Chris Lynch's slanted view on sports, politics and entertainment. Please send thoughts or comments to chris.lynch@gmail.com
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Not sure about you but I'm rooting for Joe Kennedy "the praying coach"
- Jimmy Buffett's obituary in the NY Post. Wish I was at the Margaritaville in Hollywood FLA getting drunk on Landsharks watching college football. Think that's what he would have wanted.
- Ross Dellenger on how the ACC added Stanford, Cal, and SMU
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants." - Epictetus
"The more sweat on the training field, the less blood on the battlefield." - Col. David Hackworth
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our responsibility for the future." - John F. Kennedy
"Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"There were many people who did not recognize Jesus or the Buddha, as there are and always has been many people who are drawn to false teachers. Egos are drawn to bigger egos." - Eckhart Tolle
"The mainstream media is not your friend. The culture is not your friend. The government is not your friend. Big business is not your friend." - Russell Brand
"The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible." - Salman Rushdie
"Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"True good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, good actions." - Marcus Aurelius
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays." - Soren Kierkegard
"It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it." - Seneca
"Education isn't something you can finish." - Isaac Asimov
"No matter how smart a person is, no matter how elegant their hypothesis, if it does not agree with experimentation, it is wrong." - Richard Feynman
"Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid." - William Faulkner