Thursday, April 20, 2006

You too?

What would you do if everyone in the world depended on you to make the right decision?

"No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were.
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. . ."

--- John Donne

These are some of the most famous of all of John Donnes writings. Hemingway used this passage for the title of the book "For whom the Bell Tolls" and its referenced in other literature as well. I am always shocked at the depth of thought revealed in these words and then appalled by the enormous amount of time that I put into me.

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