Monthly Archives: March 2015

On the Importance of Consciousness

“There is nothing in life except what one thinks of it.”–Wallace Stevens

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On Kidding Oneself That Activity Is More Important than Anything Else

“Beware the barreness of a busy life.”–Socrates

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On Assuming That Nothing Changes and a Good Thing Will Always Be

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”–Aldous Huxley

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On Choosing for Self Rather Than for Others

“Better be alone than in bad company.”–Thomas Fuller

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On Money and Materialistic Obsession

“It is better to live rich than to die rich.”–Samuel Johnson

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On the Need for Curiosity

“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.”–Francis Bacon

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On Sedentary Lifestyle via Excessive Screens

“I can only meditate when I am walking. My mind only works with my legs.”–Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Hastings Finds Love!

Look for the Christie book and Poirot tv series episode entitled Murder on the Links. “Every dog has his day.”–George Borrow Both Christie and the great screen-writer Anthony Horowitz (who also created and wrote most of Foyle’s War as well … Continue reading

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Delusions of Grandeur

Laurie Blakeman, Liberal MLA, AB: “I changed the world“–after PCs pass their own distracting Bill 10 as a sop or smokescreen for the budget to follow. Massive, unabashed public ego.

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It only takes one falling domino

to make all the others fall. To cause significant change in whatever humdrum or stable life. Could be the death of a parent. Could be retirement. Could be…

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