#coursechange — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #coursechange, aggregated by home.social.
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Fickle River - 150 Years Ago…, The Mississippi River Changed Course
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https://www.vicksburgpost.com/news/fickle-river-150-years-ago-this-weekend-the-mississippi-river-changed-course-bbe58b03 <-- shared technical / media article with audio
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 3 “Reading” (1854)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
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No philosopher ever yet — and there has been a great deal written upon the subject — defined a mere change of plan as vacillation.
[Nemo doctus umquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 16, Letter 7, sec. 3 (16.7.3) (44 BC) [tr. Shuckburgh (1900), # 780]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
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