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Alan’s Thought for Today — 272 episodes

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Thought for today: Be like Nikola Jokić

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Thought for today: Be careful where your elephant is going

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Thought for today: Break your chains

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Thought for today: Be careful who you trust

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Thought for today: You have what you need

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Thought for today: Take your life seriously

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Thought for today: Let it go! Let it go!

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Thought for today: We don't HAVE to do it, we GET to do it

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Thought for today: Would you pass the test?

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The thought for today: Be consistent

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Thought for today: Contribute what you can

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Thought for today: Decline is a choice

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Thought for today: Do you really want it?

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Thought for today: What if it's true?

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Thought for today: Don't desire power

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Thought for today: Let's perfect our love

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Thought for today: Slow down

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Thought for today: Don't spend all your time cursing the darkness

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Thought for today: Just do it

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Thought for today: You can

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Thought for today: I got to see Eddie!

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Thought for today: You are "good enough"

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Thought for today: Are you using your right to doubt?

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The thought for today: What's your plan?

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The thought for today: Are you in control?

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The thought for today: What is your vision?

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Thought for today: Consider them a friend

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Thought for today: Merry Christmas

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Thought for today: Take it the way they mean it

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Thought for today: What is your plan?

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Thought for today: Be nice

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Thought for today: It begins with us

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Thought for today: Don't have hubris

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Thought for today: Proof of life

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Thought for today: Don't run away

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Thought for today: Do favors for your future self

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Thought for today: Be willing to go into the lion's den

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Thought for today: Change the road you're on

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Thought for today: Diversity is our strength, division is our weakness

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Thought for today: Be trustworthy with little

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Thought for today: Take care of yourself

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Thought for today: You don't have to have an opinion

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Thought for today: Find your exclamation point

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Thought for today: Are you healthy?

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Thought for today: Slay your inner dragons

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Thought for today: Be like that mother skunk

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Thought for today: Don't give up on them

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Thought for today: Lift them up

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Thought for today: It is worth it

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Thought for today: Megaphone or mirror?

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Thought for today: Happiness is infectious

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The thought for today: Support your local merchants

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Thought for today: Show no fear, move forward bravely

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Thought for today: What is your ultimate measure?

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Thought for today: You have a choice

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Thought for today: In a healthy organization, accountability rolls uphill

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The thought for today: It could be you

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Thought for today: Be like Fido

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Thought for today: Family is worth it

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Thought for today: Imagination is a good servant and a bad master

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Thought for today: Apologize, or not, but don't do both

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Thought for today: Happy New Year!

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Thought for today: How do you want to be remembered?

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Thought for today: Have a reason to miss them

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Thought for today: Merry Christmas

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Thought for today: Do you ever say you're sorry?

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Thought for today: Make a new plan

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Thought for today: Do you have a library card?

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Thought for today: Are you educated?

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Thought for today: Act Like Those Days

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Thought for today: You have the ingredients you need, don't wait for the recipe

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Thought for today: How do your actions interpret your thoughts?

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Thought for today: Ask for grace

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Thought for today: Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want

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Thought for today: Systems are better than goals

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Thought for today: You are more important than anything in this world

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Thought for today: Life is a team sport

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Thought for today: Is your success a zero-sum game?

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Thought for today: Does your success depend on others' weakness, or on their strength?

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Thought for today: It's okay to be ignorant

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Thought for today: We don't know how it is for them

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Thought for today: Focus on the real issues in you and in others

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Thought for today: Think about others

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Thought for today: Tell somebody they're number one

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Thought for today: Be like an Insta360 X3, have a me mode

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Thought for today: We have fewer excuses

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Thought for today: Do not voyeuristically do wrong

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Thought for today: Maybe being our good self is being different

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Thought for today: Don’t try to be different, try to be your good self

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Thought for today: Wow. That was brave.

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Thought for today: Peace is free

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Thought for today: Don’t look down on people

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Thought for today: Do you care?

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Thought for today: What ambition do you serve? (Shout out to Jordan Peterson)

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Thought for today: I was wrong

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Thought for today: Wisdom is supreme

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Thought for today: Ask what they meant

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Thought for today: React as if they are your friend

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Thought for today: Search for the knowledge you need

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Thought for today: Find your gimmick

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Thought for today: Don’t rush to speak

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Thought for today: Disagreeing is not hate

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Thought for today: Don't live life at half-mast

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Thought for today: Be for peace

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Thought for today: We are all human

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Thought for today: Take it as they mean it

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Thought for today: Do not slander your neighbor in private

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Thought for today: Go and do likewise

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Thought for today: Know your ignorance

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Thought for today: Spend time with family

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Thought for today: Outcomes are not the most important thing

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Thought for today: Don’t believe your own lies (hat tip: Gad Saad)

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Thought for today: Thankfulness, itself, is not a gimmick

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Thought for today: Keep calm

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Thought for today: Rights are most important in the hard times

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Thought for today: Boundaries facilitate (hat tip: Jordan Peterson)

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Thought for today: Feedback is a gift

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Thought for today: Do not enjoy harming the opposing group

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Thought for today: Don’t swear

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Thought for today: Is the social media you the real you?

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Thought for today: Who is the kindest person you know?

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Thought for today: Do not sit in the company of mockers

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Thought for today: Don’t believe absurdities (hat tip: Gad Saad)

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Thought for today: Be like Justin Hawkins

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Thought for today: Love humanity so much (hat tip: Elon Musk)

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Thought for today: Smile, it’s infectious

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Thought for today: Whether the cross falls is our choice

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Thought for today: Find value in lifting people up, not tearing them down

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Thought for today (Memorial Day): What are you willing to sacrifice?

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Thought for today: Constructive criticism does not involve instant gratification

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Thought for today: Ideologues don’t get things done

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Thought for today: Controlling is not helping

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Thought for today: Show kindness

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Thought for today: We have a responsibility to tell the truth (Shout Out to Denzel Washington)

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Thought for today: Tom Cruise

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Thought for today: Hell is locked from inside

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Thought for today: Obedience is not enough, but at least it’s a start (h/t: Jordan Peterson)

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Thought for today: They don’t know what you know

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Thought for today: Do you really want to understand?

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Thought for today: Set a high value on liberty

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Thought for today: Don’t let fairness run your life

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Thought for today: Be like those turtles

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Thought for today: Tear down your Asherah pole

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Thought for today: Be the guy who gave the ball away

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Thought for today: Truth in not curated

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Thought for today: Don’t be manipulated

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Thought for today: You go to war with the underwear you got on

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Thought for today: Your time is your estate

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Thought for today: Don’t live life ad interim

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Thought for today: We need people

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Thought for today: Everybody reaches a point where the burden is too much

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Thought for today: Know you are lost

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Thought for today: Fame is a four letter word

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Thought for today: The tomb is empty

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Thought for today: Take a walk

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Thought for today: Don't be Spock, and don't be Kirk

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Thought for today: There is no such thing as a noble lie

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Thought for today: Let go of the coat

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Thought for today: Nobody is beyond redemption

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Thought for today: Be committed, but don't be an idealogue

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Thought for today: What is the cumulative effect?

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Thought for today: Use your tongue for good

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Thought for today: You can't have now be more important than eternity

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Thought for today: This is not heaven

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Thought for today: Don't live in a bubble

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Thought for today: Pace yourself

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Thought for today: Ask yourself, "Does it need to be said?"

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Thought for today: Live in the now, don't record it

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Thought for today: Which kind of person are you?

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Thought for today: Which do you provide more of?

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Thought for today: When words are many…

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Thought for today: It is your fault, but...

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Thought for today: Social media is the worst of two worlds

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Thought for today: Spend your time with utopia

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Thought for today: Truth about truth

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Thought for today: Don't be feral to people who disagree with you

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Thought for today: Be a questioner of the commonplace

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Thought for today: Share a lot of love

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Thought for today: The conscience of the nation is dying off

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Thought for today: Don't be evil

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Thought for today: People still stop

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Thought for today: Why not get rid of it now?

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Thought for today: Don't try to fix the world until you fix your world

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Thought for today: Don’t be perpetually outraged

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Thought for today: Stay ruthlessly consistent

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Thought for today: Take time to play with your dog

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Thought for today: There is a purpose

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Thought for today: Be real

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Thought for today: Don't feel better, by putting other people down

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Thought for today: Don't fool yourself

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Thought for today: Stand up for yourself

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Thought for today: Sticks and stones

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Thought for today: It takes just one to start

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Thought for today: Pretend they are right there

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Thought for today: Have a love that seeks no reward

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Thought for today: You’re lucky

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Thought for today: Is the earth flat?

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Thought for today: Don't overanalyze

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Thought for today: Let's not have the Rule of Nobody

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Thought for today: If you have too many goals, you have no goals

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Thought for today: There is more

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Thought for today: Your feelings affect others

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Thought for today: You are enough

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Thought for today: What if you die tomorrow?

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Thought for today: Learn what you really need to know

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Thought for today: Use words, not spears

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Thought for today: Do not be proud of your wealth

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Thought for today: Choose sayings that bring people together

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Thought for today: Don't listen to people who always blame others

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Thought for today: Don't get lost in fundamentalism

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Thought for today: You sum successes and failures, you don't count them

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Thought for today: Start today

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Thought for today: Family is worth it (redux)

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Thought for today: We are all the same blood

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Thought for today: Don't convince people that they are the victim

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Thought for today: It's not good to be alone

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Thought for today: "How you handle today is how you'll handle every day"

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Thought for today: Is the influencer situation parasitic both ways?

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Thought for today: Triumph and disaster are imposters

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Thought for today: Maybe it's not a mistake

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Thought for today: Truth will win

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Thought for today: Three powerful resources

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Thought for today: Don't confuse "a" solution with "the" solution

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Thought for today: One-upmanship is not good

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Thought for today: Fight confirmation bias

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Thought for today: Watch what they do, not what they say

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Thought for today: Revenge is not justice

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Thought for today: Nourish someone

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Thought for today: Take a look at yourself

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Thought for today: Be Mighty Mouse for someone

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Thought for today: Is Jesus a narcissist?

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Thought tor today: Try something

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Thought for today: Are you cattle to become food?

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Thought for today: Don't be overwhelmed

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Thought for today: How much arsenic is okay?

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Thought for today: Boundaries are good

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Thought for today: Don't worry about it

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Thought for today: Let's try to lead simple lives

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Thought for today: You are likely to be the destroyer if you try to be the savior

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Thought for today: Things aren't the way they seem

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Thought for today: Question everything

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Thought for today: If you don't want me to judge you...

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Thought for today: Turn on your creative faucet

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Thought for today: Don't live for a lie

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Thought for today: Don't be vague and complex

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Thought for today: Don't needlessly give others control over your life

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Thought for today: It make no sense to be proud of yourself for something you had no control of

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Thought for today: Become a forever victor

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Thought for today: Don't let somebody else's confidence convince you you are wrong

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Thought for today: Maybe those who think others are irrational are the irrational ones

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Thought for today: Don't let people make you embarrassed because of your ancestors

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Thought for today: Fear the word "consensus"

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Thought for today: Don't amplify the bad people

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Thought for today: Be like Pluto

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Thought for today: We agree on the big things

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Thought for today: Don't destroy with good conscience

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Thought for today: When you die, what do you want to be remembered for?

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Thought for today: Most people are great people

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Thought for today: Don't avoid work

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Thought for today: Has it ever occurred to you that you might be wrong?

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Thought for today: All the things that God does for us are the best things possible

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Thought for today: Do you want justice?

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Thought for today: Always let facts matter

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Thought for today: Love wins in the end

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Thought for today: Don't worry about impressing others

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Thought for today: Utopia is impossible

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Thought for today: #LetsLearnTogether

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Thought for today: Don't swear

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Thought for today: Life is too short

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Thought for today: Almost everybody has something you can like about them

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Thought for Today: Love them for them

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Thought for today: You don’t know what they’ve gone through