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Thought For the Day: Let Kindness, Beauty and Truth Light Your Way

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.” – Albert Einstein      

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Thought For the Day: Self Respect Is the Armor Keeping Us Safe From Others

“He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (27 Feb 1807-1882)        

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Thought For the Day: You Have To Start To Finish

One reason that many of us never finish is that we never start. – Coach Bronner    

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Thought For the Day: Architecture Is Inhabited Sculpture

“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.” – Constantin Brancusi, sculptor (19 Feb 1876-1957)    

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Thought For the Day: The Desire of the Woman Is For the Desire of the Man

“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.” -Madame de Stael, writer (22 Apr 1766-1817)    

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Thought For the Day: Musicians Paint On A Canvas of Silence

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” – Leopold Stokowski      

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Thought For the Day: The World Is Changed By Dreamers Willing To Look Foolish If Need Be

“The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.” – P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014)      

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Thought For the Day: Freedom of Speech Is For All Or It Is For None

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” – Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor and political activist (b. 7 Dec 1928)      

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Thought For the Day: Politics Is Often the Art of Promising the Poor and the Rich Protection From Each Other

“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: Nothing Enslaves More Perfectly Than the False Appearance of Freedom

“There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)    

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