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Posted on August 13, 2018

“We boil at different degrees.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, 1803-1882

Posted on August 11, 2018August 11, 2018

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”—H.L. Mencken, American satirist, 1880-1956

Posted on August 4, 2018August 4, 2018

“Beauty is the lover’s gift.”—William Congreve, English playwright, 1670-1729

Posted on August 1, 2018August 1, 2018

“It’s a pretty serious matter for a man’s religion to fail him.”—in ‘Waldo’; Robert A. Heinlein, Dean of science fiction writers, 1907-1988

Posted on July 25, 2018

“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 427-347 BC

Posted on July 24, 2018July 24, 2018

“VERY SORRY CAN’T COME. LIE FOLLOWS BY POST.”—telegram, Lord Charles Beresford, British admiral, 1846-1919

Posted on July 20, 2018July 20, 2018

“Advice is seldom welcome, and those who want it the most always like it the least.”—Philip Stanhope, British wit, 1694-1773

Posted on June 27, 2018June 27, 2018

“A house is a machine for living in.”—Le Corbusier, French architect, 1887-1965

Posted on June 24, 2018February 26, 2023

“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”—Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist, 1911-1980

Posted on June 16, 2018June 16, 2018

“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.”—Dr. Samuel Johnson, English essayist, 1709-1784

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