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Thought For the Day: Let Our New Year’s Resolution Be To Be There For One Another As Fellow Members of Humanity, In the Finest Sense of the Word
“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” – Goran Persson Building a sense of viable and sustainable community is essential for the … Continue reading
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First Principles: Resolution One: I Will Live For God. Resolution Two: If No One Else Does, I Still Will
“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.” – Jonathan Edwards
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While Yet I Live
Today is chosen by some as Still Need To Do Day. There is a lot that I still need to do. How about you readers on here? Still have things to do? On the page speaking about this day, … Continue reading
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First Principles: Be At War With Your Vices, At Peace With Your Neighbors and Let Every New Year Find You A Better Person
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Thought For the Day: Love of One’s Country Is Splendid, But, Why Should Love Stop At the Border?
“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?” -Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (29 Dec 1876-1973)
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Ring, Ring Rings the Phone
Today is both National Call A Friend Day and National Chocolate Candy Day! In honor of this, to paraphrase a military tradition, ‘eat them if you got ’em’ and call a friend if only to tell that person or persons … Continue reading
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Tagged Bliss, Box of Chocolate, Care, Choice, Christmas, Coco, Coconut Curry, Confectionery, Dares, Days, Dictionary, Dreams, Good, Happiness, Hours, Hurry, Imagination, Lose, Minutes, National Call A Friend Day, National Chocolate Candy Day, Nights, Phone, Photograph, Pleasant, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Realize, Ring, Seconds, Seem, Share, Sit, Spent, Squares, Sudden, Text, Three, Tonight, Voice
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First Principles: Do Not Squander Time, For That Is the Stuff Life Is Made Of
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Thought For the Day: New Year Resolutions Allow Us To Affectively Start Fresh
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a … Continue reading
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Tagged Effective, Fresh, Gilber K Chesterson, New Ears, New Eyes, New Soul, New Year, Object, Resolution, Thought For the Day
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Shelf Life
Today Is National Fruit Cake Day!! (run….) Shelf Life by Michael Romani Raise a glass of eggnog in good cheer Blessed by this holiday time of year But what do we do about this one gift One that creates sometimes … Continue reading
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Tagged Ages, Bless, Brandy, Cheer, Christmas Time, Crime, Cup, Fill, Food, Fruit, Gift, Grandma, Guilty Pleasure, Holiday, Improve, Mayhem, National Fruit Cake Day, Nuts, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poke, Pretend, Regret, Reject, Revile, Rib, Rift, Roman, Rubber, Sages, Sculpture, Sentence, Shelf Life, Shudder, Sight, Smile, Sweet, Taste, Treasure, Treat, Unique, Waste
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