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Thought For the Day: It Ain’t Braggin’ If You Can Back It Up
“It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up”. –– Dizzy Dean I tend to prefer humility. But sometimes,, there is a thing or two to learn from and think on stated by the brash among us. This is, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Baseball, Bragging, Dizzy Dean, Evidence, Humility, Straight Talk
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Thought For the Day: Dare To Reason And Escape Bigotry and Foolishness To Be Free
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” – Lord Byron, poet (22 Jan 1788-1824)
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Tagged Bigotry, Courage, Enslavement, Foolish, Freedom, Lord Byron, Reason, Thought For the Day, Wise
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Thought For the Day: Always Do Today What You Will Wish You Had Done Tomorrow
“If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.” – John Lubbock (1834-1913)
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Tagged Actions, Choices, Conduct, Consequences, Doubt, John Lubbock, Rules, Thougth For the Day, Today, Tomorrow
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Thought For the Day: The Founders of the United States Believed Our Leaders Would Always Be Honest and Honorable
“The drafters of the Constitution had made on simple but far reaching error. They’d assumed the people selected by the People to manage the nation would be as honest and honorable as they’d been. One could almost hear the “Oops!” … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, Error, Founding Fathers, Governance, Honest, Honor, The People, Thought For the Day, Tom Clancy
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Thought For the Day: You Have All the Time You Need Until the Day You Die
“I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you’ll need right up to the day you die.” – William Wiley, artist (b. 1937)
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Tagged Death, Life, Priority, Thought For the Day, Time, William Wiley, Wish
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Thought For the Day: Bad Weather Looks Worse Through A Window
“Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” – Tom Lehrer, singer-songwriter and mathematician (b. 9 Apr 1928)
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Tagged Bad Weather, Cognition, Distortion, Experience, Prespective, Thought For the Day, Tom Lehrer, Window, Worse
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Thought For the Day: Happily Ever After Is Made One Day At A Time
“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.” – Margaret Bonnano
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Tagged Day To Day, Fairy Tales, Happily Ever After, Happy, Margaret Bonnano, Possible, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Patience Is Also Action
“Patience is also a form of action.” – Auguste Rodin, sculptor (1840-1917)
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Thought For the Day: To Fully Live, We Must Apply Knowledge and Take Action
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Tagged Apply, Do, Enough, Johann Wolfgant von Goethe, Knowing, Thought For the Day, Willing
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