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Posted on November 13, 2021November 13, 2021

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”—Herodotus, Greek historian, 5th century BC

Posted on November 9, 2021November 9, 2021

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”—Sextus Propertius, Roman poet, 1st century BC

Posted on February 26, 2021February 26, 2021

“Don’t sell America short.”—J.P. Morgan, American financier, 1837-1913

Posted on February 5, 2021February 26, 2023

“It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.”—Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist, 1911-1980

Posted on January 28, 2021January 28, 2021

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”—Will Durant, American historian, 1885-1981

Posted on January 27, 2021January 27, 2021

“America–a country where the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.”—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet & playwright, 1854-1900

Posted on January 23, 2021

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”—Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, 1817-1862

Posted on January 22, 2021

“I used to be Snow White—but I drifted.”—Mae West, American actress,1893-1980

Posted on January 21, 2021

“Time the destroyer is time the preserver.”—T.S. Eliot, British poet, 1888-1965

Posted on January 20, 2021

“Information wants to be free.”—Stewart Brand, editor of ‘Whole Earth Catalog’, 1938-

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