September 28, 2012
Keeping Things Whole In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where...
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Spending nearly 30 years in prison for leading a movement against apartheid in his country, Nelson Mandela and his spirit was never broken is testament to his character. 1964 speech from the dock at...
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We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. B. F. Skinner (1904-1990); American Behaviorist, Author, Inventor, And Social Philosopher
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Whoever said anybody has a right to give up? Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939); Activist, President And Founder Of Children’s Defense Fund
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The Snow Man – Wallace Stevens One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with...
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Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. (Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V) William Shakespeare
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‘I think, therefore I am,’ is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. -Milan Kundera.
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On Joy and Sorrow Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves...
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