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Tue 28 Jan 2020

Past

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

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”

—John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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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Mon 27 Jan 2020

Married

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

“Two fears alternate in marriage, of loneliness and of bondage. The dread of loneliness being keener than the fear of bondage, we get married.”

—Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave

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 24 Jan 2020

Advice

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

“It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.”

—Austin O’Malley, Keystones of Thought

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 23 Jan 2020

Stories

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, stories, storytelling, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“The nurture for telling stories comes from those who have gone before. Telling or hearing stories draws its power from a towering column of humanity joined one to the other across time and space, elaborately dressed in the rags and robes or nakedness of their time, and filled to bursting with life still being lived.”

—Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves

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 22 Jan 2020

Promised

Posted by PJ under american, promise, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“There’s two Americas: There’s the mythic America and the real America. We were obsessed by America at the time. America’s a sort of promised land for Irish people—and then, a sort of potentially broken promised land.”

—Bono, interview, National Public Radio, March 20, 2017

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 21 Jan 2020

Straight

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

“The most confounding labyrinth of all is a straight line.”

—Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters

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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Mon 20 Jan 2020

Evolution

Posted by PJ under evolution, gods, imagination, quote of the day, religion
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Random quote of the day:

“As a Catholic, I believe in God and in evolution; once there were dinosaurs and now there aren’t; six million years ago there were no humans and now there are, so obviously something changed. God has more imagination than anybody.”

—Diana Gabaldon, interview, Outlander Cast Blog, April 13, 2017

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 17 Jan 2020

Wonder

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

“To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation—is there a worse trade we make in life?”

—Robert Brault, Round Up the Usual Suspects

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 16 Jan 2020

Sleep

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

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

—John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday

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 15 Jan 2020

Daring

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

“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.”

—Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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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