Category Archives: Thought For the Day

Thought For the Day: Ten Million Ignorances Do Not Constitute One Knowledge

Posted on November 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.” – Clemens von Metternich (1773-1859)

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Thought For the Day: The Short Memories of the American Voters Is What Keeps Our Politicians In Office

Posted on October 31, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.” – Will Rogers (1879-1935)

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Thought For the Day: The Only Thing One Can Give An Artist Is Leisure In Which To Work

Posted on October 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.” – Ezra Pound, poet (30 Oct 1885-1972)

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Thought For the Day: The Off-Ramp Out of Extreme Poverty Is, Ugh, Commerce, It’s Entrepreneurial Capitalism

Posted on October 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I ended up as an activist in a very different place from where I started. I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem. I now know that’s not true. There’s a funny moment when … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: I Think There Is Only One Quality Worse Than Hardness of Heart, and That Is Softness of Head

Posted on October 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.” –Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (27 Oct 1858-1919)

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Thought For the Day: Art Is the Elimination of the Unnecessary

Posted on October 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” – Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor (25 Oct 1881-1973)

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Thought For the Day: An Entirely New and Unique and Dense Sort of Ignorance Will Be Manufactured By A Combination of Censorship of the Press and.. By the Press

Posted on October 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“An entirely new and unique and dense sort of ignorance will be manufactured by a combination of censorship of the Press and censorship by the Press.” – G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

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Thought For the Day: Every Attempt To Gag the Free Expression of Thought Is An Unsocial Act Against Society

Posted on October 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Every attempt to gag the free expression of thought is an unsocial act against society. That is why judges and juries who try to enforce such laws make themselves ridiculous.” – Jay Fox (1870-1961)

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Thought For the Day: Your Eyes Saw My Substance, Being Yet Unformed. And In Your Book, They Were Written, the Days Fashioned For Me, When As Yet Where Were None of Them

Posted on October 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.” – Psalm 139:16

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Thought For the Day: Some Books Are To Be Tasted, Others To Be Swallowed, and Some Few To Be Chewed and Digested

Posted on October 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”-Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)

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