THE NP CHRONICLE : 14TH JUNE

               The NP Chronicle 
                        14th June 


"The gift of life is the gift of life to a dying person."
                         -- Unknown 

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." 
                         — Herman Melville


"Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards."
                         -- Max Weber 

"A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence."
                         -- Max Weber 

"The primary task of a useful teacher is... to recognize 'inconvenient' facts."
                         -- Max Weber 

"Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible."
                         -- Max Weber 

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
                         -- G.K. Chesterton

"There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."
                         -- G.K. Chesterton

Today is:
▪︎ World Blood Donor Day
▪︎ National Flag Day in USA
▪︎ Army Birthday in USA
▪︎ Birth anniversary of Karl Landsteiner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Donald Trump, Alois Alzheimer
▪︎ Death anniversary of Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton, Jorge Luis Borges

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