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Thought For the Day: Socialism Proposes No Adequate Substitute For the Motive of Enlightened Selfishness That Today Is the Basis of Human Labor and Effort
“Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.” – William Howard Taft (1857-1930)
Thought For the Day: The Most Intense Conflicts…Are Needed To Produce Valuable and Lasting Results
“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts, and their conflagration, which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.” – C. G. … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Is So Difficult As Not Deceiving Oneself
“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
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Thought For the Day: Socialism of Any Type Leads To A Destruction of the Human Spirit
“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Thought For the Day: If You Talk To A Man In A Language He Understands, That Goes To His Head. If You Talk To Him In His Language, That Goes To His Heart
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
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Thought For the Day: Take Away the Heritage of A People and They Are Easily Destroyed
“Take away the heritage of a people and they are easily destroyed.” – Karl Marx Large protest at Jefferson High School; another group topples Washington statue on Sandy Blvd. | kgw.com
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Thought For the Day: There Can Be No Compromise On Basic Principles
“There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.” – Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
Thought For the Day: Your Eyes Saw My Substance, Being Yet Unformed. And In Your Book They All Are Written, the Days Fashioned For Me
“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: Never Give In, Except To Convictions of Honor and Good Sense
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently … Continue reading
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