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I was cleaning out old draft emails when I came upon these quotes.

1. “Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.”

2. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. -Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

Both quotes resonated with me, and both quotes provide profound, provoking, prose projecting providence. But for the first quote I'm not sure who to attribute, and for the second, while I'd like to imagine he said that, I'm not really sure if Dr. Schweitzer did (because I have never met him!).

In the internet age, I think it really behooves one to critically analyze everything read online. Does X make sense, did X say that? Sometimes it's possible to do some cross referencing to buttress the probability or reliability of something found online to be true (for example Google, Bing and Yahoo each contain at least two links that are not in the first page of the competing search engine when I search the highlighted text). I find that taking a slower approach to critically view what I read online helps not just reliability but also deeper comprehension.
 
An interesting thought experiment to consider, if X is placed aside temporarily, did what you, I, or X read online resonate? 
 
(by the way, this post is kind of after the fact...)

An interesting thought experiment to consider, if X is placed aside temporarily, did what you, I, or X read online resonate? 
 
In the internet age, I think it really behooves one to critically analyze everything read online. Does X make sense, did X say that? Sometimes it's possible to do some cross referencing to buttress the probability or reliability of something found online to be true (for example Google, Bing and Yahoo each contain at least two links that are not in the first page of the competing search engine when I search the highlighted text). I find that taking a slower approach to critically view what I read online helps not just reliability but also deeper comprehension. 
 
Both quotes resonated with me, and both quotes provide profound, provoking, prose projecting providence. But for the first quote I'm not sure who to attribute, and for the second, while I'd like to imagine he said that, I'm not really sure if Dr. Schweitzer did (because I have never met him!).

2. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. -Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)
 
1. “Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.”
 
I was cleaning out old draft emails when I came upon these quotes. 
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