Sergei Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet Valery Gergiev conducts The London Symphony Orchestra youtube.com/watch?v=Z_hOR5…

Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Vorspiel und Liebestod (Prelude and Love Death) Daniel Barenboim conducting the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Waltraud Meier singing Isolde's Liebestod. youtube.com/watch?v=n4bqRl…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem – Lacrimosa & Amen BERLINER PHILHARMONIE Symphony Orchestra & Grand Choir of the Collegium Musicum Berlin Conductor: Donka Miteva youtube.com/watch?v=MafAZe…

Manhattan, New York, Central Park facing south on the The Mall Walkway near the Naumburg Bandshell

In the history of the world, no empire, no country, has ever won against currency debasement. Failure is the result, every time, without question. The only difference now is that the economy is global. “If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and

Wherever I'm standing belongs to me. When I'm on the subway, I never sit down. The car I'm standing in is my domain; it belongs to me the moment I step inside. I notice everything and everyone. Try to do evil in my presence, and you will not leave my domain on your feet. Do

And so it begins... "Perception is strong, and sight is weak. In strategy, it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things." ― Miyamoto Musashi "In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." — Sun Tzu, The Art

“Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.” ― Miyamoto Musashi, Samurai “If you know the way broadly, you will see it in everything.” ― Miyamoto Musashi, Samurai “In battle, if you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.” ― Miyamoto Musashi, Samurai

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident, which everybody had decided not to see. ―Ayn Rand The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about. ―Albert Einstein

Remember, all I’m offering is the truth, nothing more. X R P

The video clip I made with Grok is of a tree-dwelling Spider Monkey. Intelligence Rankings Meta-analyses of primate cognition studies consistently place spider monkeys as the most intelligent New World monkeys (from the Americas). Some comparisons even rank them third overall

O Fortuna (Carmina Burana - Carl Orff) André Rieu Conducting youtube.com/watch?v=EJC-_j…

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. —Aristotle

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." ―William Shakespeare One of the greatest, most iconic cello concertos ever composed. Sir Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85: I. Adagio;

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about. ―Albert Einstein Bull markets can obscure mathematical laws, but they cannot repeal them. ―Warren Buffett