It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. – Thomas Huxley I have been going around citing a quotation recently (no, not that one above), that may in fact be made-up. Although devising things to impress others is not new to me (in the form of short stories, mind you, not…
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier I have a secret. A dark and shifting, wormy secret… All right, maybe I hyped that up a little bit. But I do have a secret—one that I’ve been carrying around for the last two years. That is, until I recently learned that it’s far…
It’s man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that leads him to evil ways. — Buddah Today…I’m feeling a little devilish. My blood’s a little warmer. There’s an elusive gleam in my eye. The world seems primed for my conquering. Cue the grinningly sinister music. In social psychology, our focus is often on the context of…
It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate. – William Faulkner On December 9th, 2013 Michael Deng, a freshman pledge for the fraternity Pi Delta Psi, participated in an initiation ritual called the “glass ceiling.” For it, he was blindfolded and strapped with a 20 pound backpack…
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. — Harry S. Truman If you were a good American and free at 4:00pm EST on Tuesday, you saw the United States’ national soccer team fight valiantly but ultimately lose in the World…
Nearly all men can withstand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln. Camping in the woods with friends is fun. Camping on a nest of your dirty clothes in the airport is not. But thanks to Mother Nature’s sudden fascination with lightning, I got to experience the…