Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote – The Wisest Know Nothing
“Sorrow makes us all children again—destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Spectators Gored To Death In Bullfight
Arjona, Colombia Killed at bullfight: Spectators were gored to death and dozens injured at a bullfight in northern Colombia. One man was gored through the heart, while another was tossed on a bull’s horns and then dragged around the ring. It is not uncommon for participants or spectators to be gored to death at bullfights. Unlike Spanish bullfights, in which […]
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Taro Aso, Japanese Finance Minister and former Prime Minister, bemoaning the financial burden that caring for the elderly in their final years places on the country’s budget. Over a quarter of Japan’s 128 million people are above the age of 60—including Aso, who is 72.
Read moreGeorgia O’Keeffe Quote – Do What You Want
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
Read moreGeorge Carlin Quote – Don’t Have Time For All That
“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.” – George Carlin
Read moreMichel Leiris Quote – Dream Is Not A Revelation
“Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes, lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream — a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows — is essentially poetry.” – Michel Leiris
Read morePhilip K. Dick Quote – Reality
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip K. Dick
Read morePoem – A Portrait of Wilbur (By JD DeHart)
A Portrait of Wilbur Just as one poet once wrote about a last duchess, so did the poet write about the first Wilbur. The brown clothing, smell of moth balls, scent of age of rows of books that Wilbur rested within. You have to wonder – did he read all those books, are they in progress, or are they simply […]
Read moreGabriel García Márquez Quote – The Life Of A Person
“The life of a person is not what happened, but what he remembers and how he remembers it.” – Gabriel García Márquez
Read moreCartoon – Roger Screws Up
