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Posted on March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

“There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.”—Richard Steele, Irish writer, 1672-1729

Posted on March 2, 2021March 2, 2021

“Language is the archives of history.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on March 1, 2021March 1, 2021

“The ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ are the priests of Twentieth-Century America.”—Nathanael West, American author, 1903-1940

Posted on February 27, 2021February 27, 2021

“History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.”—Will Durant, American historian, 1885-1981

Posted on February 25, 2021February 24, 2021

“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”—William Whiting, English poet, 1825-1878

Posted on February 21, 2021

“War is delightful to those who have had no experience with it.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on February 18, 2021February 17, 2021

“All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.”—John Mortimer, English author, 1923-2009

Posted on February 12, 2021February 11, 2021

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”—Albert Einstein, American German-born theoretical physicist, 1879-1955

Posted on January 7, 2021

“The great masses of the people…will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”—Adolf Hitler, German politician & Nazi Party leader, 1889-1945

Posted on June 24, 2018February 26, 2023

“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”—Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist, 1911-1980

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