Twit(ter) of the day for Friday, January 2, 2009

By Jeff Swain on January 2, 2009 8:07 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks
"The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
                             -James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

If ever a phrase summed up the duality of my makeup this is it. Being a humanist I believe this is all we got all the while desperately hoping I'm wrong. It also seems an apt quote to start the new year with given the state of things in the world.

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