Monthly Archives: March 2015

First Thought du Matin

Poverty often leads to theft.

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Einstein’s Prophecy re. Technology

“I fear one day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”

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Unlike Our Terrorism-Mad World

“Civilization is an exercise in self-restraint.”–W.B. Yeats

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Where Education Today Falls Really Short

“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts, but of values.”– W.R. Inge “The proper study of mankind is books.”–Aldous Huxley

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Our Doh! Society

“Most of one’s life is a prolonged effort to avoid thinking.”–Aldous Huxley

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On Being Distracted by Advertising and Technologically-Obsessed Crap in Our Society

“I have to protect myself from the toxicity of this culture.”–Kate Braverman

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We Need to Put into Ourselves as Much as Give Out

“To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.” Mother Teresa ………………………………………. I’ve often said we need to fill up, load up, refresh, restore ourselves and to look out for/look after ourselves ’cause if we don’t….

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We ‘Make’ Ourselves, Our Lives

“I believe the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”–George Eliot

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On Action and Accomplishments

“There’s nothing half so real in life as the things you’ve done….Inexorably, unalterably done.”–Margaret Ayer Barnes

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Music’s Importance

“Music is the universal language of mankind.’–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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