How some friendships last — and others don’t - Iseult Gillespie

Todays Thought

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string? 

-Cyril Connolly, critic and editor (10 Sep 1903-1974)

Todays Thought

America has been called a melting pot, but it seems better to call it a mosaic, for in it each nation, people, or race which has come to its shores has been privileged to keep its individuality, contributing at the same time its share to the unified pattern of a new nation. 

-King Baudouin of Belgium (7 Sep 1930-1993)

Cologuard - SNL

Todays Thought

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -John Cage, composer (5 Sep 1912-1992)

Todays Thought

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. 

-Paul Bourget, novelist (2 Sep 1852-1935)

Todays Thought

When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live. 

-Sarah Kendzior, journalist and author (b. 1 Sep 1978)