We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. --Buddha
India has lost over 10M girls in 20 years
Analyzing information about 133,738 births, the researchers found that the deficit in the number of girls born as second children was more than twice as great among educated mothers than among illiterate ones, the report said.
Friendship does not come with the number of movies watched together or the number of places visited together. Neither does it come by hours spend on phone or what and how we share things.
Friendship is just a surity that the person wishes well for you, just a feeling of being comfortable and not having the need to put on a happy, sad or any other look to be accepted.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
-- Baltasar Gracian
Right Stuff and Wrong in the Boys Who Dare from NYTimes
FARRIS HASSAN, the 16-year-old Floridian who ran off to Iraq over the holidays, arrived home last week safe and sound. But that was only after he'd cut prep school and flown to Kuwait, taken a cab to the Iraqi border and been turned away, then flown to Beirut and on to Baghdad with little more than some cash, an Arabic phrase book and a half-baked plan to see for himself what was going on over there.
Mr. Hassan's war-zone jaunt was unusual but hardly the first or even the most outlandish of risky adolescent stunts. Remember Mathias Rust, the 19-year-old West German who in 1987 flew a tiny Cessna from Finland to Russia and landed in Red Square, hoping to bring Mikhail S. Gorbachev to terms of peace with the West? Or Keron Thomas, the 16-year-old Brooklyn subway enthusiast who in 1993 borrowed an A train for three hours and carried its 2,000 passengers safely and skillfully to their destinations?
Calvin and Hobbes
Don't you simply love Calvin & Hobbes. I do :) So here are some pearls of wisdom from them...
Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.
Why should I have to WORK for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it!
Childhood is short, maturity is forever.
True friends are hard to come by ... I need more money.
There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is.
I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ... Procrastinating and rationalizing.
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
- "I've been thinking Hobbes --"
- "On a weekend?"
- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..."
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?
More random quotes here
I have made a decision but some how I am not able to put it through in action... I wonder what is holding me back? Maybe the course of action is not clear.
King's Final Years from NewsWeek
The Northern campaign went into high gear with a rally at Soldier Field and a march to city hall, where King, like Martin Luther before him, nailed his 14 demands (for things like open housing and jobs in all-white industries) to the door. At first, Daley was conciliatory. He claimed that the problems all predated him and that he had already repaired more than 100,000 apartments. When a summer riot broke out in North Lawndale (Coretta told the children to back away from the windows), the mayor sought a truce with token concessions like fire-hydrant nozzles so black kids could cool off. King held all-night talks with gang leaders and Justice Department officials in the same room, but his commitment to nonviolence was belittled by newer "Black Power" leaders like Stokely Carmichael as "too Sunday-school."
The point of the Chicago campaign was to show race as a national problem, and it did so with a bang when King led an integrated group of marchers into the racist enclave of Marquette Park. "I have never in my life seen such hate," said King, who was hit by a rock there. "Not in Mississippi or Alabama." But unlike the battle with Alabama state troopers the year before at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, marches into Marquette Park (and later into the white suburb of Cicero) led to no national catharsis or landmark legislation. Congress defeated a new civil-rights bill that would have banned housing discrimination (it finally passed in 1968). Although Northern authorities—the National Guard and Daley's police—defended the marchers rather than attack them, a backlash against the movement was setting in. "Don't you find," Mike Wallace asked King on CBS News, "that the American people are getting a little bit tired, truly, of the whole civil-rights struggle?"
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Yet it is simply inaccurate to say that every period since King has been what he called a "valley moment." The Voting Rights Act transformed American politics, and the growth of the black middle class has changed the lives of millions of families. While New Orleans got worse, Chicago got better. Today it's a much healthier city than it was in Boss Daley's time, thanks in part to his son, Richard M. Daley, who has been mayor since 1989, and his predecessor, Harold Washington, the city's first African-American mayor.
While Chicago's public-school system remains troubled and stubbornly segregated, it now boasts several highly successful schools and realistic hope for more. Housing, too, is still largely segregated by neighborhood and is unaffordable for the poor and working class, with long waiting lists for subsidies. But notorious housing projects like the Robert Taylor Homes and Cabrini-Green have been mostly torn down and replaced by townhouse-style public housing units, a third of them owned by the residents.
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