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Something To Think About - 4/26/25
Holocaust survivor Corrie ten Boom claimed that “Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”
Something To Think About - 4/25/25
To paraphrase Norman Mailer: You don’t really know someone until you meet them in court.
Something To Think About - 4/24/25
According to author Harper Lee, “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
Something To Think About - 4/23/25
John D. Rockefeller said, “I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
Something To Think About - 4/22/25
The Trump Administration deserves criticism for inadvertently including the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic on the group chat regarding possible military strike details. Clearly a rookie mistake by national security advisor Mike Waltz that should never have happened, especially the use of a commercial app on personal phones for national-security conversations. But the real question is: If this was such an egregious breach of national security, why, then, did the Atlantic publish the entire meeting verbatim? THAT is the real breach of security. They could have simply reported on the mistake, kept the details private, and not put U.S. assets at risk.
Something To Think About - 4/21/25
General Douglas MacArthur believed that “The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.”
Something To Think About - 4/19/25
Retired Air Force Lt Colonel David Dale advice is that “No matter your role in life, find your mountain and begin the climb.”
Something To Think About - 4/18/25
As Lucille Ball once noted, “Remember that there are practically no “overnight” successes.”
Something To Think About - 4/17/25
According to Andrew Jackson: “One man with courage makes a majority.”
Something To Think About - 4/16/25
Teddy Roosevelt believed that “The purpose of life is to live it, to take the experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Something To Think About - 4/15/25
The income tax has been called “The fine you pay for being productive.”
Something To Think About - 4/14/25
According to Coach Dean Smith, the winningest coach in NCAA tournament history: “If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.”
Something To Think About - 4/12/25
World War I pilot and Ace Eddie Rickenbacker believed that “There can be no courage unless you’re scared.”
Something To Think About - 4/11/25
Thoreau said, “Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.”
Something To Think About - 4/10/25
Author Ayn Rand, “Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.”
Something To Think About - 4/9/25
Journalist Wilma Askinas wrote: “There is no better measure of a person than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.”
Something To Think About - 4/8/25
Congressman, later President, William McKinley’s tariffs of 1890 raised tariffs on imported goods to about 48%, one of the highest rates in U.S. history at the time. This made foreign goods more expensive, which was meant to protect American manufacturers but hurt consumers instead. It also hurt American farmers who relied on exporting crops, as foreign countries retaliated with their own tariffs and contributed to the Panic of 1893 by reducing international trade. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff bill in 1930, also an attempt to protect American industries, worsened the Great Depression as U.S. exports dropped by over 60% between 1929 and 1933. The real answer to American prosperity, as President Trump has also stated, is a reduction in barriers to productivity, like regulations, onerous permitting processes and fees and taxes.
Something To Think About - 4/7/25
Don’t insist on having your own way. Insist on finding the best way.
Something To Think About - 4/5/25
Thoreau claimed that “The cost of a thing is the amount of life that must exchanged for it.”
Something To Think About - 4/4/25
Poet Robert Frost said, “Some people have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”