Albert wishes to be admired by his contemporaries. There is no doubt about that. But this question remains: Why?
Stephanie Biggers, Cat Farming in Nigeria.
We can never see now what we have now. This always entails the backwards glance (and disappointment).
Robin Christopher, The Incantation Theory of Historical Truth.
Assertion is just wind; a document is a piece of paper; and politics is the shell game.
Hamilton Cosgrave, Essays on the Mulberry Bush.
Unlike knowledge, ignorance is in all cases an immensity.
Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.
Probability: an algebraic scheme understood by no one.
Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.
Remembering does not pay. What is rewarded in today’s culture is forgetting. One’s ability to forget.
Titus Musgrave, Carthago Delenda Est.
Why do we wake?
Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.
If [with respect to a journal entry] you had asked me who wrote that, I would not have known that it was I.
Jennifer Turkwood, ed., Journals and Letters of Tomas Tinturra—Vol. 2.
Webb put it succinctly: If you don’t like the facts, attack the source.
Hilbert Kaasa, The Fabian Way.
If it exists now, it is mocking itself. That is the way of being today.
Desmond W. Foote, More Pedestrian Observations.
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