Throughout history, the characteristic feature of the nation state is its monopoly of violence.
You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
For the grateful, there is no room for disappointment; Each moment offers life.
I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interes...
Life is war, war is game so life is game. Either lose or win. Know it earlier
Through challenge and difficulty, we learn to see life differently than before.
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.
Traces of the same spiritual concepts and symbolism that enlighten the Egyptian texts are found all around the world among cultures that we can be certain were never in direct contact. Straightforward...