Ob´e`lus
n. 1. (Print.) A mark [thus m, or ÷]; - so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Quarantine - Day 31
Trump's check
Today a lovely check signed by Donald J. Trump with a nice, handwritten note thanking us for our perseverance during this time arrived in our bank account via direct deposit. The check had other places to be, however, and couldn’t stay long. Wishing us well, it disappeared into the fog of memory.
"News is what powerful people don't want you to hear. Everything else is publicity."
—Bill Moyers
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"Human
beings are all members of one body. They are created from the
same essence. When one member is in pain, The others
cannot rest. If you do not care about the pain of others, You
do not deserve to be called a human being."
—
A Quote from Famous Persian Poet Saadi Shirazi ( 13th century
Persian poet from Shiraz / Iran )
"It is a tribute to the humanity of ordinary people that horrible acts must be camouflaged [with words] like security, peace, freedom, democracy, the 'national interest'."
—
Howard Zinn, Boston University professor and former Second World War bomber
pilot, USA.
"My momma always told me: don't be so open minded your brains fall out."
- Erin O'Toole
"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
—
Robert Frost
"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
—
Justice Robert H. Jackson
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
—
Martin Luther King Jr.
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
—
Dan Quayle
"War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism."
—Philip Berrigan
"Don't take life too seriously: it isn't permanent."
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