"I don't think a tough question is disrespectful." - American journalist Helen Thomas

"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do." - American poet Wendell Berry

"Ability is of little account without opportunity." - American comedian Lucille Ball

"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces." - U.S. astronomer Carl Sagan

"When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children." - American author William Feather

"Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment." - Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget

PowerCo launches recruitment campaign: 'We are committed and we really want to be the future for St. Thomas' ianscityscope.com/2025/08/09/pow…

“You cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.” - U.S. President John F. Kennedy

"If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak?" - American columnist/activist Jim Hightower

"In communications, familiarity breeds apathy." - American businessman William Bernbach

“We don’t have to agree on anything to be kind to one another.” - American author/speaker Mattie Stepanek

"In America, the news is less about the facts and more about the flavours. You pick the channel that tastes best to you." - South African comedian/writer Trevor Noah

The central lifeguard tower at Main Beach in Port Stanley was the backdrop Thursday afternoon for the launch of the Central Elgin Lifejacket Lending Program. ianscityscope.com/2025/08/16/the…

"Hosting peace talks with a war criminal and failing to invite the other side is not a peace talk; it is a strategy session." - American journalist/commentator Dan Rather

"The truth has no defence against a fool determined to believe a lie." - Mark Twain

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Japanese writer Haruki Murakami

"I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain." - American comedian Jane Wagner

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” - American historian/philosopher Hannah Arendt

Contracts awarded and work set to begin at the massive PowerCo gigafactory - 'We plan to be relevant for a very long time' ianscityscope.com/2025/08/23/con…

"Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer." - American musician Julian Casablancas