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Posted on June 16, 2020

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet & playwright, 1854-1900

Posted on May 24, 2020May 24, 2020

“Convention is the ruler of all.”—Pindar, Greek poet, 522-443 BC

Posted on May 13, 2020May 13, 2020

“No man loses honor who had any in the first place.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

“I want to know God’s thoughts—the rest are mere details.”—Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist, 1879-1955

Posted on April 25, 2020

“Certitude is not the test of certainty.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935

Posted on April 24, 2020April 24, 2020

“They boasted that they had no faults; they also had no virtues.”—Marcus Quintilian, Roman rhetorician, 1st century AD

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020

“I know only two tunes: one is Yankee Doodle, and the other one isn’t.”—Ulysses S. Grant, US president, 1822-1885

Posted on April 13, 2020April 13, 2020

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020

“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.”—Michel Foucault, French philosopher, 1926-1984

Posted on April 8, 2020April 8, 2020

“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”—Thomas Huxley, Biologist, 1825-1895

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