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Tuesday, Aug 30, 2022“If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.”
P.J. O'Rourke
American journalist, author and political satirist.
(1947 - 2022)
Monday, Aug 29, 2022“If we are to wait for the moment when everything is absolutely ready, we shall never begin.”
Ivan Turgenev
Russian author, poet and playwright.
(1818 - 1883)
Friday, Aug 26, 2022“Preserve the warmth of the family, because the warmth of the whole world cannot make up for it.”
Saint Charbel Makhlouf, O.L.M.
Lebanese Maronite monk and priest.
(1828 - 1898)
Thursday, Aug 25, 2022“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father & third President of the United States of America.
(1743 - 1826)
Wednesday, Aug 24, 2022“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but reveal to them their own.”
Benjamin Disraeli
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
(1804 - 1881)
Tuesday, Aug 23, 2022“It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
26th President of the United States of America.
(1858 - 1919)
Monday, Aug 22, 2022“There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts.”
Helen Fagin, PhD
Holocaust survivor and educator.
(1918 - 2022)
Friday, Aug 19, 2022“There are two loves, the love of God and the love of the world. If the love of the world takes possession of you, there is no way for the love of God to enter into you. Let the love of the world take the second place and let the love of God dwell in you. Let the better love take over.”
Saint Augustine
Famous sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(354AD - 430AD)
Thursday, Aug 18, 2022“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.”
Samuel Adams
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
(1722 - 1803)
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2022“You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American philosopher and poet.
(1803 - 1882)
Tuesday, Aug 16, 2022“Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.”
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria
Head of Soviet Union Secret Police under Joseph Stalin.
(1899 - 1953)
Monday, Aug 15, 2022“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz
American football coach and analyst.
(1937 - )
Friday, Aug 12, 2022“Let us love the Cross and let us remember that we are not alone in carrying it. God is helping us. And in God who is comforting us, as St. Paul says, we can do anything.”
Saint Gianna Molla
Italian pediatrician, wife and mother who refused an abortion when she became ill while pregnant with her fourth child, as a result she died shortly after the birth of her daughter. Her husband and daughter were present at her canonization. The first time in the history of the Church that a husband witnessed his wife's canonization.
(1922 - 1962)
Thursday, Aug 11, 2022“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father & third President of the United States of America.
(1743 - 1826)
Wednesday, Aug 10, 2022“If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.”
Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa)
Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity.
(1910 - 1997)
Tuesday, Aug 09, 2022“You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers...economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.”
Walter E. Williams
American economist, educator and author.
(1936 - 2020)
Monday, Aug 08, 2022“Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.”
Leo Buscaglia
American author, professor and motivational speaker.
(1924 - 1998)
Friday, Aug 05, 2022“Fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.”
Isaiah 41:10
Holy Bible
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition.
Thursday, Aug 04, 2022“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father & third President of the United States of America.
(1743 - 1826)
Wednesday, Aug 03, 2022“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
Socrates
Greek philosopher & Plato's teacher.
(470BC - 399BC)
Tuesday, Aug 02, 2022“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect...like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.”
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet and cleric.
(1667 - 1745)
Monday, Aug 01, 2022“To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.”
Bill Russell
American professional basketball player.
(1934 - 2022)
