Tag: Arthur C. Clarke

If what Clarke said here is correct, we’re in hot water as a species, because it’s fairly plain that our morals are in a steep decline, at least in the United States. About 30% of American voters support Donald Trump …

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Author and humanitarian Arthur C. Clarke left us with many wonderful ideas by which to live, including this one: “I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

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Here, Peter Sutherland (pictured), Special Representative for the UN Secretary-General for International Migration, speaks on the moral issues surrounding the processing of refugees.  IMO, no one has ever said something like this in a clearer and more compelling way. Curiously, the …

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Those who have taken my recommendation and start every morning with Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac know that four years ago today, on Arthur C. Clarke’s 90th birthday, he: … recorded a video in which he says goodbye to his friends …

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