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Thought For the Day: Familiarity With Other Countries Teaches Us We May Be Friends
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou, poet (4 … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: A University’s Purpose Is To Be A Center of Free Inquiry and Criticism
“A university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism — a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.” – Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970)
Thought For the Day: Truth Is Not Dependent On Our Courage To Face It
“Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” – Flannery O’Connor, writer (25 Mar 1925-1964)
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Thought For the Day: Be Gentle With Yourself, You’re A Work In Progress
“Be gentle with yourself. You are a marvelous creation, but you are a work in progress.” — Matthew Kelly
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Thought For the Day: Standard English Is A Convenient Abstraction
“Standard English is a convenient abstraction, like the average man.” – George Leslie Brook, English professor, author (1910-1987)
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Thought For the Day: Propaganda Infused On Children Is Difficult To Uproot
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” – Lenin
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Thought For the Day: History Is A Novel
“History is a novel whose author is the people.” – Alfred de Vigny, poet, playwright, and novelist (27 Mar 1797-1863) I would go this one step further and say that the more I have learned about history, the more … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: The Concerns of Childhood Are Life Sized To Children
“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.” – Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet (b. 1939)
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Thought For the Day: The True Heroes of This World Share Responsibility For Caring For Our Children
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I … Continue reading
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