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February 23, 2020

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Woodrow Wilson

Former President of the United States

Movies are like writing history with lightning.
History - Movies
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February 22, 2020

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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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February 21, 2020

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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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February 20, 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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February 19, 2020

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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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February 18, 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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February 17, 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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February 16, 2020

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Aristotle

Philosopher

The quality of life is determined by its activities.
Activity - Existence - Life - Quality
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February 15, 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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February 14, 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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February 13, 2020

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Woodrow Wilson

Former President of the United States

Movies are like writing history with lightning.
History - Movies
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February 12, 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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February 11, 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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February 10, 2020

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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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February 09, 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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February 08, 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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February 07, 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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February 06, 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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February 05, 2020

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.
Equality - Inequality - Reject
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February 04, 2020

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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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