Quote – Dogs
“While visiting Brooklyn, I heard a dog barking in someone’s courtyard. Then I realized, one dog can annoy a thousand people, but one person can’t annoy a thousand dogs.”
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Theodore M. Hesburgh Quote – Inequality
“The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal […]
Read moreMartin Luther King Jr. quote – forgiveness is not an occasional act
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Read moreCarbon rise keeps water in drylands
The drylands of the world are getting greener, and researchers think it is thanks to higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In a paradoxical discovery, even as landscapes become increasingly at risk of desertification, they may also look more luxuriant. Two scientists from Purdue University in Indiana, US, and a researcher in Saudi Arabia report in the journal […]
Read moreFugitive Captured Thanks to Doughnut Contest
A North Carolina man who had spent nine months on the run from police was caught when he won a police sponsored doughnut eating contest. Bradley Hardison, 24, gobbled down eight doughnuts in two minutes at an event in Elizabeth City, NC. He defeated several locals, including police officers. Officer Max Robeson saw a report about the contest in a […]
Read moreShakespeare’s Twelfth Night – Greatness
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: “Be not afraid of greatness, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
Read moreCartoon – Nothing compares to Vegas
Cartoon – Starfish
Hubert Humphrey Quote – What You Have Left
“It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.” – Hubert Humphrey
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