More women in government could also boost economic growth:  Studies show that women are more likely to spend money on improving health, education, infrastructure and poverty and less likely to waste it on tanks and bombs. –“Parents take note:  It’s a woman’s world now”, from The Economist, reprinted in the [...] Read more »

There is often in people to whom ‘the worst’ has happened and almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced ‘the worst’ and survived it. –Carol Pearson, in Strib 10/2/05, p E1   Traveling is the ruin of all happiness.  There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy. [...] Read more »

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but THEY mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. –Virginia Woolf, in Strib 9/22/05 p E1 So embrace [...] Read more »

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.  No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.  What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for [...] Read more »

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.  Our antagonist is our helper. –Edmund BurkeA liberal society thrives on disagreement, but is killed by dissension.  Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer. –Daniel Boorstin (Strib 5/15/04) One life stamps and influences another, [...] Read more »