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Thought For the Day: Becoming Present Means Accepting Risk of Absence
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Doing Wrong Can Be All Too Comfortable
“We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Novelist, Nobel Laureate (1918-2008)
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Francis Bacon’s Of Envy
As First Viscount St. Albans, Francis Bacon lived his mortal life from January 22, 1561 through April 9, 1626. This outstanding figure from history was a philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and is credited as being the scientist who … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Do Good Anyway
“The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed … Continue reading
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Tagged Commandments, Do-Gooder, Doing Good, Fight, Give, Help, Honesty, Kent M Keith, Leadership, Love, Paradox, Success, The Silent Revolution, Think, Thought For the Day
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Poetry of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick was a 17th century English clergyman who was also a lyric poet. His most famous book of poems is the Hesperides. This may be read in its entirety here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22421 Perhaps the most famous lines that he is most … Continue reading
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Tagged Carpe Diem, Chance, Gutenberg, Harvard Classics, Hesperides, Poems, Poetry, Robert Herrick, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Reading the Classics Is Fundamental to Culture
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury With this idea in mind, I am pleased to announce an additional phase of Aloha Promises Forever’s implementation. From today … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Decide Who To Be Then Be It
“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin It does not matter where you are on your journey today. If you or I are to be the very best of who we … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Good Books With Purpose Should Be Censored With Care
“As good, almost, kill a man as kill a good book.” – John Milton This work may be read in its entirety here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/areopagitica/text.html Or listened to here:
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Thought For the Day: Happy First Day of Summer
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, … Continue reading
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Tagged Equinox, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Greenery, Movies, Summer, Sunshine, The Beach Boys, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: God Created All To Be Free
“God created every man to be free. The ability to choose whether to live free or enslaved, right or wrong, happy or in fear is something called freewill. Every man was born with freewill. Some people use it, and some … Continue reading
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