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Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Diogenes for the Day, 9/20/2018


To one who by argument claimed he had proven conclusively that he had horns, Diogenes said, touching his forehead, "Well, I for my part don't see any." 

In like manner, when somebody declared that there is no such thing as motion, he got up and walked about. 

When some one was discoursing on celestial phenomena, "How many days," asked Diogenes, "were you in coming from the sky?"

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