QotD: "You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit." Harry S. Truman

And another good site:
The Tuva Trader

Richard Feynman : The Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures : Streamed video

This looks like a great thing to watch. Thanks to Lee Herder for pointing them out.

QotD: "Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." Tom Lehrer

QotD: So instead of loving what you think is peace,
Love others, and love God above all.
And instead of hating the people you think are warmongers,
hate the appetite and the disorder in your own soul,
which are the causes of war.
If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed--
But hate these things in yourself,
not in another.
--Thomas Merton

I can't vouch for the truthfullness of the Mother Teresa reference, but I like the words.

After Mother Teresa's death some years ago, a friend informed me that the following statement was found on her bedside table. Apparently it also was posted on the walls in some of her clinics :::::

"People are often unreasonable,
illogical and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse
you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
people may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,
someone may destroy overnight.
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will
often forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough.
Give the best you've got anyway."

Q2otD: Edmund Burke: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

QotD: "Those who remember the past may not know when it is over." Lane Kirkland, President of the AFLCIO

QotD: "...whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians." Swift in Gulliver's Travels

QotD: "Between us and heaven or hell, there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world." Pascal in Pensees, #214