In my spare time (another oxymoron) I try to find things online that challenge me, or make me laugh, or worst of all, make me think. Here are some great examples. If you find solace, enlightenment, or entertainment in them, your thanks will be sufficient. Don't send money. You haven't yet, but in case you thought of it, it's not necessary.
The Quotes
"She is trying the rarest of strategies, telling the truth, and making it sound plausible." [Gregory Maguire, from The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West]
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
[Albert Einstein]
I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use. [Galileo, Galilei]
Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook. [Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 171]
And Finally
Good luck and may a breath mint be on your nightstand at just the right time.
1 comment:
That's some fascinating material; particularly when you consider that a great deal of Galileo's personality and historical context are completely overlooked.
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