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  • 16 Things You Didn’t Know About Julius Caesar

    16 Things You Didn’t Know About Julius Caesar0

    On July 13, 100 B.C., Julius Caesar was born in Rome to a patrician family of relatively modest means. During his formative years, Rome was transforming and expanding. Caesar, perhaps seeing the success of his uncle, the statesman and general Gaius Marius, set his eyes on a career in the Roman military. He spent much

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  • 16 Things Mark Twain Actually Said

    16 Things Mark Twain Actually Said0

    1. “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”   2. “Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.”   3. “Definition of a classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”   4. “Familiarity breeds contempt — and children.”   5. “Always do right. This

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  • 16 Things Individuals Can Do to Help Bring America Together

    16 Things Individuals Can Do to Help Bring America Together0

    Americans are angry and divided—perhaps more than at any time since the Civil War. Holding strong opinions, especially in defense of truth, is no vice. But failing to bridge our differences and resolve them peacefully is no virtue either. Here’s my “to do” list if you want to be part of the solution instead of

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  • 16 SOURCED Aristotle Quotes

    16 SOURCED Aristotle Quotes0

    1. “All men desire by nature to know.” ~ Metaphysics 2. “Man is by nature a political animal.” ~ Politics 3. “One swallow does not a summer make.” ~ Nicomachean Ethics 4. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” ~ On the Parts of Animals 5. “Piety requires us to honor

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  • 16 Politically Incorrect Thoughts from H.D. Thoreau

    16 Politically Incorrect Thoughts from H.D. Thoreau0

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was born David Henry Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts. The son of a pencil maker, Thoreau became one of the finest and most independent thinkers of his day (this free thinking is perhaps evidenced by his early decision to go by Henry David instead of David Henry). A brilliant poet, naturalist, and

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  • 16 Big Myths about College and Success in Your Early 20s

    16 Big Myths about College and Success in Your Early 20s0

    If you’re exiting high school you’re probably being given a lot of advice.  You’re bombarded with stats about average earnings, degrees, majors, resumes, seizing this time in your life, etc.  It’s all pretty standard, conventional fare: Go to the best college you can get into, get good grades, major in something with lots of job

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