permalink.gif 2004-12-21

permalink.gif Aristotle knew a thing or two

Tue Dec 21 12:37:37 GMT 2004  Permalink 

From David Gurteen's knowledge quotations mailing, I really enjoyed todays:
"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled
habit of performing such actions."

*** Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek Philosopher ***
Which resonates with me and seems to fit so well with another favourite from Aristotle:
"I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies;
For the hardest victory is the victory over self."

permalink.gif How to make me sick

Tue Dec 21 09:39:53 GMT 2004  Permalink 

Make President Bush your Person of the Year for 2004 like Time magazine did.
For sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his ten-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years, George W. Bush is TIME's 2004 Person of the Year.
I'm not going to link to them or their vapid puff piece which paints Bush "the caring" and Bush "the deep thinker" but not Bush "the man of god whose overseen's the bombing of two countries and it's people into the stone age." Not Bush "the man who rolls back civil liberties and centralizes power to give to his cronies." This is the man that they hold up as worth of respect and admiration? It's a big world and there are so many better people in it that it's not even funny as a joke.

I wish I had a subscription so that I could cancel it.

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