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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed. [If you don't read the newspapers, you are uninformed. If you do read them, you are misinformed.] – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) (Image by… More »






![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)





![IMAGE: When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us [the one which has opened for us].](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/doors-20172_640_alexander-graham-bell-402095_640-100x75.jpg)