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Thu 19 Aug 2021

Economics

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

“The prestige accorded to mathematics in economics has given it rigor, but, alas, also mortis.”

—Robert L. Heilbroner, Modern Economics As a Chapter in the History of Economic Thought

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Mon 16 Aug 2021

Help

Posted by PJ under alone, help, quote of the day, religion
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Random quote of the day:

“It’s those people who have so little, and who suffer so much, who need at least for religion to comfort them. Nothing else is. Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you’re hurt, you’re really on your own. You’re alone, and there’s no one to help you.”

—Octavia Butler, quoted in Religion in Science Fiction by Steven Hrotic

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Thu 12 Aug 2021

Cat

Posted by PJ under cats, proverb, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.”

—Russian proverb

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Tue 10 Aug 2021

Anon

Posted by PJ under poetry, quote of the day, sexism, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

—Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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Mon 9 Aug 2021

Mask

Posted by PJ under daimons and demons, quote of the day, reality, tricksters
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Random quote of the day:

“As soon as we make a definite assertion about the nature of reality, reality itself—soul, imagination, the unconscious and (the best model of all) Mercurius—immediately constellates its opposite. Whenever we think we have captured reality, and pinned the daimon down, he has in fact already slipped away; we are left with an empty mask.”

—Patrick Harpur, The Philosophers’ Secret Fire

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Fri 6 Aug 2021

Flowers

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

“A thought written down is dead. It was alive. It lives no longer. It was a flower. Writing it down has made it artificial, that is to say, immutable.”

—Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard (tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget)

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Thu 5 Aug 2021

Lonesome

Posted by PJ under loneliness, quote of the day, stories
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Random quote of the day:

“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say—and to feel—’Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.’”

—John Steinbeck, “In Awe of Words,” The Exonian, 1930

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Wed 4 Aug 2021

Unicorns

Posted by PJ under books, children, imagination, knowledge, quote of the day, reality, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. All too often, that’s more than Mummy and Daddy know; for, in denying their childhood, the adults have denied half their knowledge, and are left with the sad, sterile little fact: ‘Unicorns aren’t real.’”

—Ursula K. LeGuin, The Language of the Night

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Tue 3 Aug 2021

Blessings

Posted by PJ under blessings, love, meaning, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning—We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love.”

―Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

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Mon 2 Aug 2021

Nighttrain

Posted by PJ under mirror, quote of the day, responsibility
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Random quote of the day:

“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind glass. My face and the faces of other travelers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.”

—Russell Hoban, The Medusa Frequency

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