Andrew Marvell: To his Coy Mistress. "Had we but world enough and time." (Cavalier poem, Carpe Diem)
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Turns 50: Tom Brokaw On Why It’s Special. The Lone Star State has led a surprisingly progressive overhaul of its incarceration system. The story behind the bipartisan push that GOP contenders may be extolling come 2016. It appears Rick Perry is going to run for president again in 2016. Perry, 65, will leave the governor’s office next January after serving for 14 years, beginning in 2000, when George W.
Bush resigned to prepare for the presidency. In recent months, Perry has appeared in both Iowa and South Carolina. As he creeps back onto the national stage, Perry—who has overseen the executions of 268 people—more executions than any other governor in United States history—has brought with him an unlikely Lone Star State success story: prison reform. The conservative movement to reform prisons is not new. That very well might be changing now that it appears it could be a series of talking points for a mainstream Republican presidential prospect. “You can’t go into the state legislatures and say ‘Hey, they did this in Vermont!’ Quotes. Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein.
[Note: This list of Einstein quotes was being forwarded around the Internet in e-mail, so I decided to put it on my web page. I'm afraid I can't vouch for its authenticity, tell you where it came from, who compiled the list, who Kevin Harris is, or anything like that. Still, the quotes are interesting and enlightening.] "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. " "Imagination is more important than knowledge. " "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. " "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. " Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement) Mark Twain quotes.