by Susan | Aug 3, 2020 | birthdays, inspiration
August 3, 1858 Paul Sabatier “Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.” August 3, 1920...
by Susan | Jul 11, 2020 | birthdays
July 11, 1899 E.B. White “I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn’t have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.” July 11, 1926...
by Susan | Jun 30, 2020 | birthdays, inspiration
June 30, 1909 C. Northcote Parkinson “The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.” June 30, 1911 Czeslaw Milosz “Not that I want to be a god or a hero....
by Susan | Jun 23, 2020 | birthdays, inspiration
June 23, 1910 Jean Anouilh “God is on everyone’s side… and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.” June 23, 1912 Alan Turing “Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary...
by Susan | Jun 18, 2020 | birthdays, inspiration
June 18, 1838 Auberon Herbert “If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.” June 18, 1929 Jurgen Habermas “Each murder is...
by Susan | Jun 13, 2020 | birthdays, inspiration
June 13, 1917 Augusto Roa Bastos “The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.” June 13, 1937...