"The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man."

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“The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.”

“Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.”

“Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.”

“'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.”

“Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading.”

“The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.”

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"Economic interdependence does promote shared interests, but it also creates shared vulnerabilities. … In an adversial context, shared interests provide opportunities for exploitation, not mutual gain."

— Charles A. Kupchan

Education1958

#writing

"Ann Elizabeth Bleecker page at Words of Women - site contains several poems by Bleecker which all are in the Public Domain."

— Ann Eliza Bleecker

Law1752–1783

#writing

"One of my earliest recollections in life was being taken for holidays to the little farm where my father had been born. … The cows "gave" milk, the hens "gave" eggs … but I couldn't for the life of me…"

— Donald Watson

Social Activism1910–2005

#friendship

"I could say, "Wait! Wait! I know what's going to happen down here!" Well you knew what was going to happen down here. How does it help us get our job done for me to tell you what's going to happen dow…"

— Ward Cunningham

Technology1949

#knowledge