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Something To Think About - 7/12/25
According to writer Harper Lee, “People see what they look for and hear what they listen for.”
Something To Think About - 7/11/25
Author J.M. Barrie claimed that “Life is a long lesson in humility.”
Something To Think About - 7/10/25
The late singer-songwriter Brian Wilson once observed that “Genius is a big word. But if you have to live up to something, you might as well live up to that.”
Something To Think About - 7/9/25
The Father of Hungarian democracy Louis Kossuth said: “It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.”
Something To Think About - 7/8/25
Here are some fun facts: Delaware led the nation in federal tax revenue per person at $24,575 per resident in 2023, followed by Massachusetts at $21,747 and Minnesota at $20,728. Mississippi and New Mexico were at the bottom at around $6,000. Washington D.C., home to all those laboring in, with and for government, contributed $54,612 in federal tax revenue per resident — more than double any state.
Something To Think About - 7/7/25
It’s been said that “The world needs unbending courageous people. It needs people who day to day do what’s right – not what’s expedient. It needs people who are not afraid to lose their position, not people who will do anything to keep it.”
Something To Think About - 7/5/25
Albert Einstein said: “Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
Something To Think About - 7/4/25
Today, let us remember Ronald Reagan’s warning that "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."
Something To Think About - 7/3/25
French author Francois Garagnon notes that “Between what I think I want to say, what I believe I’m saying, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe you understand, and what you understood, there are at least nine possibilities for misunderstanding.”
Something To Think About - 7/2/25
Regarding the big Army parade in Washington a few weeks ago, Republican Senator John Kennedy said: “I think the United States of America is the most powerful country in all human history. I mean, we’re a lion, and a lion doesn’t have to tell you it’s a lion. Everybody knows it’s a lion. So why spend the 40-plus million dollars to tell people that we’re a lion?”
Something To Think About - 7/1/25
Following Ukraine’s successful drone assault on the Russian Air Force, Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich notes: “In some ways, the drone attack reminded me of Israel’s complex pager and cell phone attack which crippled Hezbollah’s organization in Lebanon. We are in a new world, with new dangers. Artificial intelligence, robotics, low-cost manufacturing, and long-range planning are going to destroy all our traditional assumptions about warfare.”
Something To Think About - 6/30/25
Author and positive psychology coach Diane Drehr says: “Leaders must have the courage to follow their vision, to believe the invisible, to work for something that’s still only a possibility, while others often wring their hands in despair.”
Something To Think About - 6/28/25
According to educator and author Edgar Z. Friedenberg, “What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.”
Something To Think About - 6/27/25
Writer Kurt Vonnegut believed that “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Something To Think About - 6/26/25
The so-called Dean of American Sportswriters Grantland Rice wrote: “A substitute for hard work is worth about one-tenth the real thing.”
Something To Think About - 6/25/25
Writer Edmund White claimed that “At certain crucial moments – an emergency, an opportunity – one must act first and think later.”
Something To Think About - 6/24/25
As Elon Musk recently noted, just prior to his break up with President Trump, “A bill can be big and it can be beautiful; but I doubt it can be both.” If you want proof, the budget bill sent to the Senate, where we hope sanity my reside, adds $2.7trillio to budget deficits through 2034. That’s certainly not beautiful. And, if it’s such a win for the taxpayer, why did we have to raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion?
Something To Think About - 6/23/25
Poet Sylvia Plath once observed that “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
Something To Think About - 6/21/25
It’s been said that “One flies with one’s own wings.”
Something To Think About - 6/20/25
According to Garrison Keillor, “Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”