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The Pipes are Calling

“The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.” Queen Victoria Today, Canadians celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday. Her reign brought the British Empire into a new...

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The Sum of All Colours

“Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.” Coco Chanel White is both the absence of...

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The Life Force – Red

“I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other colour.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Everything about red is passionate, strong and vital. It is the colour of...

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Green – The Promise of New Life

“When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, and the dimpling stream runs laughing by; when the air does laugh with our merry wit, and the green hill laughs with the noise of it.” Lord Byron...

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Reach for the Sky

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables We look to the soaring...

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Black – The Queen of Colours

“I’ve been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colours was black.” Pierre-Auguste Renoir Black is the colour of night, of ebony and outer space. Its power to envelop our world gives it a...

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Imperial Purple of Rome

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money, luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures, ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they...

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Colours of Life…

“I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.” Georgia O’Keeffe A Vancouver spring is all about colour and rain. Everywhere I go...

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Run The Distance

“Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” Aristotle A relay relies on a team to run the...

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Conflict or Debate

“Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]” Desmond Tutu Most of us dislike conflict and...

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Sharing Knowledge

“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.” Albert Camus Themistoclea, the sacred priestess at Delphi, and mentor of the renowned...

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The Eureka Moment

“Eureka! – I have found it!” Archimedes I have often wondered about Eureka moments, sometimes known as an epiphany, which incidentally comes to us from the ancient Greeks, signifying a...

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The Outcome is Action

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” Aristotle Simon Fraser University – Bear Mother by Bill Reid The other day I visited Simon Fraser University,...

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The Search for Truth

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations The singular connection throughout the narratives of the ancient...

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Life Understood Backwards…

“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.” Søren Kierkegaard Søren Kierkegaard’s...

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Aspasia of Miletus

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” Socrates In every age, you will find a woman that captures the imagination of an entire generation. And then there are the...

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The Love of Diotima

“Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.” Plato, Symposium Diotima of...

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Leontion, The Audacious

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” Epicurus Whenever I think of Epicurus, I think of a...

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Hipparchia’s Great Love

“Not one tower does my country have, not one roof, But for home and city, the entire earth lies, At my disposition for a dwelling.” Diogenes Laertius, on a Cynic’s view of the world The moment...

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Arete – The Splendour of Greece

“A wise man’s country is the world” Aristippus of Cyrene Arete of Cyrene, daughter of the philosopher Aristippus, was born and raised in the city of Cyrene located in North Africa in what it now...

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The Philosopher Priestess at Delphi

“Aristoxenus says that Pythagoras got most of his moral doctrines from the Delphic priestess, Themistoclea.” Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Themistoclea was a sacred...

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“[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.” Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication...

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The Philosopher of Paradoxes

“The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.” Zeno Zeno of Elea is renowned for his paradoxes. Indeed, they continue to challenge, confound, inspire and amuse even until this day. We can...

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The Philosopher & The Goddess

“It is all one to me where I begin; for I shall come back again there.” Parmenides, On The Order Parmenides of Elea, a poet-philosopher, willingly challenged Heraclitus on his premise of continual...

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The Philosopher I Love to Quote

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” Heraclitus I love to quote Heraclitus, because he seems so gentle and serene. Think again!...

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If Horses Could Draw

“But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do their work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle,...

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The Philosopher Who Loved Numbers

Pythagorean Theorem — or Pythagoras’ theorem: in any right-angled triangle, the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the areas...

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The Entrepreneur Philosopher

This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship:...

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The Philosophy Narratives

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” Albert Camus The other day, someone asked me, “What is your philosophy of life?” We talk about philosophy as if it were something that could...

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Follow the Map

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de...

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Lady Budd

The Pipes are Calling

The Sum of All Colours

The Life Force – Red

Green – The Promise of New Life

Reach for the Sky

Black – The Queen of Colours

Imperial Purple of Rome

Colours of Life…

Run The Distance

Conflict or Debate

Sharing Knowledge

The Eureka Moment

The Outcome is Action

The Search for Truth

Life Understood Backwards…

Aspasia of Miletus

The Love of Diotima

Leontion, The Audacious

Hipparchia’s Great Love

Arete – The Splendour of Greece

The Philosopher Priestess at Delphi

The Women of Philosophy

The Philosopher of Paradoxes

The Philosopher & The Goddess

The Philosopher I Love to Quote

If Horses Could Draw

The Philosopher Who Loved Numbers

The Entrepreneur Philosopher

The Philosophy Narratives

Follow the Map

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Lady Budd

The Pipes are Calling

The Sum of All Colours

The Life Force – Red

Green – The Promise of New Life

Reach for the Sky

Black – The Queen of Colours

Imperial Purple of Rome

Colours of Life…

Run The Distance

Conflict or Debate

Sharing Knowledge

The Eureka Moment

The Outcome is Action

The Search for Truth

Life Understood Backwards…

Aspasia of Miletus

The Love of Diotima

Leontion, The Audacious

Hipparchia’s Great Love

Arete – The Splendour of Greece

The Philosopher Priestess at Delphi

The Women of Philosophy

The Philosopher of Paradoxes

The Philosopher & The Goddess

The Philosopher I Love to Quote

If Horses Could Draw

The Philosopher Who Loved Numbers

The Entrepreneur Philosopher

The Philosophy Narratives

Follow the Map

Clanmother clanmother.wordpress.com

On The Road ontheroadbookclub.wordp...

Chasing Art chasingart.wordpress.com

Taking the Kitchen takingthekitchen.com

ADVANCED STYLE advancedstyle.blogspot.fr

FRENCH ESSENCE frenchessence.blogspot....

Down the Rabbit Hole We Go... madinthehat.blogspot.com

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