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Thought For the Day: Do Not Wait For Leaders, Do What Needs To Be Done
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” – Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian Missionary
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Thought For the Day: Salt Water Cures Most Everything
“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.” – Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), author (17 Apr 1885-1962)
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Thought For the Day: First We Shape Our Buildings, Then They Shape Us
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” – Winston S Churchill
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Thought For the Day: Declining Civilizations Are Marked With A Tendency Toward Uniformity and Standardization
“Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.” – Arnold Toynbee, historian (14 Apr 1889-1975)
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Thought For the Day: A Writer Writes From Empathy More Than Experience
“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” – Nikki Giovanni
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Tagged Admit, Empathy, Experience, Hesitate, Nikki Giovanni, One Book, Poems, Thought For the Day, Write, Writers
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Thought For the Day: Every Particle of Life Holds Poetry
“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.” – Gustave Flaubert
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Thought For the Day:
“The true poem rests between the words.” – Vanna Bonta
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Thought For the Day: Open Borders Mean More Crime In the US
“Whenever President Trump talks about illegal immigration, he frequently says that open borders means more crime. Predictably, left-wing pundits accuse the president of being ‘xenophobic,’ even though he often praises legal immigration. But the president is absolutely correct. Not every … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Fear Is the Worse of All Liars
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.” – Rudyard Kipling
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Thought For the Day: Poetry Began With An Awe That Surpassed the Wisdom of Words
“I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn’t come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahhh, Begin, Cave, Classroom, First, First Poet, Lucille Clifton, Poem, Poetry, Savanna, Sky, Thought For the Day, Walk, Wonder
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