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Thought For the Day: Freedom Leads To Prosperity
“There stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity.” – Ronald Reagan
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Tagged Berlin Wall, Freedom, Knowledge, Prosperity, Ronald Regan, Thought For the Day, Wisdom
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Sonic Gems – Yes – The Yes Album
Yes is an English progressive rock band that helped pioneer that genre. The band formed in 1968 with members Jon Anderson (vocalist), Chris Squire (bassist), Peter Banks (guitarist), Tony Kaye (keys) and Bill Bruford (drums). Since then, there have been … Continue reading
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Machiavelli – Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay was born on October 25, 1800. Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, General Maxims, Harvard Classics, India, Lord Macaulay, Machiavelli, Thomas Babington, Whig
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Thought For the Day: Writing Is the Great Invention of the World
“Writing—the art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye—is the great invention of the world…—great, very great in enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and of space.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Communication, Conversation, Learning, Thought, Writing
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Agamemnon – Aeschylus
The ancient Greek Aeschylus is often called the father of tragedy. He is also credited by, among others, Aristotle with bringing more characters into theater to allow for the conflicts that lead to character development. Among the most famous poems … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Betrayal, Greek Tragedy, Harvard Classics, Justice, Loyalty, Mycenean, Oresteia, Revenge, The Eumenides, The Libration Bearers, Trilogy
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Thought For the Day: Inspiration Requires Moments of Quiet and Rest
“Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, … Continue reading
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Tagged Brenda Ueland, Creativity, Idleness, Inspiration, Solitude, Stillness
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Sonic Gems – X – Wild Gift
X is an American punk band that originated in Los Angeles in 1977. The original members were Exene Cervenka (vocalist), John Doe (vocalist/bassist), Billy Zoom (guitarist) and D.J. Bonebrake (drummer. This first wave band of American punk put out seven … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Zoom, Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Los Angeles, Punk Rock, Sonic Gems, Wild Gift, X
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Plutarch’s Lives – Caesar
Within Plutarch’s Parallel Lives previously discussed on an earlier post is the biography of Caesar. By this, I mean Gaius Julius Caesar known as simply Julius Caesar. Except that is that there is very little that is simple about Julius Caesar. … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Holding Hands Helps With Life’s Stumbles
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” – Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (23 Oct 1899-1989) Hard to argue against the notion that we all need a hand to … Continue reading
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Tagged Comfort, Emily Kimbrough, Handholding, Humanity, Mistakes, Stumble, Walk
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Sonic Gems – Richard Wagner – Die Walkure
The Valkyries or Die Walkure, WWV 86B, is a music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libretto. It is the second work in the four pieces that form Der Ring des Nibelungen or The Ring of the Nibelung. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged Die Walkure, Edda, King Ludwig, Mythology, Norse, Richard Wagner, Sonic Gems, The Ring of the Nibelung, Valkyries, Volsunga Saga
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