Monday, March 12, 2012

Thomas Jefferson on Economics

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Tao of Abundance
by Laurence G. Boldt
©1999 Laurence G. Boldt, p. 162
Penguin Compass

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Flavia Weedn on Perseverence

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

Flavia Weedn
Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com

Source: quotegarden.com

Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil on Growing Up

Shades of Gray

When the world and I were young just yesterday.
Life was such a simple game a child could play.
It was easy then to tell
Right from wrong
Easy then to tell
Weak from strong,
When a man should stand and fight
Or just go along.

But today there is no day or night
Today there is no dark or light
Today there is no black or white
Only shades of gray.

I remember when the answers seemed so clear,
We had never lived with doubt or tasted fear.

It was easy then to tell
Truth from lies
Selling out
From compromise
Who to love and who to hate
The foolish from the wise.

But today there is no day or night
Today there is no dark or light
Today there is no black or white
Only shades of gray.

It was easy then to know
What was fair
When to keep
And when to share
How much to protect your heart
And how much to care.

But today there is no day or night
Today there is no dark or light
Today there is no black or white
Only shades of gray.

Farewell and thank you, Davy Jones.

From Monkees Headquarters
Words and Music by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil
Copyright 1966 by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc.
6920 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028
All Rights Reserved
Lyrics from reprint of 1966 sheet music

Source: monkees.net