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Month: April 2020

Posted on April 28, 2020April 28, 2020

“The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom—they are the pillars of society.”—Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright, 1828-1906

Posted on April 27, 2020April 27, 2020

“The strongest of all warriors are these two–Time and Patience.”—Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer, 1828-1910

Posted on April 25, 2020

“Certitude is not the test of certainty.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935

Posted on April 24, 2020April 24, 2020

“They boasted that they had no faults; they also had no virtues.”—Marcus Quintilian, Roman rhetorician, 1st century AD

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020

“I know only two tunes: one is Yankee Doodle, and the other one isn’t.”—Ulysses S. Grant, US president, 1822-1885

Posted on April 13, 2020April 13, 2020

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on April 11, 2020April 11, 2020

“The man who inspects the saddle blanket instead of the horse is stupid. Most stupid is the man who judges another man by his clothes or circumstances.”—Seneca the Younger, Roman satirist, c. 4 BC-65 AD

Posted on April 10, 2020May 2, 2020

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.”—Carl Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst, 1875-1961

Posted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020

“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.”—Michel Foucault, French philosopher, 1926-1984

Posted on April 8, 2020April 8, 2020

“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”—Thomas Huxley, Biologist, 1825-1895

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