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Posted on October 2, 2020

“Knowledge is power.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626

Posted on September 30, 2020

“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”—Aesop, Greek fabulist, 620-654 BC

Posted on September 23, 2020

“Solvitur ambulando.” (“It is solved by walking.”)—St. Jerome, Early Christian theologian, 347-420 AD

Posted on September 20, 2020

“Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.”—Arthur Helps, English writer, 1813-1875

Posted on September 18, 2020

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”—Susan Sontag, American writer, 1933-2004

Posted on September 12, 2020

“I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.”—Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, 1881-1973

Posted on September 6, 2020

“Nothing is stronger than habit.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC–18 AD

Posted on September 4, 2020

“You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.”—Richard Feynmn, American physicist, 1918-1988

Posted on August 27, 2020

“To love and to work.”—Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939

Posted on August 21, 2020

“Never mistake motion for action.”—Ernest Hemingway, American journalist, 1899-1961

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