While more than 12,000 Americans are shot to death each year, far more are wounded by guns. Nearly 53,000 people were treated in emergency rooms for gunshot wounds in 2006, the federal government reported. Associated Press. Epicurus would say that guns and ataraxia goeth not together. Still, 53,000 people wounded is a small price to …
"Is this the land of dear old AdamAnd beautiful Mother Eve?If so dear reader small blame to themFor sinning and having to leave." Quoted in "Farewell the Trumpets, an Imperial Retreat", by James Morris.
Pittsburgh billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife earned himself a prime spot in Hillary Clinton’s “vast right-wing conspiracy†during the ’90s by pumping tons of money into the investigations of Bill’s extramarital activities (among other conservative causes). Now he is the subject ofLe but de http://www.pokerholdemfr.com/poker-games-pari-dargent.html. his own morality probe. A few years back his wife — …
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For when established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases. — Eric Ericson, Childhood and Society (1950), quoted from Laird Wilcox, ed., "The Degeneration of Belief"
Epicurus taught that true pleasure is gained from intellectual discussion and long-term friendship, that happiness is sitting in the shade in a summer garden discussing philosophy, and that life is to be lived to the full, but with simplicity and moderation.
