Posted on September 21, 2022September 20, 2022 “When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win.”—Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher, 604-531 BC
Posted on September 19, 2022September 18, 2022 “There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891
Posted on September 14, 2022 “Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.”—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), Roman philosopher, 1st century BC
Posted on September 10, 2022September 10, 2022 “What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land?”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC
Posted on September 9, 2022September 9, 2022 “Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”—Adlai Stevenson, American politician & diplomat, 1900-1965
Posted on August 16, 2022August 15, 2022 “Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.”—Winston Churchill, UK Prime Minister, 1874-1965
Posted on January 23, 2022 “That’s what I do. I drink and I know things.”—Tyrion Lannister, character in “Game of Thrones”
Posted on January 22, 2022January 22, 2022 “Success, like charity, covers a multitude of sins.”—Alfred Thayer Mahan, American historian, 1840-1914
Posted on December 5, 2021December 4, 2021 “To judge of the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.”—François-Gaston de Levis, French army officer, 1719-1787
Posted on November 1, 2021November 1, 2021 “Don’t wish ill for your enemy; plan it.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC
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