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Fri 5 Jun 2020

Identity

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

The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful…and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely, and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out.

—Zadie Smith, On Beauty

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 4 Jun 2020

Beans

Posted by PJ under freedom, history, justice, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

Years ago I heard that Abraham Lincoln freed the colored people, but it didn’t amount to a hill of beans.”

—Ned Cobb (aka Nate Shaw), Alabama sharecropper, quoted in All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten, 1974

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Wed 3 Jun 2020

History

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

“You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.”

—Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations, Part 1” Democracy Now! May 30, 2014

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 2 Jun 2020

Beliefs

Posted by PJ under belief, excess, quote of the day, self-knowledge, transcendence
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Random quote of the day:

“Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.”

—James Baldwin, “Stranger in the Village,” Harper’s, October 1953

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Thu 28 May 2020

Expression

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

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”

—Noam Chomsky, interview, The Late Show with John Pilger, 25 November 1992

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Wed 27 May 2020

Couch

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

“The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself—and pays his psychoanalyst.”

—John W. Gardner, No Easy Victories

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 26 May 2020

Regrets

Posted by PJ under brooding, quote of the day, regret
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Random quote of the day:

“Regrets are useful, not useless. Dwelling is useless.”

—Amy Shock, Thought Catalog

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Fri 22 May 2020

Stars

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

“Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.”

—Eric Hoffer, The New York Times, 21 July 1969

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Thu 21 May 2020

Lives

Posted by PJ under being human, possibilities, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.”

—Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Wed 20 May 2020

Garlic

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

“Paranoia’s the garlic in life’s kitchen, right, you can never have too much.”

—Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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