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What We Say… What We Do.
I’ve been impressed by King Charles in his state visit to the US, particularly by his speech to Congress yesterday. He quoted President Lincoln’s words from his 1863 Gettysburg Address, ‘…the world may little note what we say, but will never forget what we do.’ It’s true in international politics today; it’s true in the…
Equal and Opposite: Balance and Order
Newton’s Third Law of Motion states: ‘For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ Forces acting on different objects come in pairs. They’re always equal in size but opposite in direction. It’s a tidy law of balance and order. The ancient Chinese philosophical principal of yin and yang speaks of cosmic principles or…
Don’t Throw Stones!
As a child I was told, ‘Don’t throw stones!’ However… I did have a catapult that I used to fire small stones. My friend had a catapult too. We went to a building site and attempted (successfully!) to fire stones over a house. Don’t throw stones? We weren’t caught! And yet… When we went on…
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