I am One; You are, Too.: Favorite Quotes

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” --Thomas Paine, 1776

"Please, we can get along here. We all can get along. I mean, we're all stuck here for a while. Let's try to work it out." - Rodney King, quoted from The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

"At journey's end there would be a new kingdom . . . where peace reigned with such great strength that it would no longer be worthwhile to wage war." - from Birth of the Kingdom by Jan Guillou

"If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel." - Benjamin Netanyahu

"Everyone is Orthodox to himself." - John Locke speaking of the need to protect each person's religion from government intrusion.

Worthy Quotes

"The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos.

"I found it difficult to imagine that there could be a real conflict between scientific truth and spiritual truth. Truth is truth. Truth cannot disprove truth." - Francis S. Collins, The Language of God

"Everyone is Orthodox to himself." - John Locke speaking of the need to protect each person's religion from government intrusion.

"If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel." - Benjamin Netanyahu

What am I reading now?

The Greatest Generation, by Tom Brokaw

Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
The Cosmos refers to Everything -- from the smallest units within cells and atoms, to the furthest reaches of the known universe. This author does a marvelous job of putting these things into language that even I, who never took a Physics or Chemistry course, can follow quite clearly. As humans inhabiting what we call Planet Earth, we are the most minute speck in a universe of limitless forces and variety. Yet we are so very special and unique.

The Future - Six Drivers of Global Change, by Al Gore - This book focuses on the great changes that are occurring in the world today, the speed at which they are happening and their causes. Some of the topics include: global communication via the internet, social media, offshore manufacturing, robotics and job automation, climate change, the middle class.

Catastrophic Care, by David Goldhill - This is a very contemporary and enlightening book about our current healthcare system, why it's so expensive, why it cannot be sustained in its current form and what could be done about it. According to this author, the way we use "insurance" to pay for virtually all our healthcare services is a terrible model. Medicare and Medicaid follow the same system with the government taking the place of the private insurance companies. Obamacare is no better, nor worse, as it simply extends this system to cover more people, at much greater overall expense. I recommend this book to anyone who cares about our future.

I am One; You are, Too.

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