Monday, March 16, 2026

Desire Paths

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Open road By Melissa Kirsch After a blizzard in New York City, a pedestrian accustomed to crossing the street mid-block may find herself bar...

Reinhold Niebuhr - Hope, Faith, Love & Forgiveness

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"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope . Nothing which is true or beautiful o...

Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

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 Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good...

"Grief is the price we pay for love​."

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"Grief is the price we pay for love." Queen Elizabeth II, addressing bereaved families following the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

Queen Elizabeth II on Religious Intolerance

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quotes: In her Christmas broadcast of 2004, the Queen addressed the theme of religious intolerance and spoke about her own faith in Christia...

‘All It Is Is Pain’: The Olympian Testing the Limits of Endurance

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 'All It Is Is Pain': The Olympian Testing the Limits of Endurance Jessie Diggins has become the best-ever American cross-country sk...

Improved Government?

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 Improved Government? "Chief Two Eagles," a government official began, "you have observed the white man for many generations,...

The Goodness of God

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Quote "By the goodness of God we mean nowadays almost exclusively His lovingness; and in this we may be right. And by Love, in this con...

“everyone will have always been against this.”

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On Oct 25th, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: "One day, when it's safe, when there...

Playing Golf During a War

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Bush's comment about war and golf go viral as Trump seen at Palm Beach club Newsweek, story by Alice Gibbs 3/16/2026,  quote: A statemen...
Friday, March 06, 2026

Empathy on the M14 Bus

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Empathy on the M14 Bus When Quinton Miller’s M14 bus pulled up to a bus shelter in downtown Manhattan one recent morning, he said “Good morn...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Prince Philip gave Kate Middleton blunt warning about surviving royal life

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Prince Philip gave Kate Middleton blunt warning about surviving royal life   Duke of Edinburgh's 'golden rule' focused on avoidi...

​“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

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"There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one." ~ That Hideous Strengt...

“Every time you make a choice you are turning . . . into something a little different"

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"Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different ...

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

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"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~ Dr. Seuss

The Three Times I Married My Wife - The New York Times

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"I wasn't really married until I desperately wanted to walk out of my life and didn't." "The Three Times I Married M...

The greatest threat to our planet

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"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide...

The 52 Best Breakup Lines (Said in Real Life) - The New York Times

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"It's not me — it's 100% about you. Unless you turn into a different person, this will never work." Tricia Cramblet, Seatt...

Poor Mexico

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Porfirio Díaz, the Mexican dictator who was toppled in 1911:  "Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States." ...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Tolstoy's relationship with Mohandas Gandhi

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quote from Wikipedia as of Mar 4, 2016: Mohandas Gandhi wrote in his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Part II, Chapter...
Monday, December 22, 2025

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

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 “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ~ Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), ranked among the world's top...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Wisdom, by Dollie Radford, English poet

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Wisdom by Dollie Radford HOW can I measure your sorrow, How do I know The weight of to-day and to-morrow, Of days long ago, The grief, and t...

Sonnet 116: 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds...', by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 116: 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds...' Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not lo...

Bluebird Symbolism and Spiritual Meaning, by SonomaBirding.com

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The Bluebird is a uniquely attractive bird. Its feathers and coloration are gorgeous, while its song is melodious and pleasant to the ear. I...

Bluebird, by Charles Bukowski

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Bluebird there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to ...

Everything is waiting for you, by David Whyte

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Everything is waiting for you Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime w...
Friday, November 07, 2025

"Never underestimate the ability of an enthusiast to screw things up."

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"Never underestimate the ability of an enthusiast to screw things up." ~ GunnyMike, AP article comment