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Quotes October 15, 2018

That awkward moment when a nap becomes sleep and you wake up confused about year you’re in.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
If you type adeptly with 10 fingers, you’re typing faster than your mind is working.
James A. Michener
 
 
 
 
“The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.”
Dr. Roopleen
 
 
 
 
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
William Feather
 
 
 
 
“Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.”
Khalid
 
 
 
 
“You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.”
Babe Ruth
 
 
 
 
“We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.”
LYDIA MILLET
 
 
 
 
It takes both sides to build a bridge.
Fredrik Nael
 
 
 
 
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Zig Ziglar,
writer and motivational speaker
 
 
 
 
In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power.
Muriel Rukeyser,
poet
 
 
 
 
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
essayist, poet and philosopher
 
 
 
 
“After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated then for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let ’em sink or swim.”
MAJ Audie Murphy
 
 
 
 
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
Napoleon Bonaparte,
military leader and emperor

Quotes August 07, 2018

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“Beauty isn’t worth thinking about; what’s important is your mind. You don’t want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.”
Garrison Keillor
 
 
 
 
“Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one’s self.”
Priscilla Presley
 
 
 
 
“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?”
Mary Manin Morrissey
 
 
 
 
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein,
writer
 
 
 
 
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.
Charles Babbage,
mathematician, engineer and inventor

Quotes July 31, 2018

“That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.”
Robyn Schneider, ‘Extraordinary Means’
 
 
 
 
“The human brain is a cultural artifact. We don’t load culture into a virgin brain like software loading into a computer; rather, culture helps to wire the brain. Brains then become carriers of culture, helping to create and perpetuate it.”
Lisa Feldman Barrett
 
 
 
 
“Writing is frustration – it’s daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It’s just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.”
(The New York Times.)
 
 
 
 
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
writer
 
 
 
 
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.
Mitch Albom,
journalist and broadcaster
 
 
 
 
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine,
philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary
 
 
 
 
“I have a new sociological theory that accounts for most human behavior. It is this: people are idiots.”
Scott Adams
 
 
 
 
It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
John Stuart Mill,
philosopher and political economist

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Quotes July 24, 2018

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
Moliere,
playwright, actor and poet
 
 
 
 
It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
John Stuart Mill,
philosopher and political economist
 
 
 
 
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine,
philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary
 
 
 
 
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
 
 
 
 
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius

Videos July 15, 208

The internet exists in a restricted, arguably manipulated form within China, yet it is massive and has vastly improved the lives of its citizens. The country’s largest e-commerce platform, Taobao, now boasts 580 million monthly active users. It’s about 80 percent larger than Amazon. On-demand travel, between bikes and cars, now accounts for 10 billion trips a year in China. That’s two-thirds of all trips taken around the world. So even in its imperfection, the growth of the Chinese internet should not be dismissed.”
Gary Liu
The rapid growth of the Chinese internet — and where it’s headed
 
 
 
 
By William Hughes: It’s 3 p.m., so let a rapping safety angel teach you all about the glory of bike helmets
 
https://youtu.be/prhQixo0sFI
 
 
 
 
https://youtu.be/RtZl_GE4690
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Videos May 23, 2018

https://youtu.be/LQRBvtsY_o4
 
 
 
 
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Flash-back

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Jamnik church on top of the hill on a moody and stormy day (Dreamy Pixel)

Images May 08, 2018

Running Away From Home?


 
 
 
 

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Images May 06, 2018