QUOTE A DAY - April 15, 2014

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
--Alan Cohen

In order to save a failed model, ever more intricate patches are created to prop up the notion that online media can utilize science and math to cure its ills.
--Jaffer Ali, From an article, "The Center Cannot Hold"

The history of medical fashions, it may be remarked, is at least as grotesque as the history of fashions in women's hats - at least as grotesque and, since human lives are at stake, considerably more tragic.
--Aldous Huxley


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
The vast majority of the world's resources - not just monetary wealth, but land, resources and raw materials - is owned and controlled by a tiny minority of states, monarchs, aristocratic families, banks and corporations. It is no accident that the Queen of Great Britain - arguably the harbinger of contemporary global capitalism before its supercession by the United States - is the world's largest landlord, owning about 6.6 billion acres of land. That is one-sixth of the Earth's land surface. It gets worse. 1318 corporations own 80% of the world's wealth*, and out of that, a tiny interlocking nexus of 147 'super corporations' own half of that.
--Nafeez Ahmed, from "The Global Tipping Point Has Arrived"
[* http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html#.U0vPm01OX3g ]

Through seeking we may learn, and know things better. But as for certain truth, no man has known it...
--XenophanesXenophanes

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent or omniscient--that we are only 6 percent of the world's population--that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind--that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity--and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.
--John F. Kennedy, 1961 Speech


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

ANSWER: Steve Jobs

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