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posted by Donald on 03/28/11

Your life, for you, is the “greatest drama of all time” for sure, as well as your greatest opportunity, but did you ever think that all of life, history and science is also one created entity, and therefore, under it’s Creator, the one “greatest riddle of all time”? I’ve reached as far as chapter one in Richardson’s book “Unhidden” and commend to you, from it’s first chapter, page 10, a quote about Sir Isaac Newton:

“He looked on the whole universe and all that is in it as a riddle, as a secret which could be read by applying pure thought to certain evidence, certain mystic clues which God has laid about the world to allow a sort of philosopher’s treasure hunt . . . He believed that these clues were to be found partly in certain papers and traditions handed down . . . He regarded the universe as a cryptogram set by the Almighty.”

– John Maynard Keynes, “Newton the Man”
Written for the Royal Society of London’s tercentenary [300th] celebration of Newton’s birth, 1942

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posted by James on 06/29/10

“The significant problems we face today cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
–Albert Eienstein

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posted by Michael on 05/6/10

James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States and a minister of the Gospel during the Second Great Awakening, wisely stated in 1876:

“Now, more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . [I]f the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.” ⁴⁴

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posted by James on 04/26/10

“To know how to say what other people only think,
is what makes men poets and sages;
and to dare to say what others only dare to think,
makes men martyrs or reformers.”
–Elizabeth Rundle Charles

in Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family, XIV,
(a biography on the life of Martin Luther).

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posted by James on 04/16/10

“If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five?
No; calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.”

–traditionally attributed to Abraham Lincoln

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