Also ... John Steinbeck was awarded Nobel Prize in literature this day in 1962
... and (same year) "Cuban missile chrisis" began

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To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
Lao-tzu


I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Sir Winston Churchill

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche