Tag: social
member name: Bill Allin
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August 26, 2006 11:32 AM EDT --
Everyone you meet seems normal until you really get to know them.
The better you know them, the more abnormal, or at least "different," they seem.
It's safe to conclude from this that no . . .
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March 10, 2007 04:58 PM EST --
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)
Hemingway, who took his own life in 1961, knew his share of both intelligent . . .
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October 02, 2006 09:15 PM EDT --
"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind."
- Maya Angelou, writer, actor (1928- )
The need for change seems to be on the minds of many people these days.
We . . .
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September 16, 2006 07:21 PM EDT --
"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."
- John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson of Glenwilliam (1844–1931)
This lesson should be taught to everyone. While many people today give . . .
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October 08, 2006 06:41 PM EDT --
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
- Dr. Joyce Brothers, psychologist and author
Dr. Brothers is an oddball at the best of times. She became a household name . . .
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July 10, 2006 05:07 PM EDT --
"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."
- George Lois
The reference is to creative thinking, not so much creative . . .
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September 29, 2006 06:56 PM EDT --
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
- Sam Ewing, US writer and quipster
I never call anyone . . .
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November 11, 2006 06:40 PM EST --
"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
- Andre Gide, French writer (1869–1951)
Could you discover new lands? Would you . . .
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April 05, 2007 07:00 PM EDT --
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)
"I don't vote because my one vote won't make any . . .
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January 24, 2008 06:53 PM EST --
Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.
- Zig Ziglar
Let's first off make a major distinction between finding fault and offering ways and means for correction and improvement. Finding . . .
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October 05, 2006 07:53 PM EDT --
"Education will never be as expensive as ignorance."
- Anonymous
I must veer away from my usual practice and express this clearly as my personal opinion.
Most, if not all, of the ills . . .
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February 03, 2007 04:32 PM EST --
"Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is."
- George Lucas, movie producer and animation innovator
Doesn't that make sense? Lucas, . . .
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July 27, 2006 06:44 PM EDT --
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it;
it's only good for wallowing in."
- Katherine Mansfield . . .
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July 03, 2008 05:41 PM EDT --
Irony? Hypocrisy? Double standard? No term fits the need to describe the situation where a person who believes in the right to life for a zygote a few days old or a fetus a few days older still is prepared . . .
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October 24, 2008 05:54 PM EDT --
Many people associate the Nobel Prizes--identified by one science magazine as "the big kahuna of genius awards--with public recognition and financial reward for achievement reached as a result of . . .
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May 24, 2007 11:58 AM EDT --
Schools have a mystique about them among many parents because teachers accomplish things with children that non-educators can’t fathom or even grasp the degree of their influence on their children. . . .
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April 25, 2008 09:26 PM EDT --
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus, French writer (1913-1960)
Well, I do, Albert, so where are you so I can refute your statement?
Seriously, . . .
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August 03, 2008 10:07 AM EDT --
Picnic--the joyful experience of eating good food in the open air while enjoying the company of friends and family in a relaxed atmosphere--is on the wane in the western world. More of us gather . . .
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August 12, 2008 08:25 PM EDT --
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- Granville Hicks , American novelist, educator, editor (1901-1982)
First of all, censors are no longer just men in western countries. . . .
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August 23, 2008 07:14 PM EDT --
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.
The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority.
The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. . . .
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