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Monthly Archives: December 2021
Thought For the Day: The Great Thing About Getting Older Is That You Don’t Lose All the Other Ages You’ve Been
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” –Madeleine L’Engle, writer (29 Nov 1918-2007)
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Tagged All, Been, Don't Lose, Great Thing, Madeleine L'Engle, Older, Other Ages, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: A Popular Government, Without Popular Information, Or the Means of Acquiring It, Is But A Prologue to A Farce Or A Tragedy; Or, Perhaps Both
“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, … Continue reading
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Tagged Acquire, Farce, First Principles, Give, Govern, Governors, Ignorance, James Madison, Knowledge, Means, People, Popular Government, Popular Information, Power, Prologue, Tragedy
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Thought For the Day: If We Would Have New Knowledge, We Must Get Us A Whole World of New Questions
“If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions.” -Susanne Langer, philosopher (20 Dec 1895-1985)
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Tagged Knowledge, New, New Questions, Susanne Langer, Thought For the Day, Whole, World
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There’s Maybe Nothing Better
There’s Maybe Nothing Betterby Michael DoyleThere is maybe nothingThat could be any betterHowever bright or gloomyThe day has turned the weatherThan spending this Sunday afternoonWatching dreams with my daughtersHearts overflowing with joy soonWatching Rudolph with their fatherThere’s nothing like a … Continue reading
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Tagged Allow, Better, Born, Bright, Confide, Daughters, Day, Differences, Dreams, Every Heart, Father, Fit, Follow, Girls and Boys, Gloomy, Good, Grow Up, Hearts, Hide, Joy, Lesson, Love, Loving World, Memory, Misfit, Misfit Toys, Nothing Better, One, Outrun, Place, Poetry and Poems, Room Enough, Rudolph, Sunday Afternoon, Together, Tomorrow, Troubles, True, Understood, Weather, World, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: He Is Not Afraid of Bad News; His Heart Is Firm, Trusting In the Lord
“They will have no fear of bad news; their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord.” – Psalm 112:7
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Tagged Bad News, Firm, Heart, Lord, Psalm 112:7, Thought For the Day, Trust
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First Principles: Honor, Justice, and Humanity, Forbid Us Tamely To Surrender That Freedom Which We Received From Our Gallant Ancestors
“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestor, First Principles, Freedom, Generations, Guilt, Honor, Humanity, Infamy, Justice, Posterity, Surrender, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: For All Sad Words of Tongue and Pen, the Saddest Are These, ‘It Might Have Been’
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.” – John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (17 Dec 1807-1892)
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Tagged All, It Might Have Been, John Greenleaf Whittier, Pen, Sad, Saddest, Thought For the Day, Tongue, Words
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First Principles: There Is But One Straight Course, and That Is To Seek Truth and Pursue It Steadily
“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.“ – George Washington (1795)
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Tagged Course, First Principles, George Washington, Pursue, Seek, Steadily, Straight, Truth
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With Contented Sigh
With Contented Sighby Michael DoyleNo matter how muchOf this world, Atlas carriesOn his tired old backIt’s the writer’s touchThat moves or buriesThe feelings we too often lackTurning it on, page after pageConveying the feelings we want to sayHinted at or … Continue reading
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Tagged Amusement, Atlas, Back, Bemusement, Binge, Born, Brave, Buries, Clack, Click, Contented Sigh, Conttent, Convey, Crawling, Cringe, Devil, Die, Due, Everyday, Feelings, Hint, Leave This World, Life Comes, Matter, Meager, Meant To Say, Moments, Moves, Our Words, Page, Poetry and Poems, Pound of Flesh, Pressing Onward, Pushing Toward, Sage, Say, Scene by Scene, Sigh, Souls, Straight Forward, Turning It On, Wandering, Wondering, World, Writer's Day, Writer's Touch
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