Thought for the Day: Acquired Skills

Economics Without The B.S.**: Acquired Skills

[**  Double entendre intended.]

Thought for the Day:

Acquired Skills

“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.  Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”

John Gardiner – Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare for President Lyndon B. Johnson

Invictus: Tribute to Nelson Mandela

Invictus

by

William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,

               Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

     For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

          I have not winced nor cried aloud

Under the bludgeonings of chance

          My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

          Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

     Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

     How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate:

     I am the captain of my soul.

Invictus was Nelson Mandela's favorite poem -- from which the movie was made.

Tribute to Nelson Mandela

Tribute to Nelson Mandela

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