"When we see the Earth from space, we see ourselves as a whole. We see the unity, and not the divisions. It is such a simple image with a compelling message: one planet, one human race."
Stephen Hawking, "Brief Answers to the Big Questions"
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
Albert Einstein, Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929
“I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves — this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.”
Albert Einstein, “My World-view”
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This war will go down in history. So will the man who started it, as the biggest loser of this century.
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"Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly."
Edward Albee, "The Zoo Story"
“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
Jack Kerouac, “The Dharma Bums”
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"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
Douglas Adams, "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
"Just because people are liars is no reason for us to be fools."
Erle Stanley Gardner, "The Case of the Grinning Gorilla"
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Does it matter that Trump ordered the U.S. military to carry out an operation to kidnap a foreign leader that resulted in his gaining access to and control of $2 billion?
All this is reported as if these are normal things that happen in the United States.
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“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.”
Clare Boothe Luce, “Europe in the Spring”
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Beautiful, Kimm. Good morning!
72 years ago today Edward R. Murrow took on Sen. Joe McCarthy and began his downfall.
Journalistic integrity depends on the truth, not on presenting a lie for fear of retribution or in the name of fairness. Murrow told the truth. This is how he signed off that day.
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"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."
Charles Bukowski, "Women"
I can assure you that after this war, as it has been true after every war, the dead will speak louder than any of the noise we hear from the man who ordered them into a war nobody wanted and that neither they, nor the world deserved.
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“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.”
Neil Postman, “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”
“If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.”
Neil Postman, “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”
On International Women’s Day…
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Good morning, Kimm!
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“It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.”
Georgia O'Keeffe, “Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life”
