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Didn’t You Know You’ve Got to Cry Sometime?

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Steve Simms

Diana Ross sings a song that asks this question: “Didn’t you know you have to cry sometime?” However, a popular myth in our day says: “Strong people don’t cry,” or “Real men don’t cry.” Why, then, do they have tear ducts? The … Continue reading →

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The Greatest Country In The World

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Steve Simms

The greatest country in the world not a democracy. It is a kingdom with a benevolent ruler. Yet, the greatest nation in the world is a great melting pot. It’s citizens are originally from various countries all over the planet — from … Continue reading →

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Warning: Use Self-Directed Censorship

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Steve Simms

John Locke was an English philosopher and political theorist. His ideas about freedom greatly influenced America’s founding fathers and are reflected in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, Locke believed in a kind of censorship, a self-directed control of what we … Continue reading →

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The Rolling Stones, Satisfaction, & Sadhu Sundar Singh

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Steve Simms

The Rolling Stones sang: “I can’t get no satisfaction ‘Cause I try and I try and I try and I try I can’t get no, I can’t get no.” And the Stones are not alone. The inability to find satisfaction seems to … Continue reading →

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Pythagoras’ Other Pythageorean Theorem

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Steve Simms

Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher, Pythagoras, (born in 570 B.C.) found out an interesting fact about triangles. If a triangle has a right angle (90 degrees) and you make a square on each of the three sides, the biggest square … Continue reading →

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America Needs Mysticism

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Steve Simms

What does America need? To “throw out the incumbents”? “Change”? “Economic recovery”? “Universal health care”? “To “keep the Bush tax cuts”? “Stimulus”? To stop the “obesity epidemic”? A balanced budget? To deal with illegal immigration? To win or stop its … Continue reading →

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Observations From Reading Quotation Books

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Steve Simms

“Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink . . . I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom. ” ~Terri Guillemets … Continue reading →

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I Don’t Like Shakespeare (Neither Did Tolstoy)

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Steve Simms

If you have ever attended high school, you’ve probably been made to read a play (or several plays and sonnets) by William Shakespeare. For me reading Shakespeare was very hard work. I don’t like Shakespeare. Then my daughter (who graduated … Continue reading →

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Didn’t You Know You’ve Got to Cry Sometime?

Warning: Use Self-Directed Censorship

Pythagoras’ Other Pythageorean Theorem

Observations From Reading Quotation Books

I Don’t Like Shakespeare (Neither Did Tolstoy)

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