Todays Thought

Kind words, kind looks, kind acts, and warm hand-shakes, -- these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles. 

-John Hall, pastor (31 Jul 1829-1898)

Todays Thought

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. 

-Marcel Duchamp, artist (28 Jul 1887-1968)

Todays Thought

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. 

-Aldous Huxley, novelist (26 Jul 1894-1963)

Todays Thought

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. 

-Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (25 Jul 1902-1983)

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Todays Thought

Only the stupid steal from the rich. The clever steal from the poor. The law usually protects the rich. 

-Carsten Jensen, author (b. 24 Jul 1952)

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Todays Thought

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. 

-Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (23 Jul 1892-1975)

Todays Word

 

collier’s faith

PRONUNCIATION:

(KAHL-yuhrz fayth) 

MEANING:

noun: Unreasonable faith; blind faith.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin fides carbonarii (collier’s faith), from German köhlerglaube (collier’s faith). The term may have arisen from the dangerous and uncertain nature of coal mining. Earliest documented use: 1680.

USAGE:

“Our love for art might inspire in us a collier’s faith to say what others have said before and will say again after us. Namely that even if the situation is ominous, and even if we’re very poor &c. &c., yet we firmly concentrate on one single thing, on painting, naturally.” [Van Gogh writing to his brother Theo, circa Nov 8, 1883]
Patrick Grant; Reading Vincent van Gogh: A Thematic Guide to the Letters; 2016.

Todays Thought

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. 

-Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (21 Jul 1899-1961)

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Todays Thought

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. 

-Jerry Rubin, activist and author (14 Jul 1938-1994)

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Todays Thought

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. 

-Buckminster Fuller, engineer, designer, and architect (12 Jul 1895-1983)

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TINYPIANO

SHIPT’S ALGORITHM SQUEEZED GIG WORKERS. THEY FOUGHT BACK

 SHIPT’S ALGORITHM SQUEEZED GIG WORKERS. THEY FOUGHT BACK

IN EARLY 2020, gig workers for the app-based delivery company Shipt noticed something strange about their paychecks. The company, which had been acquired by Target in 2017 for US $550 million, offered same-day delivery from local stores. Those deliveries were made by Shipt workers, who shopped for the items and drove them to customers’ doorsteps. Business was booming at the start of the pandemic, as the COVID-19 lockdowns kept people in their homes, and yet workers found that their paychecks had become…unpredictable. They were doing the same work they’d always done, yet their paychecks were often less than they expected. And they didn’t know why.

Todays Thought

We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist. 

-E.B. White, writer (11 Jul 1899-1985)

Todays Thought

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. 

-Nikola Tesla, electrical engineer and inventor (10 Jul 1856-1943)

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Todays Thought

I wanted to live my life so that people would know unmistakably that I am alive, so that when I finally die people will know the difference for sure between my living and my death. 

-June Jordan, writer, teacher, and activist (9 Jul 1936-2002)

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Todays Thought

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning. 

-Bill Watterson, comic strip artist (b. 5 Jul 1958)

Todays Thought

In order for me to write poetry that isn't political / I must listen to the birds / and in order to hear the birds / the warplanes must be silent. 

-Marwan Makhoul, poet (b. 2 Jul 1979)

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