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Posted on April 6, 2021

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”—Albert Einstein, German-born American theoretical physicist, 1879-1955

Posted on April 5, 2021April 5, 2021

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”—Benjamin Spock, MD; American pediatrician & author, 1903-1998

Posted on April 4, 2021April 4, 2021

“Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BC

Posted on April 3, 2021April 3, 2021

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on April 1, 2021

“Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love.”—Lew [Lewis] Wallace, American politician, 1827-1905

Posted on March 31, 2021March 31, 2021

“Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.”—George Scialabba, book critic, 1948-

Posted on March 28, 2021March 28, 2021

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, 1821-1880

Posted on March 16, 2021March 16, 2021

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”—Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, 1850-1894

Posted on March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

“Human kind cannot bear very much reality.”—T.S. Eliot, British poet, 1888-1965

Posted on February 28, 2021February 28, 2021

“Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.”—John Ruskin, English polymath, 1819-1900

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