Let The Children Live…

For What Its Worth, Buffalo Springfield, from the OST of Lord of War
There’s battle lines being drawn/Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
A brother of mine just sent me two speeches by Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, who is a peace activist and professor at Hebrew University. I did some more searching and found some essays that speak more [...]

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Thank you, Randy.

Randy Pausch, who influenced the lives of millions of people with his Last Lecture, died today, Friday July 25th, at his home in Virginia. Everyone knew it was inevitable, but if its affected all the strangers who had been touched by his words and wisdom, like myself, I can’t imagine what his family is going [...]

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Randy Pausch and Hope

I was watching Oprah today and, because he’s everywhere on the news, Randy Pausch was on. Along with Dr. Mehmet Oz. If you haven’t heard of either, you haven’t been watching the news. Wikipedia ‘em both. Randy Pausch is the famous professor dying of pancreatic cancer, whose powerful last lecture has become famous universally. Dr. [...]

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Ayn Rand Wisdom of the moment. "What is morality…

Ayn Rand Wisdom of the moment.
“What is morality?” she asked
“Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.”
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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