Thought for the Day

[Duke of Buckingham]

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

[Duke of Buckingham]

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy

[Duke of Buckingham]

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

[Duke of Buckingham]

For my Brazilian Friends struggling for a new life in a better world.

Caetano Veloso → Sampa

Something happens in my heart
When I cross Ipiranga (Avenue) and São João Avenue
As I got here I didn't understand anything
Not the concrete poetry of your street corners
Not the discreet inelegance of your girls

I didn't know Rita Lee (a singer from São Paulo)
Your most complete translation
Something happens in my heart
Only when it crosses Ipiranga (Avenue) and São João Avenue

When we were face to face I didn't saw my face
I called what I saw bad taste, I called bad taste to bad taste
Because Narcissus thinks is ugly what is not a mirror
And what is not so old scares the mind
Nothing from before when you are not a mutant

And you were a difficult beginning
I get away of what I don't know
And who sell a dream of a different happy city
learn fast to call you reality
Because your are the reverse of the back of the back of the reverse

From the people oppressed in lines, in streets, in towns
Of the power of the money that builds and destroy beautiful things
From the ugly smoke that rises and hide the stars
I see your poets raise from the fields and spaces
Your forest workshops, your gods of the rain

Pan-Americas from Africa utopias, samba grave.
The newest of Zumbi's quilombo (I will post about Zumbi soon)
And the new baianos wandering in your drizzle
And the new baianos can enjoy you on a good one.

[Duke of Buckingham]

I have some doubts sometimes.

I have them for me, because I choose a different religion one day.

Would Jesus love me?

[Duke of Buckingham]

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

H. G. Wells

[Duke of Buckingham]

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

Erma Bombeck

[Duke of Buckingham]

I need to go to my vacation place fast (Algarve) to get there and have more time to do absolutely nothing.

Crazy Duke

[Duke of Buckingham]

After a war most of the men can finally understand that peace is so precious, more than gold or diamonds. We should learn to avoid the war and learn from our ancestors or from our history.

Can we start today?

Ricardo Ferreira

[DrBackJack]

Duke !!!

Great one man !