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Here’s the story: In 1934, a twenty-five-year-old named Robert Pirosh quit his well-paying but tedious job as a copywriter in New York and moved to Hollywood, hoping to kickstart his dream career as a...
View ArticleJefferson’s Ten Rules
To Thomas Jefferson Smith.Monticello, February 21, 1825. This letter will, to you, be as one from the dead. The writer will be in the grave before you can weigh its counsels. Your affectionate and...
View ArticleWhat to be Wary of in Your Government
“The management of so complicated and mighty a machine, as the United Colonies, requires the meekness of Moses, the patience of Job and the wisdom of Solomon, added to the valour of Daniel… We may...
View ArticleWhat Could’ve Been among Jews and Arabs
Paris, March 3, 1919. DEAR MR. FRANKFURTER: I want to take this opportunity of my first contact with American Zionists to tell you what I have often been able to say to Dr. Weizmann in Arabia and...
View ArticleJefferson on Taking Life as It Comes
“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities...
View ArticleMr. Jefferson, Would You Live Your Life over Again?
“You ask if I would agree to live my 70, or rather 73, years over again? To which I say Yea. I think with you that it is a good world on the whole, that it has been framed on a principle of...
View ArticleGlory’s Moonshine
“No one can deny I have done the State some service in the field, but I have always desired that strife should cease at the earliest possible moment. I confess, without shame, I am sick and tired of...
View ArticleJ.R.R. Tolkien’s Advice for Finding the Right Girl
“In this fallen world the ‘friendship’ that should be possible between all human beings, is virtually impossible between man and woman… Later in life when sex cools down, it may be possible. It may...
View ArticleGalileo Squares Faith and Reason
“I think in the first place that it is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth — whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny...
View ArticleThinking Hard about the Everyday
“Whenever I thought of you I couldn’t help thinking of a particular incident which seemed to me very important. You & I were walking along the river towards the railway bridge & we had a...
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