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Posted November 19, 2019in The Culture Buzz

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Quote of the Week “Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with [...]

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Posted October 02, 2019in The Culture Buzz

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Quote of the Week “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave [...]

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Posted September 24, 2019in The Culture Buzz

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Quote of the Week  “The whole country wants civility. Why don’t we have it? It doesn’t cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness [...]

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Posted September 17, 2019in The Culture Buzz

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Quote of the Week History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. This is very often attributed to Mark Twain, but the earliest published source yet located is by Joseph [...]

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Posted September 10, 2019in The Culture Buzz

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Quote of the week: “Children need art and stories and poems and music as much as they need love and food and fresh air and play.” – Phillip Pullman, from [...]

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Posted September 03, 2019in The Culture Buzz

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 “I do not ‘get’ ideas; ideas get me.” -Robertson Davies, Canadian writer, 1913-1995 Are you curious about where I find these quotes? Dr. Mardy Grothe is considered the foremost authority [...]

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Posted August 27, 2019in The Culture Buzz

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“I’m happy where I am. Somebody said one time, ‘Success is getting what you want and happiness is wanting what you get.’ I got that house fifty years ago; I [...]

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Posted August 20, 2019in The Culture Buzz

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Check out the latest Center Stage column by The Culture Buzz’s John Busbee in Cityview. This month’s feature is about the Greater Des Moines Cloris Leachman Excellence in Theatre Arts [...]

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Posted July 02, 2019in The Culture Buzz

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“It always amazes me how many people there are who never seem to understand that what they have done has contributed to the consequences that followed.” Thomas Sowell (b. 1930) [...]

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