Personal reflections on daily life, political and artistic issues by a middle-aged man who feels the need to step back from corporate life and think a little harder about the things that matter.
"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself."
- John Macnaughton
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"Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plentitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties ... What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more."
- Susan Sontag
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"It's not that I'm so smart. It's just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein
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"For every complex question there is a simple answer, and it is wrong."
- H. L. Mencken
I'm passing on links to the hilarious Bill Maher/Robin Williams/Joe Biden video on Gannongate. Found them at Comments From Left Field, a blog I've just discovered. Thanks, Mike.
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