Annie Dillard Quote – How We Spend Our Lives
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard
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Cartoon – A Fish Out of Water
The mass abortion of girls
It’s official: Abortion for gender selection is widespread in Britain, said Dominic Lawson. An analysis by The Independent shows that women from Indian and Pakistani communities in Britain are aborting their female fetuses at much higher rates than male fetuses, “resulting in the ‘disappearance’ of up to 4,700 girls.” Of course, this is what we should have expected, given that […]
Read moreVirginia Woolf Quote – Avoiding Life
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Virginia Woolf
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Mark Twain Quote – Past and Future
“For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment.” – Mark Twain
Read morePossible Life on Mars
Should we be focusing on the future and not exclusively on the past to find life on Mars? Some microbes have been found in the Atacama Desert in Chile that have been dormant when the area is dry and come to life when it rains. It only rains there about a quarter of an inch a year which makes the […]
Read moreC.S. Lewis Quote – Make Him Happy
“Nearly all that we call human history — money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery — [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” – C.S. Lewis
Read moreErnest Hemingway Quote – The First And Final Thing
“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.” – Ernest Hemingway
Read moreRalph Waldo Emerson Quote – Standing In Our Own Sunshine
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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