“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves.”
All this week on the Discovery Channel it is Shark Week. All week long for the twentieth year in a row [...]
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.”
Pope Benedict XVI has called for an end to war in the world refering to it as a useless slaughter meant only to bring Hell upon Earth. He was speaking on vacation in a small Northern Italian Town of Lorenzago Di Cadore. He [...]
“Human nature will only find itself when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.”
Recent studies on Chimpanzees, humanity’s closest relative, has shown that only humans act out of spite. The study was set up by rigging a table to collapse when a certain string [...]
“I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”
Everyone should feel free to express thier personality and share this with others. Many people choose not to do so because they are afraid of what others would think. That is a miistake. In all reality no one will ever be able to please [...]
«Consider the young Hindu, who sits in prison today, so heavily guarded because he killed Gandhi. Is he to die or to live? If we are to take Gandhi literally, and I think he meant always to be taken literally, that man should not die by violence, even as punishment for a crime.»
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Over the last couple of months I’ve periodically covered this abduction story that has been developing. Alan Johnston has been released after Hamas forced the Army of Islam, sponsored by the Dugmush family. The Dugmush family is one of Gaza’s armed tribes. There was much tension in the hours before Mr. Johnston’s release [...]
I skipped the quote on this section of the text because I used it as the title. There is a lot going on in the world. Some of it is positive and some, if not a lot, of it isn’t. Often times people are concerned about events that occur. They want to help [...]