"If you can discover a better way of life than office holding for your future rulers, a well governed city becomes a possibility. For only in...
A humane society will always be judged for how well it treats those members of its society who cannot look after themselves. I agree with you,...
I disagree completely on this occasion, Bookworm42. If I am occupying an office then I am empowered by virtue of that office to do certain...
The price of love is grief. How right that is. Said on behalf of the Queen at a remeberance ceremony in New York for the victims of the twin...
Someone (here, I think, but now I am not quite sure) has left all their money to their pet cat, including a house to live in. Their cat has,...
My scope of stories is very limited (I was going to say repertoire, but I can't remember how to spell that). I once saw what I thought was a...
Is there a calculation that links the number of posts you have attributed to you against your name to your age? Or, perhaps, it may link to...
Is it love or lust? Once they are conceived, at least when they are born, it is love and to break the bond between a child and his/her family is...
Not fair - I am colourblind (partially)
You certainly have not noticed it. You have your own intelligence and your own inclinations. Follow them. Listen to advice, but do not...
Of course my wife was right but, from a purely practical point of view, they are a dead loss. The money they consume is almost unbelievable - by...
My futon was very very uncomfortable. Like others, I found it to be as hard as a rock and we threw the old mattress away a few weeks ago.
We agree completely on this, Josh. Who makes the plans I do not know, but it links in nicely with the fact that everyone has something to give -...
Evolution is a limited event in any case. When the world comes to an end (ie our world) then evolution upon it stops. Those lives...
I don't know where you got the idea that gifts are of no value. They are the most important thing - they fulfil the giver and fill the receiver...
They say in Yorkshire that everyone is daft but thee and me - and I have my doubts about thee. Everyone is a little bit daft, surely, otherwise...
Little toes. That, in itself, supports Darwin's theory. It has been shrinking ever since we came down from the trees and started to walk...
I think that you must assume that everyone is of 'ordinary' intelligence, unless the contrary is proved. I think everyone (absolutely everyone)...
What I quoted from was my yearly poetry book (of four or five years ago). I think, personally, that you have to decide how clever a person is...
I think Plato would rather that the world was filled with good, honest, plain speaking people. What a pity his dream was never fulfilled.
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