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Thought For the Day: Guns Don’t Kill; People Do
“Evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.” — Thomas Jefferson (1791) I’ve been looking for a quippable quote off and on all morning that would suffice to sum up the disgust I have … Continue reading
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Tagged Assault Weapons, Authoritarian, Brutality, Criminal, Disarming, Evil, FBI, Gun Control, Guns, Legality, Mindset, Mortality Data, Murder Rates, Rights, Street Thug, Thomas Jefferson, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Happiness Is In the Mastery of Hardships
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” – Helen Keller Using her own life as an example, Helen Keller, showed the world how to master hardships that knock down so many others. Her … Continue reading
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Thought For The Day: Stand Your Ground
“Well I know what’s right, I got just one life In a world that keeps on pushin’ me around But I’ll stand my ground And I won’t back down.” – Tom Petty, in I Won’t Back Down R.I.P. Thomas Earl Petty … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Be You
“If I try to be like him, who will be like me?” – Yiddish proverb There’s an open secret in life. If you listen very closely, you can hear it. Be you, says the wind, the rain, the sun and … Continue reading
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Tagged God, Life, Me, Proverb, Thought For the Day, Universal, Yiddish, You
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Thought For the Day: No Praise Or Compliment Is As Rewarding As Affection
“Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection – – that is the last and final and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.” – Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain I stumbled across this … Continue reading
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Tagged Affection, Compliment, Daughters, Praise, Samuel Clemens, Thought For the Day, Turkey Run State Park
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Thought For the Day: Each of Us Is Created For A Particular Work
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi What then shall I do with my life, I once wondered. The problem was that every time I … Continue reading
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Tagged Avocation, Created, Desire, Everyone, Heart, Rumi, Thought For the Day, Vocation
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Thought For the Day: Serve Others
“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.” – Leo Tolstoy, in What Is To Be Done? (1886) While there is certainly a lot that I disagree with Tolstoy on, there is this in common. I believe … Continue reading
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Tagged Avocation, Leo Tolstoy, Love, Others Orientation, Service, Thought For the Day, Vocation, What Is To Be Done?
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Thought For the Day: Seek First To Understand
“I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.” – Confucius, in The Analects To master life with grace it must be that you seek to understand others more and … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day – Weekly Photo Challenge – Windows
Windows I Don’t Mind (Tentative Title) Sitting by the windows reading A curious sunrise was bleeding All the thoughts for the day Were put on a vivid display Across the pages of thought In the book I had bought The … Continue reading
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Tagged Book, Curious, Digest, Display, Impressions, Margin Notes, Reading, Thought For the Day, Thoughts, Weekly Photo Challenge, Windows
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Thought For the Day: The Rule of Law Is What Makes Society Stable
“I believe that the main lesson which our generation has learnt is that we must find a new limit for the activities of government, a limit which leaves ample scope for sensible experimentation but which secures the freedom of the … Continue reading
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