Short Memory

RIC_2263, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A lot of people mistake a short memory

for a clear conscience. 

Doug Larson

     On August 9, 1945, Nagasaki was the target of the United States' second atomic bomb 
     attack at 11:02 a.m., when the north of the city was destroyed and an estimated 70,000
     people were killed by the bomb. According to statistics found within Nagasaki Peace Park, the
     death toll from the atomic bombing totalled 73,884, including 2,000 Korean forced workers
     and eight POWs, as well as another 74,909 injured, and another several hundred thousand
     diseased and dying due to fallout and other illness caused by radiation. [from Wikipedia]

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

Ultimate freedom

RIC_2279, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When you are depraved of all freedom … you still have the most important freedom of all, which no one can take away from you: that is the freedom to choose what kind of person you want to be.
                                                                            
Ingrid Betancourt, Even Silence Has An End: My Six years of Captivity in the Columbian Jungle

Birds

RIC_2289, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages. 

Jacques Deval