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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley
I dwell in Possibility—
Emily Dickinson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
The Quoteiac Journal
Why the Possibility Tee Puts the Dash in the Middle
The Quoteiac Possibility Tee is a typographic interpretation of Emily Dickinson’s opening line “I dwell in Possibility —” (Fr466, c. 1862) in which the em dash has been deliberately repositioned — ...
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She Painted Abstract Art Before Kandinsky. The Art World Took 80 Years to Notice.
In 1907, Hilma af Klint painted ten canvases nearly eleven feet tall. She worked in trance states, with no preliminary sketches, at 40 years old. Then she locked them away. The Guggenheim didn’t sh...
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Thomas Jefferson on Books, Reading, and Ignorance
Jefferson called reading the essential defense against tyranny — and built a 6,487-volume library to prove it. Here's what he actually believed.
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