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Something To Think About - 4/16/25
Teddy Roosevelt believed that “The purpose of life is to live it, to take the experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Something To Think About - 4/15/25
The income tax has been called “The fine you pay for being productive.”
Something To Think About - 4/14/25
According to Coach Dean Smith, the winningest coach in NCAA tournament history: “If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.”
Something To Think About - 4/12/25
World War I pilot and Ace Eddie Rickenbacker believed that “There can be no courage unless you’re scared.”
Something To Think About - 4/11/25
Thoreau said, “Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.”
Something To Think About - 4/10/25
Author Ayn Rand, “Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.”
Something To Think About - 4/9/25
Journalist Wilma Askinas wrote: “There is no better measure of a person than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.”
Something To Think About - 4/8/25
Congressman, later President, William McKinley’s tariffs of 1890 raised tariffs on imported goods to about 48%, one of the highest rates in U.S. history at the time. This made foreign goods more expensive, which was meant to protect American manufacturers but hurt consumers instead. It also hurt American farmers who relied on exporting crops, as foreign countries retaliated with their own tariffs and contributed to the Panic of 1893 by reducing international trade. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff bill in 1930, also an attempt to protect American industries, worsened the Great Depression as U.S. exports dropped by over 60% between 1929 and 1933. The real answer to American prosperity, as President Trump has also stated, is a reduction in barriers to productivity, like regulations, onerous permitting processes and fees and taxes.
Something To Think About - 4/7/25
Don’t insist on having your own way. Insist on finding the best way.
Something To Think About - 4/5/25
Thoreau claimed that “The cost of a thing is the amount of life that must exchanged for it.”
Something To Think About - 4/4/25
Poet Robert Frost said, “Some people have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
Something To Think About - 4/3/25
Coach Vince Lombardi believed that “The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.”
Something To Think About - 4/2/25
Aristotle said: “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
Something To Think About - 4/1/25
While some judges may have overstepped their jurisdictions in issuing injunctions against actions taken by the Trump Administration, they do not rise to the level of impeachable offenses, an action created for malfeasance, not policy disagreement. Rather than calling for impeachment of these judges, certain to have an unlikely outcome, Trump should let it play out in the appeals process as the Founding Father’s designed. As someone who himself was a victim of spurious impeachment actions, you’d think he’d be more hesitant to use that as a weapon.
Something To Think About - 3/31/25
“Tomorrow is a new day;” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, “you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered by your old nonsense.”
Something To Think About - 3/29/25
“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” Maureen Dowd
Something To Think About - 3/28/25
Mark Twain — 'Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.'
Something To Think About - 3/27/25
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Something To Think About - 3/26/25
Alan K. Simpson "There is no "slippery slope" to loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders."