OceansOfThought @ May 8, 2008 # 2 Comments
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. -Abraham Lincoln I don’t even know what to say about this story. I’m all for BIO technology, but does this story not strike you as intensely creepy? [...]
OceansOfThought @ May 5, 2008 # Comments Off
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in;”- Abraham Lincoln Many people seem to have a problem with religion. After talking with them a bit it turns out many of these [...]
OceansOfThought @ April 29, 2008 # Comments Off
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.-Abraham Lincoln Open source. The very term sends people executives running, thinking of dropped profit margins. A threat they cannot deal with, when in truth, there is lots of money to be made with open source. Many programs and [...]
OceansOfThought @ April 25, 2008 # 4 Comments
“There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future.” -Abraham Lincoln As I am wont to do, I tend to look over old posts for other idea’s or maybe looking for something to [...]
OceansOfThought @ April 21, 2008 # 2 Comments
I shall try to correct errors where shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views. –Abraham Lincoln And now, race. You ever notice that when you run across something on the internet, it’s a buzz. You suddenly start to notice it everywhere, it [...]
OceansOfThought @ April 15, 2008 # Comments Off
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.” -Abraham Lincoln We’ve decided to try a different tac, and to do one of [...]
OceansOfThought @ April 14, 2008 # One Comment
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.” -Abraham Lincoln The Dark Ages(476 -1000AD), which I like to say was 500 years of moving backwards, was a terrible time in our history, that saved us from the [...]
OceansOfThought @ April 11, 2008 # Comments Off
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. Abraham Lincoln. So there was this quote by Bono of U2. which i shall paraphrase “Sure, rock stars can’t change anything, but their audience is the one that can, because they elect the politicians that can.” That is a profound statement, to [...]
OceansOfThought @ April 9, 2008 # Comments Off
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”-Abraham Lincoln While reading the economist i ran across an article in which the reporter pointed out that how the differences in countries defined how he felt about a particular incident. In this case, it was an Ism. He arrived at [...]
OceansOfThought @ April 3, 2008 # 2 Comments
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser – in fees, expenses, and waste of time.”-Abraham Lincoln This is just embarrassing: 18 states are suing the EPA. They are suing the EPA because the EPA has done nothing in response [...]