I confess myself to be a great admirer of tradition. The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward. – Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer-) Churchill (1874 – 1965) / (speech to the Royal College of Physicians, 2… More »
If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you don’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old. – E. W. [Edgar Watson] Howe (1853 – 1937) More »
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. – Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672) (Image by Myriams-Fotos from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound… More »
It is easy when you are beaten. – Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899 – 1961): The Old Man and the Sea More »
It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. It’s a crazy world out there. Be curious. – Stephen (William) Hawking (1942 – 2018)… More »
![IMAGE: I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street. [I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/london-600921_640-200x133.jpg)
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street. [I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and… More »
(In the Universe it may be that) Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth. – Stephen (William) Hawking (1942 – 2018) (Image by Stefan Keller from… More »
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. – John F(itzgerald) Kennedy (1917 – 63) More »
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. – Eugène Ionesco (1912 – 94) More »
I never think of the future — it comes soon enough. – Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) More »
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
