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A paraphrase of a quote I saw on Twitter today. From Mark Shields.
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Check out my new signoff (Original Post)
cilla4progress
Feb 2021
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niyad
(113,205 posts)1. Very good!
MLAA
(17,266 posts)2. Excellent choice
cilla4progress
(24,723 posts)3. I thought it was a
beautiful sentiment.
FM123
(10,053 posts)4. Well said!
applegrove
(118,577 posts)5. Beautiful.
yonder
(9,662 posts)6. K&R, very nice. I expect to be changing mine soon enough.
tblue37
(65,269 posts)7. Those of us on phones & tablets can't see it.
cilla4progress
(24,723 posts)10. Got it!
Every one of us has been warmed by fires we did not build, and drunk from wells we did not dig. We can do no less, and we must do more.
tblue37
(65,269 posts)12. Thanks! A lovely sentiment.
summer_in_TX
(2,727 posts)8. I've always loved that quote.
I miss getting to hear him.
MontanaMama
(23,297 posts)9. It's beautiful cilla.
It reminds me of it takes a village.
ZonkerHarris
(24,216 posts)11. Bible quote from the Old Testament: "We drink from wells we did not dig;
; we are warmed by fires we did not build.