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The Wanderers
“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.” ~ Charles Dickens #FavoriteQuotes
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Dec 26, 20221 min read


Misfit
“Why am I such a misfit?” - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer #FavoriteQuotes
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Dec 19, 20221 min read


Humbug
“Bah, humbug!” Ebenezer Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol” (1843) by Charles Dickens. #FavoriteQuotes
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Dec 12, 20221 min read


Apocalypse
"The hugest changes were the ones that could not be seen -- that's where the real apocalypse lay: in people's hearts, their souls, their...
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Nov 28, 20221 min read
Concealment
"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." ~Dwight...
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Nov 14, 20221 min read


Writing
"As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything."...
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Nov 7, 20221 min read


Hell is Empty
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” ~ William Shakespeare, The Tempest #FavoriteQuotes
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Oct 31, 20221 min read


That's Offensive
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ” ~ Salman Rushdie #FavoriteQuotes
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Oct 10, 20221 min read


Desire
“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?” ― Virgil, The Aeneid #FavoriteQuotes
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Sep 26, 20221 min read


Puppetry
“Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a...
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Sep 19, 20221 min read


Phoenicians
“That’s a slave’s life, you’re describing, not to be able to speak freely.” ~EURIPIDES Greek tragic poet (480 or 485 B.C. - 406 B.C), in...
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Sep 12, 20221 min read


Nursery
“Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten or twelve...
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Sep 5, 20221 min read


Equity
"Equity as a concept says recognize that everyone has the same capacity, but in order for them to have equal opportunity to reach that...
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Aug 22, 20221 min read


No Mountain Climbing
“We must all be alike. Not everyone BORN free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone MADE equal. Each man the image of every...
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Aug 15, 20221 min read


Oh, The Humanity
“This virus cannot kill off the whole of humankind without first killing off its humanity. Man fears that at the End of Days, demons from...
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Aug 8, 20221 min read


Altruism
“[O]f all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of ‘altruism’ is the worst. People do what they want to, every time.” — the...
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Aug 1, 20221 min read


Truth
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations...
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Jul 25, 20221 min read


Seriously Serious
"We've got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to take this seriously," ~ Kamala Harris...
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Jul 11, 20221 min read


Independence
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with...
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Jul 4, 20222 min read


Scoffers
“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of...
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Jun 27, 20221 min read
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