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Thought For the Day: Create Yourself
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw After several unsuccessful internet searches, I am still unclear on this, but, I believe this quote is from Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw. Whatever the … Continue reading
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Tagged Creating, Finding, George Bernard Shaw, Goals, Steps, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Thought of the Day: One Less Scoundrel
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.” – Thomas Carlysle
Thought for the Day: Trim Your Sails
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” — Jimmy Dean
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Tagged Change, Destination, Jimmy Dean, Sailing, Sails, Wind
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Thought of the Day: Anger Management
“People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” — Will Rogers There is nothing wrong with righteous anger well managed. Problem is that most anger isn’t either. It’s neither righteous or well managed. This usually ends up … Continue reading
Thought of the Day: Life Is Like A Box of Crayons
“We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box.”* — Robert Fulghum Eyes Like A Child … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful, Colors, Crayons, Learn, Live, Names, Robert Fulghum, Sharp, Thought of the Day
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Thought of the Day: Estimating An Intelligent Ruler
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” – Niccolo Machiavelli, political philosopher and author (3 May 1469-1527) The full text of The Prince can be found at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232 … Continue reading
Thought for the Day: Power v. Justice
“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of … Continue reading
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Tagged Georges Beranos, Governing, Injustice, Justice, Powerful, Resistance
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Thought of the Day: Conscience Isn’t Dictated By Majority Rule
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” -Harper Lee, writer (28 Apr 1926-2016) Atticus Finch states this in Chapter 11 of To Kill A Mockingbird. If you’re inclined to read the full text of this … Continue reading
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Tagged Conscience, George W Bush, Harper Lee, Literary Classic, Majority Rule, Science, To Kill A Mockingbird
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Thought of the Day: Authority Through Reason
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. -Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797) The above quote is taken from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). This book may … Continue reading
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Tagged A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Authority, Rational, Reason, Virtuous
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Thought for the Day: Feeling Safe
Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful … Continue reading
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Tagged Chaff, Comfort, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Faithful, Feeling Safe, Grain, Kindness, Novelist, Poet
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