To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men,
and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished
by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress.
The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability;
because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him.
But this power needs solitude to develop freely;
the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.
Charles Baudelaire
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Trump's anti-consumer economically idiotic trashing of TPP has led to opportunistic non-TPP China seizing the initiative to fill the vacuum.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) November 22, 2016
As a confirmed #NeverTrump er I can attest to the fact we haven't gone away. We're simply not going to throw a tantrum like progressives.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) November 22, 2016
Reports that Congressional Republicans are looking to restore earmarks proves they didn't learn a thing from their 2006 exile from power.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) November 22, 2016
It's time for a GOP Congress and White House to engage in long-overdue government reform including fiscal and regulatory streamlining.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) November 22, 2016
Conscious CapitalismFor years, I've been battling the libertarian argument that Republicans, just like Democrats, are Big Government whores. No more excuses!— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) November 22, 2016
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I loathe lawyers, but Kingsfield was one of my ideals as a professor. The brilliant professor's use of the Socratic method, his rigor and the statement of his teaching philosophy are inspirational (I would have been flattered if my students compared me to Kingsfield instead of comparing my exams to lobotomies or rating them by how many beers it took to forget them.). It was not my role to spoon-feed college students or turn them into clones; I really wanted them to lead them into being self-motivated, independent, adaptive thinkers. I never thought what I taught, like COBOL, given rapidly changing technology, would be relevant over their work careers.
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Cher (with Sonny), "When You Say Love". We'll focus more on Cher's solo hits for the rest of the retrospective.
