Ignorance Gives Way to Insight

“Smoke on the Water: one of the greatest rock and roll riffs,
has been compared to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
(Of course, that’s a matter of taste, but one cannot argue
the omnipresence of the musical line.)”
—Rolling Stone

“Smoke on the Water” was part of the sound

The Path to Gravitas

“Simplicity exists on the far side of complexity.
You can’t go around it, you have to go through!”
— Anon

grav·i·tas (noun)
Dignity, seriousness, presence, bearing, weight or solemnity
of manner. “A post for which he has the expertise and the gravitas.”
The ability to confront disagreements,

Roller Coaster

“Buy when there is blood running in the streets!”

– Mayer Amschel Rothschild (Baron Rothschild)
Founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty
(1744 — 1812)

These are “Interesting Times!” So many garish

The Soft Stuff is the Hard Stuff

“I have also a flower,” declared the little prince as he tried to describe his planet to a geographer.
“We do not record flowers,” said the geographer.
“Why is that? The flower is the most beautiful thing on my planet!”
“We do not record them,” said the geographer, “because they are ephemeral.”

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Noblesse Oblige

(The Obligations of Nobility)

If not Me, Who?
If not Here, Where?
If not Now, When?
Hillels Challenge

On a high hill, in a stone castle with his wife, lived a wealthy nobleman.