Posted on November 9, 2020 “I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.”—H.L. Mencken, American satirist, 1880-1956
Posted on November 7, 2020 “The meek shall inherit the earth—but not the mineral rights.”—J. Paul Getty, British petrol-industrialist, 1892-1976
Posted on November 5, 2020 “An honest politician is one who, when he’s bought, stays bought.”—Simon Cameron, American businessman & politician, 1799-1889
Posted on November 4, 2020November 4, 2020 “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”—Martin Luther King, Jr., American minister & activist, 1929-1968
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 30, 2020 “Of one power even God is deprived, and that is the power of making what is past never to have been.”—Agathon, Athenian poet, 448-400 BC
Posted on October 29, 2020 “When written in Chinese, the word CRISIS is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”—John F. Kennedy, U.S. President, 1917-1963
Posted on October 28, 2020 “Some books are to be read, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed ad digested.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626
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
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