Memory Spots

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

-Greek proverb

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

-Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

-Michael Pollan, author, journalism professor (b. 1955)

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.  

~Christian N. Bovee

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

-William Butler Yeats, poet, dramatist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

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