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Posted on September 19, 2018September 19, 2018

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on September 18, 2018September 18, 2018

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935

Posted on September 14, 2018September 14, 2018

“In truth, we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.”—Democritus, Greek philosopher, 460-370 BC

Posted on September 9, 2018September 9, 2018

“Exuberance is easily corrected; dullness is incurable.”—Marcus Quintilian, Roman rhetorician, 1st century AD

Posted on September 3, 2018September 3, 2018

“Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.”—John Lahr, American theater critic, 1941-

Posted on August 29, 2018August 29, 2018

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”—Socrates, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on August 16, 2018

“Anger is the only thing made better by delay.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on August 13, 2018

“We boil at different degrees.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, 1803-1882

Posted on August 11, 2018August 11, 2018

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”—H.L. Mencken, American satirist, 1880-1956

Posted on August 4, 2018August 4, 2018

“Beauty is the lover’s gift.”—William Congreve, English playwright, 1670-1729

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