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Posted on June 11, 2021February 26, 2023

“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”—Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist, 1911-1980

Posted on June 6, 2021June 6, 2021

“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.”—Henry Brooks Adams, American historian, 1838-1918

Posted on May 31, 2021

“The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.”—Charles Eliot Norton, American author, 1827-1908

Posted on May 28, 2021May 28, 2021

“People of the same trade are friendly.”—Irish proverb

Posted on May 22, 2021

“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on May 14, 2021May 14, 2021

“Evils draw men together.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher & polymath, 384-322 BC

Posted on May 1, 2021May 1, 2021

“No one respects a talent that is concealed.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on April 21, 2021April 21, 2021

-“Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.”—Charles Colton, English writer, 1780-1832

Posted on April 10, 2021April 10, 2021

“The best vision is insight.”—Malcolm Forbes, American publisher, 1919-1990

Posted on April 9, 2021April 9, 2021

“Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.”—William Allen White, American newspaper editor, 1868-1944

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