Eleanor Roosevelt – Use Your Heart
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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Carl Sandburg Quote – Discover Creative Solitude
“One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.” – Carl Sandburg
Read moreCartoon – Signs of Weakness
Lionel Trilling Quote – The Sign of Virtue and Intellect
“Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.” – Lionel Trilling
Read moreCartoon – Aerobics In Hell
Greening The Hood
■ South Central Los Angeles is more famous for drive-by shootings than well-kept gardens, but one native son is getting locals to trade their sawed-off shotguns for shovels. Ron Finley, who styles himself the “Gangsta Gardener” is encouraging Angelenos to cultivate vegetable and fruit gardens in vacant lots in deprived neighborhoods. He has co-founded a charity, L.A. Green Grounds, to […]
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J. A. Dever Quote – Quality Is Never A Problem
“In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.” – J. A. Dever
Read moreMichael Jackson Quote – Dare To Dream
“In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream.” – Michael Jackson
Read moreThe Perks of Being a Wallflower – We Are Who We Are
“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.” – Charlie (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
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