Quote of the day: “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” -Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) pen name George Orwell, English writer #WritingCommunity #WritersLift #philosophy

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As of today, there are only: - 35 days until Halloween 🎃 - 62 days until Thanksgiving 🦃 - 90 days until Christmas 🎄 - 97 days until New Year's Day 🥂 Spend time with your family as 2025 comes to a close. #holidays #FamilyFun #newyearscountdown

Quote of the day: “What worries you masters you.” -John Locke (1632-1704), English philosopher, writer, and physician #WritingCommunity #writerslift #Philosophy

What Halloween movies do you suggest? For the last decade on Halloween 🎃 I’ve put up an outdoor theater to watch themed movies 🎥 while the kids trick-or-treat. I have a popcorn 🍿 maker going and everyone has a folding chair. #Halloween2025 #trickortreat #movies

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Happy Friday! As of today, there are only: - 42 days until Halloween 🎃 - 69 days until Thanksgiving 🦃 - 97 days until Christmas 🎄 - 104 days until New Year's Day 🥂 Spend time with your family as 2025 winds down

“… if Men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences...reason is of no use to us-the freedom of Speech may be taken away-and, dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.”

Parents do you enforce rules on your children’s electronic screen usage? “We found that having at least one parental rule… was positively linked with longer sleep duration compared to having no rule whatsoever.“ Source: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #unplugged #insomniac #ParentingTip

Parents, talk to your children: “There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.” -John Locke (1632-1704), English philosopher, writer, and physician #WritingCommunity #writerlift

As of today, there are only: - 48 days until Halloween 🎃 - 75 days until Thanksgiving 🦃 - 103 days until Christmas 🎄 - 110 days until New Year's Day 🥂 Spend time with your family as 2025 winds down.

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Quote of the day: "Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori." -Publius Vergilius “Virgil” Maro (70-9BC), ancient Roman poet English “love conquers hate” Image: Gemini AI

Quote of the day: “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.” -John Locke (1632-1704), English philosopher, writer, and physician #WritingCommunity #WritersLift #philosophy Image: Gemini AI

“It is, indeed, always the interest of both that the work should be rightly done, and a just price obtained for it; but, in the division of profits, the gain of the one may or may not be the loss of the other.” -John Ruskin (1819-1900) #WritingCommunity #WritersLift #philosophy Image: Gemini AI

Quote of the day: “The time is always right to do what is right" - Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago in 1966 #WritingCommunity #writerslift #IntegrityMatters Image: Gemini AI

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Quote of the day: “Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused.” -John Locke (1632-1704), English philosopher, writer, and physician #writingcommunity #writerslift #philosophy

Quote of the day: “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” -George Herbert (1593-1633), English poet and orator #WritersLift #Motivation Image: Gemini AI

Do you avoid the news? “Globally, news avoidance is at a record high… 40% of respondents, surveyed across nearly 50 countries, said they sometimes or often avoid the news, up from 29% in 2017 and the joint highest figure recorded... in the US, at 42%, and in the UK, at 46%.” (Cont.)

Quote of the day: “You may delay, but time will not.”  -Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Founding Father, writer, printer, inventor, scientist, diplomat, statesman #WritingCommunity #writerslift #Motivation

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Do you use Grok or other AI to curate your daily news? #ArtificialIntelligence #NewsUpdate #currentevents x.com/i/grok/share...

Quote of the day: "Certainly, whoever has the right to make you absurd is able to make you unjust". -François-Marie Arouet a.k.a. Voltaire (1694-1778), French writer and philosopher
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“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.” -Will Durant, historian

Quote of the day: “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to.’” -Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher and author #WritersLift #philosophy #Motivation Image: Gemini AI

Quote of the day: “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” -Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), American writer, public speaker, and and self-improvement guru #WritingCommunity #motivational #writerslift Image: Gemini AI

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Quote of the day: “Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.” - Mike Dunlap, head coach for the Colorado Mesa Mavericks #motivational #SuccessMindset #writerslift

Quote of the day: “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” - Bruce Lee (1940-1973), martial artist, actor, filmmaker, and philosopher #WritingCommunity #Motivation #WritersLift Image: Gemini AI

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” -Johnny Cash (1932-2003), singer-songwriter

“Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” -Bil Keane (1922-2011), creator of The Family Circus comic #LifeLessons #CarpeDiem #writerslift

“… almost 1/2 young adults in 1975 reached four [adulthood] milestones… moving out of one's parents' home, getting a job, getting married and having a child… [today] one-quarter of young adults achieved all four milestones.” #adulting #adulthood #independent www.cbsnews.com/news/fewer-y...

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‪"The only constant is change." -Heraclitus ‬ ‪Image: Gemini AI‬

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Quote of the day: "Greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character. And character isn't formed out of smart people, it's formed out of people who suffered.” -Jensen Huang, Nvidia Corp CEO from speech at COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan 29 May 2023 #Motivation #character #writerslift

Do you have emergency savings? “When asked how they’d handle a $500 emergency, 51% of all consumers said they’d turn to a credit card, with that number rising to 60% among respondents under 35 and 70% among students.” #FinancialPlanning #savings #debt Source: studyfinds.org/gen-z-have-z...

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Have a funny “dad joke”? Share it. Why did the football coach yell at the vending machine? ◦ He wanted his quarterback! #dadjokes #funny #jokes

Quote of the day: "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” -Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), politician and writer, former British Prime Minister

“Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."  -Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) pen name George Orwell, English writer

Indie authors: the Outstanding Creator Awards is an excellent contest. Authors receive a solid book review and are entered into a genre-specific award contest. outstandingcreator.com/reviews #BookAwards #Writerslift #WritingCommunity

Passamaquoddy Legends Puzzle Book Vol 3 won a Literary Titan Gold Book Award: Children’s Books #ChildrensBooks #kidsbooks #bookaward #awardwinning literarytitan.com/2025/08/01/l...

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to begin shutting down its operations “CPB provides grants to local radio and television stations across the country, as well as the producers of well-known PBS and NPR programs.” Source: abc7.com/post/cpb-cor...

The highways will never be the same: Texas Highways Have a New Nighttime Creature: Autonomous Trucks “Aurora Innovation says its driverless system can detect objects further than the length of three football fields—in the dark” #AI #Automated #driverlesscars Source: www.wsj.com/business/log...

Quote of the day: "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.” -John Adams (1735-1826), Founding Father, First Vice President, Second President, lawyer, diplomat, writer #FoundingFather #JohnAdams #USHistory #Republic