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Life and Politics 101

Michael — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:36:35 +0000

The demands are infinite but the resources are finite.

America will never be destoyed from the outside

Michael — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:09:19 +0000

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Those who would give up essential liberty

Michael — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:19:16 +0000

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

On Photography

Michael — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:56:19 +0000

In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads — as an anthology of images.

Susan Sontag
Excerpt from On Photography

Never more true

Michael — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:00:18 +0000

In politics, partisanship is a force that can make things happen. But taken too far, it blinds us to whether things deserve to happen.

– David Frum
Former speechwriter for President George W. Bush

Aphorism

Michael — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:38:14 +0000

aph·o·rism (Äƒf`É™rÄz’É™m)
n.
1. A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage.