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Thought For the Day: I Believe A Leaf of Grass Is No Less Than the Journey-Work of the Stars
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” – Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892)
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Thought For the Day: Satire Is A Sort of Glass, Wherein Beholders Do Generally Discover Everybody’s Face But Their Own
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own, which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.” … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: I Live In the World Rather As A Spectator of Mankind Than As One of the Species
“I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.” –Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1 May 1672-1719)
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Thought For the Day: I Had A Terrible Vision: I Saw An Encyclopedia Walk Up To A Polymath and Open Him Up
“I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.” – Karl Kraus, writer (28 Apr 1874-1936)
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Thought For the Day: Taught From Their Infancy That Beauty Is Woman’s Sceptre, the Mind Shapes Itself To the Body, and Roaming Round Its Gilt Cage, Only Seeks To Adorn Its Prison
“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” – Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797)
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Tagged Adorn, Beauty, Body, Gilt Cage, Infancy, Mary Woolstonecraft, Mind, Prison, Roam, Scepter, Seek, Shape, Taught, Thought For the Day, Woman
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Thought For the Day: No Man Can Put A Chain About the Ankle of His Fellow Man Without At Last Finding the Other End Fastened About His Own Neck
“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.” – Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
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Tagged 1883, Ankle, Chain, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Fasten, Fellow Man, Find, Frederick Douglass, Neck, No Man, Other End, Thought For the Day, Washington D.C.
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Thought For the Day: I Still Can’t Believe Changing the Cover of A Box of Pancake Mix Hasn’t Caused World Peace Yet
“I still can’t believe changing the cover of a box of pancake mix hasn’t caused world peace yet.” – Kevin Sorbo
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Tagged Believe, Box, Cause, Change, Kevin Sorbo, Pancake Mix, Still, Thought For the Day, World Peace, Yet
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Thought For the Day: Our Chief Want In Life Is Somebody Who Shall Make Us Do What We Can
“Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
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Thought For the Day: One Who Condones Evils Is Just As Guilty As the One Who Perpetrates It
“One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)
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Thought For the Day: Act That Your Principle of Action Might Safely Be Made A Law For the Whole World
“So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.” -Immanuel Kant, philosopher (21 Apr 1724-1804)
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