I Did Not Know This

It's the birthday of physicist Leo Szilard, born in Budapest, Hungary (1898). In 1939, a few years after coming to America, knowing that German scientists had discovered nuclear fission, he drafted the famous letter that Albert Einstein sent to President Roosevelt advocating the development of an atomic bomb. Three years later, in the Manhattan Project, he and Enrico Fermi oversaw the first nuclear chain reaction. "We turned the switch and saw the flashes," he wrote later. "We watched them for a little while and then we switched everything off and went home. That night there was no doubt in my mind that the world was headed for grief." In 1961 he published a book of satirical fantasies on the misuse of science called The Voice of the Dolphin, and the following year he founded the Council for a Livable World, a lobbying group for arms control.

Galway Kinnell

"Maybe the best we can do is do what we love as best we can."

Marcus Aurelius

" Everything is in a state of flux, and nothing remains the same. So be prepared for change, and embrace it as a natural part of life."

Boldog Karácsonyt

Today is Lisa Kathleen Cupit Keen's birthday!
Happy Birthday, Lisa!
[December 25, 1959 - February 24, 2006]

David
Kaposvár

Real Fine Love

Well now I never went to college, babe 

I did not have the luck

Stole out of Indiana 

In the back of a pickup truck 

With no education higher

Than the streets of my hometown 

I went looking for a fire just to burn it all down

You got a real fine love

You got a real fine love 

One I am unworthy of

You got a real fine love, baby

Well I thought I had a line on something

Baby no one else could say

They couldn't find it their hearts to just get out my way

And out of nowhere and for nothing

You came into my life

I've seen an angel or two before 

But I never asked one to be my wife.

You got a real fine love

You got a real fine love 

One I am unworthy of

You got a real fine love, baby

Well you can sprinkle all your teardrops 

Across the evening sky

But you cannot hide that twinkle 

Of starlight in your eye

I left my map way back there, baby 

I don't know where we are

But I'm gunna pull my pony up 

And hitch my wagon to your star

You got a real fine love

You got a real fine love 

One I am unworthy of

You got a real fine love, baby

Well maybe it's just a little thing 

The way I feel tonight

A little joy, a little peace, and a whole lot of light

John Hiatt

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Baruch Spinoza

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." 

Martin Luther King, Jr

 "I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation."

He ended with, "When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"