There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. | |
— Don Herold | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | That Marvelous Feeling |
2013 | Exceptional |
2012 | A Wild And Crazy Believer |
2011 | A Lack Of Scarcity |
The Joy Of Prevention | |
Archive for April, 2015
Less And More Irritation
Posted in Humor, Quotes, tagged Don Herold, Humor, On Irritating People, Quotes on April 30, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Stretched Today?
Posted in Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Oliver Wendel Homes Sr., On Learning, On New Ideas, Quotes on April 29, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. | |
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Outta Here |
2013 | Getting Words Right |
2012 | There’s A New Dog In Town |
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is | |
2011 | A Conservative Is… |
When It Is Darkest
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged On Hope, On Optimists, Oscar Wilde, Philosophy, Quotes on April 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. | |
–– Oscar Wilde | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Knowledge And Doubt |
2013 | Three Thoughts |
2012 | Gentle Reader |
2011 | Leave The Light On For Me Anyway |
He Says It’s Hard To Get There From Here
Posted in Faith, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Faith, Galileo Galilei, Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, Stillman Drake, The Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, The Holy Ghost on April 27, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: ‘That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.’“ | |
Excerpted from Galileo Galilei’s letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, sent in 1615 | |
Collected in Stillman Drake’s: “The Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo“. | |
[Found at one of the blogs I follow: http://jrbenjamin.com/ | |
The specific post is located at: http://jrbenjamin.com/2015/04/06/galileo-squares-faith-and-reason/ | |
Please take a moment to visit the original site. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Question From A Founding Father |
2013 | Make Heroes |
2012 | See And Hold |
2011 | Am Not, Are So |
Getting The Story Right
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Amy Wallace, Creativity Inc., Ed Catmull, On Artistry, On Getting The Story Right, On Polish, Philosophy, Quotes on April 26, 2015| Leave a Comment »
For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn’t matter if you’re getting the story right. | |
— Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace | |
From their book: “Creativity Inc.“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Like Shells On The Shore |
2013 | More And Why |
2012 | How To Gain Effective Fire |
2011 | Patriot Act |
However Vast The Darkness
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged On Human Existence, On The Universe, Philosophy, Quotes, Stanley Kubrick on April 25, 2015| 2 Comments »
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. | |
― Stanley Kubrick | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | The Omnipresent Teacher |
2013 | Don’t Waste |
2012 | Earning Thanks |
2011 | Fuzzy Vision |
2010 | Movies and Book |
Little Understanding
Posted in Leadership, My Journal, Politics, Quotes, tagged Leadership, My Journal, On the Military Budget, Politics, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Quotes on April 24, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country. | |
― Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Open Early |
2013 | Movies And A Lifetime Of Lyrics |
This Truth | |
2012 | Cheaper To Hold |
2011 | Resistance Is Futile |
One Great, One Enjoyable, One Terrible… | |
Unfortunately, No Approval Is Required | |
Hunger
Posted in Health, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Health, Joseph Conrad, My Journal, On Hunger, On Principles, Philosophy, Quotes on April 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »
No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze. | |
— Joseph Conrad | |
From his novel: “Heart of Darkness“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Outside Dependence |
2013 | Doing Right |
2012 | A Short Course In Human Relations |
If Death Be My Future | |
Strive | |
Such A Fool | |
2011 | I’m Working For A Living |
One View Of Failure
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged My Journal, Norman Vincent Peale, On Failure, On Life, Philosophical Dictionary, Quotes on April 22, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. | |
— Norman Vincent Peale | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | We Speak For Earth |
2013 | Inward Urgency |
2012 | Delayed Reviews |
Fulfilling My Duty | |
2011 | Interference |
Or You Don’t
Posted in Leadership, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Business Leadership, Google, Laszlo Bock, Leadership, People's Nature, Philosophy, Quotes, Work Rules! on April 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »
You either believe people are fundamentally good or you don’t. If you do believe they’re good, then as an entrepreneur, a team member, a team leader, a manager, or a CEO — or a government leader — you should act in a way consistent with your beliefs. If people are good, then they should be free. Too many organizations and managers operate as if, absent some enlightened diktat, people are too benighted to make sound decisions and innovate. | |
— Laszlo Bock | |
Google’s head of human resources, (senior vice president, people operations) | |
From his book: “Work Rules!“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | If You Ever Fall… |
2013 | Glory Days (part 2) |
2012 | They Follow A Pattern – If You Know What I Mean |
What I Live For (Precis) | |
2011 | Giving |
Remembering Oklahoma City
Posted in Faith, History, Poetry, Videos, tagged Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Domestic Terrorism, Faith, Garth Brooks, History, Liverpool, My Poems Page, Oklahoma City, The Change, Videos, YouTube.com on April 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »
At the time, I was living overseas in Liverpool, but I remember the days and days of news coverage… | |
On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City was the site of a domestic terrorist bomb attack. Carried out by two survivalist and white supremacists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing killed 168 people and injured more than 680 others. They were seeking to punish Federal law enforcement agencies for perceived attacks on anti-Federal groups at Ruby Ridge, Idaho and in Waco, Texas. | |
The following year, Garth Brooks sang “The Change” which is a tribute to those lost and injured and to those who rushed into harms way to provide aid. | |
See the video on YouTube.com at: http://www.youtube.com/embed/LAJ9tNXZfu8 or you can click through the embedded video below. | |
The lyrics are available on my poems page at: “The Change“ | |
The song – and the memories it stirs – still brings tears to my eyes… KMAB | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Who Was That Masked Man? |
2013 | Enemy Mine |
2012 | Strengthen Me |
2011 | Service, Please |
2010 | The Church In Crisis… |
We Must Dissent
Posted in Leadership, Politics, Quotes, tagged Acceptance Speech, America, Daredevil, Daredevil - Netflix TV series review, Democracy, Dissent, Diversity, Freedom, Independence Hall, Justice, Leadership, Liberty, Liberty Medal, Philadelphia PA, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court on April 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »
We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better. | |
The legal system can force open doors and sometimes even knock down walls. But it cannot build bridges. That job belongs to you and me. Afro and White, rich and poor, educated and illiterate, our fates are bound together. We can run from each other but we cannot escape each other. We will only attain freedom if we learn to appreciate what is different and muster the courage to discover what is fundamentally the same. America’s diversity offers so much richness and opportunity. Take a chance, won’t you? Knock down the fences that divide. Tear apart the walls that imprison. Reach out, freedom lies just on the other side. We should have liberty for all. | |
— Thurgood Marshall | |
Former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
Acceptance Speech for the Liberty Medal | |
July 4, 1992 | |
Independence Hall | |
Philadelphia, PA | |
[I “found” this quote when it was read (twice) in the Netflix TV series “Daredevil” which I reviewed earlier this month. The sentences about “dissent” were quoted. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Now What? |
2013 | Judgement |
2012 | Stuck In My Mind |
Life’s Hope | |
2011 | Just Getting Up |
Directions Please | |
Deeply
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Being Loved, Courage, Lao-Tzu, Love, Loving Someone, Philosophy, Quotes, Strength on April 17, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. | |
— Lao Tzu | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Hi-Yo Silver, Away! |
2013 | Warning: |
2012 | Thinking About Beauty |
2011 | A Founding Father’s Argument Against Public Funding Of Religious Education |
Weekend Update | |
So Far, So Good | |
Still Dreaming
Posted in Quotes, tagged Kahlil Gibran, On Dreaming, On What's In Me, Quotes on April 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream. | |
― Kahlil Gibran | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Good Wins |
2013 | Before |
2012 | Look To This Day |
2011 | One View Of Man |