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Posted on October 13, 2020

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.”—Mark Twain, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on October 8, 2020

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626

Posted on October 2, 2020

“Knowledge is power.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626

Posted on July 22, 2020

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”—Aldous Huxley, English philosopher, 1894-1963

Posted on July 10, 2020July 10, 2020

“Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”—Jules Henri Poincaré, French polymath, 1854-1912

Posted on July 9, 2020July 9, 2020

“The real problem is not whether machines can think, but whether men do.”—B.F. Skinner, American psychologist, 1904-1990

Posted on June 21, 2020

“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on June 20, 2020

“The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.”—Lucretius, Roman philosopher, 1st century BC

Posted on May 23, 2020

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”—Carl Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst, 1875-1961

Posted on May 21, 2020May 21, 2020

“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

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