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Teri · Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 4:09 am Post subject:

“Correct” spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world. ~H. L. Mencken

Teri · Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2019 4:42 am Post subject:

The sense of subtile feeling often outwits reason in its unerring measurement of truth. ~James Lendall Basford

Teri · Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2019 6:56 am Post subject:

We are here and it is now: further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. ~H. L. Mencken

JohnT · Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2019 5:30 pm Post subject:

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

--- some stanzas excerpted from "Still I'll Rise", a poem by Maya Angelou (written 1978).
Maya Angelou was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist, born 1928, died 2014.

Teri · Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 6:12 am Post subject:

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be. ~Antonio Porchia

JohnT · Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 8:26 pm Post subject:

“We may well go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.”

--- Charles de Gaulle in 1958
He was a French army officer and statesman who led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II. He became President of France in 1958, born 1890, died 1970.

Teri · Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:18 am Post subject:

You philosophers are sages in your maxims, and fools in your conduct. ~«Madame Gout» to Mr. Benjamin Franklin

Teri · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:01 am Post subject:

A click of the shutter, a crank of the film, and you've caught forever a significant bit of life. ~Willis Peterson

Teri · Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:51 am Post subject:

There are some towns so small that your second best friend is your third worst enemy. ~Anonymous, 1976

JohnT · Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:18 am Post subject:

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”

― André Malraux
He was a French novelist, art theorist and Minister of Cultural Affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt as author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year".
He was born 1901, died 1976.

Teri · Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2019 5:03 am Post subject:

Things dreaded require double time to accomplish them. ~James Lendall Basford

JohnT · Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2019 5:48 am Post subject:

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

--- Henry Kissinger, American scholar, politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State, born 1923 (age 96).

Teri · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 8:21 am Post subject:

Promises are like babies — easy to make, hard to deliver. ~Author Unknown

Teri · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 6:41 am Post subject:

Punning is a virtue that most effectually promotes the end of good fellowship, which is laughing. ~Jonathan Swift

JohnT · Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2019 5:15 am Post subject:

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on."
[Address before the United Nations, September 20 1963]

― John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 (about 2 months after this speech).