The Pathfinder Foundation and the Embassy of the United States of America in Sri Lanka have launched a lecture series marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, opening with a discussion on
“This is who we are as a species: We contain within ourselves both the possibility of murdering an old stranger for almost no reason…and we also contain the antidote to that disease
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There is no joy to be had from retirement except by some kind of productive work. Otherwise, you degenerate into talking to everybody about your pains and pills and income tax. ~
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Preface The latest issue of The Economist has an essay arguing that, although tomes have been written and read on how to run successful businesses, it may be prudent to go back to basics
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You can never understand one language unless you understand at least two ~ Geoffrey Williams Sathnam Sangera begins his book “Empire World : How British Imperialism Shaped the World” by saying that 2.6 billion
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“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end, and never merely as
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“The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government.” – George Washington Recently, I wrote two articles in this journal. One was on the ongoing saga of a manufacturer
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“You teach yourselves the law, but I train your minds. You come in here with a skull full of mush; you leave thinking like a lawyer”. ~ Professor Charles Kingsfield in the
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The Issue On Thursday, July 11, the United States Senate announced that Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun must appear before the committee again as they draft legislation aimed at enhancing the US Federal
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“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” ― Spencer Johnson With the Presidential elections in the United States looming ahead and the headlines in
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Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. ~ Warren Buffett So far, we have been obsessed with (and rightfully so) the portentous calamity we are facing with a rapidly heating globe.
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