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I’m Willing

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 29, 2026| Leave a Comment »

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.
    ―     Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From:  “The Sorrows of Young Werther“
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Click here (29 March) to see the posts of prior years.  I started this blog in late 2009.  Daily posting began in late January 2011.  Not all of the days in the early years (2009-2010) will have posts.

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Too Cautious Resignation

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.  Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so ‘safe,’ and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail.  Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.
    ―     Malcolm X
From his book:  “The Autobiography of Malcolm X“
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Click here (9 August) to see the posts of prior years.  I started this blog in late 2009.  Daily posting began in late January 2011.  Not all of the days in the early years (2009-2010) will have posts.

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The Tragedy Of Trump Republicanism

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 1, 2020| Leave a Comment »

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;  the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
    ―    Socrates
[I would say today’s Republicans fear light – AND – specifically the light which comes from science, truth and facts.  —  kmab]
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Click here (1 July) to see the posts of prior years.  I started this blog in late 2009.  Daily posting began in late January 2011.  Not all of the days in the early years (2009-2010) will have posts.

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