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Month: January 2013

THE LITTLE BLUE BOOK by George Lakoff and Elisabeth Wehling

January 28, 2013 ebrightwing

"Our major point is simple.  Messaging is about thinking, not just language.  To get language right, you have to understand…

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Posted in: Goals for 2020 Filed under: book, conservative, language, messaging, politics, progressive

What Does Contentment Look Like?

January 14, 2013 ebrightwing

      Why is contentment such an unappreciated, even pejorative, term?  Peak and valley moments and events come and go.  If you…

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Posted in: Goals for 2020 Filed under: ambition, bias, business, contentment, growth, peak, sustainability, valley

New (Barnes & Noble) Nook HD+

January 11, 2013 ebrightwing

      My belated Christmas gift took six days to arrive and I was checking anxiously checking mail every day.  I love…

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Posted in: Goals for 2020 Filed under: android, barnes&noble, christmas, computer, hack, hdmi, hulu, netbook, netflix, nook, sd, tablet

Failure & Waste

January 9, 2013 ebrightwing

    Is an action (process, event, situation, relationship, result) a "waste" of time or a "failure" if you learn something or gain…

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Posted in: Goals for 2020 Filed under: experience, failing, failure, learn, marriage, teach, time, waste

Another New Year

January 8, 2013 ebrightwing

  2013!  The world's still here despite the Mayan calendar.  I prefer to think that the Mayan calendar ending signified the…

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Posted in: Goals for 2020 Filed under: 2013, calendar, change, clean simplify, climate, flu, goals, mayan, resolutions, routine, society
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“There’s no proof of anything,”  – President Donald Trump (2018)

“Hope requires action.” – President Barack Obama (2018)      <You choose!>

“If it’s really true that no one’s listening, why are they all so intent on making us shut up?” – Clementine Ford, Feminist

“You have to act as it were possible to radically transform the world.  And you have to do it all the time.” – Angela Davis, Political Activist and Author

Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: ‘We call BS!’
(https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/17/us/florida-student-emma-gonzalez-speech/index.html)

“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” – Maggie Kuhn, Gray Panther

“We have a faith that says life is not to be worshipped.  It’s the quality of life that counts.” – Francie Emerick, Oregon Death with Dignity Exerciser

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“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.” – Simone de Beauvoir

“Naive as it may sound, inoculating society against the antisocial requires, at bottom, persuading people of what is palpably true:  that society has value and everyone should contribute.” – Bruce Cannon Gibney, Author

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