But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.

Francis Bacon

Wie viele einsame Kinder war sein Problem nicht die Einsamkeit an sich, sondern dass er nie allein gelassen wurde, um sie zu geniessen.

Michael Chabon

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Karl Popper

I am interested in politics.

Dave Mustaine

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Eulogies are like babies. They're more pleasurable to create than to deliver.

Bob Blazich

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitzer

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Anton Chekhov

Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.

John Marmysz

No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks!

Brian Acton

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

Leon Kass