Author: Dr Wingnut
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Weakness
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?Robert Louis Stevenson
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How does this happen
Today I was watching a piece on PBS about all the film people who fled the Nazis and how their contributions really changed Hollywood. A thought came to me, what would the world be like today, if instead of Hitler coming to power in Germany, if his character came to power in America? I wonder…
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Education
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.John Adams
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Goofus International and Gallant Microsystems
Hostile or charming: Which kind of software company are you?Do you remember reading Highlights for Children as a kid—or having it read to you? Your mom would recite the magazine’s preschooler-friendly lumps of moral and intellectual fiber, which were all done up in simple line drawings and noun-verb sentences.I was deeply affected by one Highlights…
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Work, Love, and Play
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.James Russell Lowell