there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
Iraq should commit itself to implement the U. N. resolutions, and the Iraqi leadership should put the interests of its people into consideration.
Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.
Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.