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· Jan 25
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self." - Ernest Hemingway
George Washington, in his farewell address of 1796, spoke directly of "the baneful effects of the spirit of party:"
"It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitated the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms;
"It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitated the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms;
January 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
George Washington, in his farewell address of 1796, spoke directly of "the baneful effects of the spirit of party:"
"It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitated the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms;
"It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitated the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms;
"Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight." - Mark Twain
December 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight." - Mark Twain
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." - John Locke
December 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." - John Locke
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy
December 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
December 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without." - Confucius
December 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without." - Confucius
“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and weak minds discuss people.” - Socrates
December 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and weak minds discuss people.” - Socrates
"You can lower yourselves to the level of the beast, but you can also be reborn as a divine creature by the free will of your spirit. Man can become what he likes - subhuman or superhuman, as he wishes." - Pico Della Mirandola
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
"You can lower yourselves to the level of the beast, but you can also be reborn as a divine creature by the free will of your spirit. Man can become what he likes - subhuman or superhuman, as he wishes." - Pico Della Mirandola
"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"And man has actually invented God. And what's strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"And man has actually invented God. And what's strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"If you're explaining, you're losing." - Ronald Reagan, The Reagan Diaries
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"If you're explaining, you're losing." - Ronald Reagan, The Reagan Diaries
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." - Benjamin Franklin
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." - Benjamin Franklin
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." - Epictetus
October 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." - Epictetus
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." - Mark Twain
October 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." - Mark Twain
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October 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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"Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable become intolerable when once the idea of escape from them is suggested." - Alexis de Toqueville
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
"Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable become intolerable when once the idea of escape from them is suggested." - Alexis de Toqueville
"Nice guys finish last." - Leo Durocher
October 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"Nice guys finish last." - Leo Durocher
"The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870
September 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870
"When you think of the long gloomy history of man, you will find more crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than in the name of rebellion." C.P. Snow
September 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"When you think of the long gloomy history of man, you will find more crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than in the name of rebellion." C.P. Snow
"To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind." - Charlotte Perkins Gillman
September 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
"To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind." - Charlotte Perkins Gillman
"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools, and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion." - Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker
September 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools, and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion." - Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of that thing he was never reasoned into."- Jonathan Swift
September 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of that thing he was never reasoned into."- Jonathan Swift
“There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.” - Molière
September 16, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.” - Molière
"Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position." - Leo Tolstoy
September 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
"Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position." - Leo Tolstoy
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NO KINGS Long Beach · No Kings
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September 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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