The Canadian national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, is in the midst of a series about the development of the brains of young children and their outcomes later...
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that...
"I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against...
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca, writer and philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE) Don't expect too much of someone who is exhibiting...
Reaching Limits We are all familiar with our physical limitations. We get tired, our muscles ache, we don't have enough energy to carry on with what needs to...
"Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes,...
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell Fear is the...
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." -...
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. - Robert...
My apologies for not posting regularly over the past few days. My explanation is twofold. First is that, as a result of recent events, I have been extremely...
"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression...everywhere in the world. The second is...
It sounds great, Bill! With the Experts doing the 'final tests' you will, perhaps, be able to relax a bit every now and then. The 'speaking engagements' sound ...
As I will be away on Tuesday and Wednesday, thus unable to post the quotes, I offer you the two I would have posted, in advance. A bend in the road is not the...
Our first priority should be to prepare a long-term strategy for improving the state of the world that focuses on the coming generations. - His Holiness the...
"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far- reaching consequence of submission to authority." - Stanley Milgram This is an excellent...
"Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates One of the meanings of 'wonder' is "a state in which you want to learn more about something." Socrates (preeminent...
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you should just stay home. - James Michener As good a writer as Michener...
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really...
"Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act." - Claude Helvetius In other words, if you won't get excited enough to...
"Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money." ...
"Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized." - Paul Myer We tend to think...
"The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational...
Bill, I am working on my essay and it is slowly making progress. So far I have a small paragraph mentioning your book and I am not satisfied. Can you give me a...
... satisfied. See my notes below. ... book? Send me the link again, I am not sure if I am allowed to use it in the essay or not, have to read the rules again....
Thanks, Bill, that gives me something good to work with! Now I just have to get rid of that nagging litte voice in the back of my head that keeps warning me...
... of my head that keeps warning me that I am not a good enough writer to compete in such a prestigious contest. I think that voice might be putting negative...
Here's a good quote for Turning It Around. It could also apply to many situations. Greenstar T3 Focusing our attention - daily and hourly - not on what is ...
"Write a witty saying and you'll be remembered forever." - unknown OK, it's a joke. Either that or the saying above is not so witty. You deserve something...
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. This quip is not a joke. It's for real. It is important for...
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality." -...
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