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Category Archives: Insight

Quote of the Day

Posted on 20 February, 2021 by wjjhoge
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It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

—Spock

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 13 February, 2021 by wjjhoge
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune.

—William Faulkner

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 7 February, 2021 by wjjhoge
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I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?

Posted on 31 December, 2020 by wjjhoge
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[Editor’s Note: This feature is supposed to be a bit of humor, but one of Pinky’s remarks from a few days ago might be an insightful warning worth repeating.]

I think so, Brain …  but what might happen when 2020 turns 21 and starts drinking?

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Triskaidekaphobia

Posted on 13 November, 2020 by wjjhoge
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Today is the second Friday the Thirteenth of 2020.

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 4 November, 2020 by wjjhoge
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J’ai toujours fait une prière à Dieu, qui est fort courte. La voici: Mon Dieu, rendez nos ennemis bien ridicules! I always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: “O Lord, make our enemies quite ridiculous!”

—Voltaire

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 12 September, 2020 by wjjhoge
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Dibaot bugel a heuilh tud sot
Eus o sotoni na zesk lod.
A child who follows stupid people seldom stays without learning some of their stupidity.

—Breton Proverb

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 14 June, 2020 by wjjhoge
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Prima societas in ipso conjugio est: proxima in liberis; deinde una domus, communia omnia. The first bond of society is marriage; the next, our children; then the whole family and all things in common.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 15 April, 2020 by wjjhoge
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There is a very fine line between ‘hobby’ and ‘mental illness.’

—Dave Barry

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 21 January, 2020 by wjjhoge
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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression “As pretty as an airport.”

—Douglas Adams

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 2 September, 2019 by wjjhoge
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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

—Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 27 August, 2019 by wjjhoge
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Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. It may be that in the future you will be helped by remembering the past.

—Virgil

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 17 June, 2019 by wjjhoge
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self.

—Philip James Bailey

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 9 May, 2019 by wjjhoge
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

—Francis Bacon

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 13 March, 2019 by wjjhoge
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My old mother always used to say, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away.

—Mervyn Bunter

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 28 January, 2019 by wjjhoge
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As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

—Mark Twain

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 16 January, 2019 by wjjhoge
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 8 December, 2018 by wjjhoge
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It’s such a fine line between stupid, and uh…

—David St. Hubbins

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 24 November, 2018 by wjjhoge
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

—J. M. Barrie

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 18 November, 2018 by wjjhoge
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I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 14 November, 2018 by wjjhoge
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

—Sherlock Holmes

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