“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” To me, this statement is so far from the truth, as many inflammatory remarks can strike straight to a person’s core.
After watching this news segment, what do you think about freedom of speech?
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2013/01/20131992347526444.html
Syed Abbas
Happy New Year!
This is fantastic! enjoy a multitude of pictures, first in black and white, then in color. Phenomenal photography. This is a must watch. What a colorful world we live in and take for granted every day. Black and white is dramatic, but color …wow! beautiful, watch until the end
Solo Piano!
Musical Instruments hold the secrets of heart of those who play them. They hold secrets of joys, passions, sorrows and grief of musicians. This is a short documentary of a fate of solo piano left on road walkway.
Click link below to watch it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/opinion/solo-piano-nyc.html
“Brief Thoughts” is a new category suggested by Noor Salik. In this category the participants can express their thoughts from few lines to a paragraph or send famous dictum, sayings or any other brief material for posting. Some other new categories shall be added soon.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s ( Burma’s Opposition Leader) famous dictum “it is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
Barry Goldwater, in his speech accepting the 1964 Republican presidential nomination, said “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice” and “moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue,