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Thu 5 Nov 2020

Giant

Posted by PJ under giants, quote of the day, the earth, the great awakening, underworld
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Random quote of the day:

“The problem is not that things become buried far down in strata—but that they endure, outlive us, and come back at us with a force we didn’t realise they had, a dark force of ‘sleeping giants,’ roused from their deep-time slumber.”

—Þóra Pétursdóttir, quoted by Robert MacFarlane, The Guardian, 20 April 2019

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 4 Nov 2020

Stay

Posted by PJ under friends, quote of the day, unity
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Random quote of the day:

 

The Waterwheel

Stay together, friends.
Don’t scatter and sleep.

Our friendship is made
of being awake.

The waterwheel accepts water
and turns and gives it away,
weeping.

That way it stays in the garden,
whereas another roundness rolls
through a dry riverbed looking
for what it thinks it wants.

Stay here, quivering with each moment
like a drop of mercury.

—Rumi (tr. Coleman Barks)

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 3 Nov 2020

Present

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

“There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.”

—attributed to George Carlin

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Mon 2 Nov 2020

Diversity

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

“Embrace diversity.
Unite—
Or be divided,
robbed,
ruled,
killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed.”

—Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Fri 30 Oct 2020

Frank

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

“We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.”

—attributed to David Russell

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Thu 29 Oct 2020

Bores

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

“Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.”

—Don Marquis, quoted in O Rare Don Marquis by Edward Anthony

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Wed 28 Oct 2020

Audra

Posted by PJ under boxes, identity, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I’ve spent my whole career trying to stay out of any box that anyone could put me in. ‘I’m going to do a play now.’ ‘Now I’ll do a musical.’ That was my instinct. So I don’t feel boxed in. But ‘African-American woman’ is part of my identity. I don’t want to relinquish that—especially as a mother, helping my daughter find her identity.”

—Audra McDonald, The New York Times, July 10, 2016

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Mon 26 Oct 2020

Shadow

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

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun

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Wed 21 Oct 2020

Sex

Posted by PJ under children, literature, quote of the day, sex
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Random quote of the day:

“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around.”

—David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down

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Tue 20 Oct 2020

Wealth

Posted by PJ under culture, quote of the day, slavery, wealth
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Random quote of the day:

“It’s a stirring fact that our slave ancestors left behind not documents of property but an incredible amount of cultural wealth. It is a tragedy that we are only able to imagine their individual contributions to that collective wealth—and the worlds they might have made had they been free.

―Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts

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