Tag: life
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Words to Ponder #12
“There is no time in history where the people who were censoring speech were the good guys.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. There are a number of reasons why one might want another person’s speech to be censored. Ultimately, though, it is most often for the reason that one cannot defend their own ideas against that…
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Words to Ponder #10
“Ever tried. Ever failed. matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett This happens to be one of my favorite quotes, and one that I have a lot of trouble actually following. Failure is such a scary thing, even when it has little in the way of down-sides. We don’t like failing, and often…
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Words to Ponder #8
“It was, Stern thought, a classic real-world scientific problem. Weighing risks, weighing uncertainties. Most people never understood that the majority of scientific problems took this form. Acid rain, global warming, environmental cleanup, cancer risks—these complex questions were always a balancing act, a judgement call. How good was the research? How trustworthy were the scientists who…
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Words to Ponder #7
“Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.” Plato I didn’t know about this quote until today. Even thousands of years ago people knew that a person who was not engaged in learning — who didn’t want to learn, would likely not. It’s not unlike the adage, “you can lead a horse to water…” Yet,…
Jeremy C Kester 