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I’m not average, but I am in the middle
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Maimonides
February 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Plutarch
December 29, 2024 at 5:48 AM
Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Pindar

#christmas
#giving
#affection
December 24, 2024 at 11:03 AM
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” — John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States

#children
#jfk
#thefuture
December 12, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Les Brown

#fate
December 11, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

#honesty
#profitable
#dishonesty
#plato
#lies
December 10, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Roger Miller

#Rain
#walk
December 9, 2024 at 10:29 AM
A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

Arthur Conan Doyle
December 8, 2024 at 1:22 PM
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”

Albert Einstein

#truth
#lies
#trust
December 7, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

Charles Krauthammer
December 6, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov
December 5, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Will Durant

#chaos
#liberty
#civilization
December 4, 2024 at 11:11 AM
“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.” ― Amit Ray

#kindness
#positivity
December 3, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Scarves, mittens, and hats are a great way to express your personality in the cold weather.

Brad Goreski

#hats
#scarves
#mittens
#coldweather
December 2, 2024 at 11:05 AM

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

– Elbert Hubbard

#anxiety
#worry
#fear
December 1, 2024 at 1:23 PM
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde
November 30, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

P. J. O'Rourke
November 29, 2024 at 11:20 AM
"The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance but non-thinking.”

Rob Long
November 28, 2024 at 10:50 AM
"A man's true character comes out when he's drunk." - Charlie Chaplin
November 27, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Anthony J. D'Angelo
November 26, 2024 at 10:33 AM
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

#kindness
#religion
#dalailama
#peace
November 25, 2024 at 9:54 AM
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Martin Luther King,
November 24, 2024 at 4:44 AM
This is Rex.
November 23, 2024 at 11:29 PM
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

#music
#nietsche
#mentalhealth
November 23, 2024 at 9:28 PM


Mahatma Gandhi

"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members"
November 23, 2024 at 1:33 PM