"At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome."

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Horace

“I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.”
“When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living -- to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to question and think critically -- they can be easily manipulated by fear and propaganda. A democracy is only as wise as its citizens, and a democracy of ignorant citizens can be as dangerous as a dictatorship.”

Source : Dr Paul Chappell, Dr, Paul K. Chappell (2013). “Peaceful Revolution: How We can Create the Future Needed for Humanity's Survival”, p.38, Easton Studio Press LLC
“Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.”

Source : Oliver Lodge (2012). “Past Years: An Autobiography”, p.306, Cambridge University Press
“UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.”
“I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill”
“The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.”
“I think that we're now deep into a struggle for control over the Internet and there are various actors - state, corporate, civic, criminal and military. The great genius of the Internet is its interconnectedness, but this is also what makes it an incredibly difficult problem when things start to go wrong with it and when people exploit for their own purposes.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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