A man should be upright not to be kept upright. Marcus Aurelius, a Roman Emperor and philosopher....
Credit: RLS website You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it or perish; and if it be so, why not now, and where you stand. Robert Louis Stevenson, a British (Scottish) author....
One of the proofs of the immortality of soul is that myriads have believed in it – they also believed the world was flat. Mark Twain, an American author....
The Palm Sunday, or the Entrance of Our Lord into Jerusalem, is one of the movable feasts in the Christian calendar, celebrated one week before Easter...
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke, an English philosopher....
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. William Gilmore Simms, an American novelist, poet, and historian....
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. Charles William Eliot, an American academic and the President of Harvard University....
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain, an American author....
To commemorate the mankind’s breakthrough into space, Attic Room Productions made a 1hr 39min film documenting Yuri Gagarin’s flight. Over at OpenCulture there are many useful links to exp...
Many years ago when I was still in school I had the chance of a lifetime: I visited the Star City, the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre located in the northeast of Moscow where they teach and train f...