Deep Thought Friday

A call with Samantha on Friday, May 30, 2014 we realized we could mess with those using #DTF with Deep Thoughts on Friday. Tag us @dtfriday. - @massimorigotti

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that best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. – William Wordsworth, Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798 #dtf #dtfriday #deepthoughtfriday

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So we grew together
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition

William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3, Scene 2 (c. 1595)
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“The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: ‘Let there be truth between us two forevermore.’” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series, “Character” (1844) #dtf #dtfriday #deepthoughtfriday

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“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” – William James #dtf #dtfriday #deepthoughtfriday

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Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116, lines 2-7 (1609)

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“The measure of love is to love without measure.” – St. Bernard of Clairvaux, De diligendo Deo (1126)

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“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Widerstand und Ergebung (1951) #dtf #dtfriday #deepthoughtfriday

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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” – C. S. Lewis, The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment, 1949 #dtf #dtfriday #deepthoughtfriday

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“Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.” — Josiah Royce, The Philosophy of Loyalty, 1908 #dtf #dtfriday #deepthoughtfriday

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“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin, Letter to the Governor of Pennsylvania, November 11, 1755 #dtf #dtfriday #deepthoughtfriday

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“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams, Letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of MA, October 11, 1798 #dtf #dtfriday #deepthoughtfriday

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Continuing our Founding Fathers series in countdown to our 250th.
“A republic, if you can keep it.” — Benjamin Franklin, as recorded in the journal of James McHenry on September 18, 1787, Library of Congress #dtf #dtfriday #deepthoughtfriday

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“The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.” – George Washington, First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789 #dtf #dtfriday #deepthoughtfriday

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“…and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1, “General Introduction,” (1787)

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“True genius without heart is a thing of nought — for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! — that is the soul of genius.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Note to Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin on April 11, 1787

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“Happiness is reality minus expectations.” – Elon Musk #dtf #dtfriday #deepthoughtfriday @elonmusk

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“You pierce my soul. I am half agony. Half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are going for ever.” – Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818)

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“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. 175 AD)

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“Life is not easy but it can be stress-free.” – Massimo Rigotti, Flavors of Confidence: S.O.B.E.R. Method (2023) #dtf #dtfriday #deepthoughtfriday

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“No man is free who is not master of himself.” — Epictetus, Fragments 35, c. 125 AD #dtf #dtfriday #deepthoughtfriday