Posts Tagged ‘Cooperation’

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Shouldering all the World’s Problems

by Seraphine Khorana on July 24th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Shouldering all the World’s Problems

I can’t do it alone. The poor can’t, the rich can’t. What’s needed is universal agreement on basic needs such as education, healthcare, housing, justice, resource management, fairness and human rights. We can no longer afford the hatreds of war, racism, sexism, intolerance and other inequities. It has been 65 years since the formation of the United Nations to promote economic development, social progress and world peace. Nothing of cooperative substance has happened since. Perhaps it is time to move the United Nations from New York City to East Jerusalem, making Jerusalem an international city accessable to all. If we put our minds together, even the most vexxing world problems could be solved.

“Freedom from fear” could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Quotation from Dag Hammarskjold

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Eye Pad

by Seraphine Khorana on May 28th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Eye Pad

I love toys you never thought you “needed” until you actually owned them, like having heated seats in a car. The Apple iPad strikes me as being one of those toys. Do you ever wonder how different the world would be if, instead of buying expensive toys we don’t actually need, we invested the money for the benefit of the truly needy? Apple expects $4 billion in revenues from the iPad, but I wonder how many homes, schools and sewer systems $4 billion would build in, say, Haiti, Africa or New Orleans?

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Quotation from Mother Teresa

Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.
Quotation from Johnny Depp

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All is Fair in Love and War

by Seraphine Khorana on May 10th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
All is Fair in Love and War

“What happened to the chocolate?”
“I ate it. It was there for three days. You had as many opportunities to eat it as I did.”

Symptoms of chocolate toxicity include: hyper-excitability and hyper-irritability; increased heart rate, restlessness and urination; muscle tension and tremors. Complications include hypothermia, seizures, cardiac arrest, even death. Death can result from intoxication… No antidote exists for chocolate poisoning in a dog.
Quotation from VetInfo.com, My Dog Ate Chocolate: How Much is Toxic?

There’s no road map on how to raise a family; it’s always an enormous negotiation.
Quotation from Meryl Streep

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Top of the Food Chain

by Seraphine Khorana on March 24th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Top of the Food Chain

If you think fats and oils are at the top of the food chain, you deserve at least partial credit for a correct answer. But bacteria breaks down oil in this rock-paper-scissors game we call Life.

For the first half of geological time, our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
Quotation from Richard Dawkins

Salad bars are like a restaurant’s lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
Quotation from Doug Coupland

If you don’t change, then what’s the point of anything happening to you?
Another quotation from Doug Coupland

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Every Negative has a Corresponding Positive

by Seraphine Khorana on December 7th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Every Negative has a Corresponding Positive

Nuclei can decay by positron emission; they may also decay by electron capture, so I’ll try to be positive for you. A life in equilebrium is a happy life.

Gravitation naturally does not exist for this observer. She must fasten herself with strings to the floor, otherwise the slightest impact against the floor will cause her to rise slowly towards the ceiling of the room.
Quotation from Albert Einstein, The Equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass as an Argument for the General Postulate of Relativity

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Quotation from Carl Jung

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Shopping Days (Open to Negotiation)

by Seraphine Khorana on December 3rd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Shopping Days (Open to Negotiation)

The negotiations have begun. We don’t want to disappoint loved ones, but we don’t want to stress our finances either. If you want that iPod, I get a new camera. What will it take to make you happy?

Three in 10 Americans report a job loss in their household in the past year; among the rest, nearly half are worried about it happening in the months ahead. That makes it an uncomfortable time to spend.
Quotation from ABC News

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Quotation from Dalai Lama

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Bothered

by Seraphine Khorana on September 16th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Bothered

This memo was in today’s interoffice email: “If you don’t use your sick days, you will forfeit them at the end of the year.” I naively thought sick days should only be used if you really are sick. Heh.

McKenzie: I tried to talk to her in the coffee room she’s totally not having it.
Tom: Maybe she was just in a hurry.
McKenzie: And maybe she’s an uppity, better-than-everyone super skank.
Quotation from the movie (500) Days of Summer

Dwight Shrute: Dammit, he put my stapler in Jell-O again!
Quotation from television’s The Office

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Bipartisan Support

by Seraphine Khorana on January 29th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Bipartisan Support

We need to cooperate more. There may have been valid disagreements, but it’s clear that the old system of partisanship isn’t working well. Dividing everyone into camps (rich/poor, left/right, east/west, jew/arab, black/white etc.) has left everyone diminished for the experience.

Don’t listen to those who say, you are taking too big a chance… Don’t listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says, they all smarter than you out there. They’re more talented, they’re taller, blonder, prettier, luckier and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you’ll be a person worthy of your own respects.
Quotation from Neil Simon

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Viscosity – Size Matters

by Seraphine Khorana on May 6th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Viscosity – Size Matters

Size matters. Radius rather than length has the greater
effect on flow. When in doubt, “Go with the flow.”

Poiseuille’s Law (Harvard.edu)

“Men’s desire for a larger penis continues to be experienced later
in life, in spite of achievements or other experiences that one
would expect to have put “manhood” into broader perspective.”
Quotation from UCLA Study, Does Size Matter? (pdf)

“I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.”
Quotation by Charles Darwin

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