Author Archives: rdavies

Most Famous People Who Influenced and Changed the World Significantly in History Alexander the Great Aristotle Louis Armstrong The Beatles Beethoven Ingmar Bergman Buddha Julius Caesar Lewis Carroll Rachel Carson Charlie Chaplin Agatha Christie Winston Churchill Cleopatra Columbus Confucius Copernicus … Continue reading →

was his project with his poodle to ‘take the temperature of America’.

about/with the millions of crazy, stupid, and dangerous people of the world.

We watched an Escape to the Country episode this morning from several years back set in North Yorkshire and featuring a female llama owner showing the prospective newcomers her herd and waxing eloquently about llama ownership and care. Passed the online … Continue reading →

Concerned today about the beauty and pristineness of farmland (protecting her base’s interests) while letting coal mining of the beautiful Rockies go ahead.

His 1950 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. Innumerable, interesting historical and cultural allusions. Some political incorrectness and frequently irreverent. Full of insights and much relevance to today‘s world. He begins by outlining human nature’s basic acquisitiveness, rivalry, vanity, and power. Eventually gets … Continue reading →

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. You see things, you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and … Continue reading →

Certain things have to be, the sun has to rise. Everything we are is at every moment alive in us. I am still feeling kinda temporary about myself. All you can do is your best at any one moment. I … Continue reading →

“I think what we have to ask is what sort of a social pattern and what sort of political regime is best calculated to help the individuals within the society to realize the maximum extent of their desirable potentialities. I … Continue reading →