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Portrait of Agrippina the Younger. From Ostia. Shortly after 50 AD.  Luni marble

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny...

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what i...

In the drawing above the Sea Goddess Thetis submerges her son Achilles in water from the Styx, to make him invulnerable. Unfortunately...

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, mela...

Writing is a very honest job, it demands you to look within, search, it demands your painful honesty no wonder some of the greatest master...

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” Robert F. Kennedy

“Every now and then I like to do as I’m told, just to confuse people”                                                                    ...

What's Really Happening When Your Brain Detects a Ghoul?  by PHILIP PERRY Once, in middle school, a gang of boys and I were lu...

The only traffic laws we are familiar here in India are 'wear your seat belt', 'stop when the traffic signal is red'...

Yawp   1 : to make a raucous noise : squawk 2: clamor, complain Yawp first appeared sometime in the 15th century. This verb comes...

Confidante reflects on Nobel laureate's passion to awaken China's intellectuals I first met Liu Xiaobo in Beijing in ...

We must dissent from the fear, the hatred, and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that buried its head in the sand waiting in vai...

Eke : (eek) To earn a living, to supplement, or to make something last with great effort. (usually used in the phrase “to eke out”) From O...