It is important to me because I spent a ton of my life with low self-esteem and I used others to feel better about myself. I pretended to love so that I may be loved as a result. *** Submitted by Laurence Chester Obong, Philippines We are only as good as how we want ourselves...
101. “Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.” - Arianna Huffington“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.”...
One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking about Einstein. Hardy had met him several times, and I had recently returned from visiting him. Hardy was saying that in his lifetime there had only been two ...
As I looked at them this thought came into my mind: If one of those grains had been planted on the banks of the Nile the year after it grew, and all its lineal descendants had been planted and replanted from that time until now, its progeny would to-day be sufficiently numerous to f...
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust. —Aldrich Ames ...
The Spanish commanding officer, Admiral Montojo, had been given woefully outdated warships to patrol the Philippines and with which to defend the Bay. He also believed that the Bay had certain natural defences that meant that sailors unfamiliar with the area would not be able to attack it until...
Some say he’s convinced Tami Canal is a former president of the Philippines, and he’s the only person in the world who’s immune to diabetes. All we know is, he’s called the Stig. Some say his toenails provide the main root of every single magical girl’s powers, and he once ...
… But I would like to know about Mendel, because I remember going to the Philippines and thinking “this is like Mendel’s garden” because it had been invaded by so many different countries over the years, and you could see the children shared the genetic traits of all their invaders ...
We should not be satisfied by merely quoting the doctrine of equality as laid down in the Declaration of Independence, but we should give it practical illustration. We have to do as well as to be. If we had built great ships, sailed around the world, taught the science of navigation, ...