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07/31/2025

"To admit that an opponent might be both honest and intelligent is felt to be intolerable. It is more immediately satisfying to shout that he is a fool or a scoundrel, or both, than to find out what he is really like."
- George (1903-1950), English novelist and social critic

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06/29/2025

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
Bertrand (1872-1970), British philosopher, mathematician, and public intellectual who won the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature

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06/17/2025

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Plotinus (c. 204/5–270 CE), born in Roman Egypt, founded Neoplatonism and taught that all reality flows from a single source: the One.

06/17/2025

With Stoics A to Zeno – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

06/04/2025

Epictetus (c. 50 – c. 135 AD).

05/11/2025

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Today’s Wisdom

04/06/2025

"The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language."
- Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), American philosopher

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And, on the other hand, we sometimes prefer politeness to pure honesty.
When might you choose to tell a white lie rather than an ugly truth?

02/13/2025

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
- U.S. President Abraham (1809-1865) in his Second Inaugural Address



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02/03/2025

“Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”
- (384–322 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher, scientist, and polymath in the Nicomachean Ethics

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01/26/2025

“Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the conversation.”
- Dwight MacDonald (1906-1982), American editor

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11/03/2024

“Be curious, not judgmental.”
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, Civil War nurse, and journalist

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06/20/2024

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”
(469 B.C.E. - 399 B.C.E.), Greek philosopher and martyr

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