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Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment.
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Most people would probably say I live a pretty peculiar life. For several hours every day, I’m looking ahead – at the past.
Putting together ‘On This Day’ means I’m researching what happened in history and the arts on each day, but always ahead of the current day. Since I’m more interested in what people have accomplished than in battle dates and the stuff everybody already knows, I love finding pithy quotes that tell us something about the people who said them. Especially quotes that are also relevant to life in the 21st Century.
So here are some of the best quotes from my year:
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
And looking a little farther ahead:
DECEMBER
Nicole Plyler Fisk
Gene Howington
FFS Guest Blogger
Joy of Fishes
Chuck Stanley
shortfinals
Terry Welshans
ann li-summers
wordcloud9
Flowers For Socrates 
I have a coffee cup with a saying on it: “Don’t tell ME what kind of day to have!”
Other than that, my favorite among the quotes is the Brandeis quote you chose! Thanks!
Yes, such a contrast to some of the current justices on the Supreme Court. I love your mug quote too.
Everything that is wrong in a single picture.
Yeah – I think she urgently needs refresher courses on the Bible and the U.S. Constitution
It makes sense to me. Here’s a woman who pumped herself all her life to stop feeling insecure and frightened. She hasn’t been listening to anything or trying to make sentences that have meaning; she has been feeling a chest-swell to a few musical phrases and the comfort of knowing that there are people who assure her she is good, right in all things, and superior. She’ll get by, this way, until she gets into heaven where, thank god, there are none of those awful people to annoy her any more.