Revere And Criticize

I trust no one will understand me to be speaking with disrespect of the law, because I criticize it so freely.  I venerate the law, and especially our system of law as one of the vastest products of the human mind…  But one may criticize even what one reveres.
—  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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On This Day In:
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2014	Adaptability Won
2013	Disappeared
2012	Fuller
	Life On The Range
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2011	Stoned Again?
2010	Insubordination… And That’s Why I Love Her!
	Losing – Week One

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Tragic Determinism

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no “future”.  Among all the tragic consequences…, this suppression of personal self-expression through one’s life work is among the most poignant.
—  Henry M. Wriston
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On This Day In:
2015	Maybe It Should Be Clearer
2014	Make It Your Strength
2013	Four Score
2012	The Ruler
2011	Forever
2010	Just Cuz
	How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
	It’s Alive!! (3rd Pair Shoe Review)

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But Sometimes You Have To Stand In Front

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body.  He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.
—  George Santayana
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On This Day In:
2015	The Key Shift
2014	Remember ISIS / ISIL?
2013	What Have You Done Lately?
2012	B8
2011	I’m Definitely Not In Control

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The Happiest People

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they?  They are the happiest people in the world.
—  William Lyon Phelps
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On This Day In:
2015	Jumping Into The Dark
2014	I Would Be Sillier
2013	It Keeps Happening Anyway
2012	Take Time
2011	A Mother’s Lesson
2010	3rd Pair – Shoe Review (DOA and Final)

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Got Leisure?

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
—  George Bernard Shaw
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On This Day In:
2015	It’s Been Hurtin’ For Quite A While Now
2014	Curious Talent
2013	Eureka
2012	Slow Me
2011	He Said What?!?
2010	Gritty
	3 and 3
	Just A Hunch
	Wall Street – Movie Review
	2nd Pair – Shoe Review (Aborted and Final)

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What About Friends?

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
—  Stendhal
(Marie-Henri Beyle is better known by his pen name Stendhal)
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On This Day In:
2015	It Tastes Good To Me
2014	Others’ Footsteps
	The Not-So-Modern Samurai
2013	Doin’
2012	A Lover
2011	What Have We Found Here
	Words

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Equal Justice

I have always believed that to have true justice we must have equal harassment under the law.
—  Paul Krassner
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On This Day In:
2015	Not Enough
2014	Are You Even Listening?
2013	Namaste
2012	Looking Up
2011	Et Tu Brute?

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BD Quotes

Hi Princess,
Here’s three quotes for your birthday:
I expect to pass through life but once.  If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
—  William Penn
[Today counts!]
Kindness in words creates confidence.  Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.  Kindness in giving creates love.
—  Lao-Tzu
[People matter!]
Keep hope alive!
—  Rev. Jesse Jackson
[Faith restores!]
Happy Birthday!
We love you always,
Mum and Dad
XXX 00 X
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On This Day In:
2015	Princess
2014	Optional
2013	Happy Birthday, Rebecca
2012	Be Not Old
	2012 National League Western Division Champions!!!
2011	What Kind Of Work Do You Do?
2010	Another Loser… And Come November

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Do Something

The critical ingredient is getting off your ass and doing something.  It’s as simple as that.  A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now.  Not tomorrow.  Not next week.  But today.  They start working on that idea today.
—  Nolan Bushnell
Founder of Atari, on being an entrepreneur
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On This Day In:
2015	What Are You Making Now?
2014	Like Fire Burning In My Heart
2013	Oh Yes He Can!
2012	Enquiries
2011	The Prize: Understanding
2010	Can You Tell My Scanner Works?
	Rebecca – The Early Years
	James – The Early Years
	Brothers By Another Mother

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The Business Of Life

At the beginning of the curve, a young person is lacking business experience, competence and self-confidence.  As age increases into the mid-twenties the time is right to start that business.  Now about here, in the late thirties or early forties, chances are this person is too embedded in his corporate career or facing too many financial commitments  –  like kids going to college  –  to take a chance.  If he doesn’t try it by now, chances are slim that he ever will.
—  Patrick Liles
Describing the bell curve of probability of being an entrepreneur in the course of a lifetime.
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On This Day In:
2015	Alone Again, Naturally
2014	Agreed
2013	Smile From Your Heart!
2012	Like You
2011	Got Days?
2010	K9 Humor – Has Anyone Seen My Setter? (Must read!!)
	A Longer Blog Than You Want To Read (Probably)
2009	Back and Forth and Round Again…

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What The World Calls

Constancy to truth and principle may sometimes lead to what the world calls inconstancy in conduct.
—  Tryon Edwards
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On This Day In:
2015	Say What?
2014	Start Today
2013	Fly!!
2012	Greater Love
2011	Before

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Word Up, Chuck!

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
—  Charles Dickens
[No wonder #AmnestyDon says he has the best attorneys working for him.  —  KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2015	Sometimes I Wonder About Things
2014	Still Racing
2013	Anew
2012	Make Both
2011	Are You Happy Yet?

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Show Willing

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
—  Robert Frost
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On This Day In:
2015	If He Only Knew…
2014	Dared To Love
2013	Strong Kung-Fu
2012	Two Tribes
2011	Made Any Assumptions Lately?

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What Are You Thinking About?

Too many people are thinking of security, instead of opportunity.  They seem more afraid of life than death.
—  James F. Byrnes
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On This Day In:
2015	What The Framers Chose
2014	Lost Anything Lately?
	A Life Of Science
2013	Serve The World
2012	Acquaintance, n.
2011	On Why His Father Was A Great Teacher
	A Baker’s Dozen

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Raise Yourself

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
—  Voltaire
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On This Day In:
2015	A Kids Movie Rip-Off
2014	Ready, Action!
2013	Responding To Challenges
2012	Abnormal, adj.
2011	Large Families
	On The Brink

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