Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Digital Neighbors and Friends! Some more fun quotes from Oxymoronica! Witty commentary, that is always a crap shoot, missed typos and grammatical errors, always a given. Buckle up!!!
When people are least sure they are most dogmatic. - John Kenneth Galbraith
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. - Florence King
Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Check your certitude with some humility
Be mindful of what you excuse in yourself but find inexcusable in others
If you want your life to remain the same or improve don't be complacent and too content.
Meanwhile somewhere in Minnesota: Winter Beauty by Julie Heidelberger
Happy Tuesday Friends!
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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2026 Coffee Talk with the ADD Irregulars
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