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Posted on March 10, 2025

“Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”—Doug Larson, American columnist, 1928-2017

Posted on March 7, 2025March 7, 2025

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”—Mary W. Shelley, English novelist, 1797-1851

Posted on February 4, 2025February 4, 2025

“The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.”—Peter Marshall, American entertainer, 1926-2024

Posted on September 1, 2024September 1, 2024

“Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.”—Doug Larson, American columnist, 1926-2017

Posted on July 31, 2024July 31, 2024

“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.”—Harry S. Truman, U.S. President, 1884-1972

Posted on November 7, 2023November 7, 2023

“I plan for the future. I yearn for the past. And, meantime, the present is leaving me fast.”—Anonymous

Posted on November 7, 2023November 6, 2023

“DESTINY, n.: a tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.”—Ambrose Bierce, American journalist, 1842-1914

Posted on June 8, 2023October 28, 2023

“The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”—Charles de Talleyrand, French diplomat, 1754-1838

Posted on April 6, 2023April 6, 2023

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”—Thomas Paine, American political activist, 1737-1809

Posted on March 5, 2023March 4, 2023

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”—Democritus, Greek philosopher, 460-370 BC

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