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Quote of the Day for 2016-08-06

"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument, which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

Georg Fabricius (1516-1571) in praise of Georgius Agricola in De Re Metallica (1566) as translated by Herbert and Lou Hoover (1912)

 

Image: [Well, maybe until America grows cold] Marilyn Monroe (circa 1950) Photograph by L. J. Willinger

 

This North Eastern Life: Quote of the Day for 2016-08-06

 

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Uploaded on August 6, 2016