"Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." Mark Twain
"We are offered new beginnings, a lifetime of successive resurrections. Each new day a novel chance arises to put away the shadows and stains of recent days and claim a fresh start." Steve Faulkner "Lifetimes in Miniature" in Touchstone, July/August 2018.
"There's no way a man can win against a feminist, for that's how things are set up: if he acts like a gentleman, he's a typical male chauvinist; if he doesn't, he's a typical male swine." S.M. Hutchens "Courage, Ass!" in Touchstone, July/August 2018.
"Within the borders of our human nature we are most free to articulate and cultivate our personalities. The acknowledgement of natural borders and limitations and the discipline to shape ourselves accordingly, allows for authentic humanity." Patrick B. Whalen "How We Get Features" in Touchstone, July/August 2018.
"When one is committed to representing one's thoughts in writing, it can produce conviction -- that is, recognition of what one really thinks." Robert Erle Barham "Literary Light" in Touchstone, May/June 2018.
"If people are to understand their true nature, their dignity, and their place in the scheme of things, they need information about the world around them." Les Sillars "A Good Report" in Touchstone, May/June 2018.
"To describe and interpret events accurately is to acknowledge a moral order, to show how events relate to it, and thereby help people discern right order in themselves and in society." Les Sillars "A Good Report" in Touchstone, May/June 2018.
"There has always been and will always be a market for truthful, original, and compelling news and for talented people to produce it." Les Sillars "A Good Report" in Touchstone, May/June 2018.
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