Thought for the Week

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
Robert Fulghum

Schools of Whidbey Island.

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"We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few; but we can't have both."

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

Labor for Whidbey Island.

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"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time--when the Unites States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness."
Carl Sagan

Text about Whidbey Island.

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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford

Viva Le Whidbey Island.

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"It's my general feeling that people who are 20, 21, 22 years old really don't have any social values at this point."
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)

Really?

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“Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
John Adams

Politics on Whidbey Island.

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Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.
Michael Burgess

Neutrinos Unite on Whidbey Island.

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"If American workers are being denied their right to organize when I'm in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as president of the United States."
- Barack Obama, 2007.

Walk Whidbey Island.

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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

Progressive Whidbey Island.

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"Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief."
- Frantz Fanon

Home of the Free, Whidbey Island.

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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lead the Way to Whidbey Island.

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The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.
Eric Schmidt

Target: Whidbey Island.

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“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”
Albert Einstein

Text about Whidbey Island.

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"I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country."
- Dick Gregory

Freedom on Whidbey Island.

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Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
“Pooh?” he whispered.
“Yes, Piglet?”
“Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s hand. “I just wanted to be sure of you."
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Mowing the Lawn on Whidbey Island.

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‘Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art.’
–Proust

Art of Whidbey Island.

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Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like—then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.
Jean Cocteau

Art on Whidbey Island.

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No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
John Morley

Climbing Whidbey Island.

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“Perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque."
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

Rain on Whidbey Island.

Thought for the Week/ Read This

Do not go about worshiping deities and religious institutions as the source of the subtle truth. To do so is to place intermediaries between yourself and the divine, and to make of yourself a beggar who looks outside for a treasure that is hidden inside his own breast.
- Lao Tzu

From The Hua Hu Ching, a probable supplement to the Tao Te Ching.

The Way of Whidbey Island.