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Thought For the Day: I Hope That In This Year To Come, You Make Mistakes
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Tomorrow Is the First Blank Page of A 365-Page Book. Write A Good One.
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
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First Principles: Write It On Your Heart That Every Day Is the Best Day In the Year
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought For the Day: Art Should Be Like A Holiday: Something To Give A Man the Opportunity To See Things Differently and To Change His Point of View
“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.” – Paul Klee, painter (18 Dec 1879-1940)
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First Principles: We Should Never Despair, Our Situation Before Has Been Unpromising and Has Changed For the Better, So I trust, It Will Again
“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Anyone Can Be Passionate, But It Takes Real Lovers To Be Silly
“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.” – Rose Franken, author and playwright (28 Dec 1895-1988)
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First Principles: Where the Press Is Free and Every Man Able To Read, All Is Safe
“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.” – Thomas Jefferson, to Charles Yancey (1816)
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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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First Principles: Government Is Instituted For the Common Good; For the Protections, Safety, Prosperity and Happiness of the People; and Not for Profit, Honor or Private Interest of Any One Man, Family or Class of Men
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an … Continue reading
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