It Waits Patiently

For barbarism is always around civilization, amid it and beneath it, ready to engulf it by arms, or mass migration, or unchecked fertility.  Barbarism is like the jungle; it never admits its defeat; it waits patiently for centuries to recover the territory it has lost.
—   Will Durant
From his book: “The History of Civilization:  Our Oriental Heritage“
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Waiting?

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
—  Ivan Turgenev
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How Long Is A Piece Of String?

For to know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know his mind.
—  Geraldine Brooks
[Read any books lately?  I would argue the same is true for a person’s blog…   Have you written / read any blogs lately?   —  KMAB]
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2014	Heathen, n.
2013	Wisdom’s Folly
2012	When The Student Is Ready
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2011	The Complex Richness Of Life

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Reductionism

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
—  Napoleon Bonaparte
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2014	Gravitation, n.
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2012	Nerd Heard – And Good-Bye
	Your Continuum
2011	Career Tips (Part 2)

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Pursuing Perspective

I wish to tell as much as I can, in as little space as I can, of the contributions that genius and labor have made to the cultural heritage of mankind – to chronicle and contemplate, in their causes, character and effects, the advances of invention, the varieties of economic organization, the experiments in government, the aspirations of religion, the mutations of morals and manners, the masterpieces of literature, the development of science, the wisdom of philosophy, and the achievements of art.  I do not need to be told how absurd this enterprise is, nor how immodest is its very conception …  Nevertheless I have dreamed that despite the many errors inevitable in this undertaking, it may be of some use to those upon whom the passion for philosophy has laid the compulsion to try to see things whole, to pursue perspective, unity and time, as well as to seek them through science in space. …  Like philosophy, such a venture [as the creation of these 11 volumes] has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.
—  Will Durant
From the preface of his book: “The History of Civilization:  Our Oriental Heritage“
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2014	Wearing Down?
2013	Labouring Under A Curse
2012	Listen To Yourself
2011	Career Tips (Part 1)
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A Fine Balance

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.
―  Carlos Castaneda
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2012	Mutant Powers Of Obsession
2011	Federal Stars
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The Best Medicine Is Also Contagious

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
—  Charles Dickens
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2014	Eyes Off
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2012	The Delicate Moment Of Giving
2011	Ready, Shoot, Aim!!

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