Kahlil Gibran said, “Love one another, but make not a bond of love… Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together; For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
"What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." -Chief Seattle (1786-1866)
If you needed any more proof that branding is the number one consideration in life, look no further than the Australian election result.
"Dream more than others think practical…Expect more than others think possible." Howard Schultz, Starbucks Coffee
“I'd rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I’m forty-five.” — Mick Jagger. Yes there are some things you simply cannot predict - unless of course you contract Australian Festival Management to manage your event! :-)
"I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am." Monty Python
“If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him” - Seneca
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." -Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"Unless it be for metaphysics and moral philosophy, perhaps the least progressive of all human sciences is the science of government. Just as we are today no nearer to a solution of the great questions with which Eliphaz the Temanite vexed the soul of the afflicted patriarch, so are we far from solving the political problems with which pericles wrestled, and which Plato and Aristotle attempted in vain to demonstrate. Among the modern autocracies of Europe we find no such administrative faculty as was displayed by Philip of Macedon; nor in the annals of the Athenian Republic do we find such crudities of legislation as those which deface our own, such abominations, for instance as the poll-tax, the tax on works of art and libraries, and other relics of a by-gone age." Hubert Howe Bancroft 1893 - some things never change :-)
"The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Floating on the water of a slow river moving on a stream not necessarily up or down yet ploughing its way through ancient rock formations carving a pathway to god knows where.
This Jewish Proverb speaks volumes - “He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.” The challenge is the definition of the words "honest", "employment" and "thief". I guess it depends on which party is in government at the time. :-)
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can nevër be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand." – Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British Philosopher/Mathematician/Essayist
