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Thought For The Day: God Endowed Us With Reason; Use It
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” – Galileo Galilei A lot of people assume, and probably because they … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Act Worthy of Yourselves
“The man who meanly will submit to wear a shackle, contemns the noblest gift of heaven, and impiously affronts the God that made him free. Ease and prosperity (though pleasing for a day) have often sunk a people into … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: In Being Other Centered, We Find True Happiness
“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” -Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: The Trouble With Words
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they’ve been in. – Dennis Potter
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Thought For the Day: There Are Worse Things Than War
As Memorial Day in the United States of America rapidly approaches, this thought comes to mind: “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: The True Test of Civilization Is Revealed In Character
“The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson For an interesting take on how the above … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: A Hero Understands Responsibility
“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom” – Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize winning Singer-Songwriter This quote is from his interview included with the 1985 career spanning Biograph compilation of some … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: A House Is Not A Home
“A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body” – Margaret Fuller (American journalist, critic, and women’s rights advocate) To find out more about this brilliant find that paved … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: We Can Each Change the World For the Better
“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of … Continue reading
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Tagged Better, Change, Charity, Difference, Kindness, Peace, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World, Tolerance
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Thought For the Day: Write To Express, Not to Impress
“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good.” – Thornton Wilder For an interesting interview with Wilder see:https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4887/thornton-wilder-the-art-of-fiction-no-16-thornton-wilder
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