July 6, 2005

Patience vs Urgency

Urgency is good and patience is good,
but both can be misused and lead to destruction.
This is the truth of many things.

There is a time to be patient and a time to be urgent
With wisdom and practice one knows the difference
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July 6, 2005

Unusual Histories

I am always interested in tangential parts of history. I would have loved to get a PhD in history by studying business history. I am fascinated with all aspects of business, and I think that a history of business or even businesses in america would be fascinating and point to the rest of american history in the process (as business interests often overlap with political interests and decision making.)

In the extended entry I copied parts of an article I found in Slate. I copied part of it even though it is probably copywritten because I do not know how to refer people to it after it is moved around in msn’s webspace. Slate, please forgive me. Maybe it will help to know that I am publicizing your webzine. The article is credited to Teresa Riordan, and is entitled “For Pleasure: A history of the vibrator”
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