· Quotes of the week
- The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
~Thomas Paine~ - Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. ~Ben Stein
- He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
~Edmund Burke - “Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.” Sam Levenson
- At thirty man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;
In all magnanimity of thought
Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same. ~Edward Young
· Meditation of the week
Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication is the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, "it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves."
~Eric Hoffer~
~Eric Hoffer~
· Poem of the Week
Crossing the Susquehanna
looking to the east across the wide Chesapeake Bay
I always think of you now
ashes settled beneath the waves
your quiet calm settled in my heart
below the storm and wind.
The white snow through grey-trunked trees
The snow blown up from the white fields
in great white clouds
drifted into clefts and hollows
below the storm and wind.
Robert Minor Seward
· Video of the week
· Clint Black and Skip ewing
· Websites of the week
· And finally, the culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor
Get yer war on
