Friday, November 10, 2017
Between You and Me.....
Between you and me
You and I know the truth.....
But I have my people behind me.
---Mr. Anonymous.
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I also took advantage of the fact that
I was widely admired in my and their community,
which disabled them from sharing their story and
brought hardship to them when they tried because
people who look up to me didn’t want to hear it.
I didn’t think that I was doing any of that
because my position allowed me not to think about it.
---Louis C.K.
Thursday, November 02, 2017
Quote of the day.......
The study of history is a powerful antidote
to contemporary arrogance.
It is humbling to discover how many of
our glib assumptions,
which seem to us novel and plausible,
have been tested before,
not once but many times and in innumerable guises;
and discovered to be,
at great human cost,
wholly false.
-- Paul Johnson.
Monday, October 30, 2017
Real world........
The real world is a place where it's hard sometimes
to find people who will listen with an attitude
that they might actually be convinced of something,
Instead, what happens in most of the real world is
that people don't listen at all.
They aren't looking to actually learn anything
about you or about what you think.
It's a place where people take sides
rather than trying to understand -
are they still on the right side?
They care mostly about their side winning.
---FBI Director James Comey. 2017
Convocation speech at Howard university.
Friday, October 27, 2017
No more concentration camps........
I tried to look away,
but he would hold my face,” she said.
So I was forced to look into his eyes.
And I felt disgust and shame, and
like nobody would ever think of me as being
clean again after being this close to the devil.
His energy was so sinister.
--- Selma blair.
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You have to get it all out in the open and
in the light so that we can really understand
how pervasive this is,” McAdams said.
I think we almost have to exhaust ourselves
sharing our experiences before
the rebuilding can begin.
And hopefully...........
we never slip back into this darkness again.
----Rachel Mc Adams.
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
The Realometer......
The realometer, that could cut through
the" mud and slush of opinion " and
prejudice, and tradition......
to a Hard bottom.
----Henri David Thoreau.
the" mud and slush of opinion " and
prejudice, and tradition......
to a Hard bottom.
----Henri David Thoreau.
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Quote of the day......“I did it. I got there, but not without a price.....
Maroney was one of the “Fierce Five”
that won gold at the 2012 London Olympics;
she also won silver.....
she also won silver.....
in the individual vault event.
In her letter, Maroney spoke of how
the Olympics had been her dream
In her letter, Maroney spoke of how
the Olympics had been her dream
since she was a child,
watching the 2004 Games as an 8-year-old.
“From the outside looking in,
it’s an amazing story,” Maroney wrote.
“I did it. I got there,
watching the 2004 Games as an 8-year-old.
“From the outside looking in,
it’s an amazing story,” Maroney wrote.
“I did it. I got there,
but not without a price.
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[On October 18, 2017, Maroney alleged that
USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar
repeatedly molested her, starting when
she was 13 years old until her retirement
from the sport in 2016.]
Friday, October 13, 2017
Man Made..............
There is so much to
Man made reality
It always fails to
It always fails to
Live up to.......
Fair scrutiny.
Fair scrutiny.
Sunday, October 08, 2017
Existential Burden...........
One of the most difficult existential burden is....
To bear witness of human folly.
To bear witness of human folly.
Thursday, October 05, 2017
Quote of the day.....
If truth were to become a lost cause
not just families ...... even societies
pay the price.
----Hrithik Roshan.
Bollywood actor.
not just families ...... even societies
pay the price.
----Hrithik Roshan.
Bollywood actor.
Friday, September 29, 2017
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Quote of the day.....
Force (is) the vital principle and
immediate parent of despotism.
-- Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826),
US Founding Father, 3rd US President.
drafted the Declaration of Independence.
immediate parent of despotism.
-- Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826),
US Founding Father, 3rd US President.
drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Friday, September 22, 2017
Monday, September 18, 2017
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Virtue of the Lost souls.........
All hate is ill founded.......
It is the virtue of the Lost souls.
It is the virtue of the Lost souls.
Friday, September 01, 2017
Quote of the day...............
Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake
believed that to be free to choose,
and not to be chosen for,
is an unalienable ingredient in
what makes human beings human.
-- Isaiah Berlin(1909-1997)
Source: Five Essays on Liberty, 1969
believed that to be free to choose,
and not to be chosen for,
is an unalienable ingredient in
what makes human beings human.
-- Isaiah Berlin(1909-1997)
Source: Five Essays on Liberty, 1969
Friday, August 25, 2017
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