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Posted on August 13, 2024August 13, 2024

“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”—Benjamin Franklin, American polymath, 1706-1790

Posted on July 31, 2024July 31, 2024

“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.”—Harry S. Truman, U.S. President, 1884-1972

Posted on July 24, 2024

“Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.”—Antoine de St. Exupéry, French writer, 1900-1944

Posted on July 11, 2024July 11, 2024

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”—Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, 1694-1778

Posted on November 7, 2023November 6, 2023

“DESTINY, n.: a tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.”—Ambrose Bierce, American journalist, 1842-1914

Posted on June 23, 2023June 23, 2023

“We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.”—Jean-Françoise de La Harpe, French playwright, 1739-1803

Posted on June 2, 2023

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on May 31, 2023

“A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clean conscience.”—Doug Larson, American columnist, 1926-2017

Posted on April 6, 2023April 6, 2023

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”—Thomas Paine, American political activist, 1737-1809

Posted on February 27, 2023February 26, 2023

“Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”—Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist, 1911-1980

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