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Posted on February 3, 2021

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”—Socrates, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

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 16, 2021

“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature, but plunges him more deeply into them.”—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer, 1900-1944

Posted on January 13, 2021

“Ninety percent of everything is crap.”—Theodore Sturgeon, American science-fiction author, 1918-1985

Posted on January 12, 2021January 12, 2021

“How many things I can do without!”—Socrates, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on January 1, 2021January 1, 2021

“The nature of men is always the same; it is their habits that separate them.”—Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC

Posted on December 17, 2020

“If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.”—Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist, 1920-2012

Posted on December 15, 2020

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”—Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, 1694-1778

Posted on December 10, 2020December 10, 2020

“He who is to be a good ruler must first have been ruled.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on November 30, 2020

“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.”—Tom Stoppard, British playwright, 1937-

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