Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)
Not only do some nations seem to believe that they must be cruel to be tough, many individuals have adopted this belief as [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Is Media Reported Cruelty Realistic?
Posted in Media on March 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If You Are Extreme, You Don’t Matter
Posted in Human Nature on March 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
- Susan Sontag, author and critic (1933-2004)
(or, what I see is not what you painted)
This applies as much to writing or any other art as it does to painting or sculpture.
Sometimes it shocks me how a reader can find the least important part of something I have [...]
Why Having Long Term Life Goals Might Save You
Posted in Human Nature on March 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
- J.M. Barrie, novelist and playwright (1860-1937)
How many people really do plan their lives, lay out the [...]
Why Intelligent People Tend To Be Unhappy
Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)
Hemingway, who took his own life in 1961, knew his share of both intelligent people and of unhappiness. He lived through two world wars, the Great Depression, four wives and an unknown number of failed romantic relationships, none [...]
