“There is no more far-seeing investment for a nation than to put milk, food and education into young children.” – Winston Churchill
Quotation of the Day – Oct. 30, 2017
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Quotation of the Day – Oct. 23, 2017
“Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.” – Mark Twain
Quotations of the Day – Oct. 20, 2017
“We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. At times, it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. Argument turns too easily into animosity. Disagreement escalates into dehumanization.”
George W. Bush
“We’re all flawed, but we still try to presume some baseline measure of goodness and decency and patriotism. We look for the good in people, not the worst.”
Barack Obama, also speaking yesterday
Thought of the Day – Oct. 17, 2017
We have youth orchestras, almost always led by veteran conductors. I’d be interested in hearing a concert with musicians all over 65. Chamber music ensembles that have been together for decades only seem to improve.
Back in January 1971, I attended a concert in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. I was a college student, and my impression was that many of the musicians were retirement age. Somehow I ended up with a seat on stage, close enough to read the music of the last cello player. At one point during the Beethoven 4th, this older gentleman half turned and nodded at me, eyes twinkling. The thing is, he did this while he was playing. Never forgotten that.
Quotation of the Day – Oct. 16, 2017
“Peer nation-states make agreements with the US in part because we tend to stick to our agreements, even through the change of administrations. The entirety of Trump’s vision of ‘deal-making’ is one in which you bully and cajole and threaten the other party until you get a deal that works for you and not them. That may make sense in the highly shystery world of New York real estate. But in the global order we’re going to be dealing with Germany and France and China and Mexico … well, we’re going to be dealing with them forever. Not everything is Kumbaya in international relations. Far from it. But except in war, and not even always then, it’s not zero sum.” – Josh Marshall at TPM, explaining why a strategy that relies on “For Me to Win, You Have to Lose” is self-defeating in international affairs
Quotations of the Day – Oct. 14, 2017
“Never turn down a front row seat for human folly.” – Nora Ephron, as quoted by Tom Hanks. He himself says, “If you’re in debt, you can’t say no. You have to have what David Niven called f***-you money.”
See his interview in today’s Guardian.
Picture of the Day – Oct. 10, 2017
RIP Y.A. Tittle 1926-2017
Photo by Dozier Mobley
Quotation of the Day – Oct. 8, 2017
“All of us are jacked into this system. All of our minds can be hijacked. Our choices are not as free as we think they are.” – Tristan Harris, a 33-year-old former Google employee turned vocal critic of the tech industry.
See “Our Minds Can Be Hijacked” – The Tech Insiders Who Fear a Smartphone Dystopia, http://www.theguardian.com, Oct. 6, 2017. The article is long but worth reading.
Quotation of the Day – October 6, 2017
“I am not religious but how can a musician not be spiritual?”
Simon Rattle
Thought of the Day – Oct. 5, 2017
Gun rights advocates tell stories of individuals who successfully defend themselves, their families and property. Gun control advocates, on the other hand, tend to rely on statistics, which is emotionally much less compelling. To make their case, they would do better to focus on the tragic stories of children accidentally firing weapons and killing or wounding themselves and family members. This, too, happens much more frequently in the US than anywhere else in the world.
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