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last updated: November 28, 2023

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
-- Cato the Elder

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It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.
-- Horace

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He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]
-- Plutarch

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“Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.”
“I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.”
“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.”

Source : "The Crow". www.imdb.com. 1994.
“There are no 'holds.' Everyday you're either willing to buy more at the current price, or, if you aren't, you should redeploy the capital to something you believe does deserve incremental capital.”
“I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.”
“I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.”

Source : "Hedi Slimane: 'Maybe I have to start designing again'" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.
“With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah.”
“More that members of Senate know about Medicaid, in many ways, the harder it is to make that final decision, because you have got so much information, and you know how many other things are impacted here by one decision here that, five decisions later, has made a big difference in somebody's life.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom.”
“The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.”