Tag Archives: Thought For the Day

Thought For the Day: I Think There Is Only One Quality Worse Than Hardness of Heart, and That Is Softness of Head

Posted on October 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.” –Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (27 Oct 1858-1919)

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Thought For the Day: Art Is the Elimination of the Unnecessary

Posted on October 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” – Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor (25 Oct 1881-1973)

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Thought For the Day: An Entirely New and Unique and Dense Sort of Ignorance Will Be Manufactured By A Combination of Censorship of the Press and.. By the Press

Posted on October 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“An entirely new and unique and dense sort of ignorance will be manufactured by a combination of censorship of the Press and censorship by the Press.” – G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

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Thought For the Day: Every Attempt To Gag the Free Expression of Thought Is An Unsocial Act Against Society

Posted on October 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Every attempt to gag the free expression of thought is an unsocial act against society. That is why judges and juries who try to enforce such laws make themselves ridiculous.” – Jay Fox (1870-1961)

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Thought For the Day: Your Eyes Saw My Substance, Being Yet Unformed. And In Your Book, They Were Written, the Days Fashioned For Me, When As Yet Where Were None of Them

Posted on October 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.” – Psalm 139:16

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Thought For the Day: Some Books Are To Be Tasted, Others To Be Swallowed, and Some Few To Be Chewed and Digested

Posted on October 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”-Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)

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Thought For the Day: Of All Tyrannies A Tyranny Sincerely Exercised For the Good of Its Victim May Be the Most Oppressive

Posted on October 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” – C.S. Lewis

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Thought For the Day: A Society Which Is Mobile..Must Be Educated to Personal Initiative and Adaptability

Posted on October 20, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability. Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the changes … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Politics Is the Gentle Art of Getting Votes From the Poor and Campaign Funds From the Rich, By Promising To Protect Each From the Other

Posted on October 19, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”- Oscar Ameringer (1870-1943)

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Thought For the Day: What I Like In A Good Author Isn’t What He Says, But What He Whispers

Posted on October 18, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“What I like in a good author isn’t what he says, but what he whispers.” – Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946)

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