Big Thoughts, Human-sized Canvas
Language, as the single most fundamental force of the human intellect, has the power to alter perception. We think in words, and these words have the power to limit us or to set…
In one of the Buddha’s discourses, he talks about the four kinds of horses: the excellent horse, the good horse, the poor horse, and the really bad horse. The excellent …
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers…
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
He who has suffer’d you to impose on him, knows you.
As the plow follows words, so God rewards prayers.
The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Expect poison from the standing water…
They don’t make ‘em like they used to. Lowell’s poem “The Present Crisis” is an 18 stanza argument against slavery. This is poetic editorial, crammed with passionate pleading, laced with two-dollar words and high-minded symbolism. Can you imagine Khrushchev writing a poem instead of…
“I know that, Tony. But maybe I’m just not cut out for making a stand. I came back here to exorcise old ghosts, not take part in a gangster shoot-out.”
Valenti nodded. “Well, it’s your decision, Frankie. Either…”
To seize the sword instead of the olive branch–that is a choice.
To teach children to hate–is a choice.
To glorify murderers as martyrs–is a choice.
To dehumanize and disrespect the dignity of others–is a…
I have been one of those who have carried the fight for complete freedom of information in the United Nations. And while accepting the fact that some of our press, our radio commentators, our prominent citizens and our …
This is the scene that launches the rest of the movie. Everything beforehand leads to Morpheus’s offer, and everything afterward springs from Neo’s decision.
The first Matrix movie was released on March 31st, 1999. Since then, a…
Anna Sewell’s one and only published book was Black Beauty. She wrote it while in declining health, in her early to mid 50′s, publishing at the age of…
Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it…
