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Posted on August 5, 2021August 5, 2021

“So many men, so many opinions, every one his own way.”—Terence, Roman playwright, 2nd century BC

Posted on August 4, 2021August 4, 2021

“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”—Cyrus Ching, American labor union mediator, 1876-1967

Posted on August 2, 2021August 2, 2021

“Hope is a waking dream.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on August 1, 2021August 1, 2021

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”—Carl Sagan, American astronomer, 1934-1996

Posted on July 31, 2021

“We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.”—Thucydides, Athenian historian, c. 460 — c. 400 BC

Posted on July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”—Arthur Helps, English writer, 1813-1875

Posted on July 28, 2021July 28, 2021

“If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.”—John Clare, English poet, 1793-1864

Posted on July 27, 2021July 27, 2021

“People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”—Anatole France, French man-of-letters, 1844-1924

Posted on July 26, 2021July 26, 2021

“Anything we haven’t seen before is marvelous.”—Tacitus, Roman senator, 56-117 AD

Posted on July 25, 2021July 25, 2021

“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”—Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, 1707-1778

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