{"id":5168,"date":"2014-04-30T10:12:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T14:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2014-04-30T10:13:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T14:13:50","slug":"20-profound-insights-for-our-insane-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5168","title":{"rendered":"20 profound insights for our insane world"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. \u2013 Omar Bradley<\/li>\n<li>I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. \u2013 Reuben Blades<\/li>\n<li>One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we\u2019ll need a new definition. \u2013 Alvin Toffler<\/li>\n<li>Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow. \u2013 Joseph Heller<\/li>\n<li>Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he\u2019s happy, the other half he\u2019s right. \u2013 Robert Brault<\/li>\n<li>You can\u2019t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you\u2019re doing is recording it. \u2013 Art Buchwald<\/li>\n<li>The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you\u2019re still a rat. \u2013 Lily Tomlin<\/li>\n<li>Beware of the barrenness of a busy life. &#8211; Socrates<\/li>\n<li>Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. &#8211; Ernest Hemingway<\/li>\n<li>The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. &#8211; W.M. Lewis<\/li>\n<li>Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. \u2013 Robert C. Savage<\/li>\n<li>Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I\u2019m awaiting virtuous reality. \u2013 Eli Khamarov<\/li>\n<li>Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it. \u2013 Joseph Heller<\/li>\n<li>The truth knocks on the door and you say, \u201cGo away, I\u2019m looking for the truth,\u201d and so it goes away, puzzling. &#8211; Robert Pirsig<\/li>\n<li>Grant me the courage not to give up, even though I think it&#8217;s hopeless. &#8211; Chester W. Nimitz<\/li>\n<li>For those who fight for it, life has a flavor that the protected will never know. &#8211; African Proverb<\/li>\n<li>Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was. \u2013 Julian Green<\/li>\n<li>It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. &#8211; Margaret Bonnano<\/li>\n<li>Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. &#8211; Albert Einstein<\/li>\n<li>There is a time for departure even when there&#8217;s no certain place to go. &#8211; Tennessee Williams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. \u2013 Omar Bradley I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. \u2013 Reuben Blades One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we\u2019ll need a new definition. \u2013 Alvin Toffler Mankind is resilient: the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5169,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions\/5169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}