Friday, March 15, 2024
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Friday, March 8, 2024
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Saturday, March 2, 2024
ageism or routine stupidity?
- Dan Quayle was born on February 4, 1947. He made this comment during a speech on May 19, 1989, when he was 42 years old.
prodigy
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.'
- Blaise Pascal [1623-1662]
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empire treachery
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence in the Seven Pillars of Wisdom where he lost the initial thousand page draft on a train.
Friday, March 1, 2024
Thursday, February 29, 2024
may shortly lose status as most corrupt administration
On being elected President: "I am not fit for this office and never should have been here. Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little."
- Warren G. Harding [1865-1923]
Monday, February 26, 2024
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Saturday, February 24, 2024
hooked
"Some read for pleasure, which is innocent; others read for instruction, which is praiseworthy; yet still others read out of habit, which is neither innocent nor praiseworthy."
- Somerset Maugham [1874-1965]
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Saturday, February 17, 2024
no time for death
"If you can dream it, you can do it. I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else."
- Enzo Ferrari [1898-1988]
Sunday, February 11, 2024
Friday, February 9, 2024
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Thursday, February 1, 2024
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