Comments on: The World is an Amazing Place http://themoderatevoice.com/18658/the-world-is-an-amazing-place/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:00:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jim_Satterfield http://themoderatevoice.com/18658/the-world-is-an-amazing-place/comment-page-1/#comment-150586 Jim_Satterfield Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:31:03 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/an-appreciation/18658/the-world-is-an-amazing-place/#comment-150586 I am a member of the baby boom, one of its trailing edge. My grandparents were born in the late 19th century and were young adults when the Wright Brothers flew. They married late and had 10 children. They couldn't begin to understand much of what I do for a living since it involves PCs, something that wasn't even invented until just before their deaths. But they both lived to see men land on the moon and probes land on Venus and Mars. That's how fast things are going now. I am a member of the baby boom, one of its trailing edge. My grandparents were born in the late 19th century and were young adults when the Wright Brothers flew. They married late and had 10 children. They couldn't begin to understand much of what I do for a living since it involves PCs, something that wasn't even invented until just before their deaths. But they both lived to see men land on the moon and probes land on Venus and Mars. That's how fast things are going now.

]]> By: Whocares http://themoderatevoice.com/18658/the-world-is-an-amazing-place/comment-page-1/#comment-150585 Whocares Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:40:10 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/an-appreciation/18658/the-world-is-an-amazing-place/#comment-150585 IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way- in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.<br><br>To this I can only say amen. IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way- in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

To this I can only say amen.

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