“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learned how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” – Nelson Mandela
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“It is often easier to fight for a principle than to live up to it.” – Adlai Stevenson
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Remnants The once proud avenues of vaunted shops now are deserted. Only the ghosts of employees past haunt the cobwebbed stores, all that remains of the departed unable to get other jobs, abandoned by their masters, unable to adapt to changing circumstances, conditioned to servitude, unfit for opportunities limited to the few capable of functioning in the Information Age.
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“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers
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“If I could just find the time, then I would never let another day go by. I’m over getting old!”
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AFTER PARTY (By John Biscello) She, Lazarus, back from the dead, with a musical vengeance— A beat, Christ, please, she asks of her martyred D.J., half-light, half-man, and out climbs her voice, grinding through rubble, a dark velvet toy wound up for centuries, released, on behalf of every last blue girl, unannounced, notes from underground unfurling a cortege of […]
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Portion of China’s carbon emissions that is produced by manufacturing goods for export: 1/4
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“The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.” – Paul Fix
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