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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
    —     Walter Bagehot
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On This Day In:
2022 So Why Not Try?
2021 One Likely Consequence
Just A Carousel
2020 Know Love
2019 Spoiler Alert
2018 Tic-Toc
2017 Explaining Working Class Support For Donald
2016 Not In My Experience
2015 Effort
2014 Honest Wants
2013 Faith, n.
2012 Surprise Me
2011 Confused With Truth

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
    —    Voltaire
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On This Day In:
2022 40Hrs
Might I Have A Little More, Please
2021 All I See Are Nails
More Money
2020 We Will Get Through This
2019 I Asked My Family Doctor Just What I Had
2018 You Have Just Begun To Climb
2017 Equal Protection Under Law
2016 A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
2015 Or You Don’t
2014 If You Ever Fall…
2013 Glory Days (part 2)
2012 They Follow A Pattern – If You Know What I Mean
What I Live For (Precis)
2011 Giving

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Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
    —    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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On This Day In:
2020 Magical Voices In My Head
I Still Need Educating
2019 And I’m Not Letting Go
2018 The Continuing Failure Of Speaker Paul Ryan
Day 3: Approaching The Half Way Point
2017 Orange Comb-Overs Unite!
2016 Speaking Of Which
2015 Complexity Has A Strict Architecture
2014 Just Support
2013 Wandering Free
2012 Contribute = Paying Taxes
2011 How Will You Be Judged?

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In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead;  the one being an innate desire of pleasure;  the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
    ―    Socrates
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On This Day In:
2022 A Wonderful Tension
2021 Little And Large Choices
I Got Something To Say
Alternate Reality
2020 When?
2019 Two Guides
2018 A Call For You
2017 Because I Read
2016 On What Matters…
2015 Social Security
2014 Bewitching
2013 Visiting Joy
2012 Dedication To Today
2011 Project Second Chance – Adult Literacy
Turning Coal Into Diamonds

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“Ah, the truth about exercise?”  He replies, “Well, I suspect that exercise is more often a marker of health than its cause — healthy people like to exercise more than unhealthy people to start with.  And the real value of it is not in terms of abstract health benefits like longevity —  and extra few hours or maybe months —  but because it feels good when you do it or when it’s over.  To hell with Hygeia;  the truth lies in pleasure.”
    —    Dr. Richard Friedman
As quoted by Gina Kolata in her book:  “Ultimate Fitness: The Quest For Truth About Exercise And Health
[For my review of this very interesting book, click:  Into The Dark…   And for those of you wondering, Hygeia is the Greek goddess of health.    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2022 Do People Know What You Stand For?
2021 The Republican Party Can Survive Trumpism (If It Wants To)
Don’t You Ever Ask Them Why
2020 Art Work
One Person (Republican) Can Make A Majority
2019 Hopefully, Closer To Noon
Can You See The Bottom?
2018 Stock Market Sets Another Record Under #DumbDonald
#LyingDonald: About That Special Prosecutor Testimony
2017 We Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
2016 But You Have To Learn It Feels Good
2015 Never Stop
2014 Caution
2013 Treat Her Like A Lady
2012 Build New Worlds
2011 I Grok Elegance
Standing Relish

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There are seven sins in the world:
Wealth without work;
Pleasure without conscience;
Knowledge without humility;
Commerce without morality;
Science without humanity;
Worship without sacrifice;  and,
Politics without principle.
    —    Mahatma Gandhi
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
    —    Samuel Johnson
From:  “The Rambler
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On This Day In:
2022 Be Someone For Somebody
2021 Genius (And Other Details)
I Don’t Know Why
Going Into The Deep End
2020 Repercussions For Health
2019 Chained To #45
2018 Some Men Make Their Office As Small As Themselves
2017 Too Many
2016 Not Yet, Anyway
2015 On Pornography
2014 Nudge, Nudge
2013 The Journey Will Be Joy
2012 Hopeful Flights
2011 Irrationally Predictable
Lawful Restraint

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