Gary Cunningham

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Aspiring historical novelist & historian with graduate degrees in Classics/Ancient History, European History, Labor/Industrial Relations. I believe in human rights, animal rights, academic freedom, historic preservation, and environmental protection.🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🌏

the most confusing part of the odyssey is how this took 10 years
"So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.” Fahrenheit 451
A child who reads will be an adult who thinks.
The Dalai Lama says: I am a bit sceptical about what we call blessings. I believe the ultimate source of blessings is within us. A good motivation and honesty bring self-confidence, which attracts the trust and respect of others. Therefore the real source of blessings is in your own mind.
SIRE, THE BARBARIANS ARE AT THE CASTLE GATES JUST MAKE SURE THEY EXIT THROUGH THE SHOP
DO, OR DO NOT... THERE IS NO TRY -YODA
Sesame Street posted : Happy #PrideMonth from Sesame Street! Join us in celebrating and sharing the LGBTQIA+ members of our community.
Lincoln Memorial. Dedicated on May 30, 1922, the Lincoln Memorial has been the site of many history-making events.
Born 22 May 1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creator of Sherlock Holmes
Not one of you, gods, is small, not one a little child; all of you are truly great. (8.30) There was neither existence, nor non-existence then; there was neither the realm of space nor the sky which is beyond. What stirred? Where? In whose protection? Was there water, bottomlessly deep… Who really knows? Who will here proclaim it? Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation? The gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe. Who then knows whence it has risen? (10.129) The Rigveda (Doniger, translator)
Buy books from bookshops, not billionaires
MAY ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH
We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children- Jimmy Carter
In the 1968 movie 2001:A Space Odyssey, in the future people eat their meals while staring at images on flat, portable rectangular screens. Nice bit of prediction. In the next bit of the movie Al takes over and kills everybody.
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind. James Baldwin
"I touch the future. I teach." Christa McAuliffe Forty years later, we remember the Challenger crew and their pursuit of knowledge for all.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Round about the cauldron go; In the poison'd entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter'd venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i the charmed pot Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Macbeth: Act IV, Scene I
I NEVER FORGET THAT I LIVE IN A HOUSE OWNED BY ALLTHE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THAT I HAVE BEEN GIVEN THEIR TRUST-FDR Memorial
Be bold. Envision yourself living a life that you love.