Society
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
Feb 18 2013
– Elie Wiesel, a Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps.
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
Feb 12 2013
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
Feb 8 2013
– C.S. Lewis, was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland.
Rare Historical Photos Pt. 7 [20 Pics]
Feb 6 2013
Another roundup of the popular historical series of posts that we do. You can find the previous post here, and the start of the series here.
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Feb 5 2013
– Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, philosophy, and science.
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Feb 3 2013
– Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Feb 2 2013
– Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), was an American author and humorist.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Jan 31 2013
– Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
Jan 28 2013
– Terry Pratchett, an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for the Discworld series of about 40 volumes.
Fallout Shelters for Everyone!
Jan 27 2013
In case you don't have $1.5M to spend on the perfect house to survive the apocalypse in, Atlas Survival Shelters offers a reasonably priced alternative!
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Jan 24 2013
– Benjamin Franklin, a noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, diplomat.
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
Jan 20 2013
– Dr Seuss, an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books.
“You will get what you want, when you stop making excuses on why you don’t have it.”
Jan 10 2013
– Unknown.
“Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use.”
Jan 8 2013
– Ruth Gordon, was an American actress and writer. She was best known for her film role as Minnie Castevet in the movie “Rosemary's Baby”,
