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Monday June 6th, 2022 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without purpose.” Immanuel Kant, (1724-1804) German philosopher. Source Reference Immanuel Kant Quote
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Friday June 3rd, 2022 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr., (1940-)…
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Thursday June 2nd, 2022 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.” Hubert H. Humphrey, (1911-1978) US Vice-President, US Senator (D-MN). Source: Speech, Madison, WI, 23 August 1965. Source Reference Hubert H. Humphrey Quote
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Wednesday June 1st, 2022 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.” Edgar Watson Howe, (1853-1937). Source: Country Town Sayings, 1911. Source Reference Edgar Watson Howe Quote
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Tuesday May 31st, 2022 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon … has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.” James Madison, (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the…
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Monday May 30th, 2022 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“People everywhere confuse, what they read in newspapers with news.” A. J. Liebling, [Abbott Joseph Liebling] (1904-1963) American journalist, author. Source: The New Yorker, 7 April 1956. Source Reference A. J. Liebling Quote
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Friday May 27th, 2022 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.” H….
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Thursday May 26th, 2022 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.” Ernest Bevin, (1881-1951) British Foreign Minister. Source: at London Conference of Foreign Ministers, 10 Feb. 1946, quoted in The…
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Wednesday May 25th, 2022 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by…
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Tuesday May 24th, 2022 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“A radical is one who speaks the truth.” Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., (1859-1924) Congressman (R-MN), father of famous aviator, June 15, 1957. Source Reference Famous Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. Quote
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Monday May 23rd, 2022 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken…
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Friday May 20th, 2022 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man.” Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881) Scottish…
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