A Trumpet Solo

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course, is a very common phenomenon.  There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is.  With me, every peep becomes a trumpet solo.
—  Albert Einstein
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On This Day In:
2015	Potential Is A Heavy Burden
2014	Fear Not, Weep Not
2013	Half Way There
2012	Sacrificed Any Lately?
2011	The Value Of One’s Character
2010	Intervals
	On Being Human
	Non-predictive Emergence
	Events
	Bodily Functions
	Standing Thoughts
	Sent Home Is Better Than Fixed

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Maybe Someday

A cultured person is one who can entertain himself, entertain others, and entertain ideas.
—  Peter Lawrence
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On This Day In:
2015	How’s The Cow?
2014	Mind Made Up
2013	On Purpose
2012	The Dream
2011	What Could Be More Comfortable?

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Chains Of Habit

The chains of habit are too weak too be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
—  Samuel Johnson
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On This Day In:
2015	That You Shall Remain
	Did You See That?
2014	True, Vibrant And Open
2013	Remembering, Yet Again
2012	Something Of Value
2011	Sleep All Day

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More Lives

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read…  It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
—  S. I. Hayakawa
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On This Day In:
2015	Go Shopping More
2014	Say What?
2013	Accepting Beauty
2012	Transitional Choice To Ride The Wave
2011	Freedom Isn’t Always Perfect
	Just That Simple

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Mostly Just Masticating

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
—  Edmund Burke
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2015	Don’t Mess With Mosa
	How Long Is This Run?
2014	The Importance Of Being Forgetful
2013	Anyway
2012	Habit Forming
2011	And In The Other Hand(ful)
	In Love With Words
	Boundless Naïveté
	Who Did You Say Signed Off On This Treason, Pat?

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Hard Learners

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
—  Aldous Huxley
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On This Day In:
2015	Goals
2014	Switch To Dogs…
2013	Times Change
2012	Ashes Not Dust
2011	A Handful From Saudi
	None Of This Happened
	Take Responsibility

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As Close As They Can Get

Science doesn’t purvey absolute truth.  Science is a mechanism.  It’s a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature.  It’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match.  And this works, not just for the ordinary aspects of science, but for all of life.  I should think people would want to know that what they know is truly what the universe is like, or at least as close as they can get to it.
—  Isaac Asimov
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On This Day In:
2015	And So I Blog
2014	Take Flight
2013	Contributing Joy
2012	More Than A Race
2011	Institutionalized Leadership

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