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Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln, was talking with an associate, when another ...

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Emerson said that the average man is “born red, and dies gray.” By this, he meant that when ...

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In the aftermath of the Second Punic War, Roman citizens erected several statues — which remained ...

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In East Asian religious and philosophical traditions, Tao means “the Way,” and represents the ...