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Category Archives: Thought For the Day
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Reflections on the Revolution in France – Edmund Burke
In November, 1790, British statesman, Edmund Burke published a political pamphlet as an intellectual attack against the excesses of the French Revolution. This work is called Reflections On the Revolution In France. It remains as a defining tract of modern … Continue reading
Happy Bastille Day!
In remembrance of the assistance France gave to the United States in securing our freedom and that we have been allies and friends since then, I wish the people of France and the lovers and admirers of France, a… Saluting … Continue reading
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Tagged Baber, Bastille Day, Celebration, Eiffel Tower, France, Freedom, Liberty, Oppression, Triumph
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Thought For the Day: Wisdom Frames Knowledge Into Being Useful
“Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact with.” – Northrop Frye, in Fearful Symmetry: … Continue reading
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Tagged Assimilation, Contact, Facts, In Fearful Symmetry, Knowledge, Material, Meaning, Northrop Frye, Position, William Blake, Wisdom
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Plutarch’s Lives – Pericles
As discussed previously, Plutarch’s Parallel Lives is an important work not only because of the insights provided with respect to subject of the various persons who are discussed in the biographies but also due to the information provided about the times … Continue reading
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Tagged Athens, Democracy, Harvard Classics, Parallel Lives, Pericles, Persian Wars, Plutarch, Populist, Taxes
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Thought For the Day: True Friendship Rests On Understanding and Being Understood
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca The more that things change; the more they stay the same. This is just as true today as it was … Continue reading
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Walking – Henry David Thoreau
Walking or The Wild is a seminal lecture first delivered by Henry David Thoreau at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It is comprised of extracts from his journals and was finally published in its final form in the Atlantic Monthly … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantic Monthly, Environment, Essay, Harvard Classics, Humanity, Nature, Society, The Wild, Thoreau, Walking
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Thought For the Day: Music Is the Silence
“Music is the silence between the notes.” – Claude Debussy
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Tagged Claude Debussy, Impressionism, Music, Notes, Silence, Thought For the Day
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Extent of the Universe – Simon Newcomb
Simon Newcomb was mostly a self taught man. Yet, he made important advances with respect to timekeeping, applied mathematics, economics and statistics. This self made Canadian-American also dabbled in writing and astronomy. It is this last area, astronomy, that we … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Strive To Be of Value
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” –Albert Einstein
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Voyages to Vinland
The Norse Viking exploration of coastal North America is described in the Saga of Erik the Red. Leif Erikson first landed in the area that is said to include what is now known as Newfoundland and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence … Continue reading
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