Today was the Ides of March, right?

Happy Sic Semper Tyrannus day! Thus Always to Tyrants!

And, as has become my custom on Sic Semper Tyrannus day, I give you a completely useless quote that takes up space in my brain (since we had to recite it before every Western Civ class my sophomore year of college):

Thinking cannot be carried on without the materials of thought. And the materials of thought are facts, or else assertions that are presented as facts. A mass of details stored up in the mind does not in itself make a thinker. But on the other hand, thinking is absolutely impossible without that mass of details. And it is just this latter impossible operation of thinking without the materials of thought which is being advocated by modern pedagogy, and is being put into practice, only too well, by modern students. In the presence of this tendency, we believe that facts and hard work ought again to be allowed to come to their rights. It is impossible to think with an empty mind.

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