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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Compliment That Was Ever Paid Me Was When One Asked Me What I Thought, and Attended To My Answer
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” – Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
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Thought For the Day: Errors Like Straws Upon the Surface Flow; Who Would Search For Pearls Must Dive Below
“Errors like straws upon the surface flow / Who would search for pearls must dive below.” -John Dryden, poet and dramatist (19 Aug 1631-1700)
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Tagged Below, Dive, Errors, Flow, John Dryden, Pearls, Search, Straws, Surface, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: America’s Abundance Was Created Not By Public Sacrifices To ‘the Common Good’, But By the Productive Genius of Free Men
“America’s abundance was created not by public sacrifices to ‘the common good,’ but by the productive genius of free men.” – Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
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Tagged Abundance, America, Ayn Rand, Better Jobs, Cheaper Goods, Common Good, Every Step, Free Men, Genius, Higher Wages, Industrialization, Invent, Machine, Moving Forward, Not Suffering, People, Personal Interests, Private Fortunes, Productive, Profiting, Public Sacrifice, Scientific Discovery, Starve, Technological Advance, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: I Speak Two Languages, Body and English
“I speak two languages, Body and English.” – Mae West, actress, playwright, singer, screenwriter, and comedian (17 Aug 1893-1980)
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Tagged Body, English, Langauge, Mae West, Speak, Thought For the Day, Two
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Thought For the Day: A Person May Cause Evil To Others Not Only By His Actions But By His Inaction
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)
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Thought For the Day: I Seem To Have Loved You In Numberless Forms, Numberless Distance, In Life After Life, In Age After Age, Forever
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless distance, in life after life, in age after age, forever.” – Rabindranath Tagore
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Tagged Age, Distance, Do Good, Door, Forever, Gate, Knock, Life, Love, Loves, Numberless Forms, Open, Rabindranath Tagore, Seem, Thought For the Day, You
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Thought For the Day: We Can Sing the Truth and Name the Liars…We Must Work To Overturn the False Narrative of Tyrants
“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb… But we are not helpless… We can sing the truth and name the liars… we must work to overturn the false narrative of tyrants.” – Salman Rushdie, writer … Continue reading
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Tagged Bomb, Bullet, Defuse, False Narrative, Helpless, Liars, Name, Novel, Overturn, Poem, Salman Rushdie, Sing, Stop, Thought For the Day, Truth, Tyrants, Work
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Thought For the Day: To the Extent That the West Is To Blame At All For the Ills of the Third World It Is To the Extent That the West Created Marx and His Successors
“To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the West created Marx and his successors, among whom must be numbered many of those who … Continue reading
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Tagged Blame, Extent, Ills, Margaret Thatcher, Marx, Post-War Years, Sucessors, The West, Third World, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: The First Gulp From the Glass of Natural Sciences Will Turn You Into An Atheist. But At the Bottom of the Glass God Is Waiting For You
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist. But at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” – Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)
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Thought For the Day: If Some Men Are Entitled By Right To The Products of the Work of Others, It Means That Those Others Are Deprived of Rights
“If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights.” – Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
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