“If you believe in trying to make the best of the finite number of years we have on this planet, think that pride and self-righteousness are the cause of most conflict and negativity, and are humbled by the vastness and mystery of the Universe, then I’m the same religion as you.” Sal Khan (Who’s he?)
12. Quote of the Week
“Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.” Groucho Marx
12. Quote of the Week
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.” Marshall McLuhan
12. Quote of the Week
“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.” Bill Adama, Battlestar Galactica
12. Quotes of the Week
* “It is my profound conviction that the world requires – today more than ever – enlightened, thoughtful politicians who are bold and broad-minded enough to consider things that lie beyond the scope of their immediate influence in both space and time. We need politicians willing and able to rise above their own power interests, or the particular interests of their parties or states, and act in accordance with the fundamental interests of humanity today – that is, to behave the way everyone should behave, even though most may fail to do so.” Vaclav Havel (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) last president of Czechoslovakia, first president of the Czech Republic
* “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” Buddha
12. Quote of the Week: In Memoriam
“I am an anti-Zionist. I’m one of those people of Jewish descent who believes that Zionism would be a mistake even if there were no Palestinians.” Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011)
12. Quote of the Week
“I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.” Bjarne Stroustrup
12. Quote of the Week
“You think you are doing it for stretching, but it leads to Hinduism.”
The Vatican’s chief exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth, on the dangers of yoga.
12. Quote of the Week
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” – George Orwell
12. Quote of the Week Quiz
Bird’s Eye: One of these was said by Herman Cain, putative Republican candidate for President; the other by President Schwarzenegger, a cartoon fantasy in Simpsons – The Movie. Guess, click, cry.
12 Quote of the Week (on Netanyahu)
Sarkozy: “I cannot stand him. He’s a liar.”
Obama,“You’re fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day.”
Backstory: Microphones accidentally left on at the G20
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