Showing posts with label libya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label libya. Show all posts

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Today's randomness

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. ~Thomas Jefferson

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life
~John Muir

Monday, March 28, 2011

Nothing is Original





Here's to the crazy ones.  The misfits. The rebels.  The troublemakers. 
The round pegs in the square holes - the ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for
the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them,
quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
- an Apple Computer Ad, 1997

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Turning Away

On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we won't understand
"Don't accept that what's happening
Is just a case of others' suffering
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away"
It's a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow
And casting its shroud
Over all we have known
Unaware how the ranks have grown
Driven on by a heart of stone
We could find that we're all alone
In the dream of the proud

On the wings of the night
As the daytime is slurring
Where the speechless unite
In a silent accord
Using words you will find are strange
And mesmerized as they light the flame
Feel the new wind of change
On the wings of the night

No more turning away
From the weak and the weary
No more turning away
From the coldness inside
Just a world that we all must share
It's not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there'll be
No more turning away?
~Pink Floyd~

Saturday, March 26, 2011

March.26.2011

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate
~ Bertrand Russell


A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ~Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Today

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011)


If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.~Henry David Thoreau