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Word of the Day – Shebeen

  • Noun:  Shebeen
    1.   an unlicensed or illegally operated drinking establishment
  • Synonyms:
    1. bar
    2. saloon
    3. speakeasy
  • Usage:
    1. “In 2016, I decided to make it a custom here at the shebeen to reveal the candidate for whom I voted in the Democratic primary election because a) I think it’s right to be transparent about such things, especially in a format dedicated primarily to opinion, and b) because why the hell not?” ~ Charles P. Pierce
  • Encountered:
    1. Esquire opinion piece by Charles P. Pierce –I Went Over to City Hall This Afternoon and Voted for Elizabeth Warren for President

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Quote for the Day — Nicholas Kristof

“One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there’s no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality.” ~ Nicholas Kristof

 

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Quote for the Day – Maya Angelou

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ~~ Maya Angelou

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Quote for the Day – Mark Twain

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” ~~Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

 

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Quote for the Day – Nicholas Kristof

“One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there’s no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality.” ~~ Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Editorialist

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Quote for the Day – Anonymous

“Life is like photography.  You need the negatives to develop it.” – Anonymous

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Quote for the Day – Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein

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Quote for the Day – Maya Angelou

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ~~ Maya Angelou

 

 

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Quote for the Day – Henry David Thoreau,

“No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.”~~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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