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Posted on March 26, 2016March 6, 2026

“Stuff’s sole purpose on this earth is to make you believe you want it.”—Jen Sincero, author, speaker & success coach, b. 1965

Posted on March 25, 2016March 6, 2026

“Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.”—Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist, 1713-1768

Posted on March 17, 2016December 17, 2020

“History is a distillation of rumor.”—Thomas Carlyle, British historian, 1795-1881

Posted on March 10, 2016March 6, 2026

“Desire conquers fear.”—Irish proverb

Posted on March 4, 2016March 6, 2026

“My only great qualification for being put at the head of the Navy is that I am very much at sea.”—Sir Edward Carson, Irish politician, 1854-1935

Posted on March 2, 2016March 6, 2026

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”—Dr. Samuel Johnson, English writer, 1709-1784

Posted on February 27, 2016March 7, 2026

“In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.”—Samuel Johnson, English writer, 1709-1784

Posted on February 26, 2016March 7, 2026

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”—Benjamin Franklin, American polymath, 1706-1790

Posted on February 20, 2016March 7, 2026

“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.”—Denis Diderot, French philosopher, 1713-1784

Posted on February 18, 2016March 7, 2026

“I call architecture ‘frozen music’.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, 1749-1834

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