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Month: March 2020

Posted on March 29, 2020

“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”—Benjamin Franklin, American polymath, 1706-1790

Posted on March 28, 2020March 28, 2020

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'”—Fred Rogers, American television personality, 1928-2003

Posted on March 26, 2020March 26, 2020

“We don’t make mistakes. We just have happy accidents.”—Bob Ross, American painter, 1942-1995

Posted on March 25, 2020March 25, 2020

“May you live in interesting times.”—Chinese (attributed) proverb

Posted on March 22, 2020March 22, 2020

“When fools make mistakes they lay the blame on Providence.”—Irish proverb

Posted on March 19, 2020

“The cautious seldom err.”—Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC

Posted on March 16, 2020March 16, 2020

“None climbs so high as he who knows not whither he is going.”—Oliver Cromwell, English statesman, 1599-1658

Posted on March 15, 2020March 15, 2020

“In America, public opinion is the leader.”—Frances Perkins, US Secretary of Labor, 1880-1965

Posted on March 11, 2020

“Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.”—Sophocles, Greek playwright, 496-406 BC

Posted on March 7, 2020March 7, 2020

“Evolution is a lottery where we only see the winning tickets.”—Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author, 1952—.

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