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TCS: In This Moment of Hatred Before Time on Earth Runs Out

Good Morning! _______________________________ “Before a nation can be rebuilt, the citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place; how its institutions were undermined, how the language was twisted, how its people were manipulated.” – Anne Applebaum, … Continue reading

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TCS: Today We Are Lions Who Roar Their Fury

Good Morning!  _______________________________ “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right … and a desire to know.” — John Adams, Founding Father and 2nd U.S. President ________________ “My country, I will build you … Continue reading

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TCS: I Didn’t Know and Nobody Told Me

Good Morning _______________________________ “Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ________________ “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm ________________ … Continue reading

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TCS: Wake Up, You’ll Need Your Wits About You

Good Morning! _______________________________ “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” … Continue reading

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TCS: You’ll Have Poor Company On That Other Road

Good Morning! ___________________________________________ To live in this worldyou must be ableto do three things:to love what is mortal;to hold itagainst your bones knowingyour own life depends on it;and, when the time comes to let it go,to let it go – Mary … Continue reading

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TCS: Even If They Set a Diamond in Your Glass Eye

Good Morning! __________________________________________ “Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”– Johann Georg Hamann_____________ “Lock up your libraries if you like; butthere is no gate, no lock, no bolt that youcan set upon the freedom of my mind.”― Virginia Woolf, A Room … Continue reading

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