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Thought For the Day: The Sea, Once It Casts Its Spell, Holds One In Its Net of Wonder Forever
“The sea once it casts its spell holds one in its net of wonder Forever.” –Jacques Cousteau
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Thought For the Day: Now I See the Secret of the Making of the Best Persons. It Is To Grow In the Open Air and to Eat and Sleep With the Earth
“Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” – Walt Whitman, poet (31 May 1819-1892)
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Thought For the Day: Speculation Is Perfectly All Right, But If You Stay There You’ve Only Founded A Superstition. If You Test It, You’ve Started A Science
“Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you’ve only founded a superstition. If you test it, you’ve started a science.” – Hal Clement, science fiction author (30 May 1922-2003)
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Thought For the Day: Historians Tell the Story of the Past, Novelists the Story of the Present
“Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.” – Edmond de Goncourt, writer, critic, and publisher (26 May 1822-1896)
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Thought For the Day: We Love Those Who Know the Worst of Us and Don’t Turn Their Faces Away
“We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.” – Walker Percy, author (28 May 1916-1990)
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Thought For the Day: Greater Love Has no One Than This: To Lay Down One’s Life For One’s Friends
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” – John 15:12-14
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Thought For the Day: To Love Means Loving the Unlovable. To Forgive Means Pardoning the Unpardonable. Faith Means Believing the Unbelievable.
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” – G.K. Chesterton
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Thought For the Day: Life Is Like A Library By An Author. In It Are A Few Books Which He Wrote Himself, But Most of Them Were Written For Him
“Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick, preacher and author (24 May 1878-1969)
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Thought For the Day: When I Am Asked, “What In Your View Is the Worst Human Rights Problem In the World Today?” I Reply: “Absolute Poverty.”
“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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