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To: epicure who wrote (251564)5/30/2014 9:53:33 PM
From: koan  Respond to of 542177
 
No, he defended slavery as I recall.

Plato is my hero. I love him.

The unexamined life is not worth living, he said.

That is my creed.

He wrote the allegory of the Cave around 500 BC. The Allegory of the Cave was a mind blowing idea in 500 BC.

He was among the first to see our insanity.



To: epicure who wrote (251564)5/31/2014 12:12:59 AM
From: Sam  Respond to of 542177
 
Zuckerberg, wife gift $120M to CA schools
finance.yahoo.com

excerpt:

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $120 million to public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The couple's gift will be spread over the next five years and is the biggest allocation to date of the $1.1 billion in Facebook stock the couple pledged last year to the nonprofit Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

more at the link above