“οὐδὲν χρῆμα μάτην γίνεται, ἀλλὰ πάντα ἐκ λόγου τε καὶ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκης.”
“Nothing occurs at random, but everything for a reason and by necessity.”
- Leucippus (Diels and Kranz, 1985, 67B2), in G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, and M. Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1983, p. 420 ( Read more... )

[John Travolta] said that Cary Grant once gave him weight-loss advice. “Cary Grant told me to forget the whole thing about food, eating-just make it not important. I didn’t like that piece of advice, but often I had to use it to lose weight for film. Now cut to 20 years later: I told Marlon Brando what Cary Grant had said, and he said, ‘Don’t ( Read more... )