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July 30, 2023
EssaySMEDLEY BUTLER MARINE 33YRS. 1881-1940 WAR IS A RACKET: I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I neve…
July 29, 2023
EssayALEX de TOCQUEVILLE 1805-1859 "Democracy in America" LIFE IS TO BE ENTERED UPON WITH COURAGE. ONE OF THE MOST ORDINARY WEAKNESSES of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile con…
July 29, 2023
EssayBEATRIX POTTER, MARCEL DUCHAMPJACKIE KENNEDY-----1929-1994------ FORMER FIRST LADY YOU HAVE TO BE DOING SOMETHING YOU ENJOY. THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF HAPPINESS. WE SHOULD ALL DO S…
July 27, 2023
EssayNORMAN LEAR 1922----"ALL IN THE FAMILY" "The Jeffersons" SUCCESS IS HOW YOU COLLECT YOUR MINUTES. WE JUST MAY BE the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history. LI…
July 26, 2023
EssayLEO BUSCAGLIA "Living, Loving & Learning" I EXIST, I AM HERE, I AM BECOMING, I MAKE MY OWN LIFE AND NO ONE MAKES IT FOR ME. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgres…
July 25, 2023
EssayHAZRAT INAYAT KHAN 1882-1927 "The Mysticism of Sound" "The Dance of the Soul" " Philosophy, Psychology" "The Art of Being" "The purification of the body leads to the purification o…
July 24, 2023
EssayCHIEF DAN GEORGE 1899-1981 Accomplished performer, poet, philosopher, champion of First Nations peoples. THERE IS A LONGING among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpos…
July 23, 2023
EssayWOODY HARRELSON 1961--- " TRIANGLE OF SADNESS" THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM IS TERRORISM. A GROWUP IS A CHILD WITH LAYERS ON. I THINK MY BEST SKILL in this whole deal is as a conduit…
July 22, 2023
EssayPhilip Neri 1515-1595 Patron Saint of Joyful Hearts THE BEST WAY to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last. FIRST let a little love find entranc…
July 21, 2023
EssayROBIN WILLIAMS. "Mrs Doubtfire" 1951-2014 YOU'RE ONLY GIVEN A LITTLE SPARK OF MADNESS. YOU MUSN'T LOSE IT. NO MATTER what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. THE…
July 20, 2023
EssayCORMAC McCARTHY. 1933-2023 "THE BORDER TRILOGY" I'VE SEEN THE MEANNESS OF HUMANS TILL I DON'T KNOW WHY GOD AIN'T PUT OUT THE SUN AND GONE AWAY. THE WORLD IS QUITE RUTHLESS in selec…
July 19, 2023
EssayGEORGE MCGOVERN. 1922-2012 U.S. SENATOR/PILOT/Ran for President. I'M FED UP TO THE EARS with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. NO MAN should advocate a course in pr…
July 18, 2023
EssayNELSON MANDELLA 1918-2013. "Long Walk to Freedom" YOU CAN NEVER HAVE AN IMPACT ON SOCIETY IF YOU HAVE NOT CHANGED YOURSELF. IT is in your hands to create a better world for all who…
July 18, 2023
Essay"IN PERFECT TIMING" BY PETER CADDY I LOVE BOOKS. My journey has been immeasurably aided by the insight I have gained from books of every genre, my speciably being spirituality. I d…
July 17, 2023
EssayPHYLIS DILLER. 1917-2012 COMEDIAN A SMILE IS AN ARC THAT SETS EVERYTHIKN G STRAIGHT. I NEVER MADE Who's Who," but I'm featured om "What's That?" I ONCE WORE a peekaboo blouse. Peop…
July 16, 2023
EssayLINDA HOGAN. 1947----Author, Professor. She descended from a family of storytellers who helped shape her. "Mean Spirit" "Solar Storm" WE MAKE ART OUT OF OUR LOSS. A SPOKEN STORY is…
July 15, 2023
EssayIRIS MURDOCH. 1919-1999 "The Sea, the Sea" "The Black Prince" HAPPINESS is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with…
July 14, 2023
EssayWOMEN GROW RADICAL WITH AGE. One day an army of women may quietly take over the earth. GLORIA STEINEM THE LONGER I LIVE, the more deeply I learn that love -- whether we call it fri…
July 13, 2023
EssayWOLE SOYINKA 1934--- Soyinka is the first Black person to win the Nobel Prize for literature (1986). The motivation for the Prize was, " . . Who in a wide cultural perspective and…
July 12, 2023
EssaySRI RAMANA MAHARSHI PLEASURE OR PAIN ARE ASPECTS OF THE MIND ONLY. Our essential nature is happiness. But we have forgotten the Self and imagine that the body or the mind is the Se…
July 11, 2023
EssayFREDERICH BUECHNER. 1926-2022. " Goodrich" "Wishful Thinking" PAY ATTENTION to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the hol…
July 11, 2023
EssayTHE SMILE THERE is a smile of love, And their is a smile of deceit, AND their is a smile of smiles, IN which these two smiles meet. AND there is a frown of hate, and their is a fro…
July 10, 2023
EssayJOHN CALVIN 1509-1564 Theologian PEACE IS NOT TO BE PURCHASED BY THE SACRIFICE OF TRUTH. HUMILITY IS THE BEGINNING OF TRUE INTELLIGENCE. NOTHING IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN TO BE BLINDE…
July 9, 2023
EssayOLIVER SACKS. 1933-2015 "Hallucinations" "Gratitude" THE POWER OF MUSIC to integrate and cure . . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication. WE SEE WITH…