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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Pain Is To Love In Vain
“A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.” – Abraham Crowley
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Thought For the Day: Lead By Example
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer
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Thought For the Day: Discerning Truth Requires Experience
“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” – John Stuart Mill Without experience it is difficult to discern full truth. If you sit a moment and think on … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Being Your Own Person Is Hard But Worth It
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too … Continue reading
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Tagged Individual, Price, Privilege, Rudyard Kipling, Self, Thought For the Day, Tribe
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Thought of the Day: Happiness Is the Key
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They … Continue reading
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Odyssey – Homer
Today, we turn our attention to one of the two major Greek epic poems that have been attributed in whole or in part to a blind poet who may or may not have ever lived and who may have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient Greece, Cyclops, Epic, Harvard Classics, Homer, Penelope, Poetry, Telemachus, The Odyssey, Thought For the Day, Troy
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Thought For the Day: Happy Pi Approximation Day!
“A bell cannot tell time, but it can be moved in just such a way as to say twelve o’clock – similarly, a man cannot calculate infinite numbers, but he can be moved in just such a way as to … Continue reading
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Tagged Archimedes, Calcuation, Daniel Tammet, Infinite, Numbers, Pi, Thought For the Day, Time
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Thought For the Day: When What You Write Is Truer Than Truth, You’re A Writer
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Don’t Cry; Smile
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss In the last decade of knowing and loving my two little girls, I have been deeply reminded of something I had long ago forgotten. Some of the best … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Your Vision Is As Clear As Your Imagination
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain
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