Marc Gilbert-Widmann

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  • Anonymous Quote of the Day 15 January 2014 – Believe

    If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. Related articles College Students Anonymously Create Beautiful Illustrated Quotes on a Classroom Chalkboard Each Week Anonymous hacks MIT website on anniversary of Aaron Swartz…

  • Quote of theDay 19 December 2013 – Self-Respect

    “One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill is literary, find no opportunity for the independent exercise of their talents, but have to hire themselves out to rich corporations directed by Philistines, who insist upon their producing what they themselves regard…

  • Poetry of the Day 24 November 2013 – Invictus

    “Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and…

  • Quote of the Day 20 November 2013 – Service of Others

    “Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others…By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.” ? Gordon B. Hinckley…