Missed Opportunities The best way to remedy past missed opportunities is to not miss today’s opportunities. No sense in bemoaning the past and the mistakes you made. Look instead toward the future, for it is the only thing you can change.
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Category: Ideas
Karl Marx on Making History
Karl Marx on Making History “People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.” – Karl Marx “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon”
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Change Is Not For the Timid
Change Is Not For the Timid Easy: Sitting on your ass making snarky comments about how crappy the world is. Difficult: Actually getting up and doing something to improve the world. The lazy choose easy and help the world stay crappy. Improvements come from the brave not from the timid.
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The Problem With Humanity
The Problem With Humanity The problem with humanity is that we hear far more “me” and “you” than “we” and “us.”
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Blaise Pascal on Light and Darkness
Blaise Pascal on Light and Darkness “There is light enough for those who wish to see, and darkness enough for those who are otherwise inclined.” – Blaise Pascal Pascal is best known for the misnamed “Pascal’s Wager,” his easily misunderstood argument on personal decision making. In this quote, Pascal gives […]
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Don’t Be a Billboard.
You are a person, don’t be a billboard. In the brave new world of mass-market consumerism, you can purchase all manner of clothing. You have a wide variety of brands from which to chose. Many of those brands are more than happy to sell you clothes with their name on […]
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Ad Blockers Are Helping the Corporations Kill Net Neutrality
Ad Blockers You wouldn’t take a book from a book store without paying for it or sneak in and out of a movie theater to watch a film without paying. Well, maybe you would, but if you ever did those things that would make you a thief. One of the […]
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To Make Sense of the Brexit Mess, Think Deeper
One thing that most Leavers and Remainers can agree on is that the Brexit process has been a mess. Who is to blame for that mess is as contentious an argument as Brexit itself. To understand why Brexit happened and also why the Brexit process has been in disarray, I […]
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If You Aren’t Embarrassed
If You Aren’t Embarrassed If you aren’t at all embarrassed about how you used to be, you haven’t grown.
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Football Explains the World
Football, absurdly named “soccer” in the United States, is the most popular sport in the world. It is the most popular sport in nearly every nation of the world. Most Americans don’t get football. They do not understand the sport nor the passion everyone else in the world has for […]
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