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Posted on November 29, 2020

“Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.”—Frank Moore Colby, American writer, 1865-1925

Posted on November 26, 2020

“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”—Laurence J. Peters, Canadian educator & author, 1919-1990

Posted on November 20, 2020

“Fortunately [psycho]analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”—Karen Horney, German psychoanalyst, 1885-1952

Posted on November 15, 2020

“Machines, from the Maxim gun to the computer, are for the most part, means by which a minority can keep free men in subjection.”—Sir Kenneth Clark, British art historian, 1903-1983

Posted on November 13, 2020

“When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.”—Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland; English politician; 1610-1643

Posted on November 12, 2020

“It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.”—Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter, 1841-1919

Posted on November 3, 2020

“Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory….In this war, we know, books are weapons.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president, 1882-1945

Posted on October 27, 2020October 27, 2020

“Is it a fact, or have I dreamt it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?”—Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist, 1804-1864

Posted on October 25, 2020

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”—George Santayana, American philosopher, 1863-1952

Posted on October 8, 2020

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626

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