Posted on January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 “It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.”—Agatha Christie, English mystery writer, 1890-1976
Posted on December 28, 2020 “Few people know how to be old.”—François de La Rochefoucauld, French maximist, 1613-1680
Posted on December 11, 2020 “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”—Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939
Posted on November 15, 2020 “Machines, from the Maxim gun to the computer, are for the most part, means by which a minority can keep free men in subjection.”—Sir Kenneth Clark, British art historian, 1903-1983
Posted on November 12, 2020 “It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.”—Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter, 1841-1919
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 29, 2020 “When written in Chinese, the word CRISIS is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”—John F. Kennedy, U.S. President, 1917-1963
Posted on October 28, 2020 “Some books are to be read, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed ad digested.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626
Posted on October 27, 2020October 27, 2020 “Is it a fact, or have I dreamt it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?”—Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist, 1804-1864
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