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Posted on August 27, 2021August 27, 2021

“Many commit the same crime and face a different fate: that man gets the cross, this one the crown.”—Decimus Juvenal, Roman poet, 1st-2nd centuries, AD

Posted on August 25, 2021

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”—Aesop, Greek fabulist, 620-564 BC

Posted on August 13, 2021August 13, 2021

“The public don’t know what they want; it’s my job to tell them.”—Alec Issigonis, British automotive designer, 1906-1988

Posted on August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

“You cannot conceive the many without the one.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348

Posted on July 27, 2021July 27, 2021

“People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”—Anatole France, French man-of-letters, 1844-1924

Posted on July 18, 2021July 18, 2021

“Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; American jurist; 1841-1935

Posted on July 9, 2021July 9, 2021

“A camel is a horse designed by a committee.”—Alec Issigonis, British automotive designer, 1906-1988

Posted on June 30, 2021June 30, 2021

“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.”—Hannah Arendt, American political scientist, 1906-1975

Posted on June 22, 2021June 22, 2021

“The road to success is always under construction.”—Lily Tomlin, American comedian, 1939-

Posted on June 15, 2021

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

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