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Anna Quindlen On Metal Detectors And Gun Control
“There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.” – Anna Quindlen
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Robert Frost On Poetry And Public Recognition
“I don’t care what people think of my poetry so long as they award it prizes.” – Robert Frost
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Franz Schubert On Finding Your Best Friend In Marriage
“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.” – Franz Schubert
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College Debate And The Coddling Crisis
From CA: “The video you posted in your Oct. 21 blog showing attempts to engage college students in meaningful debate was a perfect example of the subject of the book The Coddling of the American Mind. And…
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Jean Kerr On Airplanes And Diets
“I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.” – Jean Kerr (who was my godmother!)
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Tom Lehrer On Life's Musical Metaphor
“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.” – Tom Lehrer
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John Milton On Gratitude And Everyday Transcendence
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” – John Milton
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Theodore Roosevelt On Taking Action Over Indecision
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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Robert Frost On Life's Unexpected Revelations
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” – Robert Frost
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Spiro Agnew On Media's Appetite For Conflict
“Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent…. The labor crisis settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to…
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Leonard Cohen On The Hard Work Behind Inspiration
Doing anything worth doing is almost always going to be more difficult than you think it will be at the onset. But as Leonard Cohen said, “Why shouldn't my work be hard? Almost everybody's work is hard. One is…
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Michael Masterson On Profit And Social Consciousness
“There is only one way to determine if a company is socially conscious: Is it profitable?” – Michael Masterson
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Robert Anton Wilson On Love And Annoyance
"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.” – Robert Anton Wilson
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Oscar Wilde On Sex And Power
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” – Oscar Wilde
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Michael Masterson On The Four Elements Of Great Art
“All human expression – whether it is in music, art, or literature – can be judged according to the same four elements: depth, complexity, subtlety, and elegance. Its content must be deep and complex. And its…
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Benjamin Franklin On Chess And Life's Strategic Battles
“The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it…. Life is a kind of Chess, in which…
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Passion Alone Won't Eliminate Work's Inevitable Suffering
“It’s become a Hallmark sentiment that if you find a career that you care for passionately, everything that is disagreeable about work – the drudgery, the disappointment, and the pain – will disappear and be…
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Fran Lebowitz on Reading Before Thinking
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz
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Jack Welch On Confronting Present Reality
“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.” – Jack Welch
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Michael Masterson On Speculation Versus Gambling
“Speculation, they say, differs from gambling because the odds are not predetermined. If you really understand the market or if you have inside knowledge, you can participate like an insider. You can be a…
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James Clear On Ambition And Satisfaction
From James Clear: Raise your ambitions. Lower your expectations. The higher your ambitions, the bolder your actions. The lower your expectations, the greater your satisfaction. Achieve more and be happy along…
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Michael Masterson On Knowledge, Instinct, And Wisdom
“Knowledge is a store of factual information. If you have enough knowledge you can make correct decisions. Instinct is a store of personal experiences. Instincts can help you make good decisions when you don’t…
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Henry Adams On Politics And Organized Hatred
“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” – Henry Adams
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Michael Masterson On Retiring Multiple Times
“I consider myself to be an expert of sorts on retirement. Not because I’ve studied the subject, but because I’ve retired three times.” – Michael Masterson
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John D. Rockefeller on Perseverance
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.” – John D. Rockefeller
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Stephen Colbert On Perception Versus Facts
“Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.” – Stephen Colbert
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Michael Masterson On Political Tribalism And Empathy
“Conservatives think leftists have no brains. Leftists think conservatives have no heart. I agree with both of them.” – Michael Masterson
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Immanuel Kant On Experience And Knowledge
“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.” – Immanuel Kant
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Herodotus On Wisdom Without Power
“The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.” – Herodotus
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Mao Zedong On The Relationship Between Politics And War
“Politics is war without bloodshed; war is politics with bloodshed.” – Mao Zedong
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Anton Chekov On The Exhaustion Of Ordinary Life
“Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.” – Anton Chekov
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Paul Theroux On The Human Impulse To Travel
“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to…
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Michelangelo On The Danger Of Low Ambitions
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
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James Russell Lowell On Creativity And Making
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.” – James Russell Lowell
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M.C. Escher on Wonder and Discovery
“He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful.” – M.C. Escher
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Ayn Rand On Seizing Opportunities For Success
“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand
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Stalin On The Danger Of Ideological Freedom
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?” – Joseph Stalin
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Word of the Day: Left
“Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the…
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Erich Fromm on Creativity and Uncertainty
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” – Erich Fromm
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Michael Masterson On Pride And Humility's Balance
“Pride is the fire that ignites our ambitions. Humility is the fire screen that keeps us from burning down the house.” – Michael Masterson
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Thomas Sowell On Educational Decline And Civilization's Future
“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children.” – Thomas Sowell
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Carl Sagan On The Nuclear Arms Race Paradox
“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.” – Carl Sagan
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Lao Tzu On Course Correction And Life Direction
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” – Lao Tzu
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worth quoting — May 16, 2022
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” – Banksy
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Anaïs Nin on Perception and Self
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin
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Jean Kerr On Lawyers And Uncomfortable Truths
“A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.” – Jean Kerr
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Leonardo Da Vinci on Simplicity and Sophistication
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
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Nelson Mandela On The Power Of Native Language
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela
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Harvey Mackay on Visibility Versus Credibility
“Don’t confuse visibility with credibility.” – Harvey Mackay
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Paul Klee On Art's True Purpose
“Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.” – Paul Klee
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