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October 21, 2021

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Paul Dirac

Theoretical Physicist

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
God - Mathematics
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October 20, 2021

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Allen Ginsberg

Poet

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.
Poetry
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October 19, 2021

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

Inventors don't have time for married life.
Inventing - Marriage
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October 18, 2021

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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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October 17, 2021

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Victor Hugo

Poet, Novelist, Dramatist

Those who live are those who fight.
Fighting - Living
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October 16, 2021

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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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October 15, 2021

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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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October 14, 2021

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.
Equality - Human - Nature
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October 13, 2021

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H. L. Mencken

Journalist, Cultural Critic

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Explanation - Knowledge
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October 12, 2021

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Paul Dirac

Theoretical Physicist

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.
Mathematics - Physics
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October 11, 2021

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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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October 10, 2021

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Benjamin Disraeli

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
Reading
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October 09, 2021

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Aristotle

Philosopher

The quality of life is determined by its activities.
Activity - Existence - Life - Quality
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October 08, 2021

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.
Failing - Illusion - Mistake - Perception - Sometimes
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October 07, 2021

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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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October 06, 2021

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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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October 05, 2021

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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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October 04, 2021

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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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October 03, 2021

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.
Equality - Human - Nature
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October 02, 2021

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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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