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• Trouble

  By aaforringer on July 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Song of the South, by Disney. The kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br’er Rabbit, who outwits Br’er Fox and slow-witted Br’er Bear. You can’t run away from trouble. There ain’t no place that far…. Read More ›

• Freedom – Speech

  By aaforringer on July 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Great words from a great movie, The Devil and Daniel Webster. A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer who makes a compact with Satan for economic success enlists Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract. Daniel Webster: Gentlemen of the jury,… Read More ›

• Books

  By aaforringer on July 3, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran… Read More ›

• Luck

  By aaforringer on July 1, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) From Wikipedia: Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of… Read More ›