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In an age of endless low-quality information, it's time to cultivate "critical ignoring," writes @mims.bsky.social Mims. It takes practice.
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"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."
- George Shultz
"Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals."
- Ralph Bunche
Dec 9
Actor Kirk Douglas born (1916); Actress Dame Judi Dench born (1934); âA Charlie Brown Christmasâ debuts (1965); Diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche dies (1971); World Health Organization confirms smallpox has been eradicated (1979).
"Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing."
- Chuck Yeager
Dec 6
Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award winner Ellen Burstyn born (1932); Pearl Harbor naval base bombed by Japan (1941); Basketball legend Larry Bird born (1956); Apollo 17, the final Apollo moon mission, is launched (1972); Sound barrier-breaking pilot Chuck Yeager dies (2020).
"Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speakâand speak in such a way that people will remember it."
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dec 5
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies (1791); Walt Disney born (1901); 21st Amendment ratified in the US, repealing the nationwide ban on alcohol (1933); Montgomery Bus Boycott begins (1955); Nelson Mandela dies (2013).
"The only real defense was to remember that no one could take away my self-respect and dignity â only I could do that."
- Terry Anderson
Dec 4
English philosopher Thomas Hobbes dies (1679); President Woodrow Wilson travels to Versailles for WWI peace talks (1918); Jay-Z born (1969); Tyra Banks born (1973); American journalist Terry Anderson released after more than six years as hostage in Lebanon (1991).
"This is the urgency: Live! And have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind."
- Gwendolyn Brooks, from "The Second Sermon on the Warpland"
Dec 3
Rock star Ozzy Osbourne born (1948); Actress Julianne Moore born (1960); First human heart transplant carried out (1967); Mikhail Gorbachev and George HW Bush declare end to Cold War (1989); Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks dies (2000).
Dec 2
Abolitionist John Brown dies (1859); Scientists achieve first human-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction (1942); Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace born (1946); US Environmental Protection Agwncy created (1970); Britney Spears born (1981); Pablo Escobar is killed (1993).
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
- James Baldwin
Dec 1
First moving assembly line introduced by Ford Motor Company (1913); Rosa Parks arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat (1955); Author and activist James Baldwin dies (1987); World AIDS Day commemorated for the first time (1988).
"If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can."
- Billy Idol
Nov 30
Holy Roman Emperor Otto II ends the siege of Paris (978); Preliminary Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, signed (1782); Woody Allen born (1935); London's Crystal Palace destroyed by fire (1936); Billy Idol born (1955)
Nov 29
"Chronicles of Narnia" author CS Lewis born (1898); Warren Commission is established to investigate President Kennedy's assassination (1963); Social activist Dorothy Day dies (1980); The Beatles guitarist George Harrison dies (2001).
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"At every moment, we always have a choice, even if it feels as if we donât. Sometimes that choice may simply be to think a more positive thought."
- Tina Turner
Nov 26:
Abolitionist Sojourner Truth dies (1883); National Hockey League founded (1917); "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz born (1922); Archaeologist Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter King Tut's tomb (1922); Singer and actress Tina Turner born (1939).
"Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust."
- Andrew Carnegie
Nov 25
Businessman Andrew Carnegie born (1835); Agatha Christieâs âThe Mousetrapâ opens, becoming the longest-running play in history (1952); John F. Kennedy Jr. born (1960); Author Upton Sinclair dies (1968); Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies (2016).
"It takes a lot of courage to be happy, but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again."
- Florence Henderson
Nov 24
Charles Darwinâs âOn the Origin of Speciesâ published (1859); Lee Harvey Oswald is shot and killed just two days after assassinating President Kennedy (1963); Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury dies (1991); âBrady Bunchâ actress Florence Henderson dies (2016).
"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."
- Wayne Gretzky