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Posted on July 30, 2022July 30, 2022

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”—George Smith Patton, U.S. Army general, 1885-1945

Posted on July 28, 2022July 28, 2022

“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900

Posted on July 24, 2022July 24, 2022

“Everybody calls ‘clear’ those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.”—Marcel Proust, French novelist, 1871-1922

Posted on April 13, 2022

“We carve out order by leaving the disorderly parts out.”—William James, Father of American Psychology, 1842-1910

Posted on April 1, 2022

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”—Douglas Adams, English author, 1952-2001

Posted on January 26, 2022

“In this world, second thoughts, it seems, are best.”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC

Posted on December 11, 2021

“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.”—Satchel Paige, Major League Baseball pitcher, 1906-1982

Posted on November 20, 2021November 20, 2021

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”—Søren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist philosopher, 1813-1855

Posted on November 17, 2021

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”—Leslie Poles Hartley, British novelist, 1895-1972

Posted on September 18, 2021September 18, 2021

“What is a friend? Another I.”—Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher, c. 495–c. 430 BC

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