Politics is like plumbing. If you have to think about it all the time, there is something wrong with your house. If you want to think about it all the time, there is something wrong with you.

If you don't consciously pay attention like this, you might not even notice it in your everyday life

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -John F. Kennedy

This man never demanded respect. He gets respect because he has a good heart, and he truly stands for his people.

Everyone is offering support, giving advice, providing information — and I am grateful to each and every person who is giving this help to us, to Ukraine. It is important to ensure that the steps to end the war are effective, and that everything is doable. Ukraine has never

👶🏻: "what is this place, where the heck am I?" 😂

Possibly the most beautifully unhinged lines of poetry ever written: "Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table" - T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 1915.

There’s something very wrong in this world. An original Superman No. 1 comic, printed in 1939, was found in an attic and just sold for a world-record $9.12 million. Nine million dollars. For a comic. Meanwhile, people are struggling to survive, the planet is on the brink, and

Woman of the Day travel writer Dervla Murphy, born OTD in 1931 in Dublin, set off in 1963 on her trusty bicycle “Roz” and pedalled 3,000 miles from Ireland to Delhi on a budget of £64, armed with a .25 pistol against wolves and thieves. It was the realisation of her childhood

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"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time." Carl Sagan Calm evening

Ever wondered why a child can game for hours but can't do homework for 10 minutes? The reason has nothing to do with laziness.

There is only one thing that can replace a book. The next book.

Google in the 1970s

25 simple rules for living an excellent life in a shallow, isolated, and distracted world: 1. The best way to stay sane is to find the people and activities you love and give them your all. 2. Challenge yourself and do hard things. It makes you feel alive, and what we are all

Icelandic postal workers deliver a letter guided solely by a tourist’s sketch

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The goat of goats

After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.