Monday, July 30, 2012

Advice, Albert Einstein


The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Beauty, Ralph Waldo Emerson


If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

- Constantine Peter Cavafy

Advice, Dale Carnegie


You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

- Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)

Monday, July 23, 2012

Advice, H. Jackson Brown


Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

- H. Jackson Brown

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Writing·Reading, Mark Twain


The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Bureaucracy, Dean Acheson


A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

- Dean Acheson (1893-1971)

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Advice, Aesop


Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

- Aesop (620-564 BC)

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Beauty, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller


Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Allied powers did not accept Japan’s claim over Dokdo

http://m.news.naver.com/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=004&oid=040&aid=0000126519

Allied powers did not accept Japan’s claim over Dokdo

Tokyo’s assertions over peace treaty invalid

The San Francisco Peace Treaty signed by Japan and the Allied Powers in 1951 following World War II fell short of clearly defining the legal ownership of Dokdo, rocky islets sitting midway between Korea and Japan in the East Sea.

Thus, questions remain on how we should interpret the ambiguity of the treaty, which officially ended the war with Japan and what prompted the Allied Powers, including the United States, to decide to omit Dokdo from it.

With the aim of exploring the opposing claims of Seoul and Tokyo over the contentious issue, The Korea Times and the Northeast Asian History Foundation jointly organized the 3rd International Dokdo Essay Contest this year.


BY Audwin Wilkinson

Advice, French Proverb


Rome was not built in a day.

- Le Proverbe au Vilain (c. 1190), French phrase


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_Wasn't_Built_in_a_Day_(disambiguation)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heywood

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Monday, July 2, 2012

Inspiration, Yoda, Starwars


Do or do not. There is no try.

- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Celebrities, Charles Barkley


My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

- Charles BARKLEY (1963- ), on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of figure skating", 1994