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Posted on January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

“The generality of mankind are contented to be estimated by what they possess instead of what they are.”—William Hazlitt, English drama critic, 1778-1830

Posted on December 26, 2020

“Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on December 21, 2020December 21, 2020

“Punctuality is the thief of time.”—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet & playwright, 1854-1900

Posted on December 15, 2020

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”—Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, 1694-1778

Posted on December 11, 2020

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”—Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939

Posted on December 5, 2020

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”—James Thurber, American humorist, 1894-1961

Posted on December 2, 2020

“Make something useful, help people use it, and then get out of the way.”—Craig Newmark, creator of Craig’s List, 1952-

Posted on November 18, 2020

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”—Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, 1694-1778

Posted on October 30, 2020

“Of one power even God is deprived, and that is the power of making what is past never to have been.”—Agathon, Athenian poet, 448-400 BC

Posted on October 15, 2020

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”—Arthur C. Clarke, British science- and science-fiction writer, 1917-2008

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