Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote – Fit To Live
“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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Secret Santa
An anonymous “Secret Santa” traveled to New Jersey and New York last week to hand out $100 bills to people who’d lost their homes and possessions in Hurricane Sandy. The Kansas City, Mo., businessman spent a day in Elizabeth, N.J., and Staten Island, N.Y., giving C-notes to the poor and homeless; he plans to give away $100,000 this holiday season. He was […]
Read moreLife abounds under Antarctic ice
Despite no exposure to sunlight or fresh air for more than a million years, a lake located half a mile beneath the Antarctic ice sheet sustains an entire ecosystem, scientists have confirmed—raising the prospect that life might exist in similar environments elsewhere in the universe. Researchers had long suspected the existence of tiny life-forms living below the ice pack, and […]
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Poem – A Puzzling Marriage (By Donal Mahoney)
A Puzzling Marriage Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make their marriage last but every night after supper they let them out silently. Fred in his recliner works a crossword puzzle while Daisy in the dining room works a jigsaw puzzle but neither Fred nor Daisy speaks a word until one has finished and howls […]
Read morePoem – DROWNING (By Ajise Vincent)
DROWNING next year, when cavalries of storms shall come riding like the flood of noah & the earth convulses torrents on the passage of breaths i shall not swim with fishes or mermaids but savor the utility in the ploys of death: the sweet business of drowning Author Bio: Ajise Vincent is an Economist and Social researcher […]
Read moreSophocles Quote – The Man Who Is Afraid
“To the man who is afraid, everything rustles.” – Sophocles
Read moreDame Rebecca West Quote – It Seemed A Good Idea At The Time
“If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: ‘It seemed a good idea at the time.’ ” – Dame Rebecca West
Read moreSusan B. Anthony quote – Cautious, careful people
“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.” – Susan B. Anthony
Read moreSteven Pressfield Quote – Become Who We Already Are
“Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” – Steven Pressfield
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