January 2011
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Disrespect for the Future
Came across this bit of nice perception:
“Every time we postpone some necessary event—whether we put off doing the dishes till morning or defer an operation or some difficult labor or study—we do so with the implication that present time is more important than future time (for if we wished the future to be as free and comfortable as we wish the present to be, we would perform the necessary actions...
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Martin Luther King Jr. on Loving Your Enemies
This is a transcription of a speech Martin Luther King Jr. gave in 1957 on the subject of loving your enemies, and the link is posted here, along with a few excerpts, in the spirit of his holiday (though a few days late). It is a beautiful speech, and one that was given six years prior to the famous “I Have a Dream” speech. It is nice to read a different kind of speech from this...
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