The French protests that are spreading over Europe are not receiving proper attention. The explanation that students all over France, with the disturbances spreading into Italy and Belgium, are burning down historic
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way. ~ Celia Green The complicated word “recrudescence”
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There’s simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety ~ Capt. Chesley Sullenberger Josh Funk, writing his article Recent aviation disasters and close calls stoke fears about the safety of flying
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“Wanting to travel the world is not enough…You need to be an empathetic caring individual who genuinely wants to help people”. Cabincrew.com What happened It is an unfortunate reality that life’s fragility
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The room exuded an air of deliberate neutrality. A grand hall in Geneva, adorned with silent chandeliers and walls that had borne witness to treaties and treacheries alike. The two leaders sat
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. ~ Nelson Mandela
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The lawless science of our law, That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances, Thro’ which a few, by wit or fortune led, May beat a pathway out to wealth
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My experience is what I agree to attend to. ~ William James What is the Attention Economy? The human mind, in its unrelenting quest for meaning and understanding, has always been the
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“Great compromisers do not make for great heroes but do make for great democracies.” ~ Benjamin Franklin Throughout history, the governance of nations has frequently been juxtaposed with the management of private
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“As we learned after President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff at the outset of the Great Depression, vibrant international trade is a key component to economic recovery; hindering trade is a
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Sri Lanka may not be the richest, but will build a nation of richest spirit ~ President Anura Kumara Dissanayake On February 4, 1948, Sri Lanka was granted its long-sought independence, marking
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“The people in the helicopter should have seen where they were going,” … What was the helicopter doing in that track? Very sad. But visually, somebody should have been able to see
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New frontiers The discourse on the emergence of Homo Technicus, as examined in Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope and The Human Spirit by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Craig Mundee, brings to the fore the epochal shift
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For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. ~ Simon Wiesenthal The International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust falls each year on
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ~ Confucious International Day of Education falls on 24 January each year. Under the theme “AI and Education: Preserving Human Agency
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Stroke of the pen: law of the land: kinda cool…Paul Begala The Inauguration The inauguration of the 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump on 20 January 2025 marked a
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