Craig McCullough

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” - Confucius razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” - René Descartes razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” - Albert Camus razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.” - Gustave Flaubert razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.” - Daisaku Ikeda razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” - Richard Dawkins razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

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“In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.” - David Hume razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.” - Frank Warren razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.” - Garrison Keillor razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.” - Alain de Botton razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.” - Werner Heisenberg razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.” - Gustave Flaubert razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.” - Fulton J. Sheen razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” - E.E. Cummings razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.” - Dalai Lama XIV razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.” - Mark Twain razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

I haven't noticed a decrease in the number of pennies in circulation since Trump promised to eliminate them. There seem to be as many as ever. At least there is comfort in knowing that if Trump had fought on America's side in the Vietnam war, we might have won that war.

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.” - Aristotle razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.” - Jane Austen razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.” - Matsuo Basho razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” - Sylvia Plath razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.” - Joseph Heller razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” - Epicurus razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

I wonder if Americans will find it difficult to return to decency when we're finished pissing on Trump's grave.

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” - Plato razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.” - Thich Nhat Hanh razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” - Rumi razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.” - Brian Tracy razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” - Benjamin Franklin razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” - Margaret Atwood razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” - Jiddu Krishnamurti razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Anyway - because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next - and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis - at any time of night or day.” - Kurt Vonnegut razzlepuzzles.com

“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.” - Albert Einstein razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.” - Greg Bear razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” - Aristotle razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” - Tom Clancy razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” - Mark Twain razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.” - Yogi Berra razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.” - Malala Yousafzai razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.” - Alexandre Dumas-fils razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.” - Max Planck razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” - Ursula K. Le Guin razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively” - Bob Marley razzlepuzzles.com/cryptogram

As a parent I'm curious. What did the parents or guardians of the young Epstein victims know? Did they suspect anything? People complain about teenagers and their phones, but I'm grateful for how easy it is to contact my kids at any time.