"True Friends stab you in the front"
- Oscar Wilde
"You are aided by aiding the weak among you."
- The Prophet of God (May Peace be upon him)
"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced. The arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn’t wish to go bankrupt."
-
Cicero (55 BCE)
(via nettra)
”Can Google + be a good platform for social change activists? Short answer: too early to tell.” via @SebLindstrom
Truth.
I suspect where Twitter is concerned, we are at the “slope of enlightenment,” no?
(via Google for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait? | Beth’s Blog)
"Our object should be, peace within and peace without"
- the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, during a speech at Pakistan’s founding (14th August 1947)
"There are two kinds of men who have been a great burden to me: the ignorant who are religious and the knowledgeable who are immoral!"
- Ali Ibn Abu Talib (KW)
Love this shot. May your Ramadan be peaceful and blessed.
A man reads the Koran on the first day of Ramadan while taking shelter from rain on a sidewalk in Lahore August 2.
(/Mohsin Raza/Reuters)
Thanks @pforti for posting a photo from Boston.com’s Big Picture. Love their photo essays.
"A carpet is large enough to accommodate two sufis, but the world is not large enough for two Kings."
- “Yavuz” Selim I, Ottoman Sultan 1512-1520 C.E
"The American dollar “is our currency, but your problem."
- US Treasury Secretary under Nixon John Connally Jr famously quipped at a delegation of Europeans worried about exchange rate fluctuations.
