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Something To Think About - 4/18/24
French satiric moralist La Bruyere wrote: “Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its shortness.”
Something To Think About - 4/17/24
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung believed that “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Something To Think About - 4/16/24
The mass murder of Russian concertgoers by ISIS operatives, reminiscent of the recent slaughter in Israel, is especially tragic in that despite our warnings well in advance that something was imminent, Putin then proceeded to direct the blame on to Ukraine and us in order to deepen his hold on power.
Something To Think About - 4/15/24
Bill Gates defined “Daydreaming” as “Vision without execution.”
Something To Think About - 4/13/24
Richard Nixon believed that “A man is not finished when he is defeated. H is finished when he quits.”
Something To Think About - 4/12/24
According to philosopher and psychologist William James: “When you have a choice and don’t make it, that is, in itself, is a choice.”
Something To Think About - 4/11/24
John Steinbeck said: “Fear Corrupts.”
Something To Think About - 4/10/24
Anne Frank wrote: “The final forming of a person’s character is in their own hands.”
Something To Think About - 4/9/24
Last year the US paid $422 million to fund the UN Relief and Works Agency that feeds and shelters over one million in the mid-east. The same agency whose workers included at least a dozen that participated in the October 7th Hamas attack on Israeli citizens. Enough of throwing taxpayer money we don’t have at organizations and countries that hate us. It’s madness.
Something To Think About - 4/8/24
Stephen Covey believed that “Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”
Something To Think About - 4/6/24
Teddy Rosevelt believed that “Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.”
Something To Think About - 4/5/24
British mathematician/philosopher Bertrand Russell said: “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
Something To Think About - 4/4/24
Warren Buffet claims that “What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.”
Something To Think About - 4/3/24
According to philosopher-psychologist William James, “Nothing is so fatiguing as the hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
Something To Think About - 4/2/24
With the Presidential race now essentially down to two, both candidates need to promise to take action on the nation’s $34 trillion of debt, a staggering sum equal to one hundred and forty percent of our Gross Domestic Product. Both of these candidates contributed to the problem with Trump adding $8 trillion during his term and Biden piling on another $6 trillion, so far. Meanwhile, Social Security is essentially broke with benefits set to be cut by 23% in ten years. And neither Trump nor Biden nor either party in power is willing to address the issue by simply increasing the retirement age a year or two for those still 30 years away from retirement.
Something To Think About - 4/1/24
Queen Victoria’s Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once observed that “The fool wonders; the wise man asks.”
Something To Think About - 3/30/24
Software entrepreneur Charles Wang said: “I don’t think success is a place or a definition. I think it’s a direction.”
Something To Think About - 3/29/24
Earnest Hemmingway said: “Think of what you can do with what there is.”
Something To Think About - 3/28/24
According to columnist Doug Larson, “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.”
Something To Think About - 3/27/24
Second up in spurious lawsuits is the one brought against Tesla for Elon Musk’s outsized pay package, one any of us would like to receive to be sure, but this plaintiff owns a whopping 100 shares that he paid $200 for and are now worth ten times that and yet he claims that Mr. Musk is not worth what he’s being paid.