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The financial crisis in America is really a moral crisis, caused by the series of proofs which the American public has received that the leading financiers who control banks, trust companies and industrial corporations are often imprudent, and not seldom dishonest. They have mismanaged trust funds and used them freely for speculative purposes. Hence the alarm of depositors, and a general collapse of credit.
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The Economist, 1908

‘You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.’
-Ray Bradbury

A little boy of three sittin’ on the floor
Looks up and says, “Daddy, what is war?”
“son, that’s when people fight and die”
The little boy of three says “Daddy, why?”
A young man of seventeen in Sunday school
Being taught the golden rule
And by the time another year has gone around
It may be his turn to lay his life down
Can you blame the voice of youth for asking
“What is truth?”
-johnny cash

… if Melody is for the mind and rhythm is for the body, harmony is for the spirit. I think the Beatles might have had that in the most unique balance that has ever been, before or since.

The fruit of Silence is Prayer;
The fruit of Prayer is Faith;
The fruit of Faith is Love;
The fruit of Love is Service;
The fruit of Service is Peace;
The fruit of Peace is Silence.

About golf “Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course, the space between your ears.”