Flinging pebbles...

[jtuck004]

I heard this quote

"Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival."
Carlos Pena Romulo

So I looked him up - that last paragraph seemed timely...

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Carlos Peña Rómulo, QSC PLH

(14 January 1898 – 15 December 1985) was a Filipino diplomat, statesman, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32. He was a co-founder of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, a general in the US Army and the Philippine Army, university president, President of the UN General Assembly, was eventually named one of the Philippines' National Artists in Literature, and was the recipient of many other honors and honorary degrees. His original hometown was in Camiling, Tarlac He also studied at the Camiling Central Elementary School during his basic education
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United Nations[edit]

In his career in the United Nations, Rómulo was a strong advocate of human rights, freedom and decolonization.In 1948 in Paris, France, at the third UN General Assembly, he strongly disagreed with a proposal made by the Soviet delegation headed by Andrei Vishinsky, who challenged his credentials by insulting him with this quote: "You are just a little man from a little country." In return, Romulo replied, "It is the duty of the little Davids of this world to fling the pebbles of truth in the eyes of the blustering Goliaths and force them to behave!", leaving Vishinsky with nothing left to do but sit down.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_P._Romulo

[Electric Monk]

1. ...

[jtuck004]

2. Ashes. Geez. (Thank you) n/t

[Electric Monk]

3. re: "It hasn't a name quite yet" it actually does now: The Anthropocene Epoch

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/science-nature/what-is-the-anthropocene-and-are-we-in-it-164801414/

[jtuck004]

4. Might turn out to be the last one. Instead of a layer, which would require some moisture,

I would think, we wind up as just a kind of a gray ash, blown around by solar wind every little while.