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Thought For the Day: There Are Three Ingredients To the Good Life: Learning, Earning, and Yearning
“There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.” – Christopher Morley, writer (5 May 1890-1957)
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Thought For the Day: The Dividing Line In America Right Now Is….Between Those Who Are Fundamentally Pro-American and Those Who Are Anti-American
“The dividing line in America right now isn’t between rich and poor, black and white, or even Democrat and Republican. It’s between those who are fundamentally pro-American and those who are anti-American.” – Vivek Ramaswamy
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National Day of Prayer 2023
Today is the day set aside by Congress to raise the United States and our leaders in our prayers. Of course, some of us, keep these items in our daily prayers. But today especially, please lift up the Republic of … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: If Any Man Seeks For Greatness, Let Him Forget Greatness and Ask For Truth, and He Will Find Both
“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.” – Horace Mann, educational reformer (4 May 1796-1859)
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Thought For the Day: I Believe A Leaf of Grass Is No Less Than the Journey-Work of the Stars
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” – Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892)
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Thought For the Day: Satire Is A Sort of Glass, Wherein Beholders Do Generally Discover Everybody’s Face But Their Own
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own, which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.” … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: I Live In the World Rather As A Spectator of Mankind Than As One of the Species
“I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.” –Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1 May 1672-1719)
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Thought For the Day: I Had A Terrible Vision: I Saw An Encyclopedia Walk Up To A Polymath and Open Him Up
“I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.” – Karl Kraus, writer (28 Apr 1874-1936)
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Thought For the Day: Taught From Their Infancy That Beauty Is Woman’s Sceptre, the Mind Shapes Itself To the Body, and Roaming Round Its Gilt Cage, Only Seeks To Adorn Its Prison
“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” – Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797)
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Thought For the Day: No Man Can Put A Chain About the Ankle of His Fellow Man Without At Last Finding the Other End Fastened About His Own Neck
“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.” – Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
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