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Thu 7 Jul 2016

Rosy

Posted by PJ under dreams and dreamtime, quote of the day, reality
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Random quote of the day:

“Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.”

—attributed to Ann Landers

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 22 Mar 2016

Yum

Posted by PJ under food, quote of the day, reality, the world
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Random quote of the day:

“So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.”

—Bill Watterson, “Some Thoughts On the Real World By One Who Glimpsed It and Fled,” Kenyon College Commencement, May 20, 1990

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Mon 22 Feb 2016

Sliding

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, reality
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Random quote of the day:

“Reality . . . has a sliding floor.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Notebook Phi, in Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, Vol. X111, 1835-1862, ed. Linda Allardt

(This is widely misquoted as, “Reality is a sliding door.”)

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Mon 14 Dec 2015

Real

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, reality
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Random quote of the day:

“Reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

—Stephen Colbert, White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, 2006

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Wed 21 Oct 2015

I do not believe in strawberries

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, reality, the world
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Random quote of the day:

“I believe the people who make the world are the ones who do not believe in reality.”

—Édouard Levé, “When I Look at a Strawberry, I Think of a Tongue,” The Paris Review, No. 196, Spring 2011 (tr. by Loren Stein)

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Mon 18 May 2015

Living myths

Posted by PJ under being human, myth, reality, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.”

—Robert Anton Wilson

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Fri 1 Aug 2014

To arrive where we started

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, reality, self-knowledge
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Random quote of the day:

“We arrive here as we are in reality, and when the page is turned and that reality is revealed to us—that part of our reality which we would prefer to pass over in silence—then we don’t like it any more.”

—Stanislaw Lem, Solaris, tr. by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox

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Thu 20 Feb 2014

The paradox is you

Posted by PJ under paradox, quote of the day, reality, science
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Random quote of the day:

“The ‘paradox’ is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ‘ought to be.'”

—Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III

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Fri 22 Nov 2013

Intuit in to it

Posted by PJ under intuition, perception, quote of the day, reality
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Random quote of the day:

“Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.”

—attributed to Henri Bergson

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Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 18 Jun 2013

This is not a rose

Posted by PJ under names, quote of the day, reality, roses
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Random quote of the day:

“Yesterday’s rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”

—Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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