Quotes of Days Past

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April 03, 2020

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

Inventors don't have time for married life.
Inventing - Marriage
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April 02, 2020

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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

Mary is more important than the apostles.
Apostle - Bible
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April 01, 2020

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
Enemy - Revenge - Transgression
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March 31, 2020

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Justice - Law - Man - Revenge
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March 30, 2020

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Aristotle

Philosopher

The quality of life is determined by its activities.
Activity - Existence - Life - Quality
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March 29, 2020

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Montesquieu

Judge, Philosopher

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
Giving - God - Gods - Having
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March 28, 2020

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Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
Crowd - Jobs - Leadership - Loneliness
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March 27, 2020

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Natural Philosopher, Diplomat, Civil Servant

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
Fear - Truth
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March 26, 2020

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
Sleeping
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March 25, 2020

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Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.
Business - Jobs - Profit - Prosperity - Success
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March 24, 2020

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Future - Robots - Slavery
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March 23, 2020

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John Milton

Poet, Civil Servant

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
Censorship - Reason
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March 22, 2020

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Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.
Failing - Man
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March 21, 2020

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.
Actions - Machine - Man - Mindset
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March 20, 2020

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Future - Robots - Slavery
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March 19, 2020

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
Enemy - Revenge - Transgression
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March 18, 2020

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Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
Plan - Work
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March 17, 2020

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Abraham Lincoln

Former President of the United States

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
Discovery - Reading
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March 16, 2020

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Funny - Reading
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March 15, 2020

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.
God - Physics
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