18- The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world. 19- A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisd...
And your nature has two things to shun: error and misery. Your reason does not suffer by your choosing one more than the other, for you must choose. That is one point cleared. But your happiness? Let us weigh gain and loss in calling heads that God is. Reckon these two chances: if...
Engineering, too, owes its most useful materials to the achievements of chemists in identifying, separating, and transforming materials: structural steel for the framework of bridges and buildings, portland cement for roadways and aqueducts, pure copper for the electrical industries, aluminum alloys for...
(Don't lose yourself, return to you, inside of you lives the truth. - Augustine) Words of strength for those who struggle to be themselves. via:Mantelligence 37. Si vis amari, ama (If you wish to be loved, love. - Augustine) Great advice for those afraid to put themselves out there...
People casually refer to humanity as a virus spreading across the earth. In fact, we do look like some strange kind of bio-film spreading across the landscape. A good metaphor? If the biosphere is our host, we do use it up for our own benefit. We do manipulate it. We alter the ...