Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

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Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterword." - Vernon Law

 "It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary, only the wise men are able to understand them." - Paulo Coelho

"Facing the press is more difficult than bathing a leper." - Mother Teresa

"Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions." - Edward R. Murrow

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

People who say Sony Michel isn't an adequate replacement for Dion Lewis on the Patriots are right. But Lewis wasn't supposed to be the replacement for Lewis. Rex Burkhead and James White were supposed to replace Lewis' snaps and production... Meth is a hell of a drug... If you told me a decade ago that Bill Cosby would be going to jail - I would have bet anything it would have been for being the New Coke spokesman... Wait President Trump signed a new free trade agreement with South Korea? Shouldn't this be bigger news?... People seem to forget that it took Dion Lewis 5 seasons to get where he is in the NFL. In Lewis' first 2 seasons he had just 192 yards combined in rushing and receiving yards. Sony Michel, if he stays healthy, will be more productive than that... Douglas Adams on our reactions to technology over time... Someone should let it slip that Mother Theresa was a Republican just to see what the Left would do to her reputation...

A Modest Proposal to Make the World a Better Place

Was thinking this morning that there doesn't seem to be that paragon of pure good these days. A figure like Mother Theresa for example. Oh some may point to the Dalai Lama but for all his goodness there's still the reports of how the Tibet monks mistreated the common people of Tibet (one of the reasons there doesn't seem to be a popular uprising in Tibet to stop being part of China).

It also occurred to me that one figure that seems to have become lost to history is Albert Schweitzer who was world famous for his good deeds an reverence for life.

Why not kill two birds with one stone?

Hear me out - it is well known that Daniel Day Lewis is a method actor who gets into his character to the point he basically becomes that character like his portrayal of Lincoln for example. Why not trick Lewis into thinking he was cast as the lead in a movie about Albert Schweitzer? Pay Lewis whatever it takes to get him to take the role and then let him become Schweitzer. Have Lewis travel the world as Schweitzer and then keep coming up with excuses for movie production delays. Lewis could be "playing" Schweitzer for years and years before he caught on.

Sure it could be the most expensive practical joke in history but wouldn't it be worth it? You once again would have a paragon of good walking among us.

Just a thought.