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Something To Think About - 12/14/24
Businessman Max DePree believed that “We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
Something To Think About - 12/13/24
Film director Billy Wilder once noted that “You’re only as good as the best thing you have ever done.”
Something To Think About - 12/12/24
Mark Twain said: “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
Something To Think About - 12/11/24
According to author Mary Shelley, “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
Something To Think About - 12/10/24
As the Trump Cabinet takes shape, some picks good, some not so much in our opinion but, we do like the idea of cutting costs and waste including eliminating some Departments altogether, like Education, whose prevue belongs with the states. We’re reminded by Thomas Jefferson who said: “The government is best which governs least.”
Something To Think About - 12/9/24
Author Roald Dahl believed that “Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.”
Something To Think About - 12/7/24
According to English philosopher and literary critic George Henry Lewes, “No one ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.”
Something To Think About - 12/6/24
It’s those who play the game that have an impact. No one remembers the win/loss record of the referee.
Something To Think About - 12/5/24
Capitalist and financier Ken Langone once noted that “The biggest risk you run in life is having fifteen people sitting around a table all agreeing with everything you say.”
Something To Think About - 12/4/24
Columnist Sydney Harris wrote: “An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes that the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.”
Something To Think About - 12/3/24
Post-election, we’d encourage Congress to channel their inner Henry Ford who said: “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
Something To Think About - 12/2/24
“Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.” noted Abraham Lincoln; “The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
Something To Think About - 11/30/24
It’s been said that “Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.”
Something To Think About - 11/29/24
British author and government reformer Samuel Smiles believed that “To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.”
Something To Think About - 11/28/24
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
Something To Think About - 11/27/24
“Nothing much happens without a dream;” claimed author Robert Greenleaf. “For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.”
Something To Think About - 11/26/24
A belated “Congratulations” to California voters for overwhelmingly passing Proposition 36 to toughen penalties for shoplifting and fentanyl crimes, and for ousting Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón who refused to aggressively prosecute crimes, was a champion of “No Cash” bail, and oversaw a murder rate that shot to double the state average.
Something To Think About - 11/25/24
Robert Schuller once observed that “Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the impossible problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.”
Something To Think About - 11/23/24
Chief Seattle said: “Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
Something To Think About - 11/22/24
As Herbert Hoover once observed: “About the time we make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”