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Mon 16 May 2022

TruthLie

Posted by PJ under lies, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.”

—Cornell West, Twitter, June 17, 2011

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Fri 13 May 2022

Truth

Posted by PJ under crone, initiation, magical beings, mysteries, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“The truth behind apparitions is, I fear, less like a problem to be solved than an initiation into a mystery; less like an investigation than a quest on which we must not be above taking tips from helpful old crones or talking animals in order to wrest the world transforming treasure from the dragon’s cave. We may even have to abandon our idea of truth altogether if we are to find it.”

—Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality

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Wed 11 May 2022

Mistakes

Posted by PJ under failure, learning, mistakes, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Admitting mistakes is a fundamental skill too few of us learn. In part, this is because we’ve been taught it’s wrong to be wrong.”

—Stacy Abrams, Minority Leader

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Tue 10 May 2022

Indigenous

Posted by PJ under prejudice, quote of the day, science, shamanism
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Random quote of the day:

“The way we talk and use language to explain phenomena does not interfere with our ability to do objective, informative research, yet this is often something unthinkingly assumed about other cultures. It’s easy to misinterpret the metaphorical language of an indigenous culture as though it was a literal belief, especially if a researcher was predisposed to thinking of those peoples as very different, or unscientific, or even primitive.”

—Chi Luu, “What We Lose When We Lose Indigenous Knowledge,” JSTOR Daily, October 16, 2019

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Mon 9 May 2022

Library

Posted by PJ under books, churches, libraries, quote of the day, reading
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Random quote of the day:

“When you are growing up, there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully—the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.”

—Keith Richards, Life (with James Fox)

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Fri 6 May 2022

Horrible

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

“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”

—Bertrand Russell, quoted in Bertrand Russell, the Passionate Sceptic by Alan Wood

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Thu 5 May 2022

Woods

Posted by PJ under forest, gods, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It’s almost like you know that God’s there.

—Richard Pryor, Richard Pryor Live in Concert

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Wed 4 May 2022

Shadow

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

“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”

—Aesop, “The Dog and the Shadow”

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Tue 3 May 2022

Influence

Posted by PJ under influences, originality, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“It is a fascinating task to disentangle, in a young writer, the influences of the established one. How hard we work before we help ourselves, quite simply, to our own originality!”

—Jules Renard, Journal, October 1887 (ed. & tr. Bogan & Roget)

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Wed 27 Apr 2022

Absurd

Posted by PJ under absurdity, life, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.”

—Albert Camus, Alger Républicain, October 20, 1938

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