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Posted on July 23, 2017July 23, 2017

“Good judgment comes from experience, which comes from bad judgment.”—Barry LePatner, construction industry expert

Posted on July 23, 2017

“No lot is altogether happy.”—Horace, Roman lyric poet, 1st century BC

Posted on July 21, 2017July 21, 2017

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891

Posted on July 19, 2017July 19, 2017

“The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.”—Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, 1730-1774

Posted on July 18, 2017July 18, 2017

“The length of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.”—Eileen Shanahan, NY Times reporter, 1924-2001

Posted on July 17, 2017July 17, 2017

“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”—Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American composer, 1882-1971

Posted on July 16, 2017July 16, 2017

“Fortune favors the brave.”—Virgil, Roman poet, 1st century BC

Posted on July 15, 2017July 16, 2017

“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”—Laurence J. Peter, educator & author, 1919-1990

Posted on July 12, 2017July 12, 2017

“No falsehood lingers on into old age.”—Sophocles, Greek playwright, 5th century BC

Posted on July 9, 2017July 9, 2017

“Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.”—C.P. Scott, British journalist, 1846-1932

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