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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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Thought For the Day: Restriction of Free Thought and Speech Is Subversion
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” – Justice William O. Douglas in The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author’s Guild … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: To Get Ahead, Get Started
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Agatha Christie Not to be trite. But, it’s that simple. Even the longest journey starts with the very first step. If you never take it…. you’ll never make it. But, you’ll be … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Music Is the Silence
“Music is the silence between the notes.” – Claude Debussy
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Thought For the Day: Strive To Be of Value
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” –Albert Einstein
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Thought For the Day: Nature, Art & Poetry Are Enough
“…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” – Vincent van Gogh And that’s pretty much what I have had today. After multiple hours dealing with computer technical issues and … Continue reading
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – The Cenci – Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the major English Romantic poets. During his life, Shelley was considered a radical in his poetry, political and social views. We will discuss more about this in a later posting. He drowned on July … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Practice Humility
“These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one’s self. To mind one’s own business. Not to want to manage other people’s affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: The Voice of Opposition Should Not Be Silenced
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all … Continue reading
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