Quotes Category

Happy Father’s Day From Mark Twain

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Today I would like to honor fathers and especially my father, Keith, with a quote from Mark Twain:
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned [...]

Getting to work proving podcasting is right

In: Quotes

Today we have a quote sent in by a listener. It is a quote I really appreciate because I am guilty of the behavior described. The words are from John Kenneth Galbraith a Canadian economist just like me.
Here is the quote:
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no [...]

Happy Independence Day Podcast

In: Quotes

Happy Independence Day!
A few word from the founding fathers of the United States.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with
another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and
equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of [...]

Today’s word is a request from a long time ago and country far away- Germany. Lockstep was requested by Nicole from Useful Sounds.
Lockstep is a noun. It can be a way of acting in complete uniformity with someone or something else. A boy who follows his older brother around and imitates everything [...]

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