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Something To Think About - 5/17/25
Pete Rose, known as “Charlie Hustle,” made the observation that “I’m no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.”
Something To Think About - 5/16/25
Ben Franklin once noted that “If the rascals knew the advantages of virtue, they would become honest.”
Something To Think About - 5/15/25
According to early American poet James Russell Lowell, “Not failure, but low aim, is the crime.”
Something To Think About - 5/14/25
Educator Booker T. Washington said: “Few things help an individual more than for another to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that he is trusted.”
Something To Think About - 5/13/25
There’s been more of an effort to return wrongly deported El Salvadoran Kilmar Ábrego García to the U.S. than there was to keep him from entering the country, illegally we would add, in the first place. The angst on the Left is much more than they ever expressed over the arrival of eleven million illegal immigrants these past four years. Meanwhile, illegal border crossings in February and March were down to 12,000 versus 189,000 in each of those months last year, under the Biden Administration’s less than watchful eye.
Something To Think About - 5/12/25
Economist Roger Babson wrote that whatever the economic circumstances, “…character, health, knowledge, and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.”
Something To Think About - 5/10/25
Marcus Aurelius advised us to “Dream big dreams; only big dreams have the power to move men’s souls.”
Something To Think About - 5/9/25
French mathematician Blaise Pascal wrote, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” And that was well before smart phones.
Something To Think About - 5/8/25
Automobile magnate Soichiro Honda claimed that “…success represents the one percent of your work which results only from the ninety-nine percent that is called failure.”
Something To Think About - 5/7/25
Pubilius Syrus said: “Anyone can hold the helm when the seas are calm.”
Something To Think About - 5/6/25
Uber-Progressives Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are flying about the country, in private jets no less, holding rallies railing against the “Oligarchies; whoever they are. Meanwhile, her district of Brooklyn is awash in prostitution and drug dealers. Remember her rented evening gown for a gala with “Tax the Rich” emblazoned on it? Turns out she rented a $5000 a night suite to change clothes in for the event. Even liberal billionaire Michael Bloomberg noted that “Marxist”, his term, Bernie Sanders had a net worth 25 times the average American and owned three houses. Only in America.
Something To Think About - 5/5/25
Henry Ford believed that “Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.”
Something To Think About - 5/3/25
Columnist Erma Bombeck advised us that when at a low point, “Tell yourself, ‘I’m not a failure. I failed at something.’ There’s a big difference.” noted Bombeck.
Something To Think About - 5/2/25
As organizational theorist Myron Tribus once noted: “You can manage what you do not understand; but you cannot lead it.”
Something To Think About - 5/1/25
According to Brigadier General Hugh C. Cameron, “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.”
Something To Think About - 4/30/25
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 - 4/29/25
The problem with assuming that tariffs on foreign made cars will bring back American manufacturing from Mexico and Canada is this: Its costs $6 an hour to make a car in Mexico. It costs $40 an hour to build a car in Canada. And, thanks to the Administration’s new best friend, the UAW, it costs $70 an hour in labor to build a car here. That and the fact that 60% of the parts that go into the final product come from foreign countries, primarily Mexico and Canada. Bringing those jobs back to the U.S. is next to impossible.
Something To Think About - 4/28/25
Mark Twain — 'Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.'
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.