Posted on August 15, 2020 “It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536
Posted on August 13, 2020 “Discretion is not the better part of biography.”—Lytton Strachey, English writer, 1880-1932
Posted on August 12, 2020August 12, 2020 “Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”—Howard Scott, American engineer, 1890-1970
Posted on August 9, 2020 “One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.—George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, 1856-1950
Posted on August 7, 2020 “When he says he did you a favour, he’s asking for one.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century, BC
Posted on August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 “Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”—Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900
Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”—Malcolm Forbes, publisher, 1919-1990
Posted on August 2, 2020August 2, 2020 “Actors are cattle.”—Alfred Hitchcock, English film director, 1899-1980
Posted on August 1, 2020August 2, 2020 “The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.”—Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American composer, 1882-1971
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