Lucky, lucky, lucky
To succeed in academic life you need three things – genius, hard work and luck. By far the most important of these is luck.
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literature
Nor can an individual
No country can consider itself modern if religion plays a major part in the lives of its people.
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Yesterday
Politicians rely on the public having the memory span of an adult Mayfly. They are right to do so.
Invisible writing
The best poetry happens when poets know exactly what they mean but the reader hasn’t a clue.
Wages of sin
Amazing how arrogant most religious people are, thinking their strong, unfounded, belief in an imaginary being, demands that they control the lives of everyone else, and kill any who disagree.
The tolling bell
I had a friend who didn’t make it to twenty. Another never reached forty. One more was gone before fifty. Finally there was the friend who fell short of seventy. I am closing fast on my next landmark of eighty years. Lucky. Sad.
Dark stranger
Every New Year’s Eve, we say to ourselves – “Well I hope next year is better than this year”. But, as every New Year’s Day rolls through the door, we realise it was probably a forlorn hope
Thinking
There is, apparently no brain, however large, well adjusted, fast thinking, packed full of data, seemingly logical, that it can’t be turned into mush by the acquisition of an imaginary friend
I breathe, therefore I am
I am breathing in, breathing out, like all the other living creatures sharing this planet and this air. But more, that air has been shared by all the creatures who ever lived, been refreshed by all the plants that ever grew, since the beginning of Earth time. Each new breath combines all the old breaths
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