Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the Earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise. – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables I Dreamed A …
“All things change, nothing is extinguished. . . . There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.” Ovid
I am not religious although I follow blogs by people of various faiths. Everyone is entitled to their beliefs and to worship as they choose. Everyone should have both religious and political freedom. This blog is religiously neutral, but politically biased. Fortunately, I live in a country that permits me to have freedom of speech. …
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” Bill Cosby
Authors: Emily L and Julie M Purvi Patel is a 33-year-old woman who, despite insisting she had a miscarriage, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for neglect of a dependent and feticide. Text messages were found that insinuated she intended to take abortion-inducing drugs, but no drugs of this sort were found in her …
“The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye. The story of love is hello and goodbye. Until we meet again” Jimi Hendrix
“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.” Abraham Flexner (1866 – 1959)
STV 4 April 2015 13:52 BST Thousands of anti-nuclear protesters have come together in a major rally calling on politicians to scrap Trident. The demonstration heard speeches by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Patrick Harvie, of the Scottish Greens, at a gathering in the city’s George Square. The Bairns* not Bombs rally had marched through …
“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” William Shakespeare
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, …
“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.” Friedrich Nietzsche
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