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Category Archives: Thought For the Day
Thought For the Day: Prayer Is the Final and Best Answer
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.” – Abraham Lincoln Many is the time … Continue reading
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: On the Origins of Species – Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life is a book written for us non-specialist readers by Charles Darwin. Thankfully, the public and scientists alike have come … Continue reading
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Tagged Darwin, Discussion, Harvard Classics, Literature, Open Mind, Origins of Species, Science
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Thought For the Day: Reading the Classics Is Fundamental to Culture
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury With this idea in mind, I am pleased to announce an additional phase of Aloha Promises Forever’s implementation. From today … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Decide Who To Be Then Be It
“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin It does not matter where you are on your journey today. If you or I are to be the very best of who we … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Good Books With Purpose Should Be Censored With Care
“As good, almost, kill a man as kill a good book.” – John Milton This work may be read in its entirety here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/areopagitica/text.html Or listened to here:
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Thought For the Day: Happy First Day of Summer
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, … Continue reading
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Tagged Equinox, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Greenery, Movies, Summer, Sunshine, The Beach Boys, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: God Created All To Be Free
“God created every man to be free. The ability to choose whether to live free or enslaved, right or wrong, happy or in fear is something called freewill. Every man was born with freewill. Some people use it, and some … Continue reading
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Tagged Displaced Persons, Free Will, Freedom, God, Refugees, Slavery, Thought For the Day, World Refugee Day
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Thought For the Day: Free Expression and Rule of Law Are Necessary To Freedom
“Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.” – Salman Rushdie, quote from the January 16, 2008, The Times … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: To Be The Father of Growing Daughters Invokes Awe
“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson in the limitations of self … Continue reading
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Tagged Daughters, Family, Father's Day, Love, Sacred, Terrible Beauty
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Thought For the Day: A Daughter Is For Life
“A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.” –Irish Saying Times this times two princesses and you have my idea of paradise!
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