for insurance of all kinds, for access to wilderness and recreation, and inside the criminal system – while the Oligarchy spends a tiny percentage of their largely untaxed wealth to prevent equality of opportunity. The fascist Oligarchy purchased both houses of Congress in November 2014, while the working poor cannot come close.
As I say, the concept of Justice was central to the Founding Fathers, and the great extent to which that abstract Value has been removed from the public conversation is why the United States is faltering in its role as Leader of The Free World. (Rather tough to lead when you are moving backwards, eh?)
Black citizens of Ferguson and the rest of Missouri, black and brown in Florida, any minority in Jim Crow Kansas, and short brown people in Apartheid Arizona continue to experience the brunt of the anti-Justice policies of the largely white and largely male and largely pseudo-Christian majority.
The ideal of Justice is why many of our ancestors came to America and why many in other lands are still hoping to get here somehow.
But the reality is that Justice is being taken away while the ignorant watch dance shows and soap operas, the violent wear hoods in the night, the mis-informed suck up more propaganda from right-wing Faux News pundits, and the weak give up and stay home.
The Oligarchs want no taxation, period – at least not for them. The citizens of America, however, want to fix our broken infrastructure, to clean up the polluted environments that we live in, to educate our children, to restore justice to the criminal justice system, to boost the economy by creating jobs, to enable health and well-being for all, and to bring back the once-thriving Middle Class.
The extant Civil War in America is being fought over the issue of Justice. Which side are you on?
Copyright 2015 by G.E. Nordell, all rights reserved
The open question was: 'What makes the United States the best country in the world?'.
The French Revolution [1789-1799] took on the slogan "Liberté, égalité, fraternité (liberty, equality, brotherhood)" but that does not satisfy the open question. Americans generally agree with the French motto, but this was not what drove the signers of the Declaration of Independence to "mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor".
I say that what the America's Founding Fathers were about was the achievement of Justice for the residents of the American Colonies.
'No taxation without representation' was at the forefront. And there was no way to attain representation under the authoritarian King George III. (Such was impossible in the practical sense as well: imagine trying to deal with votes in Britain's Parliament from across the Atlantic Ocean, a voyage that then took more than a month each way.)
The United States was built on the notion of the existence of the Individual, for whom the local and national governing bodies should provide a just environment. And that also meant justice for all, although it took a long while for such benefits to include slaves, females, and minorities – even in theory. A large part of the tension and acrimony and violence today is because theoretical justice for black and brown and red and yellow people, women, LGBT people, non-Christians, the elderly, the young, and the poor are being rolled back. The fascist Koch Brothers, their A.L.E.C. program, their Koch-funded T.E.A. Party radicals, white supremacists, and other anti-justice folk really intend to cancel the rights gained by the oppressed in hard-fought battles over the last 200 years.
There is no justice in working a full-time job of any kind and being unable to feed one's family. Thus the outcry by the working poor and their sympathizers. (None of whom have the dollars that were decreed to be free speech by the fascist Supreme Court all of five years ago this January.)
There is no justice in my personal vote having to battle with the multiple millions of dollars available to each member of the Oligarchy, the One Percent.
There is no justice in the Republican Party's attempt to bankrupt the U.S. Postal Service and the member-funded Social Security program, and to destroy life-saving Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare.
The citizens of America are willing to pay for equal opportunity – in health care, in education, for insurance of all kinds, for access to wilderness and recreation, and inside the criminal system – while the Oligarchy spends a tiny percentage of their largely untaxed wealth to prevent equality of opportunity. The fascist Oligarchy purchased both houses of Congress in November 2014, while the working poor cannot come close.
As I say, the concept of Justice was central to the Founding Fathers, and the great extent to which that abstract Value has been removed from the public conversation is why the United States is faltering in its role as Leader of The Free World. (Rather tough to lead when you are moving backwards, eh?)
Black citizens of Ferguson and the rest of Missouri, black and brown in Florida, any minority in Jim Crow Kansas, and short brown people in Apartheid Arizona continue to experience the brunt of the anti-Justice policies of the largely white and largely male and largely pseudo-Christian majority.
The ideal of Justice is why many of our ancestors came to America and why many in other lands are still hoping to get here somehow.
But the reality is that Justice is being taken away while the ignorant watch dance shows and soap operas, the violent wear hoods in the night, the mis-informed suck up more propaganda from right-wing Faux News pundits, and the weak give up and stay home.
The Oligarchs want no taxation, period – at least not for them. The citizens of America, however, want to fix our broken infrastructure, to clean up the polluted environments that we live in, to educate our children, to restore justice to the criminal justice system, to boost the economy by creating jobs, to enable health and well-being for all, and to bring back the once-thriving Middle Class.
The extant Civil War in America is being fought over the issue of Justice. Which side are you on?
Friday, January 30, 2015
Well, That Explains it
After living here in Valencia County for nine years, somebody finally explained to me the secret behind much of the silly happenings here.
Both Belen and Los Lunas were built atop a giant lode of Belenium ore. The effect varies based on where you are and how deep the Belenium vein is at that location.
It’s sorta like kryptonite, the green stuff from Superman’s home planet that messes with him in various ways
Attempts have been made here to mine Belenium, but nobody wants the stuff.
See, Belenium explains why people in Valencia County have such difficulty parking between the lines.
It explains why Valencia County has no hospital, even after an offer for 60 acres of free land.
It explains why drivers in Valencia County think that they are supposed to add 50 percent to the posted speed limit and they are still legal.
It explains why so many voters choose fascism and vote for Republican candidates. Which is the same thing as not voting at all.
And the fact that the biggest deposit of Belenium ore is directly underneath Belen City Hall explains lots and lots.Copyright 2015 by G.E. Nordell, all rights reserved Printed in the Valencia County News Bulletin on 29 January 2015
Both Belen and Los Lunas were built atop a giant lode of Belenium ore. The effect varies based on where you are and how deep the Belenium vein is at that location.
It’s sorta like kryptonite, the green stuff from Superman’s home planet that messes with him in various ways
Attempts have been made here to mine Belenium, but nobody wants the stuff.
See, Belenium explains why people in Valencia County have such difficulty parking between the lines.
It explains why Valencia County has no hospital, even after an offer for 60 acres of free land.
It explains why drivers in Valencia County think that they are supposed to add 50 percent to the posted speed limit and they are still legal.
It explains why so many voters choose fascism and vote for Republican candidates. Which is the same thing as not voting at all.
And the fact that the biggest deposit of Belenium ore is directly underneath Belen City Hall explains lots and lots.
Thursday, January 01, 2015
Year-End Website Statistics for 2014
Hey, once again got'er done on the First!
The basic numbers from the year of 2014 are that I coded 65 new pages and 2,172 new covers (linked to Amazon); I now have 500+ connections on LinkedIn, 111 friends on two new Facebook accounts, and 22 new postings here on my blog {all-time total now 307}.
Anyone who wants to see the detail can go to http://www.genordell.com/webstats.htm.
The basic numbers from the year of 2014 are that I coded 65 new pages and 2,172 new covers (linked to Amazon); I now have 500+ connections on LinkedIn, 111 friends on two new Facebook accounts, and 22 new postings here on my blog {all-time total now 307}.
Anyone who wants to see the detail can go to http://www.genordell.com/webstats.htm.
Saturday, December 27, 2014
News Factoids for Fourth Quarter 2014
CLIMATE
“Nearly 35,000 walruses were discovered this month on a northwest Alaskan shore as a result of being unable to find sea ice to rest upon, a problem aggravated by climate change, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in September.” -- per TIME Magazine
During October, anger spread over news that the country’s largest methane leak is located right here in New Mexico, near the Four Corners region, and is three times larger than originally reported. The methane leak is attributed to natural gas production in the area and for many New Mexicans, this dangerous human health and environmental hazard represents a wake-up call for new energy policies in our state.
The new term is 'accelerated climate change' since recent actual increases in soil and air and water temperatures around the globe are exceeding the existing predictive computer models: the reality of global warming surpasses what scientists have projected.
ENERGY
The new owners of utility company P.N.M. / Public Service Company of New Mexico are aligned with the fascist Koch Brothers, and have formally proposed a 12 percent rate increase and a $10 per month solar fee (based on Koch-funded A.L.E.C. legislative models) even though P.N.M. paid their stockholders $450 million over the past several years!
Clean coal? U.S. power plants produce 2.2 billion tons of CO2 every year, which is 40 percent of the nation's total CO2 emissions.
A PAIR OF POLLUTION ITEMS
A new study released in Hawai'i estimates that nearly 270,000 tons of plastic is floating in the world's oceans. (For comparison, New York City produces and buries 12,000 tons of waste each and every day.)
In late September, Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed SB270 into law, banning use of plastic grocery bags statewide, the first state to do so.
THIS AND THAT
Difficulties are likely to continue in the fight against the ebola virus inside the United States because the Republican Congress still refuses (since July 2013) to confirm President Obama's nominee for Surgeon General. -- per Daily KOS
Almost Haiku For November 5th
My thoughts on the election:
It could be worse.
And it will be.
Quite soon.
Watch Elizabeth Warrens's 'Enough Is Enough!' Senate speech of Friday evening 12 December 2014 [9:43] at YouTube
Copyright 2014 by G.E. Nordell, all rights reserved
“Nearly 35,000 walruses were discovered this month on a northwest Alaskan shore as a result of being unable to find sea ice to rest upon, a problem aggravated by climate change, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in September.” -- per TIME Magazine
During October, anger spread over news that the country’s largest methane leak is located right here in New Mexico, near the Four Corners region, and is three times larger than originally reported. The methane leak is attributed to natural gas production in the area and for many New Mexicans, this dangerous human health and environmental hazard represents a wake-up call for new energy policies in our state.
The new term is 'accelerated climate change' since recent actual increases in soil and air and water temperatures around the globe are exceeding the existing predictive computer models: the reality of global warming surpasses what scientists have projected.
ENERGY
The new owners of utility company P.N.M. / Public Service Company of New Mexico are aligned with the fascist Koch Brothers, and have formally proposed a 12 percent rate increase and a $10 per month solar fee (based on Koch-funded A.L.E.C. legislative models) even though P.N.M. paid their stockholders $450 million over the past several years!
Clean coal? U.S. power plants produce 2.2 billion tons of CO2 every year, which is 40 percent of the nation's total CO2 emissions.
A PAIR OF POLLUTION ITEMS
A new study released in Hawai'i estimates that nearly 270,000 tons of plastic is floating in the world's oceans. (For comparison, New York City produces and buries 12,000 tons of waste each and every day.)
In late September, Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed SB270 into law, banning use of plastic grocery bags statewide, the first state to do so.
THIS AND THAT
Difficulties are likely to continue in the fight against the ebola virus inside the United States because the Republican Congress still refuses (since July 2013) to confirm President Obama's nominee for Surgeon General. -- per Daily KOS
Almost Haiku For November 5th
My thoughts on the election:
It could be worse.
And it will be.
Quite soon.
Watch Elizabeth Warrens's 'Enough Is Enough!' Senate speech of Friday evening 12 December 2014 [9:43] at YouTube
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Recipe of The Month: Chocolate Nuevo Mexicano
This showed up today in the little pamphlet that came with the bill from electric utility P.N.M., from their employee-written book "Cocinas de New Mexico" [1979].
CHOCOLATE NUEVO MEXICANO
Cooking time 15 minutes; makes 12 servings.
INGREDIMENTS
½ cup sugar
2 Tbsp flour
¼ cup cocoa
1½ cups water
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
¾ tsp cloves
6 cups milk
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
INSTRUCTIONS {slightly modified by me}
1) Combine sugar, flour, cocoa, water, and spices in a large saucepan.
2) Cook mixture at medium-high for approximately four minutes, stirring occasionally.
3) Add milk to mixture and scald – but do not boil.
4) Remove saucepan from heat and stir in the vanilla.
5) Pour into mugs with handles.
Chocolate Nuevo Mexicano is traditionally served with biscochitos, the official cookie of the State of New Mexico.Copyright 2014 by G.E. Nordell, all rights reserved
CHOCOLATE NUEVO MEXICANO
Cooking time 15 minutes; makes 12 servings.
INGREDIMENTS
½ cup sugar
2 Tbsp flour
¼ cup cocoa
1½ cups water
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
¾ tsp cloves
6 cups milk
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
INSTRUCTIONS {slightly modified by me}
1) Combine sugar, flour, cocoa, water, and spices in a large saucepan.
2) Cook mixture at medium-high for approximately four minutes, stirring occasionally.
3) Add milk to mixture and scald – but do not boil.
4) Remove saucepan from heat and stir in the vanilla.
5) Pour into mugs with handles.
Chocolate Nuevo Mexicano is traditionally served with biscochitos, the official cookie of the State of New Mexico.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Constant Toxic Spills in Alberta, Canada
Since C.B.C. up in Canada refuses to report any toxic pipeline spills in the petro-state of Alberta, the Native American-owned West Coast Native News has been keeping track:
There were 27 spillage incidents in July 2014, 39 incidents in August, 26 incidents in September, and 41 incidents in October; the October data specifies volumes of from 5,000 litres to 200,000 litres for each spill. And each and every incident report document states that 'no effects to wildlife or waterways occurred'.
LOL, anybody?
Copyright 2014 by G.E. Nordell, all rights reserved
There were 27 spillage incidents in July 2014, 39 incidents in August, 26 incidents in September, and 41 incidents in October; the October data specifies volumes of from 5,000 litres to 200,000 litres for each spill. And each and every incident report document states that 'no effects to wildlife or waterways occurred'.
LOL, anybody?
Sunday, November 16, 2014
November 2014 Quotations (60)
"This election wasn't just a failure for Democrats. It was a failure for democracy."
~~ Richard Eskow, November 2014
"So don't get cynical. Cynicism didn't put a man on the moon. Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease, or built a business, or fed a young mind. Cynicism is a choice. And hope will always be a better choice."
~~ Barack Obama, November 2014
“When will the poor negro have his rights? Not, I believe, until he has a musket in one hand and a ballot in the other.”
~~ Lewis Tappan [1788–1873]
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
~~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007]
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
~~ Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931]
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.”
~~ Mary {Wollstonecraft Godwin} Shelley [1797-1851]
“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”
~~ Agatha Christie [1890-1976], "An Autobiography" (1977)
“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
~~ Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]
“Scientists may have sophisticated laboratories, But never forget 'eureka' was inspired in a bathtub.”
~~ Toba Beta
“The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”
~~ inventor Douglas Engelbart [1925-2013]
"I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking."
~~ Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1957]
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.”
~~ Nikola Tesla [1856-1943], "My Inventions" (1919)
“We're all innately creative; I'm not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just trying. You don't need to make a big leap – you need to take a thousand small steps.”
~~ James Jorash
“John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!”
~~ Bertrand Russell [1872-1970]
“Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.”
~~ Jeff Bezos, creator of Amazon, Inc.
"More and more we are into communications – and less and less into communication."
~~ Louis 'Studs' Terkel [1912-2008] Page
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."
~~ J.K. Rowling
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
~~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930]
"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed &ndash there's so little competition."
~~ Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]
"I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all."
~~ E.B. White [1899-1985]
"Since Republicans are oblivious to the difference between the freedom of actual democracy and America's current totalitarian fascist government, maybe I should write a book called 'Fascism For Dummkopfs'."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"Mistakes are part of the dues [that] one pays for a full life."
~~ Sophia Loren
"October is a peculiarly dangerous month to speculate in stock. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"[Film] editing feels almost like sculpting, or a form of continuing the writing process."
~~ Sydney Pollack [1934-2008]
“The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.”
~~ Laura Ingalls Wilder [1867-1957]
"There has never been but one revolution. It is the revolution against pagan fatalism – the revolution for human freedom."
~~ Henry Grady Weaver [1889-1949], in "The Mainspring of Human Progress" (1947)
"Not all those who wander are lost."
~~ J.R.R. Tolkien [1892-1973]
"The tools [that] I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey."
~~ William Faulkner [1897-1962]
"Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."
~~ Sinclair Lewis [1885-1951]
“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.”
~~ W.C. Fields [1880-1946]
“Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”
~~ Gustave Flaubert [1821-80]
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
~~ J.R.R. Tolkien [1892-1973]
"There is no love of life without despair of life."
~~ Albert Camus [1913-60]
"The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all tried to lie out of that but life won't let us."
~~ Eugene O'Neill [1888-1953]
"It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
~~ John Locke [1632-1704]
"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life."
~~ Jiddu Krishnamurti [1895-1986]
"God is dead. Let us not understand by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He is dead. He spoke to us and is silent. We no longer have anything but his cadaver. Perhaps he slipped out of the world, somewhere else like the soul of a dead man. Perhaps he was only a dream . . . God is dead."
~~ Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-80]
“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
~~ marketing expert E. Joseph Cossman [1918-2002]
”The only thing worse than a man [that] you can’t control is a man [that] you can.”
~~ Margo Kaufman
”We see things not as they are, but as we are.”
~~ H.M. Tomlinson [1873-1958]
”The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
~~ Chinese proverb
”Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.”
~~ Japanese proverb
”If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.”
~~ Isaac Bashevis Singer [1902-91]
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
~~ football coach Jimmy Johnson
“The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.”
~~ Foster’s Law
”Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
~~ Voltaire [1694-1778]
”Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
~~ Rev. William Buell Sprague [1795-1876]
“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.”
~~ Charles F. Kettering [1876-1958]
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or to accept the responsibility for changing them.”
~~ motivational speaker Dr. Denis Waitley
”A mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work if it isn’t open.”
~~ musician Frank Zappa [1940-93]
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
~~ Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
”Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
~~ Vince Lombardi
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
~~ salesman & speaker Zig Ziglar [1926-2012]
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs . . . one step at a time.”
~~ Joseph Samuel 'Joe' Girard
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
~~ Peter F. Drucker [1909-2005]
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower [1890-1969]
"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
~~ Dr. Maria Montessori [1870-1952]
"Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon."
~~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton [1815-1902]
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
~~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-68]
"Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting [that] they give."
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
~~ Rudyard Kipling [1865-1936]
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
~~ Richard Eskow, November 2014
"So don't get cynical. Cynicism didn't put a man on the moon. Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease, or built a business, or fed a young mind. Cynicism is a choice. And hope will always be a better choice."
~~ Barack Obama, November 2014
“When will the poor negro have his rights? Not, I believe, until he has a musket in one hand and a ballot in the other.”
~~ Lewis Tappan [1788–1873]
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
~~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007]
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
~~ Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931]
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.”
~~ Mary {Wollstonecraft Godwin} Shelley [1797-1851]
“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”
~~ Agatha Christie [1890-1976], "An Autobiography" (1977)
“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
~~ Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]
“Scientists may have sophisticated laboratories, But never forget 'eureka' was inspired in a bathtub.”
~~ Toba Beta
“The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”
~~ inventor Douglas Engelbart [1925-2013]
"I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking."
~~ Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1957]
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.”
~~ Nikola Tesla [1856-1943], "My Inventions" (1919)
“We're all innately creative; I'm not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just trying. You don't need to make a big leap – you need to take a thousand small steps.”
~~ James Jorash
“John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!”
~~ Bertrand Russell [1872-1970]
“Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.”
~~ Jeff Bezos, creator of Amazon, Inc.
"More and more we are into communications – and less and less into communication."
~~ Louis 'Studs' Terkel [1912-2008] Page
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."
~~ J.K. Rowling
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
~~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930]
"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed &ndash there's so little competition."
~~ Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]
"I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all."
~~ E.B. White [1899-1985]
"Since Republicans are oblivious to the difference between the freedom of actual democracy and America's current totalitarian fascist government, maybe I should write a book called 'Fascism For Dummkopfs'."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"Mistakes are part of the dues [that] one pays for a full life."
~~ Sophia Loren
"October is a peculiarly dangerous month to speculate in stock. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"[Film] editing feels almost like sculpting, or a form of continuing the writing process."
~~ Sydney Pollack [1934-2008]
“The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.”
~~ Laura Ingalls Wilder [1867-1957]
"There has never been but one revolution. It is the revolution against pagan fatalism – the revolution for human freedom."
~~ Henry Grady Weaver [1889-1949], in "The Mainspring of Human Progress" (1947)
"Not all those who wander are lost."
~~ J.R.R. Tolkien [1892-1973]
"The tools [that] I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey."
~~ William Faulkner [1897-1962]
"Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."
~~ Sinclair Lewis [1885-1951]
“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.”
~~ W.C. Fields [1880-1946]
“Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”
~~ Gustave Flaubert [1821-80]
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
~~ J.R.R. Tolkien [1892-1973]
"There is no love of life without despair of life."
~~ Albert Camus [1913-60]
"The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all tried to lie out of that but life won't let us."
~~ Eugene O'Neill [1888-1953]
"It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
~~ John Locke [1632-1704]
"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life."
~~ Jiddu Krishnamurti [1895-1986]
"God is dead. Let us not understand by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He is dead. He spoke to us and is silent. We no longer have anything but his cadaver. Perhaps he slipped out of the world, somewhere else like the soul of a dead man. Perhaps he was only a dream . . . God is dead."
~~ Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-80]
“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
~~ marketing expert E. Joseph Cossman [1918-2002]
”The only thing worse than a man [that] you can’t control is a man [that] you can.”
~~ Margo Kaufman
”We see things not as they are, but as we are.”
~~ H.M. Tomlinson [1873-1958]
”The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
~~ Chinese proverb
”Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.”
~~ Japanese proverb
”If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.”
~~ Isaac Bashevis Singer [1902-91]
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
~~ football coach Jimmy Johnson
“The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.”
~~ Foster’s Law
”Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
~~ Voltaire [1694-1778]
”Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
~~ Rev. William Buell Sprague [1795-1876]
“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.”
~~ Charles F. Kettering [1876-1958]
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or to accept the responsibility for changing them.”
~~ motivational speaker Dr. Denis Waitley
”A mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work if it isn’t open.”
~~ musician Frank Zappa [1940-93]
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
~~ Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
”Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
~~ Vince Lombardi
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
~~ salesman & speaker Zig Ziglar [1926-2012]
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs . . . one step at a time.”
~~ Joseph Samuel 'Joe' Girard
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
~~ Peter F. Drucker [1909-2005]
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower [1890-1969]
"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
~~ Dr. Maria Montessori [1870-1952]
"Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon."
~~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton [1815-1902]
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
~~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-68]
"Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting [that] they give."
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
~~ Rudyard Kipling [1865-1936]
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
The Ebola Virus Epidemic Is Serious – But Not For America
An outbreak of a deadly virus in Zaire, Africa in 1976 was at first thought to be a variant of the Marburg viral hemorrhagic fever, but later identified as the species Zaire ebolavirus.
An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa in December 2013 reached an epidemic state, expanding from Guinea to Liberia and Sierra Leone, with isolated cases spreading to Europe and the United States by way of aircraft passengers.
By late October 2014, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) reported a total of 12,008 suspected cases and 5,078 deaths, while assuming that many cases have been neither identified nor reported.
The strongest danger to public health in the United States is the refusal by the Republican Party in Congress to allow confirmation hearings for the vacant position of U.S. Surgeon General.
Copyright 2014 by G.E. Nordell, all rights reserved
An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa in December 2013 reached an epidemic state, expanding from Guinea to Liberia and Sierra Leone, with isolated cases spreading to Europe and the United States by way of aircraft passengers.
By late October 2014, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) reported a total of 12,008 suspected cases and 5,078 deaths, while assuming that many cases have been neither identified nor reported.
The strongest danger to public health in the United States is the refusal by the Republican Party in Congress to allow confirmation hearings for the vacant position of U.S. Surgeon General.
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Sunday, September 28, 2014
Third Quarter 2014 News Factoids
More Americans now die from prescription painkillers (16,000 per year) than from heroin and cocaine combined — per C.D.C. {Notice also that deaths from marijuana each year is still zero.}
Back in May, the White House announced completion of a new rooftop solar system, saying that every component was made in America and it would pay for itself in energy savings over the next eight years.
Since Republicans are oblivious to the difference between the freedom of actual democracy and America's current totalitarian fascist government, maybe I should write a book called "Fascism For Dummkopfs".
India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country’s 100 richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India’s gross domestic product.
Republican Party dirty tricks returned to New Mexico in August, with a fake mailing from 'NM Dems' delivered on Saturday the 9th telling voters that political events on Sunday the 10th were cancelled.
According to Publishers Weekly in June 2014, Amazon sells 41% of all new books that are sold in America; it also sells 65% of all books purchased online, whether digital or print – and yet, books constitute only seven percent of Amazon's total sales.
The latest analysis by the factcheckers at PunditFact says that Fox News hosts and personalities speak 60 percent 'mostly or outright false' information, while MSNBC is 46 percent.
ECONOMIC NEWS
The July trade deficit drained $40.5B from the U.S. economy, mostly due to goods purchased from China.
Chicken prices rose to record highs recently because G.M.O. roosters had the side effect of 25 percent less fertility; producers hope to replace them by Fall. — per TIME Magazine
DROUGHT NEWS
The snowpack in California's mountains shrank by 86% in just one year.
WILDFIRE NEWS
Since 1985, the size of the average wildfire on federal land has QUADRUPLED. Of the top ten biggest burn years on record, NINE have happened since 2000.
— per National Interagency Fire Center
GLOBAL WARMING NEWS
Things are indeed heating up at Yellowstone National Park. In July, underground thermal changes melted the asphalt of one of their roads, which has been closed to tourist traffic.
Hurricane Marie on the west coast of Mexico in late August caused flooding of several low-lying streets in Seal Beach, California, as well as in neighboring Long Beach. Surfers were pleased at the larger waves.
DEBUNKING ANOTHER MYTH:
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY CUTS COAL INDUSTRY JOBS
“At the end of the 1970s there were more than 250,000 coal miners in America. Since then, however, coal employment has fallen by two-thirds ... because most coal now comes from strip mines that require very few workers. At this point, coal mining accounts for only one-sixteenth of 1 percent of overall U.S. employment; shutting down the whole industry would eliminate fewer jobs than America lost in an average week during the Great Recession of 2007-9 ... The real war on coal, or at least on coal workers, took place a generation ago, waged not by liberal environmentalists but by the coal industry itself. And coal workers lost.”
— Paul Krugman, New York Times, May 2014
NEW WORRY: CELL PHONE INTERCEPTS
As if there is not already enough to worry about, Popular Science Magazine has found 17 'fake' cellphone towers across the southern half of the United States. Well, not really fake because they connect to your cell phone, then drop 4G service to 2G service, turn encryption to OFF, and listen to your call and-or deliver spyware to your handset. The actual discoveries were by Nevada security firm E.S.D. while demonstrating their ESD CryptoPhone 500 device (for sale at $3,500 each). Unable to confirm ownership of these towers, the various authors and interviewees conclude that it is NOT the N.S.A., because the Feds already have direct access thru your cellphone carrier. So if not the U.S. government, then who is hijacking & infecting cellphones as they pass thru these geographic cells (almost all near military bases)?
Copyright 2014 by G.E. Nordell, all rights reserved
Back in May, the White House announced completion of a new rooftop solar system, saying that every component was made in America and it would pay for itself in energy savings over the next eight years.
Since Republicans are oblivious to the difference between the freedom of actual democracy and America's current totalitarian fascist government, maybe I should write a book called "Fascism For Dummkopfs".
India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country’s 100 richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India’s gross domestic product.
Republican Party dirty tricks returned to New Mexico in August, with a fake mailing from 'NM Dems' delivered on Saturday the 9th telling voters that political events on Sunday the 10th were cancelled.
According to Publishers Weekly in June 2014, Amazon sells 41% of all new books that are sold in America; it also sells 65% of all books purchased online, whether digital or print – and yet, books constitute only seven percent of Amazon's total sales.
The latest analysis by the factcheckers at PunditFact says that Fox News hosts and personalities speak 60 percent 'mostly or outright false' information, while MSNBC is 46 percent.
ECONOMIC NEWS
The July trade deficit drained $40.5B from the U.S. economy, mostly due to goods purchased from China.
Chicken prices rose to record highs recently because G.M.O. roosters had the side effect of 25 percent less fertility; producers hope to replace them by Fall. — per TIME Magazine
DROUGHT NEWS
The snowpack in California's mountains shrank by 86% in just one year.
WILDFIRE NEWS
Since 1985, the size of the average wildfire on federal land has QUADRUPLED. Of the top ten biggest burn years on record, NINE have happened since 2000.
— per National Interagency Fire Center
GLOBAL WARMING NEWS
Things are indeed heating up at Yellowstone National Park. In July, underground thermal changes melted the asphalt of one of their roads, which has been closed to tourist traffic.
Hurricane Marie on the west coast of Mexico in late August caused flooding of several low-lying streets in Seal Beach, California, as well as in neighboring Long Beach. Surfers were pleased at the larger waves.
DEBUNKING ANOTHER MYTH:
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY CUTS COAL INDUSTRY JOBS
“At the end of the 1970s there were more than 250,000 coal miners in America. Since then, however, coal employment has fallen by two-thirds ... because most coal now comes from strip mines that require very few workers. At this point, coal mining accounts for only one-sixteenth of 1 percent of overall U.S. employment; shutting down the whole industry would eliminate fewer jobs than America lost in an average week during the Great Recession of 2007-9 ... The real war on coal, or at least on coal workers, took place a generation ago, waged not by liberal environmentalists but by the coal industry itself. And coal workers lost.”
— Paul Krugman, New York Times, May 2014
NEW WORRY: CELL PHONE INTERCEPTS
As if there is not already enough to worry about, Popular Science Magazine has found 17 'fake' cellphone towers across the southern half of the United States. Well, not really fake because they connect to your cell phone, then drop 4G service to 2G service, turn encryption to OFF, and listen to your call and-or deliver spyware to your handset. The actual discoveries were by Nevada security firm E.S.D. while demonstrating their ESD CryptoPhone 500 device (for sale at $3,500 each). Unable to confirm ownership of these towers, the various authors and interviewees conclude that it is NOT the N.S.A., because the Feds already have direct access thru your cellphone carrier. So if not the U.S. government, then who is hijacking & infecting cellphones as they pass thru these geographic cells (almost all near military bases)?
Friday, September 26, 2014
September 2014 Quotations (59)
"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind are convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."
~~ Aristotle [384-322 B.C.E.]
“I never said all actors are cattle. What I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.”
~~ Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980]
"I was constantly astonished by the extraordinary DREAMS of ordinary people."
~~ Louis 'Studs' Terkel [1912-2008], in "Working" (1974)
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
~~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930]
"You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right."
~~ Dr. Maya Angelou [1928-2014]
"There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside."
~~ Upton Sinclair [1878-1968]
"The mind is not a receptacle; information is not education. Education is what remains after the information that has been taught has been forgotten."
~~ Mortimer J. Adler [1902-2001]
[on sexual politics] "A desire to have all of the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry."
~~ Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1957]
"Never explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway."
~~ Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
~~ Charles Dickens [1812-70]
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
~~ Galileo Galilei [1564-1642]
"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting."
~~ Gautama Buddha [5th Century BCE]
"The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
~~ Sir Winston Churchill [1874-1965]
"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."
~~ Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."
~~ John F. Kennedy [1917-63]
"People can't change the truth, but the truth can change people."
~~ Anonymous
"You can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you are lazy, obtuse, or servile within yourself, [then] you are not free."
~~ Ignazio Silone {pseudonym of Italian author & politician Secondino Tranquilli [1900-78]}, in 1955
"Fascism is capitalism in decay."
~~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin [1870-1924]
"I see [illegal immigration] as white people finding loopholes in the slavery laws."
~~ comedian Chris Rock, interview in TIME Magazine (March 2007)
"I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write."
~~ J.K. Rowling
“To be, in a word, unborable . . . It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.”
~~ David Foster Wallace [1962-2008] in "The Pale King" (2011)
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."
~~ Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959]
“The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.“
~~ Stephen King, in "On Writing" (2000)
"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."
~~ Truman Capote [1924-84]
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
~~ Oscar Wilde [1854-1900]
"A lie is something that hasn't happened but might just as well have."
~~ Judith Rossner [1935-2005]
"A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells."
~~ Anna Mary Robertson 'Grandma' Moses [1860-1961]
"There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain."
~~ cubist painter Georges Braque [1882-1963]
"The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened."
~~ Bella Abzug [1920-98]
“We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.”
~~ Dr. Eric Berne [1910-1970]
“The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.”
~~ Dr. Eric Berne [1910-1970]
"Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others."
~~ Dr. Eric Berne [1910-1970]
"Chocolate is cheaper than therapy and you don't need an appointment."
~~ saying on t-shirts
"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."
~~ Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900]
"Think before you speak. Read before you think."
~~ Fran Lebowitz
"No evil is honorable, but death is honorable. Therefore death is not evil."
~~ Zeno of Citium [334?-262? B.C.E.]
"Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices."
~~ Eric Temple Bell [1883-1960]
"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82]
"The Cornell Sun, thank goodness, showed me what to do with my life, and I did it."
~~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007]
"A forest bird never wants a cage."
~~ playwright Henrik Ibsen [1828-1906]
"If you can't explain it simply, [then] you don't understand it well enough."
~~ Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
~~ Sir Winston Churchill [1874-1965]
"The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot confirm their validity."
~~ Abraham Lincoln
"A writer is a world trapped in a person."
~~ Victor Hugo [1802-85]
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
~~ Stephen Covey
"Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right."
~~ John Gottman
"Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?"
~~ Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900]
"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
~~ Dr. Maya Angelou [1928-2014]
"Democracy cannot be saved by supermen, but only by the unswerving devotion and goodness of millions of little men."
~~ Adlai E. Stevenson II [1900-65]
"Love the giver more than the gift."
~~ Brigham Young [1801-77]
"Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries."
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82]
"Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting."
~~ poet Elizabeth Bibesco [1897-1945]
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
~~ Aldous Huxley [1894-1963]
"The Truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears."
~~ Hunter S. Thompson [1937-2005]
"Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace."
~~ musician Serj Tankian
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."
~~ C.S. Lewis [1898-1963]
"Never waste a minute thinking about people [that] you don't like."
~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower [1890-1969]
"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it."
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82]
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
~~ Aristotle [384-322 B.C.E.]
“I never said all actors are cattle. What I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.”
~~ Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980]
"I was constantly astonished by the extraordinary DREAMS of ordinary people."
~~ Louis 'Studs' Terkel [1912-2008], in "Working" (1974)
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
~~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930]
"You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right."
~~ Dr. Maya Angelou [1928-2014]
"There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside."
~~ Upton Sinclair [1878-1968]
"The mind is not a receptacle; information is not education. Education is what remains after the information that has been taught has been forgotten."
~~ Mortimer J. Adler [1902-2001]
[on sexual politics] "A desire to have all of the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry."
~~ Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1957]
"Never explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway."
~~ Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
~~ Charles Dickens [1812-70]
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
~~ Galileo Galilei [1564-1642]
"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting."
~~ Gautama Buddha [5th Century BCE]
"The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
~~ Sir Winston Churchill [1874-1965]
"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."
~~ Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."
~~ John F. Kennedy [1917-63]
"People can't change the truth, but the truth can change people."
~~ Anonymous
"You can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you are lazy, obtuse, or servile within yourself, [then] you are not free."
~~ Ignazio Silone {pseudonym of Italian author & politician Secondino Tranquilli [1900-78]}, in 1955
"Fascism is capitalism in decay."
~~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin [1870-1924]
"I see [illegal immigration] as white people finding loopholes in the slavery laws."
~~ comedian Chris Rock, interview in TIME Magazine (March 2007)
"I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write."
~~ J.K. Rowling
“To be, in a word, unborable . . . It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.”
~~ David Foster Wallace [1962-2008] in "The Pale King" (2011)
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."
~~ Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959]
“The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.“
~~ Stephen King, in "On Writing" (2000)
"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."
~~ Truman Capote [1924-84]
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
~~ Oscar Wilde [1854-1900]
"A lie is something that hasn't happened but might just as well have."
~~ Judith Rossner [1935-2005]
"A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells."
~~ Anna Mary Robertson 'Grandma' Moses [1860-1961]
"There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain."
~~ cubist painter Georges Braque [1882-1963]
"The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened."
~~ Bella Abzug [1920-98]
“We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.”
~~ Dr. Eric Berne [1910-1970]
“The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.”
~~ Dr. Eric Berne [1910-1970]
"Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others."
~~ Dr. Eric Berne [1910-1970]
"Chocolate is cheaper than therapy and you don't need an appointment."
~~ saying on t-shirts
"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."
~~ Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900]
"Think before you speak. Read before you think."
~~ Fran Lebowitz
"No evil is honorable, but death is honorable. Therefore death is not evil."
~~ Zeno of Citium [334?-262? B.C.E.]
"Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices."
~~ Eric Temple Bell [1883-1960]
"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82]
"The Cornell Sun, thank goodness, showed me what to do with my life, and I did it."
~~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007]
"A forest bird never wants a cage."
~~ playwright Henrik Ibsen [1828-1906]
"If you can't explain it simply, [then] you don't understand it well enough."
~~ Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
~~ Sir Winston Churchill [1874-1965]
"The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot confirm their validity."
~~ Abraham Lincoln
"A writer is a world trapped in a person."
~~ Victor Hugo [1802-85]
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
~~ Stephen Covey
"Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right."
~~ John Gottman
"Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?"
~~ Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900]
"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
~~ Dr. Maya Angelou [1928-2014]
"Democracy cannot be saved by supermen, but only by the unswerving devotion and goodness of millions of little men."
~~ Adlai E. Stevenson II [1900-65]
"Love the giver more than the gift."
~~ Brigham Young [1801-77]
"Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries."
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82]
"Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting."
~~ poet Elizabeth Bibesco [1897-1945]
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
~~ Aldous Huxley [1894-1963]
"The Truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears."
~~ Hunter S. Thompson [1937-2005]
"Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace."
~~ musician Serj Tankian
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."
~~ C.S. Lewis [1898-1963]
"Never waste a minute thinking about people [that] you don't like."
~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower [1890-1969]
"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it."
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82]
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Blog Post #300: Statistics For The 299 Previous
The blog website shows that the next post on my 'Dateline Chamesa' weblog will be the 300th posting. So rather than try to figure out some special essay or such, I decided to look at the Past: what then were the 299 previous posts?
The year 2005 saw 22 posts in the 'other' category.
The year 2006 saw 12 WM essays, 1 quotations post, 0 factoid posts, and 33 other (1 graphic).
The year 2007 saw 6 WM essays, 4 quotations posts, 4 factoid posts, and 21 other.
The year 2008 saw 12 WM essays, 13 quotations posts, 7 factoid posts, and 9 other (1 graphic).
The year 2009 saw 7 WM essays, 9 quotations posts, 5 factoid posts, and 1 other.
The year 2010 saw 2 WM essays, 10 quotations posts, 4 factoid posts, and 1 other.
The year 2011 saw 3 WM essays, 13 quotations posts, 6 factoid posts, and 4 other.
The year 2012 saw 5 WM essays, 13 quotations posts, 8 factoid posts, and 19 other (2 graphics).
The year 2013 saw 4 WM essays, 9 quotations posts, 6 factoid posts, and 12 other.
The year 2014 has so far seen only 14 posts: 5 quotation posts, 3 factoid posts, and 6 other.
The blog began in October 2005 and so the blog has been going for 108 months. (The overlapping WMail ezine began in mid-2000 and was ended October 2007.) The summary of the blog postings in that nine years is: 51 WM essays, 77 quotations posts, 43 factoid posts, and 128 other (4 graphic) postings - all of which crossfoots.
The most popular post was the October 2011 "A Walter T. Foster Story", with a mere 24 views.
Okay, back to work . . .
Copyright 2014 by G.E. Nordell, all rights reserved
The year 2005 saw 22 posts in the 'other' category.
The year 2006 saw 12 WM essays, 1 quotations post, 0 factoid posts, and 33 other (1 graphic).
The year 2007 saw 6 WM essays, 4 quotations posts, 4 factoid posts, and 21 other.
The year 2008 saw 12 WM essays, 13 quotations posts, 7 factoid posts, and 9 other (1 graphic).
The year 2009 saw 7 WM essays, 9 quotations posts, 5 factoid posts, and 1 other.
The year 2010 saw 2 WM essays, 10 quotations posts, 4 factoid posts, and 1 other.
The year 2011 saw 3 WM essays, 13 quotations posts, 6 factoid posts, and 4 other.
The year 2012 saw 5 WM essays, 13 quotations posts, 8 factoid posts, and 19 other (2 graphics).
The year 2013 saw 4 WM essays, 9 quotations posts, 6 factoid posts, and 12 other.
The year 2014 has so far seen only 14 posts: 5 quotation posts, 3 factoid posts, and 6 other.
The blog began in October 2005 and so the blog has been going for 108 months. (The overlapping WMail ezine began in mid-2000 and was ended October 2007.) The summary of the blog postings in that nine years is: 51 WM essays, 77 quotations posts, 43 factoid posts, and 128 other (4 graphic) postings - all of which crossfoots.
The most popular post was the October 2011 "A Walter T. Foster Story", with a mere 24 views.
Okay, back to work . . .
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Viral "Arab/Muslims Worry Me" Letter
YOU WORRY ME!
by Captain John Maniscalco, American Airlines Pilot
I've been trying to say this since 9/11, but you worry me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I walked down the streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country. But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me.
I notice you because I can't help it anymore. People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now. I don't fully understand their grievances and hate, but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.
On September 11, Arab/Muslims hijacked four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats of women in front of children and brutally stabbed to death others. They took control of those planes and crashed them into buildings, killing thousands of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants, and children's mothers.
The Palestinians celebrated, the Iraqis were overjoyed as was most of the Arab world. So, I notice you now. I don't want to be worried. I don't want to be consumed by the same rage, hate and prejudice that has destroyed the soul of these terrorists. But I need your help. As a rational American, trying to protect my country and family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference between you, and the Arab/Muslim terrorist.
How do I differentiate between the true Arab/Muslim Americans and the Arab/Muslim terrorists in our communities who are attending our schools, enjoying our parks, and living in OUR communities under the protection of OUR constitution, while they plot the next attack that will slaughter MORE of the same good neighbours and children?
The events of September 11 changed the answer. It is not MY responsibility to determine which of you embraces our great country, with ALL of its religions, with ALL of its different citizens, with ALL of its faults. It is time for every Arab/Muslim in this country to determine it for me.
I want to know, I DEMAND to know and I have a right to know, whether or not you love America. Do you pledge allegiance to its flag? Do you proudly display it in front of your house, or on your car? Do you pray in your many daily prayers that Allah will bless this nation; that He will protect it and let it prosper? Or do you pray that Allah will destroy [America] in one of your Jihads? Are you thankful for the freedom that this nation affords? A freedom that was paid for by the blood of hundreds of thousands of patriots who gave their lives for this country? Are you willing to preserve this freedom by also paying the ultimate sacrifice? Do you love America? If this is your commitment, then I need YOU to start letting ME know about it.
Your Muslim leaders in this nation should be flooding the media at this time with hard facts on your faith, and what hard actions YOU are taking as a community and as a religion to protect the United States of America. Please, no more benign overtures of regret for the death of the innocent, because I worry about who you regard as innocent. No more benign overtures of condemnation for the unprovoked attacks, because I worry about what is unprovoked to you. I am not interested in any more sympathy; I am interested only in action. What will you do forAmerica - our great country - at this time of crisis, at this time of war?
I want to see Arab-Muslims waving the AMERICAN flag in the streets. I want to hear you chanting 'Allah bless America'. I want to see young Arab/Muslim men enlisting in the military. I want to see a commitment of money, time and emotion to the victims of this butchering and to this nation as a whole.
The F.B.I. has a list of over 400 people they want to talk to regarding the W.T.C. attack. Many of these people live and socialize right now in Muslim communities. You know them. You know where they are. Hand them over to us, NOW! But I have seen little even approaching this sort of action. Instead I have seen an already closed and secretive community close even tighter. You have disappeared from the streets. You have posted armed security guards at your facilities. You have threatened lawsuits. You have screamed for protection from reprisals.
The very few Arab/Muslim representatives that HAVE appeared in the media were defensive and equivocating. They seemed more concerned with making sure that the United States proves who was responsible before taking action. They seemed more concerned with protecting their fellow Muslims from violence directed towards them in the United States and abroad than they did with supporting our country and denouncing 'leaders' like Khadafi, Hussein, Farrakhan, and Arafat.
If the true teachings of Islam proclaim tolerance and peace and love for all people, then I want chapter and verse from the Koran and statements from popular Muslim leaders to back it up. What good is it if the teachings in the Koran are good, pure, and true, when your 'leaders' ARE teaching fanatical interpretations, terrorism, and intolerance? It matters little how good Islam SHOULD BE if huge numbers of the world's Muslims interpret the teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a degenerative form of the religion. A form that has been demonstrated to us over and over again. A form whose structure is built upon a foundation of violence, death, and suicide. A form whose members are recruited from the prisons around the world. A form whose members (some as young as five years old) are seen day after day, week in and week out, year after year, marching in the streets around the world, burning effigies of our presidents, burning the American flag, shooting weapons into the air. A form whose members convert from a peaceful religion, only to take up arms against the great United States of America, the country of their birth. A form whose rules are so twisted that their traveling members refuse to show their faces at airport security checkpoints, in the name of Islam.
We will NEVER allow the attacks of September 11, or any others for that matter, to take away that which is so precious to us – our rights under the greatest constitution in the world. I want to know where every Arab Muslim in this country stands and I think it is my right and the right of every true citizen of this country to DEMAND it. A right paid for by the blood of thousands of my brothers and sisters who died protecting the very constitution that is protecting you and your family.
I am pleading with you to let me know. I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a fellow American. But there can be no grey areas or ambivalence regarding your allegiance, and it is up to YOU to show ME, where YOU stand.
Until then, "YOU WORRY ME!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Posted here because the opinion piece makes a lot of sense.
HOWEVER
The origin of this work is in dispute. The usually-reliable www.Snopes.com verification website states that it was printed in a less vitriolic form in the Hyattsville, Maryland Gazette (under the title “An open letter to my Arab-Muslim neighbors”) on 12 October 2001, credited to a Kevin Daly of Beltsville, Maryland. The piece first appeared on the internet in June 2002; although there is a real pilot licensed by the F.A.A. named John Maniscalco, efforts by Snopes to verify authorship led to 'dead ends'; the somewhat opinionated Snopes entry is dated August 2007.
by Captain John Maniscalco, American Airlines Pilot
I've been trying to say this since 9/11, but you worry me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I walked down the streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country. But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me.
I notice you because I can't help it anymore. People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now. I don't fully understand their grievances and hate, but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.
On September 11, Arab/Muslims hijacked four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats of women in front of children and brutally stabbed to death others. They took control of those planes and crashed them into buildings, killing thousands of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants, and children's mothers.
The Palestinians celebrated, the Iraqis were overjoyed as was most of the Arab world. So, I notice you now. I don't want to be worried. I don't want to be consumed by the same rage, hate and prejudice that has destroyed the soul of these terrorists. But I need your help. As a rational American, trying to protect my country and family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference between you, and the Arab/Muslim terrorist.
How do I differentiate between the true Arab/Muslim Americans and the Arab/Muslim terrorists in our communities who are attending our schools, enjoying our parks, and living in OUR communities under the protection of OUR constitution, while they plot the next attack that will slaughter MORE of the same good neighbours and children?
The events of September 11 changed the answer. It is not MY responsibility to determine which of you embraces our great country, with ALL of its religions, with ALL of its different citizens, with ALL of its faults. It is time for every Arab/Muslim in this country to determine it for me.
I want to know, I DEMAND to know and I have a right to know, whether or not you love America. Do you pledge allegiance to its flag? Do you proudly display it in front of your house, or on your car? Do you pray in your many daily prayers that Allah will bless this nation; that He will protect it and let it prosper? Or do you pray that Allah will destroy [America] in one of your Jihads? Are you thankful for the freedom that this nation affords? A freedom that was paid for by the blood of hundreds of thousands of patriots who gave their lives for this country? Are you willing to preserve this freedom by also paying the ultimate sacrifice? Do you love America? If this is your commitment, then I need YOU to start letting ME know about it.
Your Muslim leaders in this nation should be flooding the media at this time with hard facts on your faith, and what hard actions YOU are taking as a community and as a religion to protect the United States of America. Please, no more benign overtures of regret for the death of the innocent, because I worry about who you regard as innocent. No more benign overtures of condemnation for the unprovoked attacks, because I worry about what is unprovoked to you. I am not interested in any more sympathy; I am interested only in action. What will you do forAmerica - our great country - at this time of crisis, at this time of war?
I want to see Arab-Muslims waving the AMERICAN flag in the streets. I want to hear you chanting 'Allah bless America'. I want to see young Arab/Muslim men enlisting in the military. I want to see a commitment of money, time and emotion to the victims of this butchering and to this nation as a whole.
The F.B.I. has a list of over 400 people they want to talk to regarding the W.T.C. attack. Many of these people live and socialize right now in Muslim communities. You know them. You know where they are. Hand them over to us, NOW! But I have seen little even approaching this sort of action. Instead I have seen an already closed and secretive community close even tighter. You have disappeared from the streets. You have posted armed security guards at your facilities. You have threatened lawsuits. You have screamed for protection from reprisals.
The very few Arab/Muslim representatives that HAVE appeared in the media were defensive and equivocating. They seemed more concerned with making sure that the United States proves who was responsible before taking action. They seemed more concerned with protecting their fellow Muslims from violence directed towards them in the United States and abroad than they did with supporting our country and denouncing 'leaders' like Khadafi, Hussein, Farrakhan, and Arafat.
If the true teachings of Islam proclaim tolerance and peace and love for all people, then I want chapter and verse from the Koran and statements from popular Muslim leaders to back it up. What good is it if the teachings in the Koran are good, pure, and true, when your 'leaders' ARE teaching fanatical interpretations, terrorism, and intolerance? It matters little how good Islam SHOULD BE if huge numbers of the world's Muslims interpret the teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a degenerative form of the religion. A form that has been demonstrated to us over and over again. A form whose structure is built upon a foundation of violence, death, and suicide. A form whose members are recruited from the prisons around the world. A form whose members (some as young as five years old) are seen day after day, week in and week out, year after year, marching in the streets around the world, burning effigies of our presidents, burning the American flag, shooting weapons into the air. A form whose members convert from a peaceful religion, only to take up arms against the great United States of America, the country of their birth. A form whose rules are so twisted that their traveling members refuse to show their faces at airport security checkpoints, in the name of Islam.
We will NEVER allow the attacks of September 11, or any others for that matter, to take away that which is so precious to us – our rights under the greatest constitution in the world. I want to know where every Arab Muslim in this country stands and I think it is my right and the right of every true citizen of this country to DEMAND it. A right paid for by the blood of thousands of my brothers and sisters who died protecting the very constitution that is protecting you and your family.
I am pleading with you to let me know. I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a fellow American. But there can be no grey areas or ambivalence regarding your allegiance, and it is up to YOU to show ME, where YOU stand.
Until then, "YOU WORRY ME!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Posted here because the opinion piece makes a lot of sense.
HOWEVER
The origin of this work is in dispute. The usually-reliable www.Snopes.com verification website states that it was printed in a less vitriolic form in the Hyattsville, Maryland Gazette (under the title “An open letter to my Arab-Muslim neighbors”) on 12 October 2001, credited to a Kevin Daly of Beltsville, Maryland. The piece first appeared on the internet in June 2002; although there is a real pilot licensed by the F.A.A. named John Maniscalco, efforts by Snopes to verify authorship led to 'dead ends'; the somewhat opinionated Snopes entry is dated August 2007.
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
August 2014 Quotations (61)
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
~~ Greek philosopher Aristotle [384-322 B.C.E.]
"Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine."
~~ internet activist Richard M. Stallman
"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.”
~~ Will Durant [1885-1981]
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”
~~ Charles Dickens [1812-70]
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
~~ Frederick Douglass [1818-95]
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
~~ Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]
"The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind."
~~ Mortimer J. Adler [1902-2001]
"The supreme crime of [organized religion] to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind, that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence."
~~ Upton Sinclair [1878-1968], in "The Profits of Religion: An Essay In Economic Interpretation" (1918)
"Seek the truth or hide your head in the sand. Both require digging."
~~ Andrew Nolan
"Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely."
~~ Mortimer J. Adler [1902-2001]
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
~~ Oscar Wilde [1854-1900]
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
~~ Norman Vincent Peale [1898-1993]
"I fell in love with cinema because I preferred this life instead of real life."
~~ Claude Lelouch
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
~~ Plato [428?-327? B.C.E.]
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
~~ John Kenneth Galbraith [1908-2006]
"The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction manual didn't come with it."
~~ R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983]
"The map is not the territory."
~~ Alfred Korzybski [1879-1950]
"There's a moral here somewhere."
~~ Anthony Lane, New Yorker Magazine critic
"The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."
~~ Alex Carey, in "Taking The Risk Out of Democracy" (1996)
"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it."
~~ Maya Angelou [1928-2014]
"I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever."
~~ Maurice Sendak [1928-2012]
"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine."
~~ televangelist Mike Murdock
"It is never too late or too soon, it is when it is supposed to be."
~~ Mitch Albom
"What you owe yourself is to work for your living; what you owe your neighbor is not to interfere with his work."
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82]
"No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted."
~~ Aesop [620–564 B.C.E.]
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
~~ Thornton Wilder [1897-1975]
"There's nothing [that] you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.”
~~ Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1957]
"It is better to live one day as a lion, than a dozen years as a sheep."
~~ Louis L'Amour [1908-88], in "Flint" (1960)
"There are no fresh starts in life, just new opportunities to screw up."
~~ Steve Lopez
"Nobody ever listened himself out of a job."
~~ Calvin Coolidge [1872-1933]
"A basic proposition of epistomology . . . is that an observed fact requires no proof; it simply IS, self-demonstrating."
~~ Robert A. Heinlein [1907-88]
"One must have the mind of winter to behold the nothing that is not there and the nothing that is."
~~ poet Wallace Stevens [1879-1955]
“Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.”
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82]
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
~~ Edward John Phelps [1822-1900]
"Only the impossible happens. The Universe is impossible. You and I are impossible. And there it is."
~~ R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983]
"It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge . . . I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world."
~~ E.B. White [1899-1985]
"Salad is not a meal!" ~~ guys' saying
"Whosoever plants a tree / Winks at immortality"
~~ Post-It poem by Felix Dennis [1947-2014]
"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't."
~~ boxer Jack Dempsey [1895-1983]
"In the future there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."
~~ Facebook, Inc. COO Sheryl Sandberg
"The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them – especially not from yourself."
~~ philosopher Daniel Dennett
"Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free."
~~ poet Robert Hass
"There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity."
~~ Salman Rushdie
"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."
~~ Coco Chanel [1883-1971]
"Children need models more than they need critics."
~~ essayist Joseph Joubert [1754-1824]
"The battle to halt global warming, aka 'climate change', is over. We lost."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history. It goes from one generation to another."
~~ Louis 'Studs' Terkel [1912-2008]
"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober, not to make us sad but wise."
~~ H.G. Wells [1866-1946]
"The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness."
~~ Nancy Mitford [1904-73]
"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."
~~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930]
"They don't call women 'the opposite sex' for nothing!"
~~ G.E. Nordell
"All cats are libertarians: Completely dependent on others but fully convinced of their own independence."
~~ showed up on Twitter circa 2009
"As soon as I saw you I knew an adventure was going to happen."
~~ Winnie the Pooh character, as written by A.A. Milne [1882-1956]
“A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.”
~~ Lilian Jackson Braun [1913-2011]
"It's ironic how in America the colors red, white, and blue represent freedom until they're flashing behind you."
~~ syndicated comedian Argus Hamilton
"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses."
~~ Marilyn vos Savant
"Ninety-nine percent honesty is the foundation of any relationship."
~~ line from 2014 movie "What If"
"The Koch Industries have a philosophy that profits are above everything else."
~~ Bill Koch, on "60 Minutes"
"The contemplation of things as they are, without error or confusion, without substitution or imposture, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention."
~~ Sir Francis Bacon [1561-1626] (tacked to the darkroom door of American photographer Dorothea Lange [1895-1965])
"Whether humanity makes it or not depends on the way [that] we behave today."
~~ R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983]
"The one thing that can change most of our problems is dancing."
~~ rock legend James Brown [1933-2006]
"Hydraulic fracturing IS pollution until scientifically proven otherwise."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
~~ William Shakespeare [1564-1616] Page
{each set of blogged quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
~~ Greek philosopher Aristotle [384-322 B.C.E.]
"Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine."
~~ internet activist Richard M. Stallman
"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.”
~~ Will Durant [1885-1981]
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”
~~ Charles Dickens [1812-70]
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
~~ Frederick Douglass [1818-95]
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
~~ Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]
"The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind."
~~ Mortimer J. Adler [1902-2001]
"The supreme crime of [organized religion] to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind, that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence."
~~ Upton Sinclair [1878-1968], in "The Profits of Religion: An Essay In Economic Interpretation" (1918)
"Seek the truth or hide your head in the sand. Both require digging."
~~ Andrew Nolan
"Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely."
~~ Mortimer J. Adler [1902-2001]
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
~~ Oscar Wilde [1854-1900]
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
~~ Norman Vincent Peale [1898-1993]
"I fell in love with cinema because I preferred this life instead of real life."
~~ Claude Lelouch
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
~~ Plato [428?-327? B.C.E.]
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
~~ John Kenneth Galbraith [1908-2006]
"The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction manual didn't come with it."
~~ R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983]
"The map is not the territory."
~~ Alfred Korzybski [1879-1950]
"There's a moral here somewhere."
~~ Anthony Lane, New Yorker Magazine critic
"The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."
~~ Alex Carey, in "Taking The Risk Out of Democracy" (1996)
"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it."
~~ Maya Angelou [1928-2014]
"I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever."
~~ Maurice Sendak [1928-2012]
"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine."
~~ televangelist Mike Murdock
"It is never too late or too soon, it is when it is supposed to be."
~~ Mitch Albom
"What you owe yourself is to work for your living; what you owe your neighbor is not to interfere with his work."
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82]
"No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted."
~~ Aesop [620–564 B.C.E.]
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
~~ Thornton Wilder [1897-1975]
"There's nothing [that] you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.”
~~ Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1957]
"It is better to live one day as a lion, than a dozen years as a sheep."
~~ Louis L'Amour [1908-88], in "Flint" (1960)
"There are no fresh starts in life, just new opportunities to screw up."
~~ Steve Lopez
"Nobody ever listened himself out of a job."
~~ Calvin Coolidge [1872-1933]
"A basic proposition of epistomology . . . is that an observed fact requires no proof; it simply IS, self-demonstrating."
~~ Robert A. Heinlein [1907-88]
"One must have the mind of winter to behold the nothing that is not there and the nothing that is."
~~ poet Wallace Stevens [1879-1955]
“Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.”
~~ Ayn Rand [1905-82]
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
~~ Edward John Phelps [1822-1900]
"Only the impossible happens. The Universe is impossible. You and I are impossible. And there it is."
~~ R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983]
"It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge . . . I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world."
~~ E.B. White [1899-1985]
"Salad is not a meal!" ~~ guys' saying
"Whosoever plants a tree / Winks at immortality"
~~ Post-It poem by Felix Dennis [1947-2014]
"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't."
~~ boxer Jack Dempsey [1895-1983]
"In the future there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."
~~ Facebook, Inc. COO Sheryl Sandberg
"The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them – especially not from yourself."
~~ philosopher Daniel Dennett
"Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free."
~~ poet Robert Hass
"There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity."
~~ Salman Rushdie
"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."
~~ Coco Chanel [1883-1971]
"Children need models more than they need critics."
~~ essayist Joseph Joubert [1754-1824]
"The battle to halt global warming, aka 'climate change', is over. We lost."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history. It goes from one generation to another."
~~ Louis 'Studs' Terkel [1912-2008]
"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober, not to make us sad but wise."
~~ H.G. Wells [1866-1946]
"The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness."
~~ Nancy Mitford [1904-73]
"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."
~~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930]
"They don't call women 'the opposite sex' for nothing!"
~~ G.E. Nordell
"All cats are libertarians: Completely dependent on others but fully convinced of their own independence."
~~ showed up on Twitter circa 2009
"As soon as I saw you I knew an adventure was going to happen."
~~ Winnie the Pooh character, as written by A.A. Milne [1882-1956]
“A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.”
~~ Lilian Jackson Braun [1913-2011]
"It's ironic how in America the colors red, white, and blue represent freedom until they're flashing behind you."
~~ syndicated comedian Argus Hamilton
"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses."
~~ Marilyn vos Savant
"Ninety-nine percent honesty is the foundation of any relationship."
~~ line from 2014 movie "What If"
"The Koch Industries have a philosophy that profits are above everything else."
~~ Bill Koch, on "60 Minutes"
"The contemplation of things as they are, without error or confusion, without substitution or imposture, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention."
~~ Sir Francis Bacon [1561-1626] (tacked to the darkroom door of American photographer Dorothea Lange [1895-1965])
"Whether humanity makes it or not depends on the way [that] we behave today."
~~ R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983]
"The one thing that can change most of our problems is dancing."
~~ rock legend James Brown [1933-2006]
"Hydraulic fracturing IS pollution until scientifically proven otherwise."
~~ G.E. Nordell
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
~~ William Shakespeare [1564-1616] Page
{each set of blogged quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
Thursday, May 22, 2014
News Factoids for April & May 2014
“The world is not ready for the impacts of climate change, including more extreme weather and the likelihood that populated parts of the planet could be rendered uninhabitable, says the planet's leading body of climate scientists in a major new [United Nations} report.”
-- National Geographic, 31 March 2014
I wrote a new short story: "Duncan's Legacy" which is posted to my Writings Department.
Very scary (and tedious) slide shows are being spammed all over about President Obama's House Bill 2847, which supposedly goes into effect on July First. The scare is that it will crash the economy, the dollar will go kaflooey, all hell will be visited on the reader of the spam. But facts make the fear-mongers look really silly. Just a five-second look on Wikipedia tells the whole tale: The name of the enacted bill is the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, which closes loopholes enjoyed by the privileged One Percent who have money stashed overseas. If you have no funds stashed overseas, then this act of Congress will have no effect on your life, except maybe having to hear the Oligarchy's propaganda machine whine and whine about actually paying for government benefits that they expect for free (or do not like, such as regulation of food quality, of drugs, of pollution, etc.).
When diesel locomotives were first introduced in Canada, the railroads had to test several horn models before one was found that discouraged moose rather than attracting them.
ANOTHER COMMODITY FAILURE
Coffee beans in Central America have been damaged by the roya fungus (also called 'rust'); expect higher prices.
The "Koch Brothers Exposed" video [Brave New Films April 2012] can now be watched for free online watch entire movie free [1:00:51] at Youtube
Copyright 2014 by G.E. Nordell, all rights reserved
-- National Geographic, 31 March 2014
I wrote a new short story: "Duncan's Legacy" which is posted to my Writings Department.
Very scary (and tedious) slide shows are being spammed all over about President Obama's House Bill 2847, which supposedly goes into effect on July First. The scare is that it will crash the economy, the dollar will go kaflooey, all hell will be visited on the reader of the spam. But facts make the fear-mongers look really silly. Just a five-second look on Wikipedia tells the whole tale: The name of the enacted bill is the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, which closes loopholes enjoyed by the privileged One Percent who have money stashed overseas. If you have no funds stashed overseas, then this act of Congress will have no effect on your life, except maybe having to hear the Oligarchy's propaganda machine whine and whine about actually paying for government benefits that they expect for free (or do not like, such as regulation of food quality, of drugs, of pollution, etc.).
When diesel locomotives were first introduced in Canada, the railroads had to test several horn models before one was found that discouraged moose rather than attracting them.
ANOTHER COMMODITY FAILURE
Coffee beans in Central America have been damaged by the roya fungus (also called 'rust'); expect higher prices.
The "Koch Brothers Exposed" video [Brave New Films April 2012] can now be watched for free online watch entire movie free [1:00:51] at Youtube
Monday, April 28, 2014
April 2014 Quotations [66]
"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."
~~ Robert F. Kennedy [1925-68]
"I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude."
~~ Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
~~ John Muir [1838-1914]
"An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form."
~~ Maxim Gorky [1868-1936]
"The best way to cheer yourself [up] is to try to cheer somebody else up."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
~~ Dr. Maria Montessori [1870-1952]
"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
~~ Marcus Aurelius [121-180 C.E.]
“Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families."
~~ Charles Dickens [1812-70]
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
~~ Blaise Pascal [1623-62]
"Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men."
~~ Mortimer J. Adler [1902-2001]
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
~~ Greek philosopher Aristotle [384-322 B.C.E.]
"Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture."
~~ Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
~~ Audrey Hepburn [1929-93]
"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."
~~ Immanuel Kant [1724-1804]
"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
~~ Wm. Blake [1757–1827]
"Action expresses priorities."
~~ 'Mahatma' Gandhi [1869-1948]
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone."
~~ poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox [1850-1919]
"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."
~~ Thomas Fuller [1608-61]
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
~~ John Steinbeck [1902-68]
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."
~~ Terry Pratchett
"I don't intend to be the richest person in the cemetary; my wealth is the legacy [that] I leave behind."
~~ Amanda Okoli
"If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough."
~~ anonymous
"follow your inner moonlight / don't hide the madness"
~~ poet Allen Ginsberg [1926-97]
"We make our discoveries thru our mistakes; we watch one another's success, and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve."
~~ Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch [1863-1944]
"Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction."
~~ Michael Hyatt
"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed."
~~ Ray Bradbury [1920-2012]
"Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear."
~~ Quintus Horatius Flaccus [65 B.C.E.-8 B.C.E.] known as Horace
"The US Supreme Court's decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission ... continued its drive to give Americans a government of, by and for big money."
~~ Viki Harrison
"Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason why it will."
~~ anonymous
"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it."
~~ Bill Cosby
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
~~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007]
"Are you sure you want to empty the Spam folder?"
~~ modern Eternal Question
"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."
~~ Lenny Bruce [1925-66]
"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."
~~ art critic John Ruskin [1819-1900]
"If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word."
~~ Margaret Atwood
“A quart of Ale is a dish for a king."
~~ WilliamShakespeare [1564-1616], in "The Winter’s Tale" [circa 1610-11]
“The philosophy of one century becomes the common sense of the next."
~~ Henry Ward Beecher [1813-87]
"The Purpose of Life Is To Live A Life of Purpose"
~~ Richard Leider
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
~~ Eleanor Roosevelt [1884-1962]
"Elections should be held on April 16th - the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders."
~~ Thomas Sowell
"Go confidently . . . Live the life [that] you imagined."
~~ Henry David Thoreau [1817-62]
"Never stay awake at night asking yourself questions you can't answer."
~~ Charlie Brown character, as drawn by Charles M. Schulz [1922-2000]
"If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem."
~~ handyman humor
"All fishermen are liars, but not all liars are fishermen."
~~ anonymous
"I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field."
~~ Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
"I have a plan: RUUUNNN!"
~~ Scarecrow in animated Oz movie
"The answers [that] you get from literature depend on the questions [that] you pose."
~~ Margaret Atwood
"A man who stops advertising to save money is like a man who stops a clock to save time."
~~ Henry Ford [1863-1947]
"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion. I could die for that."
~~ John Keats [1795-1821]
"Every time [that] you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world [that] you want."
~~ Anna Lappé
"The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me."
~~ Dudley Field Malone [1882-1950]
"If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts."
~~ Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
"The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score."
~~ Bill Copeland [1946-2010]
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
~~ George Eliot [1819-80]
"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."
~~ Milton Berle [1908-2002]
"Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."
~~ John F. Kennedy [1917-63]
"I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
~~ Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931]
"It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark."
~~ Howard J. Ruff
"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."
~~ Vince Lombardi [1913-70]
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
~~ Sun Tzu [544?-496? B.C.E.]
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
~~ Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
~~ Benjamin Franklin [1706-90]
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em."
~~ William Shakespeare [1564-1616]
"That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger."
~~ Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900]
"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket."
~~ humorist Will Rogers [1879-1935]
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
~~ Robert F. Kennedy [1925-68]
"I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude."
~~ Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
~~ John Muir [1838-1914]
"An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form."
~~ Maxim Gorky [1868-1936]
"The best way to cheer yourself [up] is to try to cheer somebody else up."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
~~ Dr. Maria Montessori [1870-1952]
"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
~~ Marcus Aurelius [121-180 C.E.]
“Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families."
~~ Charles Dickens [1812-70]
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
~~ Blaise Pascal [1623-62]
"Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men."
~~ Mortimer J. Adler [1902-2001]
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
~~ Greek philosopher Aristotle [384-322 B.C.E.]
"Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture."
~~ Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
~~ Audrey Hepburn [1929-93]
"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."
~~ Immanuel Kant [1724-1804]
"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
~~ Wm. Blake [1757–1827]
"Action expresses priorities."
~~ 'Mahatma' Gandhi [1869-1948]
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone."
~~ poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox [1850-1919]
"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."
~~ Thomas Fuller [1608-61]
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
~~ John Steinbeck [1902-68]
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."
~~ Terry Pratchett
"I don't intend to be the richest person in the cemetary; my wealth is the legacy [that] I leave behind."
~~ Amanda Okoli
"If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough."
~~ anonymous
"follow your inner moonlight / don't hide the madness"
~~ poet Allen Ginsberg [1926-97]
"We make our discoveries thru our mistakes; we watch one another's success, and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve."
~~ Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch [1863-1944]
"Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction."
~~ Michael Hyatt
"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed."
~~ Ray Bradbury [1920-2012]
"Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear."
~~ Quintus Horatius Flaccus [65 B.C.E.-8 B.C.E.] known as Horace
"The US Supreme Court's decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission ... continued its drive to give Americans a government of, by and for big money."
~~ Viki Harrison
"Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason why it will."
~~ anonymous
"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it."
~~ Bill Cosby
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
~~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007]
"Are you sure you want to empty the Spam folder?"
~~ modern Eternal Question
"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."
~~ Lenny Bruce [1925-66]
"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."
~~ art critic John Ruskin [1819-1900]
"If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word."
~~ Margaret Atwood
“A quart of Ale is a dish for a king."
~~ WilliamShakespeare [1564-1616], in "The Winter’s Tale" [circa 1610-11]
“The philosophy of one century becomes the common sense of the next."
~~ Henry Ward Beecher [1813-87]
"The Purpose of Life Is To Live A Life of Purpose"
~~ Richard Leider
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
~~ Eleanor Roosevelt [1884-1962]
"Elections should be held on April 16th - the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders."
~~ Thomas Sowell
"Go confidently . . . Live the life [that] you imagined."
~~ Henry David Thoreau [1817-62]
"Never stay awake at night asking yourself questions you can't answer."
~~ Charlie Brown character, as drawn by Charles M. Schulz [1922-2000]
"If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem."
~~ handyman humor
"All fishermen are liars, but not all liars are fishermen."
~~ anonymous
"I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field."
~~ Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
"I have a plan: RUUUNNN!"
~~ Scarecrow in animated Oz movie
"The answers [that] you get from literature depend on the questions [that] you pose."
~~ Margaret Atwood
"A man who stops advertising to save money is like a man who stops a clock to save time."
~~ Henry Ford [1863-1947]
"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion. I could die for that."
~~ John Keats [1795-1821]
"Every time [that] you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world [that] you want."
~~ Anna Lappé
"The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me."
~~ Dudley Field Malone [1882-1950]
"If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts."
~~ Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
"The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score."
~~ Bill Copeland [1946-2010]
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
~~ George Eliot [1819-80]
"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."
~~ Milton Berle [1908-2002]
"Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."
~~ John F. Kennedy [1917-63]
"I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
~~ Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931]
"It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark."
~~ Howard J. Ruff
"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."
~~ Vince Lombardi [1913-70]
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
~~ Sun Tzu [544?-496? B.C.E.]
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
~~ Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
~~ Benjamin Franklin [1706-90]
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em."
~~ William Shakespeare [1564-1616]
"That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger."
~~ Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900]
"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket."
~~ humorist Will Rogers [1879-1935]
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
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