Less And More Irritation

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
—  Don Herold
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2014	That Marvelous Feeling
2013	Exceptional
2012	A Wild And Crazy Believer
2011	A Lack Of Scarcity
	The Joy Of Prevention

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Stretched Today?

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
—  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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On This Day In:
2014	Outta Here
2013	Getting Words Right
2012	There’s A New Dog In Town
	Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
2011	A Conservative Is…

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When It Is Darkest

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
–  Oscar Wilde
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On This Day In:
2014	Knowledge And Doubt
2013	Three Thoughts
2012	Gentle Reader
2011	Leave The Light On For Me Anyway

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He Says It’s Hard To Get There From Here

I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: ‘That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.’“
Excerpted from Galileo Galilei’s letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, sent in 1615
Collected in Stillman Drake’s: “The Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo“.
[Found at one of the blogs I follow: http://jrbenjamin.com/
The specific post is located at:  http://jrbenjamin.com/2015/04/06/galileo-squares-faith-and-reason/
Please take a moment to visit the original site.    —  KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2014	Question From A Founding Father
2013	Make Heroes
2012	See And Hold
2011	Am Not, Are So

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Getting The Story Right

For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn’t matter if you’re getting the story right.
—  Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
From their book: “Creativity Inc.“
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2014	Like Shells On The Shore
2013	More And Why
2012	How To Gain Effective Fire
2011	Patriot Act

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However Vast The Darkness

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning.  However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
―  Stanley Kubrick
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2014	The Omnipresent Teacher
2013	Don’t Waste
2012	Earning Thanks
2011	Fuzzy Vision
2010	Movies and Book

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Little Understanding

Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage.  If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country.
―  Dwight D. Eisenhower
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2014	Open Early
2013	Movies And A Lifetime Of Lyrics
	This Truth
2012	Cheaper To Hold
2011	Resistance Is Futile
	One Great, One Enjoyable, One Terrible…
	Unfortunately, No Approval Is Required

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