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First Principles: The Extravagant Expenditure of Public Money Is An Evil Not To Be Measured By the Value of That Money To the People Who Are Taxed For It

“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.” – Chester A. Arthur

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Thought For the Day: Let Us Be Grateful To People Who Make Us Happy, They Are the Charming Gardeners Who Make Our Souls Blossom

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust

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Thought For the Day: Never Be Afraid To Raise Your Voice For Honesty and Truth and Compassion Injustice and Lying and Greed…It Would Change the Earth

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.” – William Faulkner

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Thought For the Day: Do All the Good You Can, By All the Means You Can, In All the Ways You Can, In All the Places You Can…As Long As You Can

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Wealth Is Not To Feed Your Ego But To Feed the Hungry and To Help People Help Themselves

“Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.” – Andrew Carnegie

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Thought For the Day: People Will Come To Love Their Oppression, To Adore the Technologies That Undo Their Capacities To Think

“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” – Aldous Huxley (Take care when it comes to AI and even programs like Grammarly. As people, we have a duty to think … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: The Purpose of Conservation: The Greatest Good To the Greatest Number of People For the Longest Time

“The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.” – Gifford Pinchot

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Thought For the Day: Ninety-Nine Precent of the Failure Comes From People Who Have A Habit of Making Excuses

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” – George Washington Carver

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Thought For the Day: A Great Civilization Is Not Conquered From Without, Until It Has Destroyed Itself From Within

“A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Sometimes People Don’t Want To Hear the Truth Because They Don’t Want Their Illusions Destroyed

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

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