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Tue 24 Sep 2019

Particulars

Posted by PJ under community, connection, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.”

—Aimé Césaire, letter to Maurice Thorez, 1957

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 23 Sep 2019

Lost and found

Posted by PJ under lost and found, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“What was never lost, can never be found.”

—Zen proverb

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 20 Sep 2019

Toaster

Posted by PJ under belief, madness, psychic, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“There’s a fine line between believing what’s true and turning into a person who’s talking to the toaster.”

—Anne Gehman, psychic, quoted in Christine Wicker, Lily Dale: The Town That Talks to the Dead

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 19 Sep 2019

Cows

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

“If every man worked at that for which nature fitted him, the cows would be well tended.”

—Jean Pierre Claris de Florian, La Vacher de la Garde-chasse

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 18 Sep 2019

Spontaneity

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

“Art is the illusion of spontaneity.”

—Japanese proverb

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 17 Sep 2019

Invisible

Posted by PJ under books, grace, knowledge, quote of the day, the universe
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Random quote of the day:

“In my youth I regarded the Universe as an open book, printed in the language of physical equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which, in our rare moments of grace, we are able to decipher a small fragment.”

—Arthur Koestler, The Invisible Writing

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 16 Sep 2019

Uncontrollable

Posted by PJ under action and activism, aging, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.”

—Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness

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 13 Sep 2019

Foretells

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

“He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.”

—Moroccan proverb

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 12 Sep 2019

Forever

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

“Forever never lasts as long as you think it will.”

—Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

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 11 Sep 2019

Limitations

Posted by PJ under art, challenges, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”

—Orson Welles, quoted by Henry Jaglom in The Movie Business Book

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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