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Thought For the Day: It Is the Highest Form of Self-Respect To Admit Our Errors and Mistakes and Make Amends For Them

“Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.” – Dale Turner    

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Thought For the Day: Nothing Can Cure the Itch of Literature But the Scratching of A Pen

“When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.” – Samuel Lover, songwriter, composer, novelist, and artist (24 Feb 1797-1868) And that precisely will fall more into place for … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: In the Right Hands, Everything That You Give, You Get

“In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. ‘Deserves’ is not the point. … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: When A Woman Is Talking To You, Listen To What She Says With Her Eyes

“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.” — Victor Hugo      

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Thought For the Day: Those To Whom Evil Is Done, Do Evil In Return

“I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn, / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return.” – W.H. Auden, poet (21 Feb 1907-1973) It might be better phrased that it’s best to act and … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: If You Would Be Loved, Love and Be Loveable

“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.” – Benjamin Franklin      

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Thought For the Day: The World Is Flawed, Do Right Anyhow

“ The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Beware Lest You Lose the Substance By Grasping At the Shadow

“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” – Aesop (c. 620–564 BC)      

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Thought For the Day: Time Is the Fairest and Toughest Judge

“Time is the fairest and toughest judge.” -Edgar Quinet, historian (17 Feb 1803-1875)    

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Thought For the Day: Everything I Understand, I Only Understand Because I Love

“All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.” –  Leo Tolstoy      

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