January 19 – This week’s quote fromJean-Baptiste Poquelin(1622-1673), known asMolière, the French actor and playwright, regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature, should make you smile: “All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that...
In 1906 statesman Winston Churchill delivered a speech in the House of Commons that included an extended instance of the adage:9 Where there is great power there is great responsibility,where there is less power there is less responsibility, and where there is no power there can, I think, b...
Glorious October: I think of it as the golden month. There's goldenrod in the fields; the sunshine is melted honey; the foliage flames with orange, red, and gold. The days are warm and mellow, the nights sharp and cool. A man feels alive and full of energy and only slightly sad...
This is one of his characteristically sarcastic definitions inThe Devil’s Dictionary, first published as a book in 1906 but originally begun in his newspaper columns in 1881. Bierce defined the wordPatriotas: “The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.” ...
The Tree of Knowledge always needs the sunshine of experience. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy,"The Saturday Evening Post, 1906, George Horace Lorimer, editor ...we find what he says true, as far as we have experienced, and we can judge no further but by larger experience — for axio...
Columbus Life Insurance Company began as Columbus Mutual in 1906 in Columbus, Ohio. At the time Channing Webster Brandon began the company, the Ohio government required him to have a $100,000 reserve fund, which left him with only $49.60 for promotion and operations. Columbus Mutual finally ...
“If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It was the quote that36me deeply when I was 17, and since then, for the past 34 years, I have looked37the mirror every morning and asked myself: “ If today were the last day of my ...
transporting of crude oil and refined products by pipeline, marine vessel, motor equipment, and rail car; and manufacturing and marketing of commodity petrochemicals, plastics for industrial uses, and fuel and lubricant additives. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in San Ramon, ...
The Company’s products include various brands of cereal which are marketed under the Kellogg’s, Kashi, and Bear Naked trade names. Its subsidiaries include 1906 Foreign Trading LLC and Kashi LLC.Financials Assets Cash and Equivalent Cost of Sales Current Assets Current Liabilities Debt ...
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