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Saturday, September 7, 2013



Something unknown is doing we don't know what. - Sir Arthur Eddington, comment on the Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics, 1927


Friday, September 6, 2013

“The main thing is just to try to be nice...



... 'Nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown—you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit.' "  — British writer Caitlin Moran in her hilarious, wonderful letter to her daughter

Thursday, September 5, 2013


You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Einstein's Wisdom on the end of life...


"I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."   

- Albert Einstein, at age of 76, his words to his physician the night before he died.


Tuesday, September 3, 2013

The Power of One

"The sea is but many drops of water coming together .. everyone has the power of one ... just do something."

-
Tom Shadyac

Monday, September 2, 2013


“We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.” 

― Howard Zinn

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Nothing in nature takes more than it needs ...

"Indigenous humans knew that the accumulation of property beyond one's needs was a mental illness." 

-  Man's Rise to Civilization, Peter Farb

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