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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of March 17, 2024

March 17, 2024

Name day – Feast day of the saint with whom one shares a name

March 18, 2024

Borzoi – A dog bred for hunting wolves

March 19, 2024

Scythe – Harvesting tool with a curved blade

March 20, 2024

Dragoon – A soldier fighting as cavalry on attack and infantry on defence

March 21, 2024

Britzka – Carriage

March 22, 2024

Promissory note – A document promising a sum of money

March 23, 2024

Ruble – Russian currency – 1 ruble is 100 kopeks


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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of March 17, 2024



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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of March 17, 2024

March 17, 2024

“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” – Malcolm X

March 18, 2024

“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again.” – Frank

March 19, 2024

“Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.” – Scott

March 20, 2024

“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.” – Hesse

March 21, 2024

“Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.” – Carnegie

March 22, 2024

“The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.” – Steinbeck

March 23, 2024

“No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.” – Twain


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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of March 10, 2024



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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of March 10, 2024

March 10, 2024

Gonzo – Bizarre, far out

March 11, 2024

Mazurka – A Polish dance

March 12, 2024

Patronymic – A name derived from a father’s first name

March 13, 2024

Samovar – An ornate tea urn

March 14, 2024

Redingote – A full skirted, double-breasted coat

March 15, 2024

Serfdom – A condition of peasant farmer bound to feudal landlord

March 16, 2024

Steeplechase – An equestrial obstacle course


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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of March 10, 2024

March 10, 2024

“True wisdom lies in one’s confession about the limits of one’s knowledge.” – Socrates

March 11, 2024

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” – Nietzsche

March 12, 2024

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” – Einstein

March 13, 2024

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” – Kant

March 14, 2024

“You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.” – Peterson

March 15, 2024

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Jung

March 16, 2024

“Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.” – Thucydides


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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of March 3, 2024

March 3, 2024

Yawl – Talk coursely

March 4, 2024

Rigmarole – Overly complicated process

March 5, 2024

Woebegone – Sorrowful

March 6, 2024

Moose pasture – Worthless piece of land

March 7, 2024

Hemidemisemiquaver – a 1/64th of a whole note

March 8, 2024

Gewgaw – Showy Trifle

March 9, 2024

Gobsmacked – Utterly astonished


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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of March 3, 2024

March 3, 2024

“People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.” – Allport

March 4, 2024

“An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.” – Fromm

March 5, 2024

“He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.” – Epicurus

March 6, 2024

“Dying is nothing. What’s terrible is not to live.” – Hugo

March 7, 2024

“Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.” – Gasset

March 8, 2024

“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.” – Schiller

March 9, 2024

“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” – Paul


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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of February 25, 2024

February 25, 2024

Snollygoster – Unethical and wily person

February 26, 2024

Hottenanny – Celebrational party or gathering

February 27, 2024

Canoodle – Kiss and cuddle

February 28, 2024

Gunkhole – Shallow, remote cove

February 29, 2024

Panjandrum – Powerful, self-important person

March 1, 2024

Kerfuffle – Commotion

March 2, 2024

Kibosh – Stop something


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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of February 25, 2024

February 25, 2024

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” – Burke

February 26, 2024

“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” – Huxley

February 27, 2024

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Boorstin

February 28, 2024

“Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.” – Balzac

February 29, 2024

“If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us.” – Kafka

March 1, 2024

“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.” – Cortazar

March 2, 2024

“Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.” – Erikson


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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of February 18, 2024



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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of February 18, 2024

February 18, 2024

Tare – Weight of an empty container

February 19, 2024

Wend – Tranvel in a direct fashion

February 20, 2024

Quip – a witty remark

February 21, 2024

Sere – Extremely dry

February 22, 2024

Echt – Authentic

February 23, 2024

Rapt – Spellbound by something heard or seen.

February 24, 2024

Mazy – Full of turns and twists


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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of February 18, 2024

February 18, 2024

“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.” – Schopenhauer

February 19, 2024

“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.” – Antisthenes

February 20, 2024

“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought” – Peter

February 21, 2024

“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.” – Pascal

February 22, 2024

“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” – de Bono

February 23, 2024

“When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.” – Spinoza

February 24, 2024

” Nothing is so dull as logic, and nothing is so important.” – Durant


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