Fiction has to be plausible. Reality is under no such constraint.
Frankly, I think this makes for a great thought as we begin to formulate our New Year’s resolutions:
[T]he ancients knew something which we seem to have forgotten. All means prove but a blunt instrument, if they have not behind them a living spirit. But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.
– Albert Einstein
(Full text found here.)
(1)Stumbling around the Internet, I found this and thought it worth reprinting here. It’s the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one of the cornerstone documents of the United Nations.
Read through it and see whether your government is violating any of these principles. You might be surprised (especially if you live in the U.S. and have been keeping tabs on the entire “use of torture” debates).
Continue reading ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’
(0)This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
(1)I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.
“I’m glad that the act of giving birth has not come to be known as ‘going number three.’”
– Matthew Baldwin, DefectiveYeti
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