Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (28 Aug 1749-1832)
2026/08/28
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Todays Word
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obganiate
PRONUNCIATION:
(ob-GAY-nee-ayt) 
MEANING:
verb tr.: To annoy someone by repeatedly saying the same thing.
verb intr.: To repeat oneself tediously.
verb intr.: To repeat oneself tediously.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin obgannire or oggannire (to yelp or growl at). Earliest documented use: 1623.
USAGE:
“The way Tony Abbott continues to obganiate is bloody irritating, bloody irritating.”
Stan Wills; Letters to the Editor; The Australian (Canberra); Dec 10, 2014.
Stan Wills; Letters to the Editor; The Australian (Canberra); Dec 10, 2014.
2026/08/26
Todays Thought
If an animal does something, they call it instinct. If we do exactly the same thing for the same reason, they call it intelligence.
-Will Cuppy, humorist and journalist (23 Aug 1884-1949)
2026/08/25
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Todays Thought
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist.
-Winona LaDuke, activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer (b. 18 Aug 1959)
2026/08/08
Todays Thought
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
-James Baldwin, writer (2 Aug 1924-1987)
Todays Thought
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
-P.D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James), novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014)
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