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Tue 14 May 2019

Smiles

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

“Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.”

—Japanese proverb

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Mon 13 May 2019

Shorter

Posted by PJ under dogs, movies, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“If Toto had been a Doberman The Wizard of Oz would have been a much shorter movie.”

—Anita K. Clardy, as relayed by Lisa Clardy

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Fri 10 May 2019

Consequences

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Random quote of the day:

“Some must live with the consequences of what they didn’t dare do.”

—Wieslaw Brudzinski, quoted in Geary’s Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists, ed. James Geary

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Thu 9 May 2019

Filing

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

“Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?”

—Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant

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Thu 25 Apr 2019

Unknown

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

“We know that something unknown, alien, does come our way, just as we know that we do not ourselves make a dream or an inspiration, but that it somehow arises of its own accord.”

—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (tr. Richard and Clara Winston)

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Wed 24 Apr 2019

Language

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

“LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another’s treasure.”

—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

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Tue 23 Apr 2019

Originality

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

“The world in general doesn’t know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.”

—W. Somerset Maugham, Great Novelists and Their Novels

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Mon 22 Apr 2019

Through

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

“The best way out is always through.”

—Robert Frost, “A Servant to Servants”

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Fri 19 Apr 2019

Process

Posted by PJ under becoming, process, quote of the day, stagnation
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Random quote of the day:

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”

—Anaïs Nin, D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study

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Thu 18 Apr 2019

Imagination

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

“There isn’t much vital imagination, it seems to me, that doesn’t come from this sort of shock, imbalance, need to ‘relive,’ redefine life.”

—Robert Penn Warren, The Paris Review, Spring-Summer 1957, No. 16

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