Store of stale wisdom is refreshed

… quotes in play

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n mid-December we realized the collection of pithy quotations we run in the left sidebar was getting worn. So we asked you to send us some of your favourites. We were inundated. In fact, you sent 377 quotes, which amounted to 44 pages of ideas, calls to action, admonishments, encouragements and some slaps in the face.

Each submission was one that when weighed and sorted, tipped the scale in favour of enduring value; but some of them weighed more than others. In fact, there were entire short stories, anagrams and even condensed sermons.

We had to slice and dice: it was easy to pitch the long submissions – they simply don’t work in the space-starved format in which they get presented here on theRubicon. Others were pulled from the final list because they were too obscure, repetitious or didn’t seem to fit with the ethos of theRubicon. It was tough to trim those that remained, but we managed to get the list down to 132… all of which have now been posted to the left sidebar quotation pane.

Thanks for your help, sorry we couldn’t use all of what you sent and take a moment to read what comes up when you visit; there’s a lot of good material in Random Quotes and surprisingly few from the usual trinity of Winston Churchill, Oscar Wilde and William Booth.

theRubicon team

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