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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Are You Waiting?

Fame never yet found a man who waited to be found.
—  General George S. Patton, Jr.
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On This Day In:
2013	Traditional Human Sacrifice
2012	A Division Of Men
2011	Miles, Legends and Superwoman
	Got Tragedy?
2010	My Company For A Prince!!
	On The Shoulders Of Titans

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Who’s On First?

Most of the people who have really counted in my life were not famous.  Nobody ever heard of them – except those who knew and loved them.  I knew an old priest once.  His hair was white, his face shone.  I have written my name on thousands and thousands of baseballs in my life.  The old priest wrote his name on just a few simple hearts.  How I envy him.  He was not trying to please a crowd.  He was merely trying to please his own immortal soul.  So fame never came to him.
I am listed as a famous home-run hitter.  Yet beside that obscure priest, who was so good and wise, I never got to first base.
—    George Herman “Babe” Ruth, Jr.
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On This Day In:
2013	No Equal Measure
2012	A Single Host
2011	No Exemptions
2010	Memories Of KSA – Inside The Fire

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Bull’s-Eye Next

Fame is a spotlight one minute and a bull’s-eye the next…  Why can’t people be sensible and take a man for what he is?  If we really understand a man, we do not worship him and we do not abuse him.  A famous man always feels like he’s living under false pretenses, that sooner or later he will be found out and hated because he is not perfect.
—    George Herman “Babe” Ruth, Jr.
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On This Day In:
2013	Change ÷ Time
2012	High Anxiety
2011	To Be, Do
2010	In the Arena…
	Not An Island, Today…

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