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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons of history." - Aldous Huxley
From the original Pac-Man video game, the nicknames of the 4 enemy ghosts were Blinky, Pinky,
Inky and Clyde.
"If you want something you've never had, then you must be willing to do something you've
never done." - Thomas Jefferson
In defining the duties of a president, Section 3 of Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution says: "He shall
from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to
their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." The nation's first
two presidents, George Washington and John Adams, delivered their messages to Congress in
person, in the years 1790-1800. The third president, Thomas Jefferson, had a weak speaking
voice and opted to send a written message in 1801, a practice successors maintained for more
than a century. President Woodrow Wilson resumed in-person State of the Union speeches in
1913. President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first State of the Union on radio in 1923. Harry
Truman made the first televised State of the Union in 1947. President Lyndon Johnson upped the
ante in 1965, moving the address to prime time, where it has stayed ever since.
"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude." -
Aldous Huxley
"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid." -
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Kate Upton making the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is good news for the
stock market. If you think that sounds ridiculous, well, you're absolutely right. But that's what
the data say, according to the analysts at Bespoke Investment Group, who have carefully
crunched the numbers and found that, since 1978, when an American model makes the swimsuit
cover, the S&P 500 is up 88% of the time, for an average total return (including dividend
payments) of 14%.
"When rungs were missing, I learned to jump." - William Warfield
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