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Above Politics?

April 11, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

I don’t want politicians who are ‘above politics,’ any more then I want a plumber who’s ‘above toilets’.’
— Ta-Nahesi Coates

Filed Under: Politics, Quotes

James Monroe, first inaugural address, 1817

March 28, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

“It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.”
~James Monroe, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1817

Filed Under: Politics, Quotes

Tools of Conquest

March 14, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts… attitudes… prejudices. To be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and the thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone.”

Closing narration by Rod Serling from The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street. Read it again, and hear Rod Serling’s voice and delivery. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Commentary, Quotes

Fear Itself

February 22, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

Of all the liers in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.
—Rudyard Kipling

Filed Under: Quotes

Executive Ability

January 11, 2016 by Avogadro Mole

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
~John G. Pollard

Filed Under: Politics, Quotes

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

— Charles Kingsley

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Sanity is the trademark of a weak mind. — Mark Harrold

Avogadro's Number and I go 'way back. When I first started writing in what might be considered a blog precursor, a fanzine, I called my 'zine "Avogadro's Number". Named after...[more...]
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