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Posted on September 29, 2018September 29, 2018

“Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.”—Jonathan Swift, Irish essayist, 1667-1745

Posted on September 28, 2018September 28, 2018

“Great artists have no country.”—Alfred De Musset, French dramatist, 1810-1857

Posted on September 26, 2018September 26, 2018

“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.”—Werner Heisenberg, German theoretical physicist, 1901-1976

Posted on September 19, 2018September 19, 2018

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on September 18, 2018September 18, 2018

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935

Posted on September 14, 2018September 14, 2018

“In truth, we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.”—Democritus, Greek philosopher, 460-370 BC

Posted on September 9, 2018September 9, 2018

“Exuberance is easily corrected; dullness is incurable.”—Marcus Quintilian, Roman rhetorician, 1st century AD

Posted on September 3, 2018September 3, 2018

“Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.”—John Lahr, American theater critic, 1941-

Posted on August 29, 2018August 29, 2018

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”—Socrates, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on August 16, 2018

“Anger is the only thing made better by delay.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

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