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More day to dawn Phil Oliver
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Reflections in the spirit of Henry Thoreau ("Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." ) and William James ("the really vital question for us all is, What is this world going to be? What is life eventually to make of itself?").
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My Opinion Podcast at Tennessee
My Opinion Podcast at Tennessee by Phil Oliver
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Vin Scully's last game
A snippet of Vin Scully's last broadcast, in San Francisco 10.2.16.
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Doomsday
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year,” and get on with it."
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The sharp & narrow path
Ockham's razor, Somerset Maugham, William James, and "salvation"
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Abelard's ultimate tragedy
There's an intellectual form of self-neutering that's worse, in some ways, than the tragedy of Abelard and Heloise.
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Happiness-the best of the west
Our fourth and final Lifelong Learner's Happiness class at MTSU will glean the wisdom of Montaigne, Hume, James, Russell, Csikszentmihalyi, and Jennifer Michael Hecht. "Hang a sign that says HOME on a tree and you're done." And, Dr. Seuss: "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”