Rick Alan ™

‘A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end -- much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.’

‘Don’t be seduced into thinking that, that which does not make a profit isn’t without value’

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (22 May 1859-1930)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: ‘It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment’

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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras. -Arthur Koestler

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." ~ Epicurus

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. -Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. -Margaret Fuller, author (23 May 1810-1850

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be!

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. -Bono, musician

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Jazz arises from a spirit of love, it comes from the mind and heart and goes through the fingertips. -Mary Lou Williams, pianist, arranger, and composer

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, & a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. -Jerome K. Jerome

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. -Charles Baudelaire, poet, critic, and translator (9 Apr 1821-1867

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When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton simply replied, “Because that's where the money is!”

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote!