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I keep making the mistake of listening to Common and John Legend's "Glory" (off the Selma soundtrack) at work. This is a mistake because I tear up every time I hear it.

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Delphic Maxims 000: The Wisdom of Phemonoe

Rumor has it that the aphorisms carved into the walls of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi were first written down by Phemonoe, daughter of Apollo and first Oracle at Delphi. Rumor attributes the Delphic Maxims, of which the most famous are “Know thyself” and “Nothing in excess”, to several other sources as well: Heraclitus, or Socrates, or the Seven Sages of Greece (among whose number there are rather more than seven names), or Apollo himself.

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