mark twain

“Getting Started”

Going through some emails today I came across this gem sent from my Dad: The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking the overwhelming complex task into small manageable tasks. Then, start with the very first one. Mark Twain American Humorist, Writer, & Lecturer (1835-1910)

Notes on “The Ghosts of Cannae”

P8 – “Verisimilitude is not truth, just the appearance of truth.” P12 – “Mark Twain seemed to have gotten it about right when he concluded that although history doesn’t repeat itself, it does sometimes rhyme.”  Twain may have said that… but Twain also has the “Periodic Law of Repetition.  See Letters from the Earth. P42 [...]