May beauty be

'May beauty be before me. May beauty be behind me. May beauty be above me. May beauty be below me. May beauty be all around me.' - Brandon "Blue" Monroe, The Sunchaser

May beauty be
me.

of colonialism and empires

On stage, Izzard, an Englishman with a French last name who was born in Yemen, displays a keen understanding and criticism of international politics:

We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. We'd just sail around the world and stick a flag in... "I claim India for Britain."

Then, the Indian retort, "You can't claim us, we live here! There are 500 million of us!"

The killer colonial rejoinder is, of course, "Do you have a flag?" "No flag no country, you can't have one!"

With Russia's titanium flagpole firmly in the seabed, Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay gave his own opinion on the touchy territorial issue:

"This isn't the 15th century. You can't go around the world and just plant flags and say, 'We're claiming this territory.'"

Sound familiar?

- Sam Hopkins

of mysteries and meanings

"When we have found all the meanings and lost all the mysteries, we will be alone, on an empty shore." - Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

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when they come

When they come at you
the only thing to do
when they come to you
is press through

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eternal Woody

"Eternity is very long, especially towards the end." - Woody Allen

"You can't get There from Here."

Rules are Contextual

Rules are only relevant to the specific environment and objectives, and so have to be revised to fit the new conditions.

TED Media Director June Cohen: "The newest digital technologies are returning us to the most ancient form of media — one in which a natural order is restored; our individual stories take center stage, with the rest of the world as a backdrop."

Black ink turns red.