“Are you a socialist?” Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan. “I’m not sure what a socialist is,” Sagan replied. | |
But I believe the government has a responsibility to care for the people,” Sagan said. | |
“I’m talking about making people self-reliant, people able to take care of themselves,” he continued. “There are countries which are perfectly able to do that. The United States is an extremely rich country, it’s perfectly able to do that. It chooses not to. It chooses to have homeless people.” | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | He Claims It’s Fake News And Spies |
2018 | Mine, Too |
2017 | Who’s Turn Is It Now? |
2016 | Before You Vote In November… |
2015 | Two Faithful Thoughts |
2014 | Love Light |
Orange October (III) – Giants Advance To National League Championship Series (NLCS) | |
2013 | Nothing Ridiculous |
2012 | Keeping Faith |
2011 | Summon Us, Don’t Criticize Us |
2010 | Obama’s Wars – Book Review |
Game Two – Hearbreaking Loss | |
Posts Tagged ‘Charity’
Love And Charity
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Absolutes, Charity, Eleanor Roosevelt, Good And Bad, Love, Philosophy, Quotes on February 13, 2020| Leave a Comment »
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Tomorrow Is Valentine’s Day |
Inverted U Curve | |
2018 | Still More Prejudice |
A Well Trod Path Of Hopes, Expectations And Surprise | |
2017 | …And With It Civilization |
2016 | Just Like My Mother |
2015 | All Omissions Are Mine |
2014 | Precise Order |
2013 | Uh, No. Not Really… |
Deep Regions | |
2012 | A Pre-Valentine’s Day Message |
2011 | Easy Like Sunday Morning |
May I Have A Little More, Please… | |
2010 | Valleys and Peaks |
Still Looking
Posted in Charities, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Charity, Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Philosophy, Quotes, Service on January 3, 2020| Leave a Comment »
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. | |
— Mahatma Gandhi | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Too True |
2018 | Simon Says |
2017 | Next Cell |
2016 | Important Knowledge |
2015 | Are You Still The Exception? |
2014 | In Answer |
Days Are Passing | |
2013 | Opportunity |
2012 | Appropriate Qualities |
2011 | A Place To Hang My Hat |
Six Reasons Why #DumbDonald Will Always Be A Failure
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #DumbDonald, Charity, Courtesy, Dr. William Menninger, Failure, Humility, Personal Integrity, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Sincerity, Success, Wisdom on December 26, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, Personal Integrity, Humility, Courtesy, Wisdom, Charity. | |
— Dr. William Menninger | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | The Trouble With Bookstores |
Another No Chew Diet | |
2017 | Biased World View |
2016 | Control In The Age Of Entanglement |
2015 | Okay, Maybe Not Ceaseless |
2014 | Can Do |
2013 | Are You Helping? |
2012 | Inside All Truth Is A Vacuum |
2011 | So, Whom Are We Trying To Fool Then? |
Lead To Action
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Cardinal Desire Joseph Mercier, Charity, Knowledge, Philosophy, Quotes on September 17, 2019| Leave a Comment »
All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity. | |
— Cardinal Desire Joseph Mercier | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Listen And See |
2017 | The Big Illusion |
2016 | What Are You Thinking About? |
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 | |
The Best Gifts
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Charity, Devotion, Example, Faithfulness, Forgiveness, Gifts, Gratitude, Love, Loyalty, Oren Arnold, Philosophy, Quotes, Service on June 8, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The best gifts to give: | |
To your friend, loyalty; | |
To your enemy, forgiveness; | |
To your boss, service; | |
To a child, a good example; | |
To your parents, gratitude and devotion; | |
To your mate, love and faithfulness; | |
To all men and women, charity. | |
— Oren Arnold | |
[In the original, the quote is a single sentence. I’ve modified the format to suit my “poetic” taste. There is a variation on this quote which reads: ] | |
“A Christmas gift suggestion: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.” — Oren Arnold | |
[I like both versions – even when it’s not Christmas Season. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Sweep!!! |
We Must Be Living In TRULY Historic Times | |
2017 | The Best? |
2016 | Timely Opinions On “The Donald” |
Even Allowing For Coincidence | |
2015 | First Things First |
2014 | Without The Other |
2013 | Earn This |
Seeking A View | |
2012 | Stumblin’ Along My Way |
We’re Proud Of You, Jr! | |
Union Card | |
Two Philosophies | |
2011 | Simply Unpredictable |
And Start With Charity
Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Charity, Faith, Hope, Philosophy, Prayer, Quotes, St. Francis of Assisi on November 17, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Most High glorious God, | |
Enlighten the darkness of my heart. | |
Give me right faith, | |
sure hope and perfect charity. | |
Fill me with understanding and knowledge, | |
That I may fulfill your commands. | |
— St. Francis of Assisi | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | First Things First |
2016 | Why Would We Expect Truth From A Liar? |
Unknown Fear | |
2015 | Something Pagan |
2014 | A Note To Self |
2013 | Determining Our Degree Of Freedom |
2012 | Journalism And Fantasy |
Known Knowns | |
Jerk, n. | |
2011 | Love Questions |
Last
Posted in Charities, Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Attitude, Bread, Charity, Concentration Camps, Human Freedoms, Philosophy, Quotes, Viktor E. Frankl, Viktor Frankl on August 6, 2018| Leave a Comment »
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. | |
— Viktor Frankl | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Could You Repeat The Question? |
2016 | Still Busy? |
2015 | Why, Just This Morning… |
2014 | Just Kindness |
2013 | Now Shaking |
2012 | Absurdity, n. |
2011 | Minor Changes |
Things I’ve Learned From Life – Nana Carter | |
Acting Out | |
Have Thee Paid Yet?
Posted in Proverbs, Quotes, tagged Charity, Helping Others, Mennonite Proverb, Proverbs, Quotes on August 5, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble. | |
— Mennonite Proverb | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Hopefully, I’m Good Company |
2016 | Maybe Not Most |
2015 | Differences That Matter |
2014 | But Sometimes It Takes A Village |
2013 | Laughter > Grief |
2012 | Pioneers |
2011 | It Is Free |
Heart Trouble
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Bob Hope, Charity, Heart Trouble, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes on December 15, 2016| 2 Comments »
If you haven’t got charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. | |
— Bob Hope | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | From The Inside Out |
2014 | Alone And Free |
2013 | Superstition Is Your Way |
2012 | Escape Hatches |
2011 | Sing Like No One Is Listening |
To The Extent
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Charity, George Gilder, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes on November 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »
To the extent that people are willing to give of themselves, to devote themselves to pursuits beyond their own immediate calculations of self-interest, they tend to be more successful, to contribute more to society and to receive more benefits themselves. | |
— George Gilder | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Ambition |
2014 | More Branches To Climb |
Just In Time — Happy Thanksgiving (2014) | |
2013 | For And Against |
2012 | De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum |
2011 | Similar And Different |
2010 | Reminiscing |
Differences | |
A Good Lad
Posted in Leadership, My Journal, Poetry, tagged Charity, Leadership, Mothers, My Journal, Poems, Poetry, Sons on June 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Somebody’s Mother |
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The woman was old and ragged and gray | |
And bent with the chill of the Winter’s day. | |
The street was wet with a recent snow | |
And the woman’s feet were aged and slow. | |
She stood at the crossing and waited long, | |
Alone, uncared for, amid the throng | |
Of human beings who passed her by | |
Nor heeded the glance of her anxious eyes. | |
Down the street, with laughter and shout, | |
Glad in the freedom of “school let out,” | |
Came the boys like a flock of sheep, | |
Hailing the snow piled white and deep. | |
Past the woman so old and gray | |
Hastened the children on their way. | |
Nor offered a helping hand to her – | |
So meek, so timid, afraid to stir | |
Lest the carriage wheels or the horses’ feet | |
Should crowd her down in the slippery street. | |
At last came one of the merry troop, | |
The gayest laddie of all the group; | |
He paused beside her and whispered low, | |
“I’ll help you cross, if you wish to go.” | |
Her aged hand on his strong young arm | |
She placed, and so, without hurt or harm, | |
He guided the trembling feet along, | |
Proud that his own were firm and strong. | |
Then back again to his friends he went, | |
His young heart happy and well content. | |
“She’s somebody’s mother, boys, you know, | |
For all she’s aged and poor and slow, | |
“And I hope some fellow will lend a hand | |
To help my mother, you understand, | |
“If ever she’s poor and old and gray, | |
When her own dear boy is far away.” | |
And “somebody’s mother” bowed low her head | |
In her home that night, and the prayer she said | |
Was “God be kind to the noble boy, | |
Who is somebody’s son, and pride and joy!” | |
— Written by: Mary Dow Brine | |
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On This Day In: | |
2014 | Who Dare Not Speak |
2013 | I Love Beer |
2012 | Trial By Jury |
2011 | First Class |
Got Knowledge? | |
Many Colors
Posted in Charities, Faith Family and Friends, Health, Pictures, tagged Cancer Awareness Ribbons, Charity, Colored Ribbons, Family, Health, Mom, National Cancer Survivors Day, Other web sites, Pictures, Support for Cancer Awareness on June 1, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The National Cancer Survivors Day is a secular holiday celebrated on the first Sunday in June in the United States. The day is meant to demonstrate that life after a cancer diagnosis can be a reality. My mom, who recently turned 87yrs old, is a 25+ years Cancer survivor. (Go Mom!!) | |
Colored ribbons have come to mean support for many causes. Above are the colors relevant to Cancer. Please take a moment to pray for those currently suffering from all the various forms of cancer (and their families and loved ones). | |
Click on the link to visit the “Official” website of the National Cancer Survivors Day | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | Distance, n. |
Less Can Be More | |
2012 | Rise Up! |
The Gift | |
2011 | Artful Courage |
2010 | A Handful of Lessons… |