My seven-year-old son, Nick, received a snap-together electronic kit for his birthday. He learned that if you put a resistor in line with the speaker, it lowers the volume from the speaker.
During the six-hour car trip home from my parents' house, Nick had had about enough of his three-month-old brother's constant crying in the car.
So he said, "I wish I had a resistor in my ear!"
"We need to care less about whether our children are academically gifted & more about whether they sit with the lonely kid in the cafeteria."
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"Peter!" his mother scolded, "There were two cookies in the pantry this morning but now there's only one! Do you have an explanation?"
Peter replied, "It must have been too dark and I didn't see the other one."
"A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't."
- Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey
"Holding a grudge doesn't make you strong; it makes you bitter. Forgiving doesn't make you weak; it sets you free."
- Dave Willis
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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