Abrogate

Continuing on from yesterday’s 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know…

Abrogate –

• To abolish by formal or official means

From the Latin abrogare, literally "to ask away".

Quote of the Day

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on."

Robert Frost

Of the Day is Kind of a Joke…

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.” – Maxim Gorky

Quote of the Every Couple of Days

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein

Quote of the Day

“After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” – Cato the Elder

Quote

Given the current deluge of political bickering, backstabbing, and pandering to DMGs (designated minority groups), I figured that this quote was most applicable to our times:

“It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.” – James Fenimore Cooper

Quote of the Day

Sincerest apologies for the delinquint nature of my Quote of the Day postings lately. I promise to be more diligent in coming days.

Today’s quote is from a much loved and admired figure of American history. I chose to post it because I have been thinking a lot recently about contentedness. The issue seems to be coming from everywhere these days. At work, I’ve been researching the growing trend of people sacrificing their career advancement in order to spend more time with their families or doing things they value. This is actually predicted to lead to a problematic physician shortage within the next decade – doctors simply aren’t willing to put in the 60 hour weeks anymore.

In my own life, I’m struggling with the same issues. In writing I see my chance to do something I love for a living, something I could look back on and be proud of. And I could do it without missing out on life.

Though it hasn’t been addressed per se, I strongly believe that this is some sort of Gen X/Gen Y backlash to the Baby Boomer mindset of “success at any cost”. Perhaps the younger generations are no longer willing to make the sacrifices to claw their way to partner or senior vice president, and are choosing instead to focus upon leading more balanced, fulfilling lives. It would make sense – there are a lot of signs that the younger generations are striving to avoid some of the mistakes made by the Baby Boomer generation. Did you know that divorce rates seem to be far lower among Generation X? Of course, the federal government stopped tracking marriage statistics in 1996, but from what data we have that seems to be the trend.

Anyway, I am rambling, as is my tendency. Here you go, here is the much-built-up quote of the day:

“Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.” – Benjamin Franklin

From Walter

“History is the drama, for heaven’s sake, of human existence. And history is the story of people, and how they coped, and of the competition between them, the rivalries between them. With all the emotions – jealousy, hate, love. And it’s never taught this way. It’s taught in this dull rote – dates and places. People never come alive.” – Walter Cronkite

From Hallowed Antiquity

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled” – Plutarch

Q o D

“I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor” – Roger Moore