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  • Cheer

    At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.   Thomas Tusser   Thomas Tusser (c. 1524 – 3 May 1580) was an English poet and farmer, best known for his instructional poem Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,… Read More ›

  • Lunatic

    Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.     Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt (born October 27, 1858, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 6, 1919, Oyster Bay, New York) was the 26th president of the United States (1901–09) and a writer, naturalist, and soldier. He expanded the… Read More ›

  • Movement

      Education is the movement from darkness to light. Allan Bloom   Allan David Bloom (September 14, 1930 – October 7, 1992) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell University, the University… Read More ›

  • Middle

    I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.   Bryan Batt Bryan Batt (born March 1, 1963) is an American actor best known for his role in the AMC series Mad Men as Salvatore Romano, the closeted art… Read More ›